Of Manacles and Monuments - Act 2: Gates, Barriers, and Confinement

The second program in the series centered on a one-on-one moderated conversation between artist Fred Wilson and Pamela Newkirk, author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga. They explored ideas of confinement, how barriers are intangible as well as physical, and how they keep people out as well as in. The program continued with a reading by poet Randall Horton, whose work draws upon his own experience of incarceration.
Recorded May 15, 2023.