[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] In “Vodou and Artwork: Between the altar and the market,” Leah Gordon will focus on the chances and problematics of exhibiting Haitian artwork from her expertise of co-curating PÒTOPRENS. This Zoom Lecture, hosted by The Final Tuesday Society, takes place on Could 19, 2022, from 7:30 to 9:00pm (BST). [The cost for this event is £5 – £10 and by donation.]
Description: Leah Gordon explores the hyperlinks between Vodou and artwork, in each Haiti’s wealthy artwork historical past and up to date apply. Leah will focus on the usage of picture and artefact inside Vodou ritual and the usually, interchangeable position of artist and Houngan (Vodou priest). To conclude Gordon will discover the liminal area that up to date artists at the moment inhabit while attempting to barter their ancestral histories and cultural antecedents inside a recent artwork market which nonetheless has a conflicted relationship towards ethnographic and ritual objects.
Gordon will focus on these points from her expertise of co-curating ‘PÒTOPRENS: The City Artists of Port-au-Prince’ at Pioneer Works, Pink Hook, Brooklyn, ‘Kafou: Haiti, Artwork & Vodou’ on the Nottingham Up to date, ‘In Extremis: Dying & Life in twenty first Century Haitian Artwork’ on the Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, as one of many administrators of the Ghetto Biennale and as an adjunct curator for the Haitian Pavilion on the 54th Venice Biennale.
Speaker Bio: Leah Gordon (born Ellesmere Port, UK) is an artist, curator, and author. Her work explores the intervolved and intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Commerce, the Enclosure Acts and the creation of the British working-class. Within the 1980’s she wrote lyrics, sang, and performed for a feminist folks punk band. Gordon’s movie and photographic work has been exhibited internationally together with the Museum of Up to date Artwork, Sydney; the Dak’artwork Biennale; the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, UK and the Norton Museum of Artwork, Florida. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; was a curator for the Haitian Pavilion on the 54th Venice Biennale; was the co-curator of ‘Kafou: Haiti, Historical past & Artwork’ at Nottingham Up to date, UK; and was the co-curator of ‘PÒTOPRENS: The City Artists of Port-au-Prince’ at Pioneer Works, NYC in 2018 and MOCA, Miami in 2019. In 2022 she might be exhibiting and curating at documenta fifteen, Kassel.
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