CENTRO (Heart for Puerto Rican Research at Hunter Faculty-CUNY) presents an Afternoon Tertulia, entitled “’Basquiat: King Pleasure’ by way of a Decolonial Lens,” on June 29, 2022, at 4:00pm (EST). See hyperlink beneath to enroll.
Description: This occasion will function a dialog between Dr. Yasmin Ramírez and Dr. Frances Negrón-Muntaner as they focus on the profession, legacy, and impression of Jean-Michel Basquiat as portrayed within the present exhibit: Jean Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure. Thought-about some of the necessary artists of the late twentieth Century, Basquiat’s artwork and lays naked the complexities of Afro-Diasporic subjectivity and visuality. As a Brooklyn native with a Puerto Rican mom and Haitian-American father, Basquiat grew up with a eager consciousness of the legacies of racism and colonialism on black and brown peoples throughout the Atlantic. Knowledgeable by his background, Basquiat’s artwork displays on problems with black historical past, liberation struggles, triumphs, and social inequities. Tune into this particular Afternoon Tertulia to be taught extra about Basquiat’s lifelong legacy within the Puerto Rican, Haitian, and New York communities for many years to come back.
[Additionally, you can catch a recording of Dr. Yasmin Ramirez’s last presentation on Basquiat here.]
Yasmin Ramírez is an artwork employee, curator, and author primarily based in New York Metropolis. She holds a Ph.D. in Artwork Historical past from the Graduate Heart, CUNY. Born in Brooklyn, Ramirez was lively within the downtown artwork scene of the early Nineteen Eighties as a membership child and artwork critic for the East Village Eye. Drawn to road artwork and hip hop, she turned acquainted with rising artists and writers, lots of whom are actually icons of the Nineteen Eighties. At present an unbiased curator, Dr. Ramirez has collaborated on curatorial tasks with The Bronx Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, The Loisaida Heart, The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Franklin Furnace, and Taller Boricua. Her critically acclaimed exhibitions and panels embody: Pasado y Current: Artwork after the Younger Lords, 1969-2019 (2019); Residence, Reminiscence, and Future (2016); Martin Wong: Human Instamatic (2015); ¡Presente!: The Younger Lords in New York (2015); The Puerto Rican Artwork Employees and the Building of the Nuyorican Artwork Motion (2014); Re-Membering Loisaida: On Archiving and the Lure of the Retro Lens (2009); “Esto A Veces Tiene Nombre”: Latin@ Artwork Collectives in a Publish-Motion Millennium (2008); The Boricua in Basquiat (2005); Voices From Our Communities: Views on a Decade of Amassing at El Museo del Barrio (2000); Urgent the Level: Parallel Expressions within the Graphic Arts of the Chicano and Puerto Rican Actions (1999).
Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a author, curator, filmmaker, scholar, professor at Columbia College, and founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive. Amongst her books and publications are Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Tradition (CHOICE Award, 2004), The Latino Media Hole (2014), and Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism in Native Nations and Latinx America (2017). Her most up-to-date movies embody Small Metropolis, Large Change (2013), Warfare for Guam (2015) and Life Exterior (2016). For her work as a scholar and filmmaker, Negrón-Muntaner has obtained Ford, Truman, Rockefeller, and Pew fellowships. She has equally obtained numerous recognitions, together with the United Nations’ Speedy Response Media Mechanism designation as a worldwide knowledgeable within the areas of mass media and Latin/o American research (2008); the Lenfest Award, considered one of Columbia College’s most prestigious recognitions for excellence in educating and scholarship (2012), an inaugural OZY Educator Award (2017), the Latin American Research Affiliation’s Frank Bonilla Public Mental Award (2019), and the Bigs & Littles Impression Award (2020) for her work as a mentor, artist, and scholar.
Negrón-Muntaner served as director of Columbia’s Heart for the Examine of Ethnicity and Race from 2009-2016. She was additionally the director of Unpayable Debt, a working group at Columbia College that research debt regimes on this planet and lead collaborator in two of its essential tasks NoMoreDebt: Caribbean Syllabus (first and second version), and Valor y Cambio (Worth and Change), a storytelling and social foreign money mission in Puerto Rico, valorycambio.com.
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