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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

 


​AFROFUTURISMS RESEARCH COLLECTIVE (ARC)

PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2020-2021

Organized by the Afrofuturisms Research Collective (ARC).  ARC is supported by the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art Histories.


FULL PROGRAM


PUBLIC LECTURE  Dr. Joana Joachim 
THE APOCALYPSE ALREADY HAPPENED; SO, WHAT NOW? A DISCUSSION OF THE EXHIBITION SPECULATIONS

​​​Wednesday September 23, 1PM-2PM EST

Dr. Joana Joachim will be presenting her reflections on the 2019 exhibition SPECULATIONS presented at Artexte Documentation Centre. The exhibition set out to examine the motivations of QTBIPOC artists using speculation as visual strategies. In this public lecture, Dr. Joachim will discuss the political and social potential of the visual culture of speculative fiction as a site for activism and change in a context of ongoing calamity. Presented in partnership with Ethnocultural Art Histories Research (EAHR) and the Department of Art History.​

Zoom Registration Link:   https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkcu6prjMtHNIbjmAj7g4FOmdJwMVdRIsI
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Dr. Joana Joachim is a recent PhD graduate of McGill University. Her dissertation project There/Then, Here/Now: Black Women’s Hair and Dress in the French Empire, examines the visual culture of Black women’s hair and dress in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, investigating practices of self-preservation and self-care through the lens of creolization. She is currently working as McGill Provostial Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Institutional Histories, Slavery and Colonialism investigating the lives of enslaved Black and Indigenous women in the James McGill household.
 


WORKING GROUP SESSION  Ashley Raghubir, MA Student 
ANCESTRAL BLACK WATER AND SYNCRETIC SYMBOLIC DRESS IN AFROFUTURIST ART

​Wednesday September 30, 1PM-2PM EST

Ashley Raghubir will discuss the Afrofuturist representations of the Middle Passage by artists Mohau Modisakeng and Ayana V. Jackson.  Closed Session.

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Ashley Raghubir is a Trinidadian Canadian MA student in the Art History program at Concordia University. Her interdisciplinary research examines Afrofuturism, Black diaspora studies, Transatlantic slavery, and material culture. She is a co-founder of the Afrofuturisms Research Collective (ARC).
PUBLIC LECTURE  Ojo Agi, PhD Student 
TROUBLING VISIBILITY: TOWARDS A BLACK FEMINIST AESTHETIC IN CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN ART
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​​Wednesday October 7, 1PM-2PM EST

Ojo Agi will examine two case studies of contemporary Black Canadian women artists to theorize the ways in which they aestheticize Black feminist politics to negotiate and resist art historical canons and colonial discourses regarding the Black female body. Agi is a PhD student in Art History at Concordia University.

Zoom Registration Link:  https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlc--hrz0sE9U4aayeq7nJDDPSbfujT1dj
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Ojo Agi (she/her) is a Nigerian-Canadian artist and scholar working at the intersections of anti-racist and postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and art history. Her work critically explores the discursive and material practices of representation and knowledge production by women of the African diaspora.

PUBLIC LECTURE  Olivia McGilchrist, PhD Candidate 
AFROFUTURISM/S AND UTOPIAN POSSIBILITIES IN IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS BY HYPHEN LABS, SONDRA PERRY AND SAYA WOOLFALK 

Pre-recorded lecture, live Q & A to follow.

Wednesday November 4, 1PM-2PM EST

Olivia McGilchrist will explore three art and design projects by Black Women and Women-of-Color. These works engage current and future technologies critically and will be examined through the lens of sociologist Ruha Benjamin’s notion of “the New Jim Code.” McGilchrist is a PhD candidate in the Individualized (INDI) program at Concordia University.
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​Zoom Registration Link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtceurpj8vG9D8pwF5M8plYi-40t_RKXQK

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Olivia Mc Gilchrist is a white French-Jamaican multimedia artist and researcher exploring how colonial legacies extend their reach to Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Her research-creation PhD project borrows critical tools from Feminist studies, Black studies and Postcolonial Caribbean studies in order to offer a framework for the aesthetic experience of VR immersion figuratively and literally. Mc Gilchrist is currently a PhD candidate in the Individualized Program at Concordia University.
For more information, please contact:  afrofuturisms.research@gmail.com
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