Monthly Archives: October 2017

VALS is pleased to announce Sondra Perry on Thursday October 19.

Sondra Perry is a media artist whose work investigates the role of digital technology in the systemic oppression of black identity, often centering on the way blackness influences technology and image making. Perry explores the duality of intelligence and seductivity in the contexts of black family heritage, black history, and black femininity.

Interviews with Sondra:
http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/15/abstraction-isnt-neutral-sondra-perry-on-the-ncaa-subjecthood-and-her-upcoming-projects/

Poster by Ana Rivera

VALS is pleased to announce Claire Bishop on Thursday October 19.

Bishop is currently a professor at CUNY (City University of New York) Graduate Center, and has taught at Warwick University and the Royal College of Art, in London. One of Bishop’s most iconic works of writing which remains relevant and urgent to this day is “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” (2004), an essay that presents a critique to Nicolas Bourriaud definition of relational aesthetics. Bishop is also the author of the book “Radical Museology” where she analyzes the role of contemporary public institution. In this book she portrays the problematics of the rise of the museum as entertainment and offers an alternative in a case study of three unique and self-critical European museums that have reinvented themselves beyond the spectacle.