Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs and the department of sculpture, the panel discussion The Social Practice That is Race features contemporary practitioners Jefferson Pinder, Dan S. Wang, Maria Gaspar and Dave Pabellon. Echoing the title of a recently published text co-authored by Dan S. Wang and Anthony Romero, the panel will address themes present in the text but also reach beyond to address questions of race, identity and segregation in creative fields. In reflection of the above-ment...
Co-sponsored by the Multicultural Affairs and the department of sculpture, the panel discussion The Social Practice That is Race features contemporary practitioners Jefferson Pinder, Dan S. Wang, Maria Gaspar and Dave Pabellon. Echoing the title of a recently published text co-authored by Dan S. Wang and Anthony Romero, the panel will address themes present in the text but also reach beyond to address questions of race, identity and segregation in creative fields. In reflection of the above-mentioned proposition, how is separation from within a group different from institutional segregation from without? When describing oneself or others as POC, does this terminology create solidarity or limit artistic freedom? Can all artists experience the liberty of making work separate from identity? These questions and more will be addressed in the discussion.
The event was organized and will be moderated by sculpture department faculty Sara Black in conjunction with SCULP 3072: A Primer on Socially Engaged Art.
“Because Social Practice discourse (and, now, instruction) frequently lets itself stand defined in relation to one formal quality, namely “participation,” and attempts to install participation with a measure of value (aesthetic, economic, and social) while ignoring other aspects, to me Social Practice perversely tends to de-politicize works. What intersectionality may occur, then, will be less about intersectional insights than the aesthetics of mixing, ie the visible beauty of a diverse pool of participants.”
from The Social Practice That is Race
Maria Gaspar, I Look For These Past Hands, 2013