SPECTRES OF LIBERTY
Date: Saturday 9.19
Start Time: 10:00am
Location: Einstein Auditorium, Rm. 105, Barney building
A multi-media presentation with Dara Greenwald, Josh MacPhee, and Olivia Robinson about projects that intervene in public amnesia and memory. Followed by discussion.
In this session we will present documentation from several public projects that attempt to make visible histories of struggle that are submerged from public memory. The projects we will present raise important questions about the representation of both history and the present in the urban landscape, how public memories are created, how the control of public spaces reinforces dominant histories and the impact of that on the here and now.
Dara Greenwald is a media artist, organizer, and writer. Dara has participated in collaborative and public cultural production for many years including the Pink Bloque, Ladyfest Midwest Chicago, United Victorian Workers, Spectres of Liberty and other groupings that resist being named. She recently completed a large-scale research project (with Josh MacPhee) about the history of social movements entitled Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now.
www.daragreenwald.com
Olivia Robinson is an installation artist whose work employs diverse media such as video, textiles, inflatable sculpture, and electronics. Her work draws connections between people and communities across the cultural and historical boundaries of space and time. Robinson’s work has been shown internationally. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Syracuse University.
www.oliviarobinson.com
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work often revolves around themes of history, radical politics, and public space. He organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, started the political art cooperative Justseeds.org, and collaboratively organized the Department of Space and Land Reclamation.
Spectres of Liberty is an artist collaborative made up of Olivia Robinson, Josh MacPhee, and Dara Greenwald. Our hybrid work emerges from a combination of historical research, moving images, expanded cinema, sculpture, situated, community, and public practices. We share and trade our many skills.
www.spectresofliberty.com
