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POSTPONED--Listenings: A Convening

Apr 2, 2025
10:30am –6 pm

New York, NY, USA
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

 

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
RSVP REQUIRED

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program has been postponed. We are working to reschedule the event, and will share further information on our website as it becomes available. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding, and look forward to welcoming you at the rescheduled time.

 

Join ICI and the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center to celebrate the launch of Listenings, a new publication edited by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson. Listenings is the companion publication to the groundbreaking traveling exhibition Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, which asks the question, “How can a score be a call and a tool for decolonization?” The convening reflects on this central question and takes inspiration from the artists and curators featured in Soundings, bringing together performers, scholars, and curators including Sebastian De LinePeter Morin, Wanda Nanibush, and Dylan Robinson.

Through wide-ranging conversations, screenings, and performances, the program will consider topics including Indigenous poetics and performance, the use of Indigenous languages in event scores, and the ways ancestral belongings can function as instructions for action. It will also feature a screening of A Song Often Played on the Radio (2018) by Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez and new performances by Laura Ortman and Elina Waage Mikalsen.

This program is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.

Live ASL interpretation will be available at this event.

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Program Schedule

10 am: Doors open

10:30 am: Introductions
Claire Bishop, Renaud Proch, and Dylan Robinson 

11 am12:30 pm: Panel 1
"Caring for our Ancestors" with Sebastian De Line, Peter Morin, and Dylan Robinson 

12:302:00 pm: Break

2:002:30 pm: Screening
A Song Often Played On The Radio by Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez

2:302:45 pm: Break

2:453:05 pm: Performance
Laura Ortman

3:053:20 pm: Break

3:203:40 pm: Performance
Elina Waage Mikalsen

3:404:40 pm: Panel 2
"On Performance" with Elina Waage Mikalsen, Wanda Nanibush, and Laura Ortman

4:405:30 pm: Reflection

Participants
Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop is a Professor of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Sebastian De Line

Dr. Sebastian De Line is an artist, poet, theorist, and Associate Curator, Care & Relations at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Lecturer for the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen's University.

Elina Waage Mikalsen

Elina Waage Mikalsen (b.1992) is an artist and musician from Romssa/Tromsø.

Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist and curator.

Wanda Nanibush

Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada.

Laura Ortman

A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks.

Dylan Robinson

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw scholar and artist (Stó:lō/Skwah) and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia.


Credits
This program is presented in partnership with the Art History Ph.D. Program at CUNY Graduate Center and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council. Additional support provided by the Leon Polk Smith Foundation.