Listenings: A Convening
Wed, Apr 2, 2025
10:00 AM–6:00 PM
Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC. Free and open to all. RSVP required. Live ASL interpretation will be available at this event.
Join our friends 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 Line, Peter 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.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
10 am: Doors open
10:30 am: Introductions
Claire Bishop, Renaud Proch, and Dylan Robinson
11 am–12:30 pm: Panel 1
“Caring for our Ancestors” with Sebastian De Line, Peter Morin, and Dylan Robinson
12:30–2:00 pm: Break
2:00–2:30 pm: Screening
A Song Often Played On The Radio by Raven Chacon and Cristóbal Martínez
2:30–2:45 pm: Break
2:45–3:05 pm: Performance
Laura Ortman
3:05–3:20 pm: Break
3:20–3:40 pm: Performance
Elina Waage Mikalsen
3:40–4:40 pm: Panel 2
“On Performance” with Elina Waage Mikalsen, Wanda Nanibush, and Laura Ortman
4:40–5:30 pm: Reflection
This program is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required. Live ASL interpretation will be available at this event. RSVP REQUIRED.
This event is presented and hosted by Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center and media co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
