Caribbean Queer Visualities, co-sponsored by the CCSD working group the Digital Black Atlantic Project, reflects on and stimulates the production of creative and critical work that takes seriously the emergence of heterodox personal and public identities, identities that breach or subvert or evade the heteronormativities of colonial and postcolonial modes of being and self-expression. Growing in part out of a concern about the catastrophes of sexual othering, not to say sexual violence, so rampant in the Caribbean, the conference asks whether or to what extent “queer” offers a way of understanding the contemporary in Caribbean visual art practice, and in scholarly considerations of this practice. Why is it imperative for Caribbean cultural workers—intellectuals and artists—to think about the efficacy of “queer”? What might thinking through “queer” illuminate about the contemporary in Caribbean art practice?
The schedule for the conference is listed below:
Thursday, 2 April 2015 – Room 754 Schermerhorn Extension
5:00pm Opening David Scott
5:15pm Session I Richard Fung and Terri Francis
6:15pm Reception
Friday, 3 April 2015 – Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension
9:45am Introduction Nijah Cunningham
10:00am Session II Nadia Huggins and Angelique V. Nixon
11:00am Session III Jorge Pineda and Maja Horn
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Session IV Charl Landvreugd and Rosamund S. King
3:00pm Session V Jean-Ulrick Désert and Jerry Philogene
4:30pm Closing remarks Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Columbia University
Co-Sponsored by:
Department of Anthropology, Columbia University * Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS), Columbia University * Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS), Columbia University * The Digital Black Atlantic Project (DBAP), Columbia University * Small Axe * The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Questions please email : DAS133@COLUMBIA.EDU OR NNC 2109@COLUMBIA.EDU