{"id":7064,"date":"2021-02-09T15:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7064"},"modified":"2021-03-18T16:42:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:42:30","slug":"visions-of-abolition-black-womens-fight-to-end-mass-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/visions-of-abolition-black-womens-fight-to-end-mass-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Visions of Abolition: Black Women&#8217;s Fight to End Mass Incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gS3c-4vqdY4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamtext.net\/text.aspx?event=Barnard_3_18_21\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Live transcription is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Art historian and curator Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art production and visual advocacy by Black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance. Her talk will expand on her recent book and exhibition <i>Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration<\/i>, which focuses on aesthetic practices and media of incarcerated artists who use penal space, penal matter, and penal time to produce art about carcerality. Discussing Black women&#8217;s centrality to the movement for prison abolition, she will focus on a visual archive of US prisons researched over a decade.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/visions-of-abolition-black-womens-fight-to-end-mass-incarceration-tickets-141051387497\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This event is part of the 46th annual Scholar and Feminist Un-Conference, a series of events focusing on art and the political imagination. More events in the series will be forthcoming.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Please email any additional access needs to <a href=\"mailto:ekausch@barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ekausch@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/visions-of-abolition-black-womens-fight-to-end-mass-incarceration-tickets-141051387497\">RSVP here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Nicole\u00a0R.\u00a0Fleetwood<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, curator, and professor of American Studies and Art History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.\u00a0She is the author of\u00a0<i>Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration\u00a0<\/i>(2020), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in Criticism and selected as a best art book of 2020 by the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Artnews<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Art Newspaper<\/i>. She is also curator of the exhibition\u00a0<i>Marking Time<\/i>, currently on view at MoMA PS1 through April 4, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Her other books are\u00a0<i>On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination\u00a0<\/i>(2015) and\u00a0<i>Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness\u00a0<\/i>(2011)<i>.<\/i>\u00a0 She is also co-editor of\u00a0<i>Aperture<\/i>\u00a0magazine\u2019s \u201cPrison Nation\u201d issue, focusing on photography\u2019s role in documenting mass incarceration, and co-curator of Aperture\u2019s touring exhibition of the same name.\u00a0\u00a0Fleetwood\u00a0has co\/curated exhibitions and programs on art and mass incarceration at the Andrew Freedman Home, Aperture Foundation, Cleveland Public Library, Eastern State Penitentiary, MoMA PS1, Mural Arts Philadelphia, the Zimmerli Art Museum, and the Urban Justice Center.\u00a0 Her work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation\u2019s Bellagio Center, NYPL\u2019s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, ACLS, Whiting Foundation, the Art for Justice Fund, Denniston Hill Residency, Schomburg Center for Scholars-in-Residence, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the NEH.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Tameca Cole,\u00a0<i>Locked in a Dark Calm<\/i>, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Fleetwood will join us to discuss art and visual advocacy by black women to abolish prisons and to end punitive governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7065,"template":"","tags":[1343,1342,394,462],"class_list":["post-7064","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration","tag-nicole-fleetwood","tag-prison","tag-prison-abolition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7066,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7064\/revisions\/7066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}