Soft Borders: Conversation with Scherezade García and Nadir Souirgi

Live transcription is available here.

Visual artists Scherezade García and Nadir Souirgi were joined by Kaiama L. Glover to discuss migration, colonialism, memory, and identity in their artistic work and practice.

García’s talk, entitled “Let’s Pretend That it is Sunny and Exercise Utopia,” will showcase a selection of her work from 1996 to 2021 and reflect on her engagement with history, ethnography, tradition, and the tension between marginal and dominant narratives.

Sourigi’s talk, “Soft Borders,” dwells in the ambiguities of colonial histories and presents. ‘Soft borders’ for him offers a way into the entanglements between Atlantic history, conservation science, and Creole identities, and reflects the mutual influences between his pedagogy, performative work, and his studio practice.

This conversation was part of the 46th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference: Art and Political Imagination, held in spring 2021.

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