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Cauleen Smith

Many Worlds Have Already Ended: Social Traumas and Long Memory

Moderated by Dr. Treva Lindsey

Virtual

In the next Diversities in Practice talk, interdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith revisits film/video and installation works that speak to the pressures currently affecting us all.

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Diversities in Practice is a collaboration between Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative. This series includes talks and moderated discussions featuring a range of artists, thinkers, and practitioners engaged in compelling and critical work, centering projects that examine, shape, and push both material and ideological boundaries. This season we are happy to present Jonathan Berger, Torkwase Dyson, Cauleen Smith, Carolyn Lazard, Constantina Zavitsanos, and other artists who offer new insights and challenge our assumptions on issues of accessibility discrimination, race-based displacement, capitalism, labor, and systems of authority and authenticity. These presentations will be available online throughout 2020–21. Also available online are talks from 2020 with Christine Sun Kim, Stephanie Syjuco, Tomashi Jackson, Earlonne Woods, and Nigel Poor. Watch this website for updates and details.

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Cauleen Smith’s interdisciplinary work reflects on the everyday possibilities of the imagination. Rooting her work firmly within the discourse of mid-20th century experimental film while also drawing from structuralism, third-world cinema, and science fiction, she makes things that deploy the tactics of activism to serve ecstatic social space and contemplation. Based in Chicago, Smith is contractually obligated to list the following and does so gratefully: she is the recipient of Rockefeller Media Arts Award, Creative Capital Award, Chicago 3Arts Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, Chicago EXPO Artadia Award, Rauschenberg Residency, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video 2016, and United States Artists Award 2017. She is also the 2016 inaugural recipient of the Ellsworth Kelly Award and the 2020 recipient of the Studio Museum Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. She is represented by Corbett vs. Dempsey. Read more.

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Dr. Treva Lindsey is an associate professor in Ohio State’s Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching interests include African American women’s history, Black culture and feminism(s), hip hop studies, critical race and gender theory, and sexual politics. Her first book, Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C was a Choice 2017 “Outstanding Academic Title.” She is currently completing her next book, America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice (University of California Press 2022).

Lindsey is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards. She is a 2020–21 ACLS/Mellon Scholars and Society Fellow, received the 2018–19 Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award, and was the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellow at Harvard University (2016–17), among other recognitions from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University, and the National Women’s Studies Association.

Lindsey has published in The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Souls, African and Black Diaspora, African American Review, and The Journal of African American History, and she contributes to Time, CNN, Al Jazeera, BET, Vox, Huffington Post, Billboard, Bustle, Washington Post, Women’s Media Center, Zora, and Cosmopolitan, among many other outlets. Read more.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative.

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Ohio Arts Council
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