Liminal Spaces: Art, Migration, and Guyanese Women
The Department of Art & Public Policy and NYU Skirball present a conversation with NYU Provost Fellow and Arts Politics Professor Grace Aneiza Ali on her recent book, “Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora.” She will be joined by M.A. Arts Politics alumni Jessica Duby and Kimiyo Bremer to discuss the global Guyanese narratives of migration featured in the book and the role of art in telling women’s migration stories.
Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator, an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She also serves as the Curator-at-Large for the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York. Her recent book, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora explores the art and migration narratives of women of Guyanese heritage.
Jessica Duby is a curator, consultant, and artist focused on ecofeminism, ritual as resistance, and institutional intervention. Her practice is informed by experiences working in cultural diplomacy at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the National Museums of Asian Art. She graduated in May 2020 with a Master’s in Arts Politics from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Kimiyo Bremer is an artist, scholar, and writer from Los Angeles whose research focuses on critical race theory, black feminism, gender studies, media studies, popular culture and visual culture. In 2018, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Theater and Performance from Bard College and in 2020, graduated with a master’s degree in Arts Politics from New York University’s Art and Public Policy program. She is the co-author of Color Coded (2018), curator of the curatorial research project “Gazing Onward: Contemporary Exhibitions Disrupting the White Gaze”, and has developed two institutional public programs for Poster House. She has also written Public Spaces, Hidden Faces: Juneteenth and Black Citizenship in America Today and Broadening Realities: Reading Kamala Harris’ Black and Indian Identity Through Image. Currently, she works as an assistant to Karen Finley.