program sketch from activist Julie Tolentino
Chair and Professor Pato Hebert will present work at Let’s Talk: Vulnerable Bodies, Intimate Collectivities, a day-long event at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In a world in which connectivity cannot be refused, this day-long conversation asks: how can we negotiate interpersonal and communal boundaries instead of fortifying and defending borders—institutional, physical, social, and geographical? How do we think about and enact activism against the toll of multiple pandemics as they bear upon our psyches, bodies, and communities? What dialogue and action might unfold as we address viruses as agents of change? In gathering together speakers, creatives, audience, and recorded accounts, we inquire: what’s provoking you at this time?
Professor Hebert will be the the final presenter of the day scheduled from 7-8 p.m, where he will give an illustrated performative reading about surviving and thriving in a time of HIV, COVID and monkey pox.