Featuring the work of 19 graduating seniors in the Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging

PS students, studying got you feeling chicken cordon bleu? Come take a break with Performance Studies to chow down and cheer up. PS Wednesdays are going to be the taco of the town, you won’t wonton miss this. Each week a different food will be featured. It’s sure to be soup-er fun!

A Lunchtime Workshop Series with Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, President and Founder Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Adjunct Professor Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. These talks will engage students in the participatory process of defining voice and developing a creative public project addressing the public discourse of now.

Collaboration between Pato Hebert, Hetrick-Martin Institute, Anooj Bhandari and groups of young queer people of color from HMI and NYU

BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] IV: The Color of Silence is the eighth conference in a series of conversations about imaging the black body. We invite artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the visual expressions of national imaginaries and political ideologies that negate racial differences and render black subjects invisible. Such ideologies are prevalent in Latin America and the Caribbean, where metaphors of mixture (mestizaje or mestiçagem) and racial harmony ignore inequality and discrimination. Similar formulations are to be found elsewhere, however, as in republican France, or among proponents of a post-racial United States, or in references to a South African “rainbow nation”, or in Jamaica’s well-known “out of many, one people” motto. Presenters will engage a range of historical and contemporary topics such as biennales, exhibitions, movements, individual artists and collectives, art markets, politics, tourism, sites of memory, Afrofuturism, fashion, dance, music, film, art, and photography. We invite papers and panel proposals on relevant topics.

Artist Carlos Motta speaks about recent projects, which span sculpture, video, performance, social practice and publication. Motta’s work directs attention to the politics of gender and sexuality, from the pre-Columbian to the transnational present, “in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities.”