Black Portraiture[s] III
Welcome Deborah Willis (chair, department of photography and imaging, Tisch/SCA and NYU), Cheryl Finley (director, visual studies, Cornell University), Jeremy Wafer (head of fine arts, University of the Witwatersrand), Awam Amkpa (Tisch/Drama/SCA/Africana Studies, NYU), Manthia Diawara (director, the Institute of African American Affairs, NYU), Liza Essers (director, Goodman Gallery) and Ulrich Baer (vice-provost for faculty, arts, humanities and diversity, NYU)
Introduction of plenary speaker Dr David C Driskell is an emiritus professor of art at the University of Maryland at College Park
Pan African Futures: Exploring Race as Technology, Afrofuturism as Methodology Moderator: Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University) Panellists: Achille Mbembe, Lynnee Denise, Ingrid LaFleur
A Continent as a Woman Moderator: Dell M Hamilton (Hutchins Centre, Harvard University) Panellists: Nikki A Greene, Adrian Loving, Tanisha C Ford
Portraitures Panel: Look at Me Moderator: Ayoka Chenzira (Spelman College) Panellists: Oluremi C Onabanjo, Hlonipha Mokoena, Joye Bowman and John Higginson, Heather Agyepong
Our Lives as Theory: LGBTQI and African … Remixed Panellists: Mahlot Sansosa, Brendan Fernandes, Wanelisa Xaba, Moses Serubiri, Seoketsi Tshepo Mooketsi
Afro-Urban Imaginaries Moderator: Kellie Jones (Columbia University) Panellists: Floretta Boonzaier, Dana Whabire, Mario Gooden and Mabel Wilson, Mpho Matsipa, Issa Diabate, Paul Goodwin
Reorienting the Axis: Global African Networks and Visual Production Moderator: Kalia Brooks, and Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton) Panellists: Temi Odumosu, Gunja Sengupta, Awam Amkpa, Alessandra DiMaio, Sharlene Khan
Spirit Desire: Black Diasporic Bodies, Imagination, and the Peripheries of Space Moderator/panellist: Alexis de Veaux Panellists: Cheryl Clarke, Emmanuel Iduma, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Imaging the Black Female Body Moderator: Myra Greene (Spelman College) Panellists: T Thompson, Jessica Rucker Four, Alicia D. Bonaparte and Andrea Chung, Kanitra Fletcher, Maisha Teacher
Reimagining the Archive through a Queer Lens Moderator: Katina Parker (independent filmmaker) Panellists: Zanele Muholi, John Edmonds, Robert E Holmes
Interrogating Presumptions: The Politics of Black Cultural Representations and Radical Resistance Moderator/panellist: Sharon Harley (University of Maryland, College Park) Panellists: Mia Bay, Melissa Cooper Bettina Love
Moving in Time Moderator: Melvina Lathan (artist, New York) Panellists: Ileana Selejan, Chike Frankie Edozien, Annika Finne, Manet Harrison, Sarah Stefana Smith
Rhythms Moderator: Lewis Watts (University of California, Santa Cruz) Panellists: Bruce Campbell Jr, James Cantres, Athi Mongezeleli Joja, Augustus Durham
From South Africa to South Carolina: Postwar Music and Black Spaces Moderator: Kwami Coleman (New York University, Gallatin) Panellists: Rashaan Carter, Russell Holzman
The Archive Panellists: Barbara Krauthamer, Pellom McDaniels III, Christa Clarke, Chandra Frank
Digital Diasporic Connections Moderator: Margaret Stratton (University of Iowa) Panellists: Jewell Winn, Natasha Logan, Jenna Wortham
Sum of these things: Négritude and materiality Panellists: Tamika Galanis, JonSesrie Goff, Roxanne Campbell
Africans in America opening reception at Goodman Gallery 6pm – 8pm
(parallel sessions) On Place: Cultural Tourism Moderator: Cheryl Finley (director, visual studies, Cornell University) Panellists: Dawn Booker, Elijah Heyward III, Ethelene Whitmire, Alinta Sara
Universal Blackness: The Black Diaspora Experience in the 21st Century, presented by ARTNOIR Moderator: Milisuthando Bongela (Mail & Guardian) Panellists: Fhatuwani Mukheli, Itani Thalefi, Mpumelelo Mcata, Lina Iris Viktor, Nontsikelelo Mutiti
A Creed Across Waters and Beautiful Uprising Moderator: Sandra Jackson-Dumont Panellists: Pamela Thompson, Erin Stephens, LaToya M Hobbs
Home and Other Art Stories Moderator: Bridget R McCurtis (NYU) Panellists: Diagne Chanel, Ja’nell Ajani, Ric Francis, Felix Masi
On Coming to America: A Public Inquiry Inquiry chairpersons: Bianca Moná, Florine Demosthene, Ashley Whitfield, Madala Thepa, Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Danielle Bowler, Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana, Myesha Jenkins, Nathi Khumalo, Lihlumelo Hlumie, Tshego Molete, Sifiso Khanyile, Taryn Mackay Interrogating Representations of Black Bodies in Pain and Black Lives without History Panellists: Sharlene Khan, Senzeni Marasela, Same Mdluli, Nomusa Makhubu, Khewzi Gule, Fouad Asfour
Visualizing Land Moderator: Pamela Newkirk (NYU, journalism) Panellists: LeRonn Brooks, Ayasha Guerin and Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, De Angela Duff, Rebecca VanDiver
What’s Wrong with This Picture? Conflicted Circuits of Dispersal, Desire and Return in Exquisite Portraiture Moderator: Terri Francis (Indiana University) Panellists: Efeoghene Igor, Nicola Brandt, Indifference, Jerry Philogene
Mediated difference in South African Art and Photography: Deciphering Imagery of Blackness Moderator: Lorie Novak (NYU) Panellists: Steven C Dubin, JC Leeb-du Toit, Ashraf Jamal, Thania Petersen–Arafrasian, Paulette Young
Portraits of South African Spoken Word Poets, presented by ZAPP (RSA Poetry Project) Panellists: Malika Ndlovu, Denise Newfield, Myesha Jenkins, Uhuru Phalafala, Natalia Molebatsi, Deirdre Byrne, Toni Stuart, Ragi Bashonga, Raphael d’Abdon, Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
Africa and the LA Rebellion: Screening and Conversation Moderator: Jacqueline Najuma Stewart (University of Chicago) Panellists: Alile Sharon Larkin, Barbara McCullough
Afrofuturism and Art Activism Moderator: Monroe France (NYU) Panellists: Mawena Yehouessi, Afrofuturism, Chrislyn Laurie Laurore, Gloria Browne-Marshall, Thokozani Ndaba
Black Bodies: Live and Virtual Moderator: Isolde Brielmaier Panellists: Bongani Madondo, Dionne Walker, Michèle Pearson, Christina Knight
Photographic Portraits/ Between Object and Subject Moderator: Jennifer DeVere Brody Panellists: Kimberly Juanita Brown, Rachel Newman, Raimi Gbadamosi
‘Venus’ on My Back: Girls of Color, Inheritance and the Hottentot Venus Narrative Moderator: Anya Wallace (Penn State College of Liberal Arts) Panellists: Derrais Carter, Jillian Hernandez, Rosamond S King
Pride Feels No Pain: Feminist and Queer Perspectives from the Media (n) of Black Struggle 40 Years after June 16 Moderator/panellist: Nicholas Boston Panellists: Mehita Iqani, Xavier Livermon, Andrew Tucker
Aframerican Transcultural Aesthetics Moderator: Michael Dinwiddie (NYU Gallatin) Panellists: Dyana Williams and Will Coloan Robert Vorlicky, Lara Koseff
Transgressive Acts: Transnational Bodies, Memory, and Cartographies of Change Moderator: Roshini Kempadoo Panellists: Victoria J CollisButhelezi, Sharlene Khan, Haroon Gunn-Salie
Voices and Images Moderator: Lonnie Graham (Penn State University) Panellists: Robin J Hayes, Janyce Denise Glasper, Denise Lim, Carlton Wilkinson, Tony Whitfield
Sharp!: Images of Independent Southern African Fashion in the Free-Born Era Moderator: M Liz Andrews (artist/ scholar, George Mason University) Panellists: Holly Bass, Rose Callahan and Harness Hamese, Nicola Cooper, Lourens “Loux the Vintage Guru” Gebhardt, Zano Sithetho
Artists and Ideas Moderator: Michelle Woo (Hank Willis Thomas Studios) Panellists: Michelle Joan Wilkinson, Daniel Kojo Schrade, Natasha Becker, Moses Serubiri, Chriss Aghana Nwobu, Riason Naidoo
Photography, Painting and Performance Moderator: Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Princeton) Panellists: Carolyn Grimstead, Sonya Clark, Jamie Philbert, Celia Maria Antonacci Ramos; Ghana Amer
IAAA Film Screening Introduction: Melvina Lathan (artist; New York) Zwelidumile, a film by Ramadan Suleman about the life of Dumile Feni
Myth & Portraits Panellists: Naima Green, Helena Uambembe, Teresa Firmino, Michelle R Perkins, Renee Stout, Mary Sibande, Gabrielle Goliath
Refashion(ed)!! and Deconstructing the Portrait Moderator: M Liz Andrews (artist/ scholar, George Mason University) Panellists: Leora Farber, The Sartists and Khumbula, Aaron Kohn, Natalya Mills-Mayrena, Dario Calmese
Aperture & Fourthwall Books Reception Fourthwall Books pop-up shop 44, Stanley Avenue, Johannesburg sessions)
Artists’ Speak Moderator: Hank Willis Thomas (artist, New York) Panellists: Sanford Biggers, Brendan Fernandes, Mikhael Subotzky, Sue Williamson, Mary Sibande, Nicholas Hlobo, Liza Essers
From Black Abstraction to Visual Order Moderator: Kalia Brooks (NYU) Panellists: Essence Harden, Sadie Barnette, Adee Roberson, Christine Dixie, James Sey, Nonzuzo Gxekwa
Ark of Time Moderator: Ben R Caldwell (KAOS Network) Panellists: Rudy Rude, Francois Bar, Raul-David “Retro” Poblano
Performing the Continent: Re-Imagining African Identities Through Multidisciplinary Art Practices Moderator: Nikki A Greene Panelist: Rashayla Marie Brown, Kenyatta AC Hinkle, Helina Metaferia Tiffany Smith
Preservation of African Fashion from Global Misappropriation, presented by Oxosi.com Moderators: Allana Finley (Afara) and Kolade Adeyemo (Oxosi.com) Panellists: Chu Suwannapha, Nicola Cooper, Trevor Stuurman, Maria McCloy, Malcolm Ché
On Performance and Identities Moderator: Sandra Jackson-Dumont (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Panellists: Jamilah Bradshaw-Dieng, Brian Anthony Cello Leads, Debra Levine, Kavita Kulkarni, Daniel Dunson
On the Media: Representing African Photography Today Moderator: Brendan Wattenberg (APERTURE Magazine) Panellists: Rita Potenza, Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Yvon Langué, Aicha Diallo, FAKA
Art History: FESTAC 77 Portraits of American Artists Moderator: Marilyn Nance (The Marilyn Nance Archive) Panellists: Valerie Maynard, Valerie Caesar, Rafia Santana
Portrait as Politic Moderator: Hallie Ringle (Studio Museum in Harlem) Panellists: Amanda Hunt, Jordan Casteel, Lauren Haynes, Rashaad Newsome, Ebony G Patterson, Noel Anderson
Confinement and Space Moderator: Mark Wright Panellists: Shani Jamila, Millery Polyné, Rin Johnson, Maren Stange
Film, Writing, and Portraits Moderator: Jennifer Morgan (NYU) Panellists: Bettina Judd, Emma Laurence, Nthabiseng Moeke
Art History and Black Empowerment Moderator: Cheryl Finley (director, visual studies, Cornell University) Panellists: Patricia Banks, Cornelia Knoll, Elizabeth Colomba, Sarah Lewis
Black Power @ 50 Conversations Part II: Image as Protest Moderator: Novella Ford (The Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture) Panellists: Sylviane A Diouf, Emory Douglas, Ozier Muhammad, Zanele Muholi
Re-Imagining the Archive Moderator: Michael Gomez (NYU) Panellists: Alexsandra Mitchell, DaMaris Hill, Michael Harris
Nervous Conditions: Representations of Black African Femininities Moderators: Refilwe Nkomo and Palesa Motsumi Panellists: Ayana V Jackson, Milisuthando Bongela, Chandra Frank, Molemo Moiloa, Heidi Sincuba, The Martyrs of Tomorrow
Image as Power Moderator: Herman L Bennett (The Graduate Centre, CUNY) Panellists: Siobhan Carter-David Anthony Francis, Quanda Johnson Conference closing
Black Portraiture[s] III takes place from November 17 to 19 at the Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg.
The M&G will be publishing daily reports on the sessions during the conference