A Day with Senga Nengudi

Date: Saturday, April 14, 2018 from 9:00am to 4:00pm

Location: California African American Museum

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Genre: Employees

See below for the complete schedule of events.

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP beginning Wednesday, March 21, at 9 a.m.

Part One: Morning Sessions at California African American Museum
9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
USC Alumni: RSVP
General Public: RSVP

Part Two: Lunch and Afternoon Sessions at USC Fisher Museum of Art
12 to 4 p.m.

USC Students, Staff, and Faculty: RSVP
USC Alumni: RSVP
General Public: RSVP

DESCRIPTION:
Join us for a day-long symposium featuring conversations and a performance presented in conjunction with the comprehensive exhibition Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Senga Nengudi is one of the seminal conceptual and performance artists of our time, known for her abstract sculptures and her participation in radical, avant-garde black art movements. At a time of conspicuous consumption, Nengudi works with essential elements of the earth and of our lives in an improvisational manner that has been compared to jazz. Viewers become participants, and barriers are broken.

Nengudi’s work has been included in the group exhibitions WACK! Art & The Feminist Revolution at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Now Dig This! at the Hammer Museum, and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE:
At the California African American Museum (CAAM)
9 to 9:15 a.m.: Check-in, coffee, and pastries
9:15 a.m.: Introduction and Opening Remarks by Selma Holo and Chelo Montoya
9:30 to 11 a.m.: Conversation: "Improvise, Fetishize, Ritualize" with Elissa Auther and Uri McMillan, moderated by Grant Johnson
11 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Conversation: "Ritual in Rearview" with Senga Nengudi, Barbara McCullough, Isabel Wade, and Maren Hassinger

At the USC Fisher Museum of Art
12 to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
2 to 2:30 p.m.: Performance: R.S.V.P., choreographed by Senga Nengudi, with Cheryl Banks-Smith and Breeze Smith
3 to 4 p.m.: Roundtable: "On Activism and Performance" with Senga Nengudi, Rafa Esparza, Patrisse Cullors, and Nao Bustamante, moderated by Andy Campbell

Additional Links:
Selma Holo USC profile
Elissa Auther Official website
Uri McMillan Official website, UCLA profile
Grant Johnson Twitter
Barbara McCullough IMDb, Official website, UCLA profile
Maren Hassinger Hammer profile
Rafa Esparza Hammer profile, Los Angeles Times feature
Patrisse Cullors Facebook, Official website, Time Magazine feature
Nao Bustamante Official website, USC profile
Andy Campbell USC profile
California African American Museum Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
USC Fisher Museum of Art Facebook, Google Arts & Culture, Instagram, Official website, Twitter, YouTube

Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art in collaboration with the California African American Museum, the USC Roski School of Art and Design, and the Department of Art History. Senga Nengudi: Improvisational Gestures is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art.

Image: Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. sculpture activated by the artist, 1977
Photo: Harmon Outlaw


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