Online workshop and website launch for the project “Images, (In)Visibilities, and the Work on Appearance”.
These things never happen in histr’y an’ even if they did, histr’y ain’t got the eyes to see everything.
- In the Castle of my Skin, George Lamming, 1953.
The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy is pleased to present the launch of the website of the research project "Images, (In)Visibilities and Work on Appearance." The two roundtables will engage with some of the main theoretical stakes of this project from a comparative perspective followed by the launch of the official website.
Roundable 1: Visual Rights and (In)Visibilities
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Moderator: Patricia Spyer
Speakers: Wim Manuhutu, Davide Rodogno, Riddhi Pandey, Adrita Mitra, Rachael Louise Healy
If visibility and invisibility conventionally serve as powerful tropes of inclusion and exclusion, this roundtable takes visibility, its attendant invisibilities, and the aesthetic and affective forms through which these are realized literally. Participants will address questions of visual rights, (in)visibilities, and the material mediations of political recognition and belonging in a range of empirical situations.
Roundtable 2: Work on Appearances
Time: 16:15 - 17:20
Moderator: Patricia Spyer
Speakers: Nancy Jouwe, Suchismita Chattopadhyay, Rafael Sánchez, Jacob Blanc, Felipe Marcelino
Recently, the As Statues Fall movement has unequivocally shown the extent to which the myriad appearances of urban environments in places as diverse as Cape Town, Bristol, Amsterdam, and the US South moor and materialize the political imaginations, racial and social inequalities, and everyday textures of cities, towns, and nation-states around the world. The roundtable will explore the role of such infrastructures of the imagination in the creation and reproduction of sociopolitical environments where ‘history ain’t got the eyes to see everything.’ Equally important will be a focus on the forms of representational redress and ‘work on appearances’ through which such environments are re-envisioned and remade.
Website Launch
Time: 17:30 - 18:00
Speakers: Patricia Spyer, Danishwara Nathaniel
Download the event flyer HERE.