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Oligarchy.Lab.2019 Schedule:

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May 8 CAMPTOWN:

QUEER INCARCERATED by ROSE FALVEY in Bard Chapel 3:00-4:00pm 

THE POLITICS AND PRACTICE OF THE TRANS ARCHIVE: JULIAN-GILL PETERSON in Bard Chapel 4:30-5:30pm 

MEDIA BIAS: INSTALLATION in Bard Chapel 5:30-6:30pm

LOST CHATS: Queer Identity Formation in the Digital Age, Bard Chapel 7:00-8:30 pm 

May 9 THREE/FIFTHS

MANUAL FOR LIBERATING SURVIVAL: The Politics and Practice of Prison Abolition, Facilitated by Jasmine K. Syedullah and Rae Leiner, 5-8pm, Resnick Studio in Fisher Performing Arts building. 

RSVP to this event required. *QTPOC will be given priority; all bodies, identies, and genders are welcome. Limit 25. For RSVP email: bardfluxuslab@gmail.com

DESIRE, MEDIA, “HYSTERIA” Facilitated by Clara Chin, Bard Hall, 8-9pm

VULTURES: a multimedia installation Shipping Container Building (by Kline shuttle stop) Starts at 8pm, performance at 8:30pm

May 10 KA LĀHUI HAWAI'I

"dog meat, cat meat, God-knows-what meat": artist talk with Cassi A. Namoda in Avery Integrated Arts Room, 11:30am

PORTALS OF NEW REALITIES: Workshop with Precious Okoyomon, Fisher Studio Arts Seminar Room, 2-4pm

UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood Conversation with author Dean Saranillio, RKC Bito Auditorium, 5-8pm  Followed by a panel with Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Kamehanaokalā Taylor, Sancia Meara Shiba Nash.

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CAMPTOWN May 8th 2019

QUEER INCARCERATED: ROSE FALVEY 3:00-4:00pm Bard Chapel

This workshop will focus on the intersections of queerness, mass incarceration, race, poverty, policing and prison abolition. We will start with an interactive exploration of the history of police and carceral violence against LGBTQ+ people, discuss the current and ongoing over-incarceration of our communities, and begin working towards an abolitionist future for incarcerated queer people. Through readings, letter writing, first hand accounts of conditions and collaborative imaginings, we will collectively embody the possibilities of queer liberation.

MEDIA BIAS: INSTALLATION 5:30-6:30pm Bard Chapel

Description:An installation focused on inciting the experience of media bias and media overload. We want to layer news reports from various networks on similar topics. The cacophony of noise mirrors the inundation of 24-hour news. We hope the differences and similarities will become apparent as they surround you. We would follow this up with a discussion on our experiences with news, both televised and non-televised, as well as consumption of news at Bard. The emphasis of the discussion will be pragmatic ways to source more accurate reporting of topics. An additional focus is trying to educate ourselves, and others on ways to feel comfortable not-knowing, and patiently learning, about a topic of interest.

THE POLITICS AND PRACTICE OF THE TRANS ARCHIVE: JULIAN-GILL PETERSON 4:30-5:30pm Bard Chapel

Trans Historian Julian Gill-Peterson will be joining us for a workshop that deals with questions centering around the trans subject in historical archives. How can we read the transness of subjects into historical archives without being ahistorical? How do we read the medical archive ethically when it is primarily a record of harm and misrecognition? How can we read race in/to the archive in ways that do not whitewash trans history? In what ways does gender operate as a racial category? This workshop also seeks to ask what it means for us to turn to archives not in an effort to produce historical continuity, but rather the forms of affiliation and radical difference one can feel when brushing up against historical subjects?

This workshop will be a practice driven event, with participants engaging with primary source material and visual aids and engaging in the questions outlined above. It is open to all and everyone is welcome to attend, regardless of gender identity.

LOST CHATS: Queer Identity Formation in the Digital Age 7:00-8:30 pm Bard Chapel

Description: Current undergraduates are the first birth cohort that did not live in a world without the internet. For young queer people, the digital has hosted space for exploration, identity formation, eroticism, and community. While much has been theorized about the potentials and perils of an internet generation, and much reflected upon the queer internet, current college students have a unique opportunity to forge new understandings of the queer internet rooted in their experience growing up within it. As part of this year’s Difference and Media Teach-In, students will create a live ethnography by telling stories of growing up queer on the internet. Through stories of transversing various digital mediums, student storytellers will explore questions around the negotiation of aesthetic and community, the public and the private, the fleeting and the permanent, and persona and personhood. In keeping with this year’s theme of “oligarchy,” questions of ownership and mediation will also be considered as the digital terrain is increasingly controlled by few major corporate entities–Google controls the means of exploration, Facebook validates the authenticity of persona, Apple helms the hardware with which the internet is “materialized.” Two speakers will join the student storytellers. Benjamin Haber (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center, sociology) and Daniel Sander (PhD, NYU, performance studies) will inform the event with their own stories and scholarship on queer circuits and the various modes that neo-liberalism and digital capitalism mediate the queer digital.

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THREE/FIFTHS May 9th 2019

MANUAL FOR LIBERATING SURVIVAL: The Politics and Practice of Prison Abolition

Facilitated by Jasmine K. Syedullah and Rae Leiner 5-8pm Resnick Studio in Fisher Performing Arts center, located on North Campus. RSVP to this event required. *QTPOC will be given priority; all bodies, identies, and genders are welcome. Limit 25.

To RSVP email: bardfluxuslab@gmail.com

“Free Your Mind and Your Body Will Follow: A Somatics-Based Approach to QPOC Abolitionist Activism"  is an excerpt from our popular education curriculum, Manual for Liberating Survival. The Manual for Liberating Survival is a eight part teaching module that trains QPOC social justice activists and allies in an integrated approach to embodied practices and activist knowledges of movements for liberation. The curriculum is aimed at developing a critical analysis of intersecting structures of oppression and offers opportunities to deepen individual somatic responses to how oppression lives in our bodies, how we perpetuate it through habituated behavior, and how to talk across lines of difference to deepen our relationships and move closer to freedom with every breath.

In this session we combine two pieces of this curriculum 1) an orientation to somatics, and 2) an introduction to Embodying Prison Abolition Activism. Both work to bring attention to the ways carceral logics pervade our private lives and live in the very places we call home. Though prison activists often bring critical analysis of police to rallies and traffic stops and the issue of mass incarceration, we often overlook how carceral logics and practices of policing, surveillance, and punishment persist with our families, organizations, communities, and movements. Bringing activist narrative, archives, and scholarship together with Embodied Contemplative Practice this workshop challenges us to disarm ourselves from reliance on carceral logics and technologies to re-imagine what safety looks like in our movements for social justice on campus and beyond.

Desire, Media, “Hysteria” Facilitated by Clara Chin Bard Hall 8-9pm

My talk is about how the genre of emotional memes has transformed social media apps like Instagram into a sort of hysteric space - a place where it is okay to express extreme emotions. I will also talk about how the ironic tone and mode of delivery challenges the idea that emotions are superficial and ‘dumb.’ In addition to talking about memes, I will draw from digital feminist theorists like Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant.

VULTURES: a multimedia installation

Shipping Container Building (by Kline shuttle stop)

Starts at 8pm, performance at 8:30pm

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KA LĀHUI HAWAI'I May 10th 2019

“dog meat, cat meat, God-knows-what meat”: artist talk with Cassi A. Namoda  11:30am Integrated Arts Room, Avery

We welcome you to join us in conversation with painter, Cassi Namoda as we focalize painting as it relates to postcolonial thought and Africa as a site of inquiry and origin. This discussion is linked to an interest in African cinema and will begin with a screening of the short film Hommage (1985) dir. Jean-Marie Téno. How do we make art that not only exists outside of academic institutions, but counters institutional control in its speech and assertions? We will dialogue around the writings of Max Beckmann, Cassi’s art practice and the like, so as to consider what our relationship to these mediums is and what potential these relationships have to create and disrupt.

PORTALS OF NEW REALITIES: Workshop with Precious Okoyomon 2-4pm Fisher Studio Arts Seminar Room

Nigerian American poet and artist, Precious Okoyomon, will lead an outdoor poetry workshop focused on ways in which vulnerability can be built through communal practice and “queer time.“ The workshop investigates roles of poetry and performance play in the decolonisation of thought, gesture, and act.

This will be hosted on Ludlow Lawn in conjunction with an ongoing project on textual play, invisible library. Come find new readings and hand-made texts that slip between collage, word, and image, bending textual constraints, and moving into a zone more akin to the “ekphrastic”–the synesthetic leakage of content from frame, or body from landscape.

UNSUSTAINABLE EMPIRE: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood Conversation with author Dean Saranillio 5-8pm RKC Bito Auditorium

Presentation by Dean Itsuji Saranillio associate professor Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Areas of interests: cultural politics at the intersection of diaspora and indigeneity; Indigenous critical theory; Cultural Studies; settler colonial studies; U.S. militarism; Asian American and Pacific Islander history; epistemology and decolonization; U.S. empire.

Dean will be discussing his most recent book Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood. The U.S master narrative of Hawaii’s admission to statehood (1959) frames it as a liberal and anti-racist project, justifying the continued dispossession of Native Hawaiians. This American success story of “the melting pot of cultures” attempts to erase the 1893 illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and its continued illegal occupation. Saranillio shows that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism.Followed by a panel with Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick, Kamehanaokalā Taylor, Sancia Meara Shiba Nash.

“Liberal multiculturalism works in tandem with white supremacy, allowing for forms of racism, settler colonialism, and militarism to be insulated from large movements seeking their end (Saranillio 2018, 13).

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Cliff Owens performance, a part of this year’s Teach In 

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Leyna Marika Papach, Bard College 2018

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Kalup Linzy at Bard College, 2018 Teach In

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Lab: Kalup Linzy, “Tangled Up and More: One Afternoon Only” Thursday, April 19 at 4 PM - 6 PM  in Ottoway Theater

Linzy will perform musical narratives from his back catalogue, current release Tangled Up, as well as a few covers with video projections and satirical melodramatic interludes featuring his recurring cast of characters. Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Florida. Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards including a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation grant, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant, The Headlands Center for the Arts Alumni Awards Residency, and most recently a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Film and Video. Linzy’s best-known work is a series of politically charged videos that satirize the conventions of the television soap opera. His work has been included in the exhibitions Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Prospect.1 New Orleans, 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, MoMA PS1 Greater New York, At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College. His work is in the public collections at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Birmingham Museum of Art. In summer 2010, Linzy appeared on the long running ABC soap opera General Hospital in a story line that incorporated performance art. Recently, he has been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art, the USF CAM in Tampa, Florida, the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and the last Atlanta Biennial. Currently, his exhibition Tangled Up is on view at David Castillo Gallery thru March 24th. Linzy is currently a visiting critic at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and represented by David Castillo Gallery in Miami Beach and The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece. This event was co-organized and curated by Annie Seaton, Ehm West and Kalup Linzy. Co-sponsored by the Bard Studio Arts, Theater and Performance, Film, and Africana Studies Department. Thank you. [Bio provided by Kalup Linzy / Photo taken from Interview Magazine]

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In this workshop, Rose Falvey will be discussing the intersections of race, gender and class in the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation, specifically in the South of the United States, where Falvey currently lives. Rose Falvey, Bard College Alumnus 2015 and former DMP Fellow, is a gender queer artist and activist. While at Bard, Falvey ran the Bard Surrealist Training Circus and studied human rights in the West Bank of Palestine. Falvey then moved to Montgomery, AL, where they worked for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and wrote for the Hatewatch Blog. Falvey then served as President of Montgomery Pride United, a grassroots coalition that put on the first Pride Festival in Montgomery, AL, and operates the only LGBTQ+ friendly emergency housing program in the area. Rose now works for the MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans, where they investigate jail conditions in the infamous facility formerly known as Orleans Parish Prison. Rose will lead a workshop on LGBTQ+ identity and activism from an intersectional perspective that explores the relationship between queerness, race, class and gender. This conversation will include a critical analysis of hate crime laws and discussion of the limits and failures of looking to the state to protect queer folk. 

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“Unnatural Disasters” Puerto Rico After Maria  Wednesday, April 18th in the MPR from 7-8:30pm

Filmmaker, writer, and journalist Frances Negeròn-Muntaner will give a keynote talk on the Puerto Rico post-Maria experience. This talk will interrogate the “unnatural” politics of colonialism and post-hurricane disaster in Puerto Rico through three junctures: the energy blackout, the press’s coverage after Maria, and mass exodus from the island to the US. It will also consider what new decolonial politics are emerging from the wreckage and what they tell us not only about Puerto Rico but globo-colonial capitalism.

Puerto Rico Syllabus: https://puertoricosyllabus.com/. For more info on Frances Negeròn-Muntaner: http://www.francesnegronmuntaner.com/.

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At 7:30PM in Weiss Cinema, Sofia Geld and Rebeca Huntt will present a 13-minute excerpt followed by a discussion of their feature film, “Beba,” which will be released in 2019. Beba is the coming of age of an Afro-Latina, New York-native and Bard alumn as she struggles to define herself in a time of racial turmoil. Part documentary, part memoir, Beba is a love letter to black life, a cinematic exploration of one woman’s path to survival. The film is currently in production, with a tentative release in 2018. Beba is part of the Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program.

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Tuesday, April 17th, 8:30 pm 

Michel Brito presents in Weiss “A Hotep Trollage:” Toxic Cishet “Pro-Black” Masculinity, Pan-Africanism, Post-Internet Art and twitter’s #HotepNigga phenomenon, explored, trolled, and exposed. Workshops include Video Commentary, a short Reading, and open conversations. This aint no  academic shit either. [Race, Mental Health, Intersectional Politics, and the future of Black Power Movements].

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Eunsong Kim and Lucas de Lima

Poetry Session

Eunsong Kim is currently a PhD candidate in literature at UCSD. Eunsong was the recipient of a 2015 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for the blog contemporary and her first book of poems will be published by Noemi Press in 2017.ARTIST PAGE

Lucas de Lima is the author of Wet Land (Action Books) and, most recently, the chapbook Terraputa (Birds of Lace). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in PEN Poetry, Poetry Foundation, boundary2, and the anthologies Latina/o Poetics and Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. He has been a guest speaker at Naropa University and the University of Nevada. As a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, he works on race, coloniality, and ontology in Brazilian literature and culture within a hemispheric context.SEE WORK