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Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
September 3–December 18, 2022
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration considers the foundational roots of confinement from philosophical, sociological, theological, and art historical perspectives to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis has been centuries in the making. This exhibition traces images from history that contribute to the entrenched cultural beliefs associated with today’s carceral system.
Undoing Time features newly commissioned works of contemporary art based on the analysis of art historical images of incarceration. The twelve contemporary artists in the exhibition—Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Juan Brener, Raven Chacon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ashley Hunt, Sandra de la Loza, Michael Rohd, Paul Rucker, Xaviera Simmons, Stephanie Syjuco, Vincent Valdez, Mario Ybarra Jr.—invest in community collaboration, work in an expansive range of media, and rethink traditional archival research to consider how artistic expression reveals the underlying logics of criminality and correction.
On November 4, Julio Morales will be speaking at the speaker series, Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration, and Resistance, which is part of the multi-genre project “A Year on Angel Island”. See event listing here.
Emergenc(y): Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War
February 22 – March 21, 2023.
Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley
116 Anthropology + Art Practice Building
Sponsored by the Department of Art Practice
“Emergenc(y): Afghan Lives Beyond the Forever War” is rooted in the idea that art has the power to shed light on today’s most pressing social justice issues through documenting and constructing history in ways that touch our deepest emotions. Emergenc(y) seeks to shed light on artistic expression from Afghanistan and its global diaspora around the lived experience of 20 years of occupation, displacement, and the disorientation of life in the wake of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Curated by Gazelle Samizar. Co-sponsored by the Afghan American Artists and Writers Association.
Photo courtesy Zeeshan Khan Talaash.
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