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Miller ICA - Salon Research References

The Miller ICA Salons are facilitated topical conversations that include the general public and guest respondents whose life practice explores the chosen topic. The goal of these Salons is to animate engaged citizenship through conversation and exchange across difference and discipline in free public space. The 2019 Miller ICA Salons are a co-organized by the Miller ICA and facilitator, Dana Bishop-Root, who is an artist living and working in Braddock, PA.

Neither Public, Nor Private - Salon Series
Guest respondents: Bekezela Mguni, Betty Marin, Emma Hedditch
Facilitator: Dana Bishop-Root

July 18th, 6-8pm

READ Research and References from our Guest Respondents below.

Emma Hedditch

Collective Courage : A History Of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, Jessica Gordan Nembhard (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014)

http://ameba.ehion.com/download/Jessica_Gordon_Nembhard-Collective_courage.pdf

Anti-fascist Art Theory, Larne Abse Gogarty, Angela Dimitrakaki & Marina Vishmidt (Third Text, 2019)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/129Ln8doW8KSLacLT7o3kvk25fH-VH9GI/view?usp=sharing

Coop Fund

https://www.coopfund.info/

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Betty Marin

https://hyperallergic.com/385176/an-artists-guide-to-not-being-complicit-with-gentrification

Teaching to Trangress, Chapter 4 Paulo Freire

Spatial Entitlement by Gaye Theresa Johnson'

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Bekezela Mguni

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir by Staceyann Chin

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Freire

M Archive: After the End of the World by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez

The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

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Not Neutral - Salon Series
May 6, 6-8pm
Guest respondents: Deana Haggag, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Alicia Grullon, LaTanya S. Autry Facilitator: Dana Bishop-Root

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Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Critical Studies / Art History and Theory

Preliminary - Okwui Enwezor, “The Postcolonial Constellation: Contemporary art in a State of Permanent Transition,” Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008), 207-234; Fred Wilson, “The Silent Message of the Museum”; Trevor Paglen, “Experimental Geography: From Cultural Production to the Production of Space,” in Experimental Geography: Landscape Hacking, Cartography, and Radical Urbanism. Melville House Publishing, 2008.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deana Haggag // President & CEO

United States Artists

Questions:

— How are institutions practicing interdependence and with whom and for what?

— Is money the most important energy? If not, how are institutions articulating otherwise?

— Who does our heritage belong to? Can a thing ever really be made for many?

Things to hold space with as we consider the role of institutions and the myth of neutrality:

— The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten;

— Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshimi Piepzna-Samarasinha;

— The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

— The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

— Donna Haraway lecturing on 'staying with the trouble';

— A Seat at the Table Syllabus by Wake Forest University students for Solange Knowles;

— the following Twitter profiles: Jessica Dore,

— anything staged by Charlotte Brathwaite;

— everything by adrienne marie brown.

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La Tanya S. Autry

meanings of Blackness-- Black fungibility, Blackness as spatialization, afropessimism
living my life with an ethos of intersectional feminism, antiracism, antioppression at the core of all the work I do
the possibility of decolonization of art museums/of anything
building an art center grounded in a commitment to racial and social justice

care as praxis
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things I'm thinking with --

Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life, Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University, 2017

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me, 2017

Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: One Black Feminist's Refusal to Bow Down, St. Martin's Press, 2018

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013)

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Alicia Grullón

https://hyperallergic.com/492276/the-peoples-cultural-plan-supports-9-weeks-of-art-and-action-at-the-whitney/

https://www.thenation.com/article/highlander-attack-arson-racism/

https://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.html

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Salon - Not Normative: In the Age of AI

Nov. 8, 2018 6-8pm

Guest Respondents Jes Fan, Molly Wright Steenson, Dustin P. Gibson
Facilitator: Dana Bishop-Root

READ Research and References below from our Guest Respondents.

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Molly Wright Steenson