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Miller ICA
at Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

(412) 268-3618 miller-ica@andrew.cmu.edu

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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.​

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.

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

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lZD1GdAcTdimHdlcAnlgzBRnSV6fzUxU

 

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Jes Fan

Peter Parker Collection https://library.medicine.yale.edu/find/peter-parker

Ari Larissa Heinrich, Applied Coenmeshment https://www.recessart.org/arilarissaheinrich/

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Jane Bennett 

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen

Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger

Rachel C Lee, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America:  Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Postman Ecologies

 

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 Dustin Gibson

Putting land at the heart of radical economic transformation – a perspective from the ground

Written by Sithandiwe Yeni, 2017

Photo of George and Willie Muse reunited with their mother, Harriet and father. 

Unsettling America(Website)

Nipsey Hussle on Colonialism & Imperialism 

Video Interview with Nipsey Hussle, 2013

Control Units: High Tech Brutality 

Written by Robert Saleem Holbrook while he was imprisoned in solitary at SCI-Greene, 2012

Rolihlahla - Lalela Cape Town Choir(Song)

Fight Like Hell(Poster)

By Micah Bazant to support CeCe McDonald

Stella Young on eugenics and ableism

Video Interview, 2014

Kinloch: Missouri's First All Black Town(Book))

Written by Dr. John A. Wright

Angela Davis on Violence  | Transcript

Video Interview during her imprisonment in California State Prison, 1972

Explanation Of Misogynoir

Written by Trudy (creator of Gradient Lair), 2014

Digital collage by @shefonnachelle

Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice| Transcript

Video of Mia Mingus talk, 2017

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun 

Documentary, 2008

The Real Jim Crow (Poem & Statement To Reinstate Disability Component In History)

Written and performed by Leroy Moore Jr. ​
Call to 911: 'I killed my mom'(News Article)

Vanessa German : Stop shooting, We love you(Video)

Mike Brown Jr.graduation photo

Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (Book)

Written by Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner

The Principle of Normalization in Human Services(Book)

Written by Wolf Wolfensberger and others, 1972

Kwame Ture on White Liberals 

Video from 1966 CBS News Special Report: Black Power/White Backlash

Mariame Kaba’s twitter profile

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

Written by Andrea DenHoed, 2016

Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
Written by Ibram X. Kendi, 2016

Photos of Fadi Hassan Abu Salah, a 30 year old Palestinian freedom fighter, husband, and father; before he was murdered. 

For Us By Us Interlude- Master P | Lyrics

From: Solange - A Seat at the Table, 2016​
Honoring Arnaldo Rios-Soto & Charles Kinsey: Achieving Liberation Through Disability Solidarity (ASL)| Video Abstract, 2016

Judy Heumann on ableism and internalized ableism(Video)

The Temptations - Cloud Nine| Lyrics, 1968

A photo of Antwon Rose II 

Fred Hampton - On The Importance Of Education Prior To Action(Video)

 

 

 

Miller ICA
at Carnegie Mellon University
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

(412) 268-3618 miller-ica@andrew.cmu.edu

Gallery Hours
Tue–Sun, 12-6pm
Masks are required for entry.
A limited number of visitors may enter at a time.

Free + Open to the Public

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