Friday Sessions with home school: manuel arturo abreu with Darla Migan | On Adrian Piper's "Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment"
Credits: Friday Sessions with home school: manuel arturo abreu & Victoria Anne Reis with Darla Migan On Adrian Piper's "Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment"

TBA:20 INSTITUTE

Friday Sessions with home school:

manuel arturo abreu with Darla Migan

On Adrian Piper's Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment

 

DATE

September 18 | 4:00 PM PDT | CLOSED CAPTIONING | TICKETS/WATCH

 

DESCRIPTION

As part of home school's contribution to TBA 2020, PICA and home school present a conversation between philosopher Darla Migan and home school co-founder manuel arturo abreu, on Adrian Piper's Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment (2012) as an example of critical time-based art. Interested viewers should read Piper's "Passing for White, Passing for Black" (1991) in advance of the screening.

  

ABOUT Darla Migan

Darla Migan is a writer and critic based in New York. Her latest review, “Brown’s a Color, Black is Not: ecofeminism(s)’s Anti-Intersectional Feminism and the Use and Abuse of Diversity” was published in the Brooklyn Rail’s July/August 2020 issue. In 2019, Darla successfully defended her Ph.D dissertation, “Orienting Authentic Judgements: Adrian Piper’s Contributions to Black Aesthetics”, in the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University.

  

ABOUT Friday Sessions with home school

home school is a free pop-up art school co-run by manuel arturo abreu and Victoria Anne Reis, in its fifth year of curriculum presenting multimedia, genre-nonconforming edutainment and creating welcoming contexts for critical engagement with contemporary art. For this year’s TBA Institute, home school will curate and host Friday afternoon virtual presentations and discussions with featured guests at the intersection of art, performance, and theory. 

home school has previously curated exhibitions and projects with composition, Portland; Compliance Division, Portland; S1, Portland; Portland Community College Paragon Gallery; the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland; MoMA P.S. 1, NYC; the Re:Art Show, old Pfizer Factory, NYC. home school has received support from the Precipice Fund, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Allie Furlotti/the Calligram Foundation, a Rhizome Net Art Microgrant, Regional Arts and Culture Council project grants, and Yale Union.


  

TBA:20 Institute

Connecting audiences with festival artists and their ideas - the aesthetics, politics, critical concepts, and cultural contexts that inform their work - has always been a highlight of TBA. Sustaining the discursive and participatory spirit of past festivals, this year's TBA Institute includes a mix of reading groups, discussions, artist conversations, workshops, and post-show Q&A's, all presented virtually. We will miss bringing together large groups in person for deep dialogue, but we are pleased to make the Institute program available online, with audiences, artists, and guest moderators from across time zones. 


Please note that some online Institute events have limited capacity and require registration, while others are publicly accessible. Please visit pica.org/TBA to learn more about this year's TBA Institute and how to engage.