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Visiting Artist Talk: Edgar Arceneaux

ATP is delighted to welcome Edgar Arceneaux as part of the fall visiting artist series. 

Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles) works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and video; often exploring connections between historical events and present-day truths. Arceneaux has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as The Kitchen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Vera List Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria.

His work has also been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum, Performa 15 and Whitney Museum, New York; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art in Oslo, Norway; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, among other venues.

Arceneaux's work resides in such collections as the Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Walker Art Center; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Orange County Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Arceneaux attended the California Institute of the Arts (MFA, 2001), Fachhochschule Aachen (2000), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1999), and Art Center College of Design (BFA, 1996).

DATES & LOCATIONS,

Wednesday, October 25, 5pm
at FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208



Visiting Artist Talk: Lisa Sigal

ATP welcomes Lisa Sigal as part of our fall visiting artist series. 

Lisa Sigal is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Her work encompasses painting, sculpture, socially-engaged projects, curating, and public art. Over the last three decades, she has exhibited in galleries and institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. With Nova Benway, Sigal was a co-founder of Open Sessions at the Drawing Center, an initiative that offers support and exhibition space to early-career artists. With Byron Kim, she now co-directs the Yale Norfolk School of Art, a summer residency program in Norfolk, CT.

DATES & LOCATIONS,

Wednesday, October 18, 5pm
at FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208



interrupted shadow centering by Lisa Sigal
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Visiting Artist Talk: Curator Karsten Lund

ATP welcomes curator Karsten Lund as part of our visiting artist series. 

Karsten Lund (b. 1981) is Curator at the Renaissance Society, a contemporary art institution located at the University of Chicago. At the Ren he organizes exhibitions and performances, works closely with artists on new commissions, edits publications, and oversees public programs. He has recently curated or co-curated exhibitions by Haig Aivazian, LaToya Ruby FrazierJill Magid, Matthew Metzger, and Lydia Ourahmane & Alex Ayed, as well as a number of speculative group exhibitions including Fear of Property (2022), Nine Lives (2020), and Unthought Environments (2018). In 2017, he launched Intermissionsat the Ren, an ongoing performance series staged in the gallery space in between exhibitions, featuring new or site-responsive projects. In addition to contributing to publications at the Ren, he has also been the editor of other books including Irena Haiduk's "Spells" (Sternberg Press, 2011) and "deposition" by Marissa Lee Benedict, Daniel de Paula, and David Rueter (Mousse Publishing, 2023). Karsten previously worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College (MoCP).

DATES & LOCATIONS,

Wednesday, November 8, 5pm
at FORUM ROOM 
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208



The Otolith Group Screening and Conversation

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Founded in 2002 by the artists and theorists Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, the Otolith Group engages with the cultural and political legacies and potentialities of non-aligned movements, new media, Black Study, Afrofuturism, and Indofuturism while thinking speculatively with science fictions of the present. Their methodologies incorporate post-lens-based essayistic aesthetics that explore the temporal anomalies, anthropic inversions, and synthetic alienation of the posthuman, the inhuman, the non-human, and the anti-human. It has played a crucial intergenerational role in Black and Asian diasporic film and media art in the UK, and has been closely tied to CCRU/Warwick philosophy since its inception.

In their 2019 film, INFINITY minus infinity, the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist collective contests the toxic sociopolitical histories that inform Black life in contemporary England. The film interrogates the “hostile environment policy” enacted by Theresa May’s Conservative government in 2012, which was framed as an effort to combat “illegal immigration” in the UK. But the policy, which harshly denied access to services and employment for undocumented migrants, reflected a broader, suffocating atmosphere of anti-blackness in Britain—one tied to centuries-long histories of discrimination, extraction, and environmental devastation. Collaborating with a range of poets, performers, and scholars, core group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun craft what Artforum critic Ed Halter described as “a constantly moving flux of bodies, histories, and theories.” An expressive and incisive visual essay, INFINITY minus infinity combines deftly-layered strata of imagery and sound to survey the pasts and presents of racial capitalism and the Anthropocene—while gesturing toward alternative futures informed by Black radical feminist traditions. 

Following the screening, Otolith Group members Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun will appear to discuss the film with Antawan Byrd (College Fellow, Department of Art History, Northwestern University).

This screening and conversation is hosted by Block Cinema at the Block Museum of Art. 

DATES & LOCATIONS,

Friday, May 5, 6pm
at BLOCK CINEMA
40 ARTS CIRCLE DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
 



Visiting Artist Talk: Athi-Patra Ruga

Join us for a lunchtime talk with Visiting Artist Athi-Patra Ruga. 

Athi-Patra Ruga is one of the few artists working in South Africa today whose work has adopted the trope of myth as a contemporary response to the post-apartheid era. Ruga creates alternative identities and uses these avatars as a way to parody and critique the existing political and social status quo. Ruga’s artistic approach of creating myths and alternate realities is in some way an attempt to view the traumas of the last 200 years of colonial history from a place of detachment – at a farsighted distance where wounds can be contemplated outside of personalized grief and subjective defensiveness.

The philosophical allure and allegorical value of utopia has been central to Ruga’s practice. His construction of a mythical metaverse populated by characters which he has created and depicted in his work have allowed Ruga to create an interesting space of self reflexivity in which political, cultural and social systems can be critiqued and parodied. Ruga has used his utopia as a lens to process the fraught history of a colonial past, to critique the present and propose a possible humanist vision for the future.

Significant exhibitions and performances include: Kiss My Genders, Haywood Gallery, London; Ravelled Threads, Sean Kelly Gallery, Seattle; Art Afrique, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Over the Rainbow, Performa 17, New York; An Age of Our Own Making, Holbaek, Denmark; Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Boston Centre for the Arts, Boston; AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Imaginary Fact at the South African Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale; African Odysseys at The Brass Artscape in Brussels; Public Intimacy at the SFMOMA, San Francisco; The Film Will Always Be You: South African Artists on Screen at the Tate Modern in London; and Making Africa at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Recent projects include Ruga’s collaboration with Dior on designing two handbags for the fourth edition of the Lady Dior Art Bag. Ruga is also the co-founder of  Victory of the Word, a fundraising and development project in support of the historic Lovedale Printing Press in Alice, Eastern Cape, as well as the Artistic Director of BODYLAND, an incubator residency for artists held in the Amathole Village, Hogsback.

His works form part of Private, Public and Museum Collections in South Africa and abroad, namely: the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington DC; the Foundation Louis Vuitton,  Paris; Fondation Gandur pour l’Art,  Geneva; The Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town; Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano Italy; CAAC – Pigozzi Collection; The Wedge Collection; and the IZIKO South African National Gallery.

DATES & LOCATIONS,

Monday, April 10, 12pm
at FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208



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