Intersection and Fluidity: Identity and 尼基年代. 李的 项目

Friday, October 12
12:15–1:30 p.m.
Payne Room, Tang Museum

A conversation led by Rachel Seligman, Janet Casey, Mehmet Odekon, Bernardo Ramirez Rios 

This brown bag lunch will situate six photographs by 尼基年代. 李, many from the Tang Museum’s collection, at the center of a discussion about socioeconomic class and its intersections with race, gender, ability, other ways of understanding identity. Inspired by the Tang’s 2013 exhibition Classless Society, which included two of 李的 photographs, the event aims to facilitate a group exploration of how one might think about identity in the current social, economic, political 上下文. The artworks (from her Punk, Hip Hop, Ohio, Senior 项目) are from a body of work that 李 made between 1997 and 2001, in which she assumed the outward aesthetic and some of the observable behavioral mannerisms of a subculture, ethnicity, or demographic from within the United States. She first researched a group, then immersed herself in it for several months, before asking another person to take snapshots of her within the group. The resulting images raise complex and nuanced issues around identity.

The conversation is led by an interdisciplinary group of Skidmore staff and 教师: Rachel Seligman, Tang Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator; Janet Casey, Skidmore Professor of 英语; Mehmet Odekon, Skidmore Emeritus Professor of Economics (all cocurators of Classless Society); and Bernardo Ramirez Rios, Skidmore Assistant Professor of Anthropology.

Boxed lunches are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please feel free to bring your own lunch as well!

This event is free and open to the Skidmore community. Visit the Tang's 事件日历 for more information.