The Keith Haring Lecture in Art and Activism: Carlos Motta
Keeping Time: Performance and Endurance Amid Political Erasure
The current political moment demands that we confront systems designed to silence dissent, control narratives, and restrict what can be explored and discussed in our work. In Keeping Time: Performance and Endurance Amid Political Erasure, Carlos Motta (the 2025-26 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism) will show how embodied practices, durational works, and subtle performative gestures in his recent projects counteract the political and administrative erasure of minority communities by insisting on presence, continuity, and relational accountability.
The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism is made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation. The Keith Haring Chair is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting faculty appointment for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture. More info here.
The current political moment demands that we confront systems designed to silence dissent, control narratives, and restrict what can be explored and discussed in our work. In Keeping Time: Performance and Endurance Amid Political Erasure, Carlos Motta (the 2025-26 Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism) will show how embodied practices, durational works, and subtle performative gestures in his recent projects counteract the political and administrative erasure of minority communities by insisting on presence, continuity, and relational accountability.
The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism is made possible through a grant from the Keith Haring Foundation. The Keith Haring Chair is a cross-disciplinary, annual, visiting faculty appointment for a scholar, activist, or artist to teach and conduct research at both the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Human Rights Project at Bard College. The Keith Haring Chair in Art and Activism was established to allow a distinguished leader in the field to investigate the role of art as a catalyst for social change, linking the two programs and presenting original research in an annual lecture. More info here.
