Jumana Manna: When A Goat Eats the Scene
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/10/Jumana-Manna_by-Luca-Guadagini-scaled.jpg)
In her talk, Jumana Manna will speak about her dual practice as a sculptor and a filmmaker, and her ongoing inquiries into the contradictions of preservation and ruination. Manna will […]
Nicholas Galanin: Unshadowed Land
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/09/galanin-headshot-.jpg)
Culture is rooted in connection to land; like land, culture cannot be contained. I am inspired by generations of Lingít & Unangax̂ creative production and knowledge connected to the land […]
Michael Rakowitz: (G)hosting
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/10/T3A4666-Rakowitz-small-scaled.jpg)
A talk about hosts, ghosts, hospitality, hostility, and the complicated nature of a good time. In this lecture, Rakowitz will discuss (g)hosting, a term he uses to explore the intersection […]
Juliana Steiner: Flood the river, grow the food: embodying food systems
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/10/7764-13_Payao_Photo-Juliana-Steiner--scaled.jpg)
This talk will focus on the work of Ecotone: Chagras, Payaos, Camellones, a program curated by Juliana Steiner as part of the as part of Common Ground, an international festival […]
Zayaan Khan: From Seed-as-Object to Seed-as-Relation in South Africa
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/09/Saving-Seed.png)
Governments in South Africa and beyond are working to ratify new laws that limit and criminalize seed access and use. In response, a local and global resistance movement is working […]
Layli Long Soldier: My Art is a Being: Building a Relationship to Art through Agreement, Ethics, and Pleasure
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/02/Layli-Long-Soldier_photo.jpg)
By understanding our art as a being with whom we create a relationship, Layli Long Soldier explores the ways in which we can make commitments and agreements with our writing […]
Mohammed El-Kurd: “Bombs, women, children, etc”: Humanization, Victimhood, and the Politics of Appeal
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/02/Screen-Shot-2022-02-25-at-1.32.38-PM.png)
For decades, well-meaning journalists and cultural workers used a humanizing framework in their representation of oppressed people, in hopes of countering the traditional portrayal of the Palestinian as a “terrorist.” […]
Kendall Thomas: Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites, “Human Writes”
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/02/Kendall-Thomas-blur.jpg)
In Taking (A)part: Human Rights, Human Rites and “Human Writes,” Kendall Thomas revisits “Human Writes,” a 2005 performance-installation about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on which he collaborated with […]
Bhenji Ra: Everything at Once: Permaculture, abolition, and trans love
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2022/02/1_-bvvtEphBZuxgNyex0NPZA.jpeg)
How do we exist in complexity and contradiction? Can we mourn and celebrate all at once? In a world focused on binaries, where do we find power on the edges? […]
Sayak Valencia: The Livestreaming Regime: From Gore Capitalism to Contemporary Snuff Politics
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/09/2021.-Bard.-Sayak-Valencia.-Photo.-1-e1661857949418.jpg)
What is “gore capitalism” and how does it turn into “snuff politics” in the borderlands between Tijuana and San Diego? In answering those questions, Sayak Valencia discusses examples of audiovisual […]
Githa Hariharan: The Writer in Search of Citizenship
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/09/Photo-Nakul-Sawhney-1024x683-2.jpg)
How does a writer find her voice? And how does she locate herself among the power structures that operate in the world around her? Drawing on her own work, Githa […]
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Natq: Impossible Speech
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/09/Portrait-2019-4-1438x1500.jpg)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan presents ‘Natq’, a live audiovisual essay on the politics and possibilities of reincarnation. Through listening closely to “xenoglossy” (the impossible speech of reincarnated subjects), this performance explores […]
Coco Fusco: The Right to Have Rights: Cuban Artists Confront the State
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/09/Coco-Fusco-Photo-2000x1500.jpg)
Fusco will discuss the recent efforts by “artivists” in Cuba to advocate for expanded expressive freedoms and civil rights. She will focus primarily on the activities of the 27N group […]
Hamed Sinno: Queerness in/as Metaphor
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/03/hamed-sinnot.jpg)
An analysis of several musical and literary texts by Mashrou Leila, as sites for negotiating the discursive boundaries of gender construction in the public sphere, and an attempt to frame […]
Mark Sealy: Photography, Race, Rights, and Representation
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/02/Mark-Sealy.-Photograph-courtesy-of-Steve-Pyke-1-1330x1500.jpg)
The photographers discussed share a forensic dialogue with photography’s past and offer navigational tools for its future possibilities in the making of new identities and histories. We need to keep […]
Ashmina Ranjit: Politics of Being
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/03/ashmina.jpg)
Just because we’re born with a vagina, why accept that our family, society, and state continue treating us as unequal ‘beings’? Why sexual violence, unequal rights, and inequities persist? Why […]
Forensic Oceanography: Border Forensics
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/02/2017_TheIuventaCase_Report_1.jpg)
In this presentation, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani will discuss the nature of contemporary borders and the ever-shifting modalities of border violence. Drawing on their work within the Forensic Oceanography […]
Emily Johnson: Land and An Architecture of the Overflow
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/02/Emily-Johnson.-Photo-by-Tracy-Rector-and-Melissa-Ponder.jpg)
Emily hosts monthly ceremonial fires on Mannahatta in partnership with Abrons Arts Center and Karyn Recollet. She was a co-compiler of the document, Creating New Futures: Guidelines for Ethics and […]
Cassils: The Struggle For/ The Struggle Against
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/03/cassils.jpg)
In a time of lockdown and quarantines, of fascism and propaganda, we need reason and action to be supported by visions of change. Cassils discusses artistic and performative tactics uniquely […]
Faustin Linyekula: Of Ruins And Responsibility
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/02/Faustin-4-cbeaborgers-1024x683.jpg)
This lecture will be (again) a dialogue with the ruins I inherited from my fathers, guided by the poet’s voice:
I would come to that country, my country, and I would say to it:
“Kiss me without fear… And if I do not know what to say, it is still for you that I speak. “
The White Pube: [ideas for a new art world]
![](https://chra.bard.edu/files/2021/03/the-white-pube.jpg)
The ~cultural sector~ has been resistant to change, it has held on to antiquated balances of power like no other area of society, and that rigidity has affected the way […]