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Join us to celebrate the opening of Labor of Love: Vera List Center for Art and Politics at 30! The Vera List Center was founded in 1992 in direct response to the pressing debates of the day on freedom of speech, identity politics, and public support of the arts. In this exhibition, we carve out five themes that continue to shape everything we do—democracy, knowledge, identity, ecology, and care. Each area will be illuminated through archival and documentary material, tracking whether and how these debates and topics have shifted and evolved. As we identify common threads, we subject our own history to a self-critical course correction and challenge both archival and curatorial practices.
No Vera List Center program exists without art: Art and artists provide the radical, joyous, and forward-looking entry points to new understandings of these topics and inclusive political empowerment. Moroccan French artist and 2011–2013 VLC Fellow Bouchra Khalili returns to the VLC for this exhibition and presents her seminal project The Speeches Series for the first time in New York in its entirety. Consisting of three videos—Mother Tongue, Words on the Streets, and Living Labor— examines the experiences of immigrants in three cities, Paris, Genoa, and New York City, through the act of performing political speeches and texts. Khalili’s installation is accompanied with an interactive library space for New School students and faculty that celebrates and assembles the work of VLC Fellows.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement.
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Shani Peters (b. 1981 Lansing, MI) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York. Peters has presented work in the U.S. and abroad at the New Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea; the National Gallery of Zimbabwe; and the Bauhaus Dessau. Selected residencies include those hosted by the Mississippi Museum of Art, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Laundromat Project (NY), and Project Row Houses (TX). Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is a former faculty member of The City College of New York, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design. She is a Co-Director of The Black School, an artist initiated experimental art school that is presently working to build a physical home for it’s art education and community programing in New Orleans 7th Ward.
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