EVENTS-WORKSHOP: READ, WALK, AND DREAM THE FUTURE-akÐmicas

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  • DATA OF INTEREST

    GUESTS:
    Erick Gottesman
    Jamille Bigio


    Synopsis:

    During the first of two workshops focused on how to dismantle organizational structures within culture, the Greek critic and curator Iliana Fokianaki rehearsed a curatorial experience to conceive socially engaged entities that are associated with the geopolitical space where they must be able to seamlessly insert themselves.

    The founding director of State of Concept Athens, a project that researches current issues both in Greece as well as the rest of Europe, Fokianaki views local values and idiosyncrasies as realities to be considered when conceiving cultural organizations. This makes them more effective at confronting concrete situations within each community. In the case of Cuba, the workshop participants identified the features and characteristics that we share as a people and that could serve as inputs for institutions that reflect reality and are geared toward positive transformation.

    Bio:

    Eric Gottesman (1976)

    Gottesman is a US-based political scientist, photographer, audiovisual producer, and writer that understands art as a vehicle for exploring social and political culture. He has exhibited at several institutions including Cordova Sculpture Park, MoMa PS1 in Queens, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Harvard University. Gottesman is a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2014 he published his first monograph, Sudden Flowers, and is a co-founder, along with Hank Willis Thomas, of the For Freedoms collective. The collective is focused on modeling and promoting civic engagement among artists in the United States..

    Jamille Biggio

    Bigio is a US-based activist and principal investigator for the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. During the Obama administration, she was head of the Human Rights and Gender advisory board for the White House National Security Council. She is the author, along with Rachel Vogelstein, of several books, including: Women and Terrorism (2019), Countering Sexual Violence in Conflict (2017), and Women and the Law (2018).