BrixtonXHarlem: Conversations in the Commons
Join poet, curator, and critic, Danilo Machado; Black Cultural Archives managing director, Lisa Anderson; and artist, activist, and researcher, Imani Jacqueline Brown online for the third instalment of Conversations in the Commons.
Using a combination of presentations and group discussion, they will reflect on the evolution of monuments and what it means to “monumentalize” in and for Black communities.
They will explore the role monuments — as representations of white supremacy, slavery, and colonialism — have played in contributing to the degradation of Black people’s relationships to their history, culture, and environment, and how monuments may be appropriated to create and build these relationships anew.
At the intersection of artistic intervention, community organizing, and historical scholarship, this conversation asks, how do we redefine “the commons”? Is the future of public space anti-monument?
This event is free to attend. Register
