In the second of two long-form conversations contextualizing Platform 2016: Lost and Found, artists and curators revisit the community ethos of the East Village in the 1980s/90s and analogous networks of artists and activists today, in an afternoon interspersed with performance. In search of an intergenerational discussion around artistic influence, portraiture, and performed history, Lost and Found has provided four performers with “dossiers” consisting of images, flyers, biographies, documentation, and other ephemera to explore the act of reconstructing, or responding to, the life, work, and mythology of artists who have passed away. 1:30-2:30pm: LOST: East Village Ethos: a conversation about how local values and sensibilities historically defined by immigrant and artistic communities informed a “downtown” response to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s/90s. With Allied Productions (Jack Waters & Peter Kramer), Sarah Schulman, Alex Fialho (Visual AIDS Programs Director), and Ishmael Houston-Jones, moderated by Jaime Shearn Coan. 2:45pm: “Life Drawing” Response #3: Katy Pyle responding to the work of Greer Lankton (1958-1996). 3-4pm: FOUND: Imaginative Alliances: Artists and curators Ali Rosa-Salas, DonChristian, and Larissa Velez-Jackson. This discussion will focus how artists and other creative performative minds address AIDS in their work today though notions of loss, queerness, and activism. 4:15: “Life Drawing” Response #4: Narcissister responding to the work of Alvin Ailey (1931-1989). 4:30pm: Wrap-Up with Katy Pyle, Narcissister, and all panelists.
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