The conference looks at the urgent and necessary work of Brazilian artist, Maria Thereza Alves the third recipient of the Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics as well as that of the five Prize finalists: Forensic Architecture, Gulf Labor, House of Natural Fibers (HONF), IsumaTV and MadeYouLook. The conference surveys the field of art and social justice by mining the exemplary projects of the Prize recipient and finalists. These projects were nominated in 2016 for their capacity to make legible urgent issues around the world, and to model ways in which to successfully address them. At the conference each exchange includes writers, thinkers and scholars from the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, and respondents from The New School community to consider the context, effects and futures of these practices.
New York City, NY; NYC