ISLAA is delighted to co-organize a two-day conference held in connection with the exhibition This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975, currently on view at Americas Society.

The event convenes an international group of scholars, artists, and curators to delve more deeply into some of the artistic practices and issues the exhibition raises.

This conference will be held entirely online and streamed live via Zoom. All presentations, including keynote talks, will be presented live in English.

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
PANEL 1: EMBODIMENT, QUEERNESS, AND EROTICISM

Discussant: Vivian Crockett, Curator, New Museum

Register here. Additional information on the conference can be found here.

Format: Zoom seminar; 90-minute discussion amongst panelists with 30 minutes for audience Q&A

This seminar brings together colleagues in the subfield of Latin American and Latinx art history to engage in an informal conversation about issues related to the study of artists who identify as female and feminist methods in the study of art and visual culture. Since it emerged as a force amongst artists, critics, and art historians, feminism has been both a useful and contested tool. Its status continues to be questioned in the face of the need to address evolving concepts of gender identity and the persistence of white supremacy within art history. Questions that will be explored in this seminar include the following: 1) What are the current implications and uses of feminist methodologies for the study of Latin American art? 2) How do we analyze works by women-identified artists without limiting ourselves to gender issues? 3) What are the current challenges for feminisms in and around Latin American art? 

We aim to explore current research related to art historians’ incorporation of new, speculative feminisms into their practice accounting for gender fluidity and the concerns of the trans community. Additionally, we will discuss feminism’s account for intersectional concerns, such as race, class, and the environment, as well as feminist critiques of patriarchal structures of power. 

Participants: Dorota Biczel; Karen Cordero Reiman; Kency Cornejo, Vivian Crockett; Cecilia Fajardo-Hill; Ana María Franco; Geneviève Hyacinthe; Erin McCutcheon; Gina McDaniel Tarver; Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra. Convened by Harper Montgomery, Ana María Franco and Claudia Calirman.

As part of ASAP 12: Reciprocity

Join El Museo del Barrio and invited curators, scholars, and participating artists for an online symposium to mark the conclusion of ESTAMOS BIEN—LA TRIENAL 20/21. This virtual event will reflect on the exhibition and its wider context within the field of Latinx art within our contemporary moment.

The symposium will take place virtually on September 24 from 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm.

3:40pm | Unfolding Intersectionality
Artists and curators consider the importance and complexity of intersectionality within their practices. Participants: Ariana Curtis, Director of Content, Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, Smithsonian; Nyugen Smith, La Trienal Artist; and Vick Quezada, La Trienal Artist. Moderated by Vivian Crockett, Curator at the New Museum.

FREE via Zoom and FB Live | To RSVP, click here.

A conversation in conjunction with Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eclipse, curated by Bernardo Mosqueira.

Artist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and theorist and artist Denise Ferreira da Silva discuss shared areas of reflection such as art, healing, and transmutation. The conversation is moderated by curator and CCS Bard Graduate Committee member Vivian Crockett.

The conversation is being held in Portuguese and English with options for English audio interpretation, English real-time captioning (CART), and Portuguese real-time captioning (CART). Additional information can be found here.

“Art, Healing, Transmutation” was co-developed by Allie / A.L. Rickard and Bernardo Mosqueira and is also part of the CCS Bard graduate project Cripping Curatorial Studies (CCS).

Part of a series of events marking the final week of Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience at MAM Rio. Details follow in Portuguese. Additional details here.

Exibição online de filmes de Hélio Oiticica, seguida de uma conversa entre Vivian Crockett e Keyna Eleison em torno de obras cinematográficas presentes na coleção da Cinemateca do MAM que dialogam com o universo intelectual, epistemológico e estético de Hélio Oiticica.

Transmissão pelo Youtube do MAM, www.youtube.com/c/MAMRio

Part of a series of events marking the final week of Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience at MAM Rio. Details follow in Portuguese. Additional details here.

Nos interessa pensar no museu como um espaço de produção de conhecimento. Neste sentido, convidamos Agrippina R. Manhattan, Vivian Crockett e Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz para uma conversa a partir do trabalho e trajetória de Hélio Oiticica desde uma perspectiva contemporânea, em diálogo com as exposições Hélio Oiticica: a dança na minha experiência e Cosmococa: programa in progress. O curso inaugura uma série de encontros nos quais convidaremos diferentes visões para que confluam sobre uma mesma prática artística, obra ou exposição, para que possamos criar repertórios para a reflexão sobre os projetos do museu com e a partir do público.

ph: Claúdio Oiticica

Texas Talks Art is a multi-institutional initiative intended to both introduce the work of artists across the state of Texas to a wider audience and to foster collaboration between local non-profit arts organizations. Taking the form of virtual 30-minute lunchtime talks, the series features 50 Texas artists and artist collectives in conversation with 50 Texas curators beginning in January 2021 and continuing throughout the year. Each free, virtual talk will take place on Tuesday at 12 p.m. CST and will be recorded and archived. Register here.

To coincide with the current exhibition Hélio Oiticica, Lisson Gallery will host a special online discussion chaired by art historian, writer and curator Lynn Zelevansky on Thursday 14 January at 1pm EST / 6pm GMT.

The panel features additional experts on Oiticica's work including Tanya Barson, Chief Curator, MACBA, Barcelona; Fernando Cocchiarale, art critic and curator, Rio de Janeiro; and Vivian Crockett, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art.

Register for the talk on Zoom here.

Hear three Dallas artists, Desireé Vaniecia, David-Jeremiah, and Ciara Elle Bryant, talk about how their work and lives have been affected by the pandemic, police violence, and the subsequent waves of protests. Introductions and audience Q&A by Miguel Perez, Reporter and Digital Producer for KERA’s Art&Seek, and moderated by Vivian Crockett, the DMA’s Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art. 

Virtual Event. Learn more and register here.

Bringing together curatorial perspectives from both the US and Brazil, the panel will examine various aspects of Gomes’s work, from its preoccupation with memory and recovery of feminized crafts to its dialogue with popular and sacred Afro-Brazilian traditions. The panel includes curators Vivian Crockett, Fabiana Lopes, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, and Keyna Eleison in a conversation moderated by Michaëla Mohrmann, Associate Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery.

For more information and to register, click here.

An instagram live discussion in conjunction with the online launch of the exhibition, Hélio Oiticica: Dance in My Experience, co-presented by the Museu de arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo (MASP), and Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (MAM-RJ).

Vivian Crockett will be in dialogue with MASP’s Chief Curator, Tomás Toledo, to discuss Oiticica’s artistic trajectory, his relationship to dance, and insights from her essay for the catalogue.

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A abertura da exposição ocorrerá por meio de uma live no Instagram do MASP, às 18h do dia 23 de julho, e contará com a participação de Toledo e da pesquisadora e curadora Vivian Crockett, que escreveu um texto para o catálogo da mostra. No encontro virtual, os curadores falarão sobre a exposição e sobre a trajetória do artista plástico. Além disso, algumas das obras da mostra serão disponibilizadas no site no mesmo dia.

An online panel regarding inclusivity, featuring arts workers and organizers in Dallas.

“Please join us at 11am CST on Wednesday, July 8 for a discussion on the role Dallas’ cultural institutions need to play in dismantling racism, moderated by artist, poet and cultural organizer Darryl Ratcliff. The panel will feature arts professionals and philanthropists including the executive director of The Arts Community Alliance Terry Loftis, public artist J.D. Moore, and Dallas Museum of Art’s Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Vivian Crockett. Together, this panel will consider how the arts community can amend its complicity in systemic racism, while envisioning a more inclusive future for the arts in Dallas.”

IFC Center: 323 6th Avenue, New York, NY

Yolanda Olveros and Mari Rodriguez are high school classmates who discover they live in the same predominantly Mexican neighborhood in Los Angeles. The two teenagers forge a friendship while negotiating the expectations of their migrant parents. The intense social and personal pressures to belong bring them both intimately closer to one another. As visual artist Felipe Baeza, tonight’s guest presenter, notes, “MOSQUITA Y MARI is not your standard coming out story,” but rather a layered meditation on migration, sexuality, and working-class family life, all themes that are near to Baeza’s personal experience.

Presented as part of Queer|Art|Film: Chicas y Fantasmas, a special season curated by Vivian Crockett, Camilo Godoy and Carlos Motta

IFC Center: 323 6th Avenue, New York, NY

Arthur Stuart is a British journalist writing an article about Brian Slade, a 1970s rock star who disappears from the spotlight after faking his own murder. As Stuart interviews people in Slade’s past, the unfolding series of flashbacks reveals what really happened to the famed glam star. For interdisciplinary filmmaker Ela Troyano, VELVET GOLDMINE “queers pop music culture of the ‘70s and ‘80s—from its fairytale Oscar Wilde origin story to the raw musical performances by Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, inspired by the legendary sexual antics of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed.”

Presented as part of Queer|Art|Film: Chicas y Fantasmas, a special season curated by Vivian Crockett, Camilo Godoy and Carlos Motta

IFC Center: 323 6th Avenue, New York, NY

Major Motoko Kusanagi is a cyborg living in the fictional Japanese city of Niihama, circa 2029. As commander of a task force in search of hackers overtaking the cyberbrains of cyborg-human hybrids, she is made to confront her own identity and alienation. For video and performance artist Elektra KB, GHOST IN THE SHELL presents “technological possibilities for some disabled humans, that, like me, fantasize often about getting a functional robot body.” In Elektra’s words, the film prompts us to “think of speculative trans-feminist technologies while showing elements of a radically tender, liberatory future in an AI cybernetic-dysphoria-hacking cyberpunk world.”

Presented as part of Queer|Art|Film: Chicas y Fantasmas, a special season curated by Vivian Crockett, Camilo Godoy and Carlos Motta

IFC Center: 323 6th Avenue, New York, NY

Nomi Malone is running from her past and chasing stardom as a showgirl in Las Vegas. She finds her way through “a tornado of thrusting and rhinestones” navigating the dance world’s dark underbelly of misogyny and exploitation. Guest presenter and visual artist Martine Gutierrez describes this box-office-flop-turned-cult-classic as a “sexy, sexy mystery,” oozing with campy excess and a glittery dash of film noir. A capital-d Diva armed in “Versayce,” Nomi is aggressive in her sexuality, gender performativity, and ambition. Gutierrez reflects on how Nomi’s dreams push her to obscene extremes, asking us to consider: Is it possible to over-realize a world?

Presented as part of Queer|Art|Film: Chicas y Fantasmas, a special season curated by Vivian Crockett, Camilo Godoy and Carlos Motta

Performance Space New York: 150 1st Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY

To celebrate the publication DUETS: Kia LaBeija & Julie Tolentino In Conversation, Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino will be in dialogue with Vivian Crockett, with readings from the book's essays authored by Lia Gangitano and David Velasco.

For the DUETS publication, Kia LaBeija and Julie Tolentino come together for an intergenerational dialogue that illuminates their histories as artists and their relationships to HIV/AIDS spanning more than twenty years. From different perspectives, they discuss their shared practices as artists, performance makers, dancers, poets, and activists. With additional contributions by Lia Gangitano and David Velasco.

DUETS is a series of publications that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV/AIDS.

More information can be found here

Institute of Fine Arts: 1 E 78th St, New York, NY 

Panel in conjunction with the College Art Association Annual Conference, New York

The National Committee of the History of Art hosts a special session on “New Research on Brazilian Art.” This session is planned in conjunction with the international CIHA congress in São Paulo (2020). The session is chaired by Edward J. Sullivan (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).

Register here

BAM Rose Cinemas, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Under the Influence: Shorts Program, as part of Race, Sex & Cinema: The World of Marlon Riggs

+  Post-screening discussion with various filmmakers, moderated by scholar and curator Vivian Crockett

[image: Martine Syms, Notes on Gesture]

Recess, 46 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Artist Camilo Godoy recently transformed Recess into a dance studio as part of his Session: Out of Control. During his time at Recess, Godoy developed a choreography with dancers Julianne Cariño, Miguel Angel Guzmán, and Yolette Yellow-Duke entitled What did they actually see? and engaged the public through film screenings, workshops, performances, and a dance party. Join us on Wednesday, February 13 at 7pm for a zine launch of a publication that includes photographs from this Session and a text by Vivian Crockett commissioned as part of the Critical Writing Program at Recess. This event will include a performance demonstration followed by a conversation between Crockett, Godoy, Cariño, Yellow-Duke, and the audience.

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY

An Army of Lovers: ART+ Artists in Conversation

ART+Positive was an influential affinity group of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) / New York, responding to government neglect of the AIDS crisis and the conservative homophobia and censorship of the Culture Wars. ART+Positive’s collective aesthetic embodied a “militant eroticism” centering queer sexuality and raw, powerful freedom of expression.

An Army of Lovers: ART+Positive Artists In Conversation will feature members of the artist / activist collective including Aldo Hernández, Lola Flash and Dennis Davidson, to discuss their impactful art and political actions. Images and dialogue will highlight ART+Positive’s anti-Jesse Helms protest on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1989; their collective exhibitions, including “An Army Of Lovers: Combatting AIDS, Homophobia and Censorship” at PS122 in 1990; and their collaborative large-scale Positive Flag, Negative Flag, 1990, among other agitprop projects.

The intergenerational event is organized by Alex Fialho and moderated by Vivian Crockett, and will also include comments by the steward of the ART+Positive archives Dr. Daniel Berger, to celebrate the publication of Militant Eroticism: The ART+Positive Archives, edited by Berger and John Neff and published by Sternberg Press in 2017.

Participant Inc, 253 E Houston St # 1, New York, NY

GLQ Issue Launch: The Queer Commons, as part of A new job to unwork at

A reading to celebrate the publication of GLQ special issue The Queer Commons, co-edited by Gavin Butt and Nadja Millner-Larsen. Participants will share short excerpts from their contributions and the archives of queer commoning that their work draws upon. Material will be presented from the archives of Wages Due Lesbians and Black Women for Wages for Housework, Act Up's needle exchange initiatives, the queer organizing efforts at Istanbul's Gezi Park, the sexual undercommons of New York's legendary Clit Club. Featuring Ashon Crawley, Christina Hanhardt, Evren Savic, Arlen Austin, Clit Club contributors (including Julie Tolentino).

Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY

Aperture Conversations: Guadalupe Rosales and Vivian Crockett.

Aperture Foundation is pleased to present a night of conversation between artist Guadalupe Rosales and independent curator Vivian Crockett.

Since 2015, artist Guadalupe Rosales has been building an archive of vernacular photographs and ephemera connected to Latinx culture in Los Angeles. Her projects exist as both archives of physical objects and crowdsourced digital archives, assembled on her widely followed Instagram accounts (@veteranas_and_rucas and @map_pointz). Guided by an instinct to create counter narratives, Rosales tells the stories of communities often underrepresented in official archives and public memory.

A short reception will be held after the talk to celebrate Rosales’s exhibition, Legends Never Die, A Collective Memory. For this exhibition, which extends from a feature in Aperture’s Fall 2018 issue, “Los Angeles,” Rosales presents an installation of materials from her archives—from photobooth images of couples to young Chicanx women posing with cars to the party crews that ran East LA’s underground music scene in the 1990s.

Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY

#ArtSpeaks. Vivian Crockett on Tarsila do Amaral, Operários (Workers, 1933). Watch the video here.

Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY

6th Annual Last Address Tribute Walk. Video here.

For the Sixth Annual Last Address Tribute Walk, Visual AIDS Programs Director Alex Fialho will lead a tribute walk to the Lost Addresses of six sites marked by cultural and activist HIV/AIDS histories in the West Village: Florent, The Mineshaft, The Clit Club, The Piers, The Neutral Zone, and St Vincent’s Hospital. Highlighting former sites of nightlife, housing, creativity and care, the 6th Annual Last Address Tribute Walk locates community and social life in the midst of the AIDS crisis.

The program will begin at 3PM with a screening of Ira Sachs’ film Last Address (2010, 9 min.) at the Whitney Museum, followed by short video clips contextualizing each site, including Charles Atlas’ Butcher’s Vogue (1991, shot at Florent), a slideshow created by Julie Tolentino of Clit Club invitations, and more. The event will then move to the streets of the West Village, stopping at each address for readings by special guests involved with or influenced by the sites who will share a tribute in a spirit of lively of remembrance: Stuart Comer at Florent (69 Gansevoort Street); Brad Gooch at The Mineshaft(835 Washington Street); Vivian Crockett, Tara Hart, Michele Hill and Lori E. Seid with words by Julie Tolentino at The Clit Club (432 W 14th Street); Egyptt LaBeija at The Piers (at Pier 48); Luna Luis Ortiz at The Neutral Zone (162 Christopher Street); and Rafael Sánchez at St Vincent’s Hospital (15 7th Avenue). At each site, a drawing by Win Mixter evoking the Lost Addresses and a rose will be left in tribute. Through the constellation of readings and roses, drawings and doorsteps, the Last Address Tribute Walk situates community through remembrance and response.

Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY

MoMA Modern Mondays: "An Evening with Tiona Nekkia McClodden," screening and discussion

[Image: Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Dom Drop, 2017. Courtesy the arist.]

Tiona Nekkia McClodden is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work, rooted in “narrative biomythography” (the weaving of the personal, historical and mythic), examines collective histories of black and queer cultural production and life.

Marking the premiere of McClodden’s short film Dom Drop (2017), this program pairs the film with a selection of recent video projects that explore themes of identity, power, rage, queerness, and BDSM through meditations on the legacy of two black, gay poets, Brad Johnson and Essex Hemphill, who died of AIDS-related complications nearly 20 years apart. The screening is followed by a discussion with Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Vivian Crockett, centering on McClodden’s recent personal and biographical projects and highlighting a new turn toward the examination and activation of social spaces.

NYU TIsch, Michelson Theater, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY

4.55pm – 6.25pm PANEL: Institutions, Critique, and (their) Performance. Adrienne Edwards, Tara Willis, Vivian Crockett, Jay Wegman. Moderator: Malik Gaines

How do artists and curators, collaborate with one another, but also with different institutions and communities in the making of performance-oriented curatorial projects? How do curators and artists work together in co-imagining modes of display, presentation, and performance for both existing and new works? In which ways do the curatorial act and the artistic act respond to each other’s specificity (or fail to do so!), when curating performance? How performance and curation as dialogical practices may not only re-shape ideas and acts of collaboration, but also of participation and curatorial care? An international and multidisciplinary group of scholars, artists and curators from Singapore, Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US will gather throughout the day to discuss collaborative practices across the arts. 

[ Image credit: Jaime Acioli, (Eleonora Fabião Azul Azul Azul Azul: Bispo do Rosário Museum, 2016)]

AC Institute | 16 E. 48th St, New York, NY 10017 (4th Floor)

Join us for a very special conversation in conjuction with our newest exhibition with artist Carlos Martiel and New York–based independent researcher, scholar, and curator Vivian Crockett as they discuss Martiel’s newest piece “Intruder (America)” in relationship to Martiel’s long-term performance practice and its themes.

Intruder (America) is the first of two iterations of a new performance by Cuban artist Carlos Martiel. The piece derives its inspiration from the current migratory crisis that has quickly intensified and exacerbated in the United States after the election of Donald Trump. Within this context, Crockett and Martiel will examine how themes such as migration, displacement, systemic violence, anti-black racism and xenophobia on global and nationally specific scales, among others, have informed Martiel’s practice and tactics of engagement.