Is it possible to divorce creative practice from the trappings of capitalism and the market forces that propel it forward? How do artists, organizers, and cultural practitioners question and challenge the art world’s entanglements in US imperialism, neoliberal globalization, and consumer capitalism?
Join Dawaune Lamont Hayes, Parker Krieg, Bilgesu Sisman, and Jared Packard during Amplify’s next virtual Alternate Currents panel discussion, Doing Well / Doing Good: Anti-Capitalism for Artists, Wednesday, March 29th at 7pm CST, for a conversation that examines how artists are aligning their practices with anti-capitalist orientations, and the movement lineages they come from, to build relationships, rest, and work toward regenerative futures.
Register on Zoom, Facebook, or Amplify’s website. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the discussion on Zoom after registering. And don’t forget to visit the Alternate Currents blog to read related posts before the discussion.
www.amplifyarts.org/alternate-currents
Alternate Currents incubates artist-led responses to the systemic challenges we face by centering creative research, collaboration, and critical dialogue both on- and off-line. Together, the Alternate Currents Blog, Discussion Series, and Working Group hold space for critical discourse around national and international issues in the arts that have a profound impact at the local level.
Free and open to all. Alternate Currents programming is presented with support from the Sherwood Foundation, the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About the Panelists:
Dawaune Lamont Hayes: Dawaune was born, raised, and loved on the land of the Umoⁿhoⁿ, Omaha Nation, The People Who Move Against the Current. They are a Regenerative Artist and Cultural Curator who works at the intersections of natural expression, historical reconciliation, and restorative futurism. They explore visual and performing arts, from burlesque dance to digital photography and collage to visualize their experience and those of their ancestors. As a Spatial Practitioner, they believe in helping people reconnect to the natural world and embracing the innate joy of being an animal in space, without the limiting burdens of consumerist modernity.
They live by the mantra “Clean Air, Clean Water, Good Food, Good Weed, Best Friends.” Wherein they find peace in the essentials of life and symbiosis with people, place, and planet.
Their photography documents young people, especially Black Men, in relationship to Mother Nature in urban environments while finding peace between the concrete.
You can learn more about Dawaune’s work at www.dawaune.one.
Parker Krieg: C. Parker Krieg teaches in the Exploratory Studies program and English at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He previously taught in the Global Studies program at UN-Lincoln, and held a postdoctoral fellowship in environmental humanities at the University of Helsinki in Finland, affiliated with the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science. His research and teaching focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and culture, environmental justice, and cultural memory studies.
Bilgesu Sisman: Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, Bilgesu is a writer, researcher, educator, and film programmer with a background in philosophy and a deep love for cinema. Bilgesu’s work as a creative writer and filmmaker focuses on female-driven narratives, often in the form of psychological and philosophical mysteries, thrillers and fantastical fiction that meditate on our encounters with the unknown - whether personal, existential, or socio-political. As a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago, her thesis explores the political history of necroviolence (i.e. posthumous corporal violence) and argues for its formative role in state power. In addition to political philosophy, Bilgesu taught courses on subjectivity, psychoanalysis, affects, memory, trauma, and film theory. She currently works as the Interim Programming Director at Film Streams in Omaha, Nebraska.
Jared Packard: Jared Packard is an artist and curator based in Omaha, NE where he is the Exhibitions Manager at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Packard completed his BA at Clark University and his MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has curated the NEA-funded unLOCK: Merging Art and Industry, Lockport, IL; an urban curatorial experiment, Stumble Chicago; the nationally traveling exhibition, ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection; and (Re)Flex Space, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL. He has shown his work at ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Gallery, Detroit, MI; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL; Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France; Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C.; Shiltkamp Gallery, Worcester, MA.