Talks

Locust Projects and ArtCenter/South Florida invite for a conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  During these intimate conversations, these art proffessionals will talk about their curatorial vision and practice, the art and artists that have shaped their careers, and how they support the work of artists whether … +

Silvia Lizama will give a presentation showing how a lifetime of influences has impacted her image making process. She will show different bodies of work, talk about the inspirations behind the work and finally give brief presentation on how she hand colors her black and white photographs. Silvia Lizama was born in Cuba and moved to South Florida in 1960. She received … +

Join Leica Lounge on Thursday, September 7, 2017 with photographer Miguel Salas. Miguel will share his experiences from Holi, the festival of color in India, which he photographed in March 2017. Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the arrival of spring and a celebration of fertility, color, and love, as well as the triumph of good versus evil. People from all around the … +

Photographer Azeez Bakare will give a presentation titled, Drones and 3D: “Outside and In.” He will discuss everything from the art of capturing aerials on the exterior to developing 3D art on the interior and how photography fuels both. Azeez Bakare is a 3D artist, photographer, and videographer who helps firms, agencies, developers, and solopreneurs translate their ideas into high-quality visualization. Spending … +

In his sculptural installations, Mark Handforth transplants familiar objects into unfamiliar surroundings in order to reveal something new about the ways in which these things exist and function in our everyday lives. Born in Hong Kong, raised in England, and based in Miami since 1992, Handforth revels in the skewed perspectives and unintended consequences that result from cultural migration and displacement. In … +

  Stephanie Wakefield is an urban geographer and visiting Assistant Professor in Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College at The New School. She has written and organized extensively around the political and philosophical questions of the Anthropocene, exploring it as a threshold moment of both great potential and catastrophe. She is finalizing a book on the being, time and politics of … +

Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University. She has published books and articles on contemporary European philosophy, queer theory, visual culture, poetry, literary history gender studies and literary theory. Her most recent book is Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, co-authored with Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller. Read on ICA Miami

Nicholas Mirzoeff  is a visual activist, working at the intersection of politics and global/digital visual culture. His most recent book How To See The World was published by Pelican in the UK (2015) and by Basic Books in the US (2016). It has been translated into eight languages and was a New Scientist Top Ten Book of the Year for 2015. Mirzoeff … +

CCE holds a conversation with Art historian Aldeide Delgado about Women Photographers in Cuba. It starts a process of recovery of memory and models that contributes to self-knowledge and self-esteem of women as photographers. The rescue in 1853 of the first Cuban woman photographer Encarnacion Iróstegui was the first step for developing of a historiography where the creators could find the visibility … +

Join us for an evening of good drinks and great conversation as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Primary present “Collecting 101”, A conversation with industry professionals Jimena Guijarro of Guijarro de Pablo Art Consultants, Valentina Garcia of Phillips Auction House, & Cristina Gonzalez of Primary. Beginning to collect comes with many questions, here is your opportunity to meet on a … +

  FRI, APR 28, 7:30p film, (THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV) and 9:30p Q&A: “S P E A K I N G   I N   C I N E M A  #12” A series of events at MBC celebrating cinema as a art-form With special guests Director ALBERT SERRA & Film Comment Film Critic & Filmmaker YONCA TALU Hosted by Miami Film … +

Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, Florida) creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. His work is part … +

Google Talks return to Miami Film Festival 2017. The series addressing gender + racial gaps in the film industry will feature: Tilane Jones, Sarah Gadon, Rebecca Theodore-Vachon, Radhika Vaz & Nadia P Manzoor. #MiamiFFXGoogle Saturday, March 4, 2017 11:00am-12:30pm: Tilane Jones Tilane Jones- (Selma Movie) the executive director of ARRAY an independent film distribution collaborative, that aims at disrupting the current model … +

Writer Kirsty Bell will present a new talk, “The massive scale of sameness makes everything completely different,” on the work of renowned German Pop artist Thomas Bayrle. This lecture will look at how Bayrle’s train of thought draws a line linking Gothic architecture, Fordian production lines, organized religion and the rise of the highway as the ultimate superstructure. Since his beginnings as … +

The Garden of Yellow & Pink is a solo sculptural installation by artist Andrew Nigon. Referencing the Old Testament, Nigon constructs a garden of twisted prompts that simultaneously present the beginning and end of a familiar story. Andrew Nigon is an artist and educator working in Corvallis, Oregon. His sculptural and installation work has been shown nationally and internationally, most recently at … +

Since 1906, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem has set the artistic scene in Israel whilst being the leading institution in the country. This talk, “From Carpet Weavers to Transparent Architecture: 111 years of art and design education in Jerusalem,” led by the institution’s current president, Prof. Adi Stern, will portray the story of Bezalel, its unique spirit and its … +

A talk by world-renowned designer Harry Allen followed by a conversation with PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi. Hear about Allen’s uniquely playful cast of domestic objects and larger design practice, including Allen’s Bank in the Form of a Pig, which can be won in a raffle that day. Born in New Jersey in 1964, Allen received a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design … +

Locust Projects is pleased to announce its fourth year of Locust Talks, a lecture series that hosts visiting directors and curators from innovative institutions across the country and internationally for public lectures at the gallery space followed by individual studio visits with local artists. In this occasion Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Sculpturecenter from New York is invited. She … +

Nefandus: Colonial Sexual Alterity and Histories for the Future will bring together scholars Anjali Arondekar, Pablo Bedoya, Joseph Massad, Fernanda Molina, Artist Carlos Motta (with exhibition on view) and Pete Sigal to present their work on colonial sexualities, the production of identity categories and the ways in which these processes of “modernization” have constituted the experience of sex and gender in post-colonial … +

In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, artist William Cordova will discuss the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in relation to Haitian Vodou flags, Puerto Rican political posters, and Nicolás Guillén Landrián’s cut-up celluloid cinema. The talk will be followed by a discussion with PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans and PAMM Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz. Auditorium First come, … +

Conde Contemporary Gallery invites photographer John Sevigny. In a 45-minute talk, the artist will discuss metaphors related to his work such as: beliefs and rituals, encounters with violence, Santeria and Miami’s collective identity themes. A new group of 14 photographs, Dark Arts, will be on view the same night. John Sevigny was born in Miami and lived on US-Mexico border for four … +