Select Fridays between September 2015 and May 2016, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Towards a Black Poetics and Politics of Movement
She explores a black poetics and politics of movement that questions verticality as the desired norm. Instead of seeing every fall as an opportunity to get up again, is there another way to relate to a living, moving and remembering landscape? For answers, Young turns to African American/Nigerian artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji, whose performances of dragging kegs of water through the streets of Lagos foreground issues of disability, women's labor, and spirituality.
