28 Days Reimagining Black History Month

Dates: February 18, 2012 to February 18, 2012
Location: Hart House, East Common Room (Hart House, University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Ontario

Furthering themes explored in the exhibition 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month currently on view at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and Georgia Scherman Projects, this panel discussion brings together artists and curators to explore critical debates on Black culture and memorialisation in relation to contemporary artistic/exhibition practice, multiculturalism, post-identity politics and institutional heritage.

Curator, urbanist and researcher Paul Goodwin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) will present the keynote lecture Curating Difference: Towards a Critical Post-Multiculturalism addressing critical curatorial practices in relation to frameworks of diversity and cross-culturalism. The program will include presentations from exhibiting artists, Sonia Boyce (UK), Dana Inkster (Canada), Robert A. Pruitt (US) and Camille Turner (Canada) who will address the strategies and motives of their work as it relates to Black histories and commemoration, touching on themes including institutional critique, performativity, representation and intercultural collaboration. This will be followed by a roundtable discussion with presenters and Toronto-based exhibiting artists Stephen Fakiyesi and Denniston Ewan to explore their unique exhibition practices in relation to Black History Month programming and current issues of Afromodernity in visual studies. The panel will be moderated by Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

28 Days is presented by Third Space Art Projects, a Canadian-based curatorial collective co-founded in 2009 by Pamela Edmonds and Sally Frater as a forum for the promotion, presentation and development of contemporary art projects that engage transcultural and diasporic communities, with a particular focus on visual cultures of the Black Atlantic. 28 Days has been generously supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and TD Bank Group. The exhibition continues at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery until February 19, 2012 and Georgia Scherman Projects until February 29, 2012 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery Hart House, University of Toronto 416-978-8398 www.jmballery.ca MondayWednesday & Friday, 11:00 am 5:00 pm Thursday, 11:00 am 7:00 pm SaturdaySunday, 1:00 pm 5:00 pm Georgia Scherman Projects 133 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, ON, 416-554-4112 www.georgiascherman.com TuesdayFriday, 10:00 am 5:00 pm Saturday, 11:00 am 5:00 pm or by appointment.