Dartmouth Events

Sonic Distortions: Scripting Alternative Black, Queer, Disabled Ways of Being

The "Crip Futures: Disability Culture at Dartmouth College" event series presents this art history talk with Olivia Young.

Tuesday, May 9, 2023
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Dartmouth Hall 104 (& Zoom)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Arts and Sciences, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Free Food, Lectures & Seminars

The "Crip Futures: Disability Culture at Dartmouth College" event series presents Sonics Distortions: Scripting Alternative Black, Queer, Disabled Ways of Being with Olivia Young, contemporary African diasporic art & visual culture scholar (Art History, Rice University)

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

4:30-6:30 PM (EST)

Dartmouth Hall 104 & Zoom

This talk will play with the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and disability within the etymological roots of the word “distortion”, taking seriously the directive of 'undoing' scripted into the term. Additionally, I turn to the sensory register of sound to showcase how artists are situating distortion as a transdisciplinary analytic that undoes ocular-centric epistemologies of blackness in the visual field. I turn to the video installation 'My dreams, my works must wait till after hell' (2011) by GIRL (Simone Leigh + Chitra Ganesh) (b. 1967 and 1975) to ask what non-visual representations of blackness surface in the work of artists when refracted through the lens of distortion?

This is a hybrid event. If attending in person, please RSVP by emailing humanities.events@dartmouth.edu with your name and access needs. Live captioning and in-person ASL interpretation will be available.

This is a Fragrance-Free event. (what it means to be fragrance free: https://csw.ucla.edu/toolkit#toggle-id-2)

Please kindly wear a mask if attending in-person.

Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/99649248708?pwd=cjNpUTZJbUozenhKMWZJbm04QitSQT09

For more information, contact:
Erin Bennett
603-646-0896

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.