Ella Jo Baker Distinguished Lecture with Ja’Tovia Gary
Visual Artist Ja’Tovia Gary will deliver the Spring 2024 Ella Jo Baker Distinguished Lecture entitled the “Timekeeper” in the ICC Auditorium at 5:30pm on April 17, 2024. The lecture/screening will address her multidisciplinary practice, spanning documentary, avant-garde video art, sculpture, and installation. The artist is deeply concerned with re-memory and employs a rigorous interrogation and apprehension of the archive in much of her work. She seeks to trouble notions of objectivity and neutrality in nonfiction storytelling by asserting a Black feminist subjectivity, and applies what scholar and cultural critic bell hooks terms “an oppositional gaze” as both maker and critical spectator of moving image works. As part of the lecture, the artist will screen segments from her most recent and award-winning films: The Giverny Document and Quiet As It’s Kept.
Dr. Zandria Robinson from the Department of Black Studies will moderate the event.