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Arts of Fugitivity | ASAP/14

  • The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present | Seattle Seattle (map)

Grace Aneiza Ali will be a speaker at Arts of Fugitivity—an exploration of fugitivity as a concept, practice, and method in contemporary art and culture. Fugitivity is a keyword in Indigenous studies, where it asks us to think critically about the politics of movement and place and their intersections with settler-colonialism. As Fred Moten writes “Fugitivity is immanent to the thing but is manifest transversally.” What emerges when we look elsewhere, sideways, and askance for ways to survive? What happens to representation, creativity, and possibility? How do arts as object, epistemology, and method – across visual arts, music, theatre, performance, film, literary, media, and multidisciplinary arts – animate fugitive ways of being, knowing, and imagining?