Imaging as Activism
A Democratic Lens Lecture • November 16, 2023
Imaging as Activism, part of The Democratic Lens: Photography and Civic Engagement series, with writer, activist, and sometime curator Lucy R. Lippard considers photography's multiple roles in virtually all social justice movements, from the civil rights movement to protests against the Vietnam War to feminism to the Central American wars to Black Lives Matter to the climate crisis and more recent feminist actions.
WHEN • Thursday, November 16, 2023, 6:00 - 7:00 PM MT
WHERE • Lumpkins Ballroom, La Fonda on the Plaza Hotel - 100 E San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
HOW • Free and Public – now available as a recording
Palestinian Saber al-Ashkar, 29, hurls rocks during a protest at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on May 11, 2018, as Palestinians demonstrate for the right to return to their historic homelands in what is now Israel © Wissam Nassar
REFERENCES & RELATED READINGS:
• Lippard L. R. (1990). From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art. Dutton.
• Lippard L. R. Eva Hesse. Da Capo Press. 1992.
• Lippard L. R. Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. New Press. 2000.
• Lippard L. R. Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use Politics and Art in the Changing West. New Press. 2014.
• Lippard L. R. Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives in Galisteo Since 1814. Museum of New Mexico Press. 2020.
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, activist, sometime curator, and author of 25 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, including From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art, Eva Hesse, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America. The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, and most recently, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West, and Pueblo Chico: Land and lives in Galisteo Since 1814. She has co-founded various artists’ feminist and activist organizations and publications. She lives off the grid in rural Galisteo, New Mexico, where for 23 years, she has edited the monthly community newsletter: El Puente de Galisteo.
The Democratic Lens: Photography and Civic Engagement discussion series is made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the interviews, essays, lectures, programs, reports, and website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
