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Trevor Schoonmaker (Prospect.4 Triennial New Orleans Curator & Nasher Museum Director) at 20-22 The Ongoing Biennial

February 10, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm UTC-5

Trevor Schoonmaker

(Prospect 4 Triennial New Orleans Curator & Nasher Museum of Art Director)

in conversation with FHI Social Practice Lab Director Pedro Lasch.

with a response from former Flaherty Director, Smithsonian African American Museum Specialist and Prospect.4 artist Jon-Sesrie Goff.

Trevor Schoonmaker is the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Hired in 2006 as its first contemporary art curator, he has helped shape the museum’s curatorial vision and contemporary art collection. Under his leadership, the museum has sought to recognize and support diverse artists who have been historically underrepresented. Selected exhibitions at the Nasher include Naama Tsabar: Composition 21 (2019); People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection (2018); John Akomfrah: Precarity (2018); Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art (2016); Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey (2013); The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (2010); Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (2008); and Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova & Robin Rhode (2007). Other career highlights include organizing the New Orleans Triennial, Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp (2017) and curating Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2003). Schoonmaker served on the board of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts from 2010-2018.

Free and open to all, anywhere in the world

Registration link, and full calendar with all guests and links to bios included below

20-22 The Ongoing Biennial – A Weekly Conversation Cycle with International Curators

Every Wednesday 1-2pm (EST/GMT-5)

Jan 27th and May 5th, 2021

Organized by Pedro Lasch and the FHI Social Practice Lab with support from the Franklin Humanities I World Arts Initiative at Duke University, this Conversation Cycle is part of a larger program entitled ’20-22 The Ongoing Biennial’. In person visits with some of our guests will also be presented at a later stage in collaboration with the the AAHVS Department and the Nasher Museum of Art.

Set in the context of an unprecedented pandemic, global shutdowns, and the rethinking of every aspect of exhibition making, our remote conversations will include curators and other international arts professionals. The first year of the public program will focus on short online dialogues with individual guests. Our one hour long remote events will begin with a casual interview, focusing on the particular trajectory and ideas of each guest in the series, followed by comments from a respondent and questions from the audience. Within this format, we also hope to provide an opportunity for joint reflection on these highly unusual times. Programming for the second year will be announced at a time of greater certainty.

One-time registration at this link will give you access to all of these free and public events:

https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsd-uhrDgiE9dKfiHakJ_kA58R76wSVlH9

See full calendar below and click on guest names to see bios and more information for each week：

Jan 27 – Ralph Rugoff

Feb 3 – Cuauhtémoc Medina

Feb 10 – Trevor Schoonmaker

Feb 17 – Candice Hopkins

Feb 24 – Lucia Pietrioiusti

Mar 3 – Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Mar 10 [Break]

Mar 17 – Andrea Giunta

Mar 24 – Yuko Hasegawa