‘Absent Statue’ A Japan-North Carolina Exchange
with Emiko Kasahara, Maya Little, Sarah Riazati, Altha Cravey, Pedro Lasch, and more

Fri Nov 2nd, 2018
3:00-6:00pm
Carpentry Shop, Duke University (RSVP needed)
Hosted by FHI Social Practice Lab and MFA-EDA

Important: All are welcome, but our venue is not a public site, so you must RSVP by 10am Fri Nov 2nd with email to Pedro Lasch (plasch@duke.edu) or via fb event page at our Social Practice Lab page. Doors will close at 3:10am sharp, so please arrive before then.

Artist and professor Emiko Kasahara and a group of MFA students from Tokyo, Japan will be visiting our state later this week. Aware and interested in our current affairs, they suggested the topic of ‘Absent Statue’ for an afternoon of presentations and conversations with local artists, activists, and scholars. In addition to our Japanese guests, we will be joined with short presentations by Maya Little (activist and graduate student/UNC-CH), Altha Cravey (professor/UNC-CH), Sarah Riazati (artist & graduate student/Duke MFA-EDA), John Bowles (professor/UNC-CH), and Pedro Lasch (AAHVS professor & FHI Social Practice Lab director/Duke), among others. The event is open to all those interested in hearing or sharing stories of toppled monuments in Chapel Hill, Durham and elsewhere, the absence left by them, and how we may face the current moment through international conversations about art, activism, and scholarship.