Panel Moderator / Challenging Colonialism in Contemporary Art

Written By Edgar Endress

Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC

 Wednesday, March 21st. 


PANEL OVERVIEW: Transformer continues our ongoing FRAMEWORK Panel Series with FRAMEWORK Panel #27: Challenging Colonialism in Contemporary Art. This panel will highlight emerging artists challenging commonly held notions of how their identities have been defined through colonialism, history, and popular culture. 

This panel is presented in conjunction with Transformer’s Spring exhibition, Queer Tropics - a group exhibition that considers the abstract idea of the tropics and how that vision has been variously created, reinforced, and confronted. Originally opened in November 2017 at Pelican Bomb Gallery X in New Orleans, Queer Tropics features artworks that examine the visual and cultural systems through which one imagines the landscape of the tropics as a site of leisure, sensuality, and play.

 PANELISTS:

 Carlos Motta, Adrienne Tarver, Dulcina Abreu, Hoesy Corona

 

Edgar Endress
Edgar Endress, Founder of Floating Lab Collective. Edgar Endress is a George Mason University assistant professor teaching new media and public art. Born in Chile, he has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, most recently in Medellin, Colombia. In 2007, in association with Provisions, he initiated the Floating Lab Collective, a team of interdisciplinary artists who deploy innovative art projects in collaboration with urban communities. His work focuses on syncretism in the Andes, displacement in the Caribbean, and mobile art-making practices. He received his MFA in Video Art from Syracuse University. He has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Creative Capital Fund.
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