Hosted by Princeton University, the 2020 Global Plantation Symposium will be the first in a series of conversations. Later events will tentatively be hosted by Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia) and Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA).
Additionally, inspired by the symposium’s themes, several conversations will be held over the summer, organized by the International Curators Forum. For more information on the ICF and the Global Plantation series, please visit their website.
International Curators Forum
Global Plantation Series Talks
A Land of Extraordinary Quarantines
A Conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Friday, June 5 2020
17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT
When Mark Twain visited Mauritius in 1896, he described it as a Land of Extraordinary Quarantines, referring to the fear of disease transmission associated with ships transporting indentured laborers to the island. The dual image of the island as a space of quarantine and a plantation animates artist Shiraz Bayjoo’s multi-media practice, and the archives-in formation he creates. In this conversation Shiraz and art historian Anna Arabindan-Kesson will reflect on the convergence of extraction and confinement, of humans and natural world, of labor and memory in his Indian ocean landscapes. How does art help us understand the afterlives of these colonial histories, in our current experience of confinement, and provide alternative possibilities for working through this uncertain present?
Watch the conversation on Zoom (Webinar ID: 859 1951 7610; Password 755334) or Facebook Live.
Live Online Q&A with Shiraz Bayjoo, Jasmine Togo-Brisby & Sancintya Mohini Simpson
Saturday, September 26
11:00am BST / 8:00pm AEST / 10pm NZST
This programme is a series of artist-directed digital discussions featuring Shiraz Bayjoo, Jasmine Togo-Brisby and Sancintya Mohini Simpson developed by Anna Arabindan-Kesson and Shiraz in collaboration with International Curators Forum that contemplate the global forms and meanings of the plantation historically, and in our contemporary moment. Please find the prerecorded discussions here:
A Land of Extraordinary Quarantines (with Shiraz Bayjoo)
Inheritance: Jasmine Togo-Brisby’s Plantation Histories
Sites of Resistance, Sites of Care: A Conversation with Sancintya Mohini Simpson
To watch live the Q&A with Shiraz Bayjoo, Jasmine Togo-Brisby & Sancintya Mohini Simpson, please register. Questions can be submitted in advance for the artists here.