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Visuality and Carceral Formations with Nicole Fleetwood, Nicholas Mirzoeff and Herman Gray

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
online event
Presented by: 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences

Cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray and Nicholas Mirzoeff consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration, and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques of film, television, advertisements, and other media to ask how dominant visions of the world—and the visual regimes that regulate what people see and what remains hidden from view—are materialized in the prison industrial complex.

This event is part of the Visualizing Abolition series.

Visualizing Abolition is organized by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences in collaboration with San José Museum of Art and Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. The series has been generously funded by the Nion McEvoy Family Trust, Ford Foundation, Future Justice Fund, Wanda Kownacki, Peter Coha, James L. Gunderson, Rowland and Pat Rebele, Porter College, UCSC Foundation, and annual donors to the Institute of the Arts and Sciences.

Partners include: Howard University School of Law, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Jessica Silverman Gallery, Indexical, The Humanities Institute, University Library, University Relations, Institute for Social Transformation, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Porter College, the Center for Cultural Studies, the Center for Creative Ecologies, and Media and Society, Kresge College.

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FREE and open to the public
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