Sampada Aranke
2017-2018
Invited Guest - Public ProgrammingSampada Aranke's Winter 2018 talk examines Black contemporary artists in the exhibition Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the American Justice System, focusing on how they escape various modes of control made possible by sight by re-centering the bodily and sensorial.
About the ProgramSampada Aranke (PhD, Performance Studies) is an Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at The School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her research interests include performance theories of embodiment, visual culture, and black cultural and aesthetic theory. Her work has been published in e-flux, Artforum, Art Journal, Equid Novi: African Journalism Studies, andTrans-Scripts: An Interdisciplinary Online Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. She has written catalogue essays for Sadie Barnette, Kambui Olujimi, and Zachary Fabri. She's currently working on her book manuscript entitled Death's Futurity: The Visual Culture of Death in Black Radical Politics.
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