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John Jota Leaños
Tuesday, February 22
6:30 pm Lecture
FREE for members, registration encouraged
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Settler Haunting: Phantom Presence in American Memory
John Jota Leaños explores the presence of settler colonial haunting and the specters of historical amnesia in the American landscape and psyche. Through the animation of historical narratives and speculative Indigeneity, this talk highlights Leaños’s artistic work on memory, haunting, territory, and history.
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Following the lecture, join us for an intimate dinner with John Jota Leaños, Museum Director Raphaela Platow, and members of the Speed's curatorial and senior leadership teams. Tickets are $75.
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Video still from John Jota Leaños' Destinies Manifest (2017), as featured in the exhibition Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art.
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About the Speaker:
John Jota Leaños is a Mestizo (Xicano/Italian-American/Chumash) interdisciplinary artist and animator concerned with the embattled terrains of history and memory as they relate to nation, power and decolonization. A Guggenheim Fellow of Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist and United States Artist (USArtist) Fellow, Leaños’s practice includes a range of media arts, documentary animation, video, public art, installation and performance. His work has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, PBS.org, the Whitney Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Cannes Film Festival, France; PBS.org, Manifesta 13: La Biennale Européenne de Création Contemporaine, aluCine Toronto Latin@ Media Festival, Ars Electronica 2020, Tehran International Animation Festival, Iran, and other venues. Leaños’ animated films have won Best Animation at the 39th Annual American Indian Film Festival, XicanIndie Film Festival, Denver, Best Animation, Arizona International Film Festival, 2021 Cult Critic Awards, and VideoFest, San Francisco. He is currently a Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Department of Film and Digital Media.
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Bridget Cooks
Tuesday, April 5
6:30 pm Lecture
FREE for members, registration encouraged
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Conjure: Art and the Black Supernatural
In this presentation, Cooks will discuss expressions of faith and the supernatural in art featured in the game changing exhibitions Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, and beyond.
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Following the lecture, join us for an intimate dinner with Bridget Cooks, Museum Director Raphaela Platow, and members of the Speed's curatorial and senior leadership teams. Tickets are $75.
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About the Speaker:
Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California, (2018) (Pasadena Museum of California Art; Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019) (CAAM) and the nationally touring exhibition. The Black Index.
She is author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Some of her other publications can be found in Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly. She is currently completing her next book titled, Norman Rockwell: The Civil Rights Paintings.
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Global Speed is a community lecture series featuring international figures in the art world, to inform on global art topics.
For more information about the series, call 502.634.2700.
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Image: John Jota Leaños. American (Xicano-Mestizo), born 1969. Destinies Manifest, 2017. Digital animation, installation, 7 minutes. Commissioned by the Denver Art Museum. Courtesy of the Artist, John Jota Leaños. Photos: Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM. © John Jota Leaños.
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The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to Speed Art Museum with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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