EVENT: Working On Making It Work: Naadira Patel (Feb 10 @ The Space for Creative Black Imagination)
Design, diaspora, and decolonial work
Working On Making It Work: Naadira Patel
THURSDAY, February 10, 2022 | 2:00 PM EDT
‘Working On Making It Work’
Join us for an interactive presentation by The Space for Creative Black Imagination’s Spring 2022 Designer-in-Residence Naadira Patel!
This presentation considers Patel’s design practice as an interdisciplinary space for decolonial practice. The session introduces Patel, offers a biographical introduction, and highlights connections between artistic, design, and teaching practices.
Naadira Patel is an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. She currently leads studiostudioworkwork, a multidisciplinary art, research, and design studio based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The studio works with artists, feminist, LGBTQI+, and other social justice organisations producing publications, illustrations, and other published material. Naadira holds an MA in Cultural Analysis (2015) from the University of Amsterdam’s School for Cultural Analysis, and a BA in Fine Arts (2010) from the Wits School of Arts. She has previously taught at Wits University’s School of Arts, and the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg. Most recently she co-led Unit18: Hyperreal Prototypes at the GSA. Her research focuses on arising from new forms of technology that shape, manipulate or augment our experiences of and our existence within the world; emerging forms of surveillance capitalism; and questions on the new world of work, with a focus on ideas of precarious labour, and productivity.
Video Works:
** Here are some Video Works that maybe folks can watch before the talk:
This is Futile (2019) 06:25min LINK
I hope this finds you well… (2020) 06:02min LINK
The Future of Work (2020) 09:30min LINK
Reading List Works (unconfirmed):
Jan Verwoert (2008) “Exhaustion and Exuberance: Ways to Defy the Pressure to Perform” (See This Link)
Audre Lorde (1978, 1984) “The Uses of the Erotic” (See This Link)
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney (2010) “Debt and Study” E-flux Journal Issue #14, March 2010 (See This Link)
Core Partnerships
This event is produced in partnership with: MICA’s Graphic Design (Undergraduate Major), MICA’s MFA in Graphic Design, LifexCode.org “Digital Humanities Against Enclosure,” Directed by Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University), The Office of Justice, Equity, and Transformation (JET) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), whose goals are “to guide and lead work that achieves systemic equity in all areas of the educational institution through the transformation of campus culture”.
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Image credit: Naadira Patel
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