3PM

Keynote Address: Stuart Hall ("After the Deluge"). Conference viewing of the "Shades of Black" exhibition at The John Hope Franklin Center followed by a reception.

April 20, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University

10AM - 12PM

Focus: "Curatorial Debates Since the 1980s"
Curating Papers: Richard Powell ("Curating Papers: Blacks and Blues"), Sandy Nairne (Title TBA), Susan Lok ("Why Be a 'YB (BAACYRWBW/M) A?' / On '(Black- ) British- (Anglo-Asian-) Chinese- (Yellow- Red- White- Blue- Wo/Man-) ness'") [via video conferencing from the Tate]
Curating Panel: Deborah Willis, Shaheen Merali
Chair: David A. Bailey
Session Reporter: Rohini Malik

12:45PM - 2:45PM

Focus: "The Thematic and Aesthetic Shifts in Practice Since the 1980s"
Practice Papers: Rasheed Araeen ("The Success and Failure of the Black Art Movement"), Zineb Sedira ("On Becoming an Artist - Algerian, African, Arab, Muslim, French, and Black British?"), Keith Piper (Title TBA)
Practice Panels: Sutapa Biswas, Ingrid Pollard
Chair: Jane Gaines
Session Reporter: Michael Cadette

3:15PM - 5:15PM

Focus: "Approaches to Diasporic Aesthetics and the Role of Criticism" & "The Role that Criticism Has Played in the Development of Black Cultural Practice"
Criticism Papers: Judith Wilson ("Triangular Trades: Transatlantic Cultural Commerce: Transatlanticism in the Visual Arts"), Kobena Mercer ("The Eighties Returned What the Sixties Repressed")
Criticism Panel: Diana Yeh, Niru Ratnam, Janice Cheddie, Leon Wainwright
Chair: Ian Baucom
Session Reporter: Pauline de Souza & Kelvin Black

Conference viewing of "Made in Asia?" at Duke University Museum of Art

April 21, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University

10AM - 12PM

Focus: "The Importance of Collaboration in the Development of Practice"
Practice Papers: Lubaina Himid ("Inside the Invisible: For/Getting Strategy"), Isaac Julien (Title TBA), Dawoud Bey ("Collaborative Projects: Towards a More Inclusive Practice")
Practice Panels: Allan de Souza, Yong Soon Min
Chair: Kristine Stiles
Session Reporter: Yeu Lai Mo

12PM - 1PM

Mid Afternoon Break

1PM - 3PM

Focus: "Historical Perspectives on International Curatorial Debates of the 1980s and 1990s"
Curating Papers: Gilane Tawadros ("A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the Crime"), Stanley Abe ("Why Asia Now? Contemporary Asian Art and the Politics of Multiculturalism")
Curating Panel: Barbara Hunt, Mark Sealy
Chair: Andrea Barnwell
Session Reporter: Carol Tulloch

April 22, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University

9AM - 10:45PM

Focus: "The Role Policy Has Played in the Development of Cultural Practice"
Policy Papers: Naseem Khan ("From the Margins to the Edge: Black Arts in Britain Over Thirty Years") and Lola Young (Title TBA)
Policy Panel: Rasheed Araeen, John Akomfrah, John L. Moore, III
Chair: E'Vonne Coleman
Session Reporter: Paul Dash

11AM - 12PM

Summation: Stuart Hall and Richard Powell introduced by Lawrence Grossberg.

Registration
Please note that because a premium is being placed on discussion at this conference, limits are being placed on the number of participants. Pre-registering for the conference online and receiving a confirmation of your registration, ensures that you will be allowed into the sessions. No guarantee of seating can be made to those who decide to attend the conference yet fail to pre-register.

Hotels and Air Transportation
No special deals have been made with airlines for this conference. The closest airport is the Raleigh / Durham International Airport (RDU). Suggested Hotel: Brownstone Inn, 2424 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27705; telephone 1-800-367-0293.

Please contact Erica James with concerns or questions.

Please Note: NO REGISTRATIONS ACCEPTED AFTER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2001 AT 12PM





Other Information

Directions to the John Hope Franklin Center and Parking Information. Please note that the preferred parking lot is behind Pickens Health Center on the corner of Erwin Road and Trent Drive. Also, if you park in the Medical Center Parking Garage on Erwin Road, please ask a member of the conference staff for a parking coupon.

Black British Film Series Schedule
The Black British Film Series is designed to screen works of artists and filmmakers pertinent to the Shades of Black Conference hosted by Duke University, April 19-22, 2001. Leading up to the conference with five screening dates in April, the series includes works by such groundbreaking filmmakers as Isaac Julien, Martina Attille, John Akomfrah, Horace Ové, Coco Fusco, and Gurinder Chadha. It is the the goal of the Program in Film and Video to show the works in a condition that is true to the artists' original intentions. For that reason, we will screen video works on video and film on 16mm or 35mm whenever possible.

April 01 : Black British Film Series, 8pm, 204B East Duke Bldg
Dreaming Rivers (dir: Martina Attille, 1988, 35min, color, 16mm)
Looking for Langston (dir: Isaac Julien, 1989, 49min, BW, 16mm)

April 08 : Black British Film Series, 8pm, 204B East Duke Bldg
Handsworth Songs (dir: John Akomfrah, 1986, 58min, England, English, 16mm)

April 09 : Black British Film Series, 8pm, Griffith Film Theater
Bhaji on the Beach (dir: Gurinder Chadha, 1993, 101min, England, 35mm)

April 16 : Black British Film Series, 8pm, 204B East Duke Bldg
Dreaming Rivers (dir: Martina Atille, 1988, 35min, color, 16mm)
Couple in a Cage (dir: Coco Fusco, 1993, 30min, color, VHS)

April 18 : Black British Film Series, 8pm, Griffith Film Theater
Playing Away (dir: Horace Ové, 1986, 100min, Trinidad-Tobago/UK, English, 35mm)

Assembling the Eighties
A Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on Afro-Asian Arts in Post-War Britain

April 19-22 2001



Stanley Abe: Assistant Professor of Art, Duke University.

John Akomfrah: Filmmaker and founding member of Black Audio Film Collective and Smoking Dog Films

Rasheed Araeen: Artist, Curator, Writer and Editor of Third Text and Kala Press.

David A. Bailey: Artist, Curator and Co-Director of Aavaa - the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive, University of East London

Houston Baker Jr.: Professor of English, Duke University

Ian Baucom: Assistant Professor of English, Duke University

Sonia Boyce: Artist and Co-Director of Aavaa - the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive, University of East London

Andrea Barnwell: Ph.D. Candidate, Art and Art History, Duke University

Dawoud Bey: Artist and Professor of photography, Columbia College, Chicago

Sutapa Biswas: Artist and Curator

Janice Cheddie: Writer, curator, based at Goldsmith's College London

E'Vonne Coleman: Director, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC

Paul Dash: Artist, writer and "educationalist" based at Goldsmith's College, London

Jane Gaines: Associate Professor and Director of Film and Video Program, Duke University

Lawrence Grossberg: Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Stuart Hall: Cultural critic and broadcaster; chair of InIVA and Autograph

Lubaina Himid: Artist, writer and curator

Barbara Hunt: Curator and Director of Artists Space, New York City

Isaac Julien: Filmmaker, artist and writer

Naseem Khan: Policy Officer for the Cultural Diversity Unit, Arts Council of England

Susan Lok: Artist, Curator, Writer and PhD Researcher at Aavaa, University of East London

Rohini Malik: Project Curator InIVA

Shaheen Merali: Artist, curator and founding member of Panchayat (Arts Education and Resource Unit)

Kobena Mercer: Cultural critic

Yong Soon Min: Artist

Yeu-Lai Mo: Artist and Education Officer British Chinese Artist Association

John L. Moore, III: Executive Director, Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte, North Carolina

Sandy Nairne: Director of Public Programs, Tate Gallery

Keith Piper: Multimedia artist and Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University

Ingrid Pollard: Artist

Richard Powell: Professor of Art and Chairman of the Department of Art and Art History, Duke University

Alistair Raphael: Artist and Education Officer, Whitechapel Art Gallery

Niru Ratnam: Writer and curator

Mark Sealy: Director of Autograph, The Association of Black Photographers

Zineb Sedira: Artist and curator

Allan de Souza: Artist and Founding member of Panchayat

Pauline de Souza: Art Historian based at the University of East London

Kristine Stiles: Associate Professor of Art History, Duke University

Gilane Tawadros: Director of InIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts)

Carol Tulloch: Curator based at the Black Cultural Archives

Leon Wainwright: Art Historian based at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Deborah Willis: MacArthur Fellow and Visiting Professor Duke University

Judith Wilson: Art Historian based at the University of California, Irvine

Diana Yeh: Writer

Lola Young: Cultural critic and Project Director, Archives & Museum of Black Heritage (AMBH) Middlesex University



Support for the conference and exhibition provided by the John Hope Franklin Center, the Oceans Connect Project with funds from The Ford Foundation, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs & Development, the Center for International Studies, the Department of Art & Art History, the Program in Film & Video, the Program in Literature, the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, the E.L. Wiegand Foundation's Pivotal Ideas of World Civilizations, and from Arts for Everyone Lottery Fund (UK), Arts Council of England, AAVAA - the African & Asian Visual Artists Archive (UK), London Arts, and the University of East London.



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