Conversation
Borderlands: VLC Fellow Carolina Caycedo in Conversation with Natalie Diaz
Oct 7, 2020
5:00–6:00pm ET
Vera List Center Forum 2020
ONLINE
Artist Carolina Caycedo discusses her work on fair energy transition and environmental justice that informs her fellowship project over the next two years. She is joined in conversation by Akimel O’odham poet Natalie Diaz, founding director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. Emphasizing kinship with land, water, and human and non-human life as well as past, present, and future entities, they consider collaborations and how the lens of Indigeneity can be applied to further our understanding of the relevance of place, borders, and transitional spaces.
Caycedo’s work is part of a support system that brings local agendas to the forefront, that are building equitable protocols around just and fair energy transition, the establishment of legal rights for natural entities, and the construction of environmental historical memory as a guarantee for the non-repetition of violence. Diaz founded the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands as an Indigenous space at ASU where stories, knowledges, and language constellate across many borderlands through strategic and exploratory modes of research, conversation, and performance.
This event is part of the Vera List Center Forum 2020, highlighting the center’s fellowship program and featuring presentations by the five 2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellows: Carolina Caycedo (Colombia/U.S.), Etcétera (Argentina), Maria Hupfield (Canada), Adelita Husni Bey (Italy/U.S.), and Rasheedah Phillips (Philadelphia).
Carolina Caycedo is a London-born Colombian multidisciplinary artist known for her performances, video, artists’ books, sculptures, and installations that examine environmental and social issues. Her work contributes to the construction of environmental historical memory, as a fundamental element for non-repetition of violence against human and non-human entities. Among others, she held residencies at the DAAD in Berlin, and The Huntington Libraries, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California; received funding from Creative Capital, California Community Foundation, and Prince Claus Fund; and participated in the Chicago Architecture, São Paulo, Istanbul, Berlin, Venice, and Whitney Biennials. She has also presented at the Vera List Center. Recent and upcoming solo shows include Care Report at Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Poland; Wanaawna, Rio Hondo and Other Spirits at Orange County Museum of Art; Cosmoatarrayas at ICA Boston; and From the Bottom of the River at MCA Chicago. Caycedo is the 2020 Wanlass Artist in Residence at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Diaz’s second collection, Postcolonial Love Poem is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2020. She is a Macarthur Foundation Fellow, Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a U.S. Artists Ford Fellowship, and Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program.
The Vera List Center Forum 2020 launches the center’s 2020-2022 focus theme, As for Protocols. Curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira, it is organized with the support of Adrienne Umeh, Heran Abate, Joshua van Biema, and Maryna Arabei.
The Vera List Center Forum 2020 is made possible by major support from Jane Lombard and the Kettering Fund, as well as the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The New School as well as members of the Vera List Center’s board and other individuals.
The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School recently launched the Borderlands Fellowships to support art research projects that create communities across different geographical, cultural, and political landscapes. Carolina Caycedo and Maria Hupfield are the inaugural Borderlands Fellows.
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