Conversation

VLC Forum 2021 Day Four: Conflictorium

Oct 15, 2021

2:00–3:30pm ET

Online and Parsons School of Design, The New School
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 5th Avenue, New York

On Day Four of the VLC Forum 2021, we present an online, in-depth conversation between 2020–2022 Jane Lombard Prize Recipient Avni Sethi and seminal filmmaker and artist Amar Kanwar. In the context of Sethi’s exhibition, Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium, Sethi and Kanwar will reflect on expanded notions of infrastructures, considering new approaches to museum work and artistic practices that center alternative infrastructures, both personal and institutional in nature.

During the run of her exhibition, Sethi will hold daily conversations on issues related to infrastructure transmitted live with different interlocutors—artists, academics, thinkers, and journalists—to animate the space. These conversations will be recorded, and available for viewing online following the show’s closing date.

Avni Sethi in conversation with Amar Kanwar

⁕ Amar Kanwar

⁕ Avni Sethi

The Vera List Center Forum 2021 is presented as part of the center’s 2020–2022 focus theme, As for Protocols. It is curated by Carin Kuoni and Eriola Pira and convened with the support of Re’al Christian, Camila Palomino, Adrienne Umeh, Nelly Kobanenko, Ash Moniz, and Molly Ragan. Partner organizations are Bluestocking Cooperative, Center for Book Arts, The Clemente, UnionDocs, and Weeksville Heritage Center.

The 2020–2022 Jane Lombard Fellows are: Jorge González, NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Emeka Okereke, and Underground Resistance.

Owed to a Certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium is presented at The New School as part of the Vera List Center Forum 2021: As for Protocols. It celebrates Avni Sethi, recipient of the Vera List Center 2020–2022 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice.

The Vera List Center Forum 2021 and free admission to all events are made possible by major support from Jane Lombard and the Kettering Fund, as well as The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, Dayton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kettering Fund, the Native Arts and Culture Foundation, Pryor Cashman LLP, The New School as well as members of the Vera List Center’s board and other individuals.