CLARK ART INSTITUTE FELLOW PRESENTS LECTURE ON MIGRANTS AND MIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE

March 1, 2019

Williamstown, Massachusetts—Jennifer Bajorek, a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, presents the free lecture “Strategic Invisibilities: Migration and Post-Representation” on Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 pm. The lecture will be held in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.

The lecture explores work about migrants and migration in contemporary France. Bajorek thinks with artistic strategies that decenter the migrant as an anchor of truth and rights claims, and that privilege instead abstraction, redaction, non-representational cartography, occupation, and post-participatory collaboration.

Jennifer Bajorek teaches in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College and is a research associate of the VIAD Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg. She is a writer and a researcher of literature, philosophical aesthetics, and photography. Her most recent book, Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. At the Clark, she is working on a new project exploring artistic, visual, and political strategies in the representation of migration in contemporary France.

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The Clark Art Institute, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Opened in 1955, the Clark houses exceptional European and American paintings and sculpture, extensive collections of master prints and drawings, English silver, and early photography. Acting as convener through its Research and Academic Program, the Clark gathers an international community of scholars to participate in a lively program of conferences, colloquia, and workshops on topics of vital importance to the visual arts. The Clark library, consisting of more than 275,000 volumes, is one of the nation’s premier art history libraries. The Clark also houses and co-sponsors the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.

The Clark, which has a three-star rating in the Michelin Green Guide, is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Galleries are open Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm; open daily in July and August. Admission is $20; free year-round for Clark members, children 18 and younger, and students with valid ID. Free admission is available through several programs, including First Sundays Free; a local library pass program; EBT Card to Culture; and Blue Star Museums. For more information on these programs and more, visit clarkart.edu or call 413 458 2303.

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