Friday, Apr 28, 2023
10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Phyllis Wattis Theater, Floor 1
Free with RSVP
“I say we’re caught between two worlds — at least two. That’s pura bicultura [pure biculture] for me. We didn’t theorize postcoloniality after the fact, learn about it from a workshop, or wait for multiculturalism to become foundation lingo for ‘appreciating diversity’— we lived it and still struggle to make art about it.”
—Coco Fusco, English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas
The 2023 Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, “In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here,” confronts the potentials of those people, spaces, things, ideas, and experiences of the past, present, and future, as they manifest between categories of analysis we might have inherited from previous canons. Situating the symposium within the conceptual space of the “in-between,” we ask our participants to join in proposing new frameworks of hybridity and transdisciplinarity. These approaches are grounded in transregional and intersectional practices that, nonetheless, engage with specificities of place.
Artist Sadie Barnette and professor Jennifer González will give keynote presentations. Check back here in mid-April for the full schedule of presentations and panels.
About the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium
In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here is organized by Alexandra Adams (Stanford), Josh Feng (Berkeley), Andrea Jung-An Liu (Berkeley), Maria Shevelkina (Stanford), and Sofia Silva (Stanford).
The Berkeley/Stanford Symposium is an annual gathering of emerging voices in the arts organized by graduate students at Stanford and UC Berkeley.