Encountering Love, Identity and Place-Making with Artist Rina Banerjee

Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Viewing Professorship in the Humanities

The Syracuse University neighborhood will have the exclusive chance to interact with and operate together with Banerjee in the course of her residency as the Humanities Center’s 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities from February 20 to March 3. Banerjee will have interaction with faculty, college students and associates of the Syracuse and Central New York communities throughout a two-7 days series of events.

Vivian May, director of the Humanities Heart and the CNY Humanities Corridor, is delighted to welcome Banerjee to campus and invitations everyone to engage with the residency’s layered sequence of gatherings. Could notes, “Professor Ray’s interdisciplinary eyesight, blended with the scope of Rina Banerjee’s oeuvre, has resulted in an remarkable, sturdy array of alternatives to interact with Banerjee’s thoughts and do the job, from huge-scale lectures to personal dialogues.”

Banerjee’s residency has been built as a series of interactive discussions led by SU faculty and pupils from African American Scientific tests, Architecture, English, Geography, Law, South Asian Reports, and Women in Science and Engineering. Banerjee’s residency also requires curators from the Special Collections Exploration Heart, which properties a special collection of plastics as well as a developing archive of artists of coloration.

Banerjee’s residency begins with a virtual chat titled Remaining Rina Banerjee on February 20 at 5:30 p.m. Graduate college students Ankush Arora (AMH) and Natalie Rieth (Newhouse) will introduce Banerjee as the 2023 Watson Professor in a Zoom conversation moderated by Samuel Johnson, assistant professor of art history (AMH). Arora has curated a wall of Mithila paintings from India, in reaction to Banerjee’s drawings shown in the exhibition. Subsequent, Banerjee will give a community lecture on February 23, which will be adopted by a reception at the museum. Her residency will conclude on March 4 with a general public (in-man or woman) dialogue with internationally acclaimed scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia College. Spivak’s event is supported by an award from the CNY Humanities Corridor to the Community-Engaged Community Humanities performing group (HF3), whose perform focuses on community-facing humanities investigation, instructing and collaboration.

With help from the NEA grant, the CNY Humanities Corridor and an Engaged Humanities Community mini-grant, Choose Me to the Palace of Enjoy will be extended into the town of Syracuse, making it possible for new American and underrepresented communities to document their possess stories about id and place—individually and collectively— with Banerjee. The method, titled “Enjoy in Syracuse: Creating Artwork Together,” is co-arranged by Brice Nordquist, Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement in A&S. Narratio Fellows, college students, faculty and group users will be invited to collaborate on a community art installation with Banerjee.

“As a resettlement metropolis with several new and more mature generations of immigrants and asylum-seekers, Syracuse is uniquely positioned to serve as a resource of everyday stories of resourcefulness and resilience,” says Nordquist, who is also co-founder of the Narratio Fellowship.

Rooted in cultural memory and storytelling, Nordquist notes that the community artwork-earning job will foster a shared knowledge of the assorted communities that make up the metropolis of Syracuse. This function is February 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Group Place at Salt Town Sector. Four existing Syracuse University pupils and Narratio Fellowship alumni will also compose poetry and produce a film in response to Banerjee’s art installations and public artwork-making job. The poetry and film will be disclosed March 30 in the course of an event titled Repair, Refuge and Resilience by way of Art arranged by Nordquist and Srivi Ramasubramanian (Newhouse) at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse.

Write-up-residency, the exhibition’s events will conclude with a chant efficiency by Museum Reports graduate student Amarachi Attamah. An on the net catalogue showcasing essays and neighborhood responses to Banerjee’s art installations and the community artwork-producing undertaking, will also be revealed next the exhibition.

Explore the whole checklist of residency gatherings under:

Currently being Rina Banerjee (Feb. 20) – Graduate pupils Ankush Arora and Natalie Rieth introduce the campus local community to Rina Banerjee—in discussion moderated by AMH Professor Samuel Johnson.

Issues Out of Put (Feb. 21) – Maxwell Professor Timur Hammond (Geography) and School of Architecture Professor Lawrence Chua join Banerjee to go over materiality, time, architecture and geography in Banerjee’s Consider Me to the Palace of Appreciate and A Entire world Lost, on see at the SU Artwork Museum.

Inform Me Who You Appreciate? Race and Kinship (Feb. 22) – Joan Bryant (African American Reports) and Romita Ray converse with Banerjee about inter-racial relationship, diaspora, and identification in Banerjee’s Viola, from New Orleans and objects from the museum’s selection.

Navigations (Feb. 23) – Sascha Scott (AMH) and Nicolette Dobrowolski (Particular Collections Research Centre) moderate a ‘box lunch’ dialogue with Banerjee on navigating the globe of artwork as a diasporic artist and creating archives of artists of shade.

Black Noodles, Replenishing / Reaping the Earth (Feb. 23) – Banerjee talks about how her art navigates diaspora, displacement, and science.

Like in Syracuse: Creating Art Collectively (Feb. 25) – The Syracuse College and Central New York communities are invited to be a part of Banerjee to collaborate on a community artwork installation.

Recognizing by means of Wanting (March 1) – Concentrating on Banerjee’s exhibition, Artwork History graduate scholar Ankush Arora talks with Banerjee about Mithila paintings from the museum’s collections and Banerjee’s drawings on show.

Plastics! (March 1) – Banerjee collaborates with SCRC curator Courtney Hicks and museum curators Melissa Yuen and Kate Holohan on a workshop for college students and campus neighborhood users.

A Environment Missing? Local weather Alter, Art, and Law (March 2) David M. Driesen, University Professor (Faculty of Legislation) and Mike Goode, William P. Tolley Distinguished Training Professor in the Humanities (English) have interaction Banerjee in important discussion about local weather transform, art and regulation.

In Discussion with Gayatri Spivak (March 3) – Banerjee welcomes Gayatri Spivak, College Professor at Columbia University, for shared conversation about motive and creativity, and indication and trace.

Closing Reception (March 3) Next the conversation with Spivak (3 -4:30 p.m.), all are invited to share comments and express gratitude for Banerjee’s campus check out.

Collaborators who contributed to Banerjee’s exhibition and residency consist of: Brice Nordquist, Dean’s Professor of Community Engagement (A&S) former SU Artwork Museum director Vanja Malloy Vivian Might, Director, and Diane Drake, Assistant Director, SU Humanities Heart Sarah Workman, Proposal Enhancement Emily Dittman, Melissa Yuen, Kate Holohan, Dylan P. Otts, Jennifer Badua, Victoria Grey, and Abby Campanaro, SU Art Museum Pastor Gail Riina, Hendricks Chapel Danielle Taana Smith, Director, Renée Crown College Honors System Joan Bryant (A&S) Sascha Scott (A&S) Lawrence Chua (Architecture) Timur Hammond (Maxwell) David Driesen (Regulation) Mike Goode (A&S) Shobha Bhatia (Engineering) Nicolette Dobrowolski and Courtney Hicks (Hen Library) Mark Cass, Northside Mastering Center Susan Wadley, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and learners Ankush Arora (AMH), Natalie Rieth (Newhouse), Samaya Nasr (Museum Scientific tests) and Julia Neufeld (AMH).