{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F0de275fb-542e-4411-9e52-928169acf41e","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"1-54 Forum New York 2017 | Opening Remarks and Keynote, Looking After Freedom, by Ra\u00e9l Jero Salley","description":"1-54 Forum New York \n5\u20137 May 2017\nOpening Remarks & Keynote, Looking for Freedom \n\nWelcome & Opening Remarks by programme curator Koyo Kouoh (Raw Material Company, Dakar) followed by the opening keynote on 'Looking After Freedom' by Ra\u00e9l Jero Salley (Professor in Art History at the Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA) For 1-54 Forum\u2019s opening address, Salley discusses how \"Looking After Freedom\" is a way of making \u201cwe, the people.\u201d \u201cLooking After Freedom\u201d means caring enough to invent more humanly workable visual, material, and conceptual resources. Artworks provoke new forms for and of imagination. Here, Salley\u2019s point of return is that artists (makers) are always already doing this nurturing work, and invite their viewers to join in. Creative works can mediate fundamental paradoxes that were built into contemporary politics after, during and through struggles for liberation. The struggles are not \u201cpost\u201d \u2013 citizens find themselves struggling through present-colonialism, present-apartheid, and present attacks on civil rights. \u201cLooking After Freedom\u201d is, therefore, a shorthand for dynamic creativity that goes beyond reflecting situations of injustice, inequality, oppression, violence and the like \u2013 from merely documenting them or responding to them \u2013 toward generative tools and methods for transformation. \n\nImage: \u00a9 Katrina Sorrentino \n\nwww.1-54.com","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f14fc98e-4cd4-49cc-bdc5-6a59a2355f89/img-0843.JPG"}