On the Edge of Visibility – An International Symposium Program Announced

WOPHA / 09.25.2023

On the Edge of Visibility – An International Symposium Program Announced
Dates: October 19 – 20, 2023
Location: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
Event: Free and open to the public
Event: Free and open to the public, with live streaming available on YouTube

WOPHA and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, in partnership with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), announce the program for On the Edge of Visibility – An International Symposium focused on Black and Indigenous women* and non-binary artists, with special focus on photographic practices** within three broad geographical zones: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Offering a transcontinental approach and encompassing postcolonial, feminist, and queer perspectives, this symposium considers the concerns and complexities of defining what it means to be a Black or Indigenous woman artist within different cultural settings. It will also constitute a reflection on past and current modes of knowledge creation.

By exploring the notions of visibility and invisibility as they relate to visual practices and dominant power structures, this symposium aims to examine proposed strategies of resistance as a means of reclaiming visual agency. It will therefore seek to challenge existing academic boundaries – notably within the history of art and photography – through a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, questioning contemporary discourses and their genealogies, and considering the future of the discipline.

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On the Edge of Visibility – An International Symposium is co-presented by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, and Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA), in partnership with Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Free access to the symposium is made possible with support from MPB, the world’s largest online platform for used photo and video equipment. The official hotel partner is JW Marriott Marquis Miami. Additional support is provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.

*Woman is used in this context for a person, who regardless of their gender assigned at birth, identifies as a woman.

**Photographic practices include but are not limited to creating images with or without cameras, automated and computational processes, augmented photography, and collecting, archiving, or circulating images.