Rose Salseda, "Vision in Ruins," in conversation with Jennifer DeVere Brody
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), 450 Jane Stanford Way Building 360, Stanford, CA 94305
CCSRE Conference Room
Professor Salseda will discuss Civil Society, the three-channel video installation by the artist Latipa (née Michelle Dizon).
Civil Society explores the videotaped beating of Rodney King and footage of unrest from the past and present. Latipa connects the 1992 Los Angeles Riots with the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2005 French Riots. Through cuts, montage, conceptual soundscapes, and voiceover, the artist blends together the seemingly disparate histories of unrest to highlight how the experiences of anti-Blackness, state-sanctioned violence, and xenophobic rhetoric threatens the citizenship and human rights of marginalized peoples. This beckons Professor Salseda to consider how unrest is an act of the bereaved that makes injustice visible in the landscape-- an act, not just contained in a United States context, but one that is marked by a larger, global legacy of white supremacy.
*This talk may contain sensitive matetials.