Join IMPULSE Magazine on Tuesday, January 27th, for IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program. Doors will open at 6 pm, and the discussion will begin by 6:30 pm. 

For this forum, we are pairing two texts that arise from and address very different contexts. Veena Das’s The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed is a critical look at Indian history through the lens of gender, while Grace Lee Boggs' Revolution As New Beginning is more grounded in activist practice and future-oriented. Given the location of this art gallery within a criminal justice college, we will ask about the scope and role of contemporary art practices in larger social justice and movement politics. We will consider the strengths, vulnerabilities and strategies open to aesthetic practices in this light, asking how art spaces ought to navigate our tense political context. Download the discussion guide here!

“Transnational Feminisms: What is the role of contemporary arts spaces?” will be moderated by Macushla Robinson and hosted at The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice  (860 11th Avenue, inside the John Jay College of Criminal Justice) in conversation with their current show “On Absence.” The show is curated by Achia Anzi and Oorja Garg and features the work of Payal Arya, Yogesh Barve, Sonam Chaturvedi, Priyanka D’Souza, Priyesh Gothwal, Priyank Gothwal, Shilpa Gupta, Rahul Juneja, Shaurya Kumar, Swati Kumari, Raqs Media Collective, and Mohit Shelare.

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