How do exhibitions happen? Creatives who work within Black and queer traditions cultivate relationships that can trespass and transcend the highly networked conduits of access in the museum, gallery, or university space. This roundtable focuses on the contours of what it means to “know people,” those quotidian, lifelong, messy, empathic, embarrassing, hard truths of how artists, curators, and writers come to collaborate. The Queer & Trans Caucus for Art will host a discussion between pairings of artists, curators, and writers in an attempt to reveal, process, and ask real questions about what it means to engage in collaborative practices both within and beyond the exhibition space. These stories will engage formal and informal practices that range from studio visits to conference presentations to late nights out. This roundtable generates conversations that de-mystify the opaqueness of the art world, which cultivates and records the myriad ways artists, curators, collectors, and scholars build communities despite impediments of access. We reveal the labor and support networks that sustain Black artists via deliberately queer practices that trouble normative frameworks of access, kinship, and the hierarchical forms of power within these institutions.

The panel will be co-moderated by Danny Dunson (art historian, advisor, curator, and writer, presently at DuSable Museum) and Dr. Sampada Aranke (Assistant Professor in the Art History, Theory, Criticism Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago). Roundtable discussants include Derrick Woods Morrow (Chicago-based artist, scholar, deviant, and activist) and Dr. Leslie Wilson (Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research at the Art Institute of Chicago).

The online schedule defaults to show all item times adjusted to your current time zone. You may view times in Chicago, IL (CST) time by selecting as directed on the schedule page. All sessions will be live in Zoom from February 17-19 and March 3-5, 2022. To join virtual sessions, go to the session you wish to attend in the online schedule; shortly before the scheduled start time, registrants will see a "Join Now" button next to the session title. Clicking this button will give you access to the session. The virtual Book and Trade Fair exhibits will also be accessible via the online schedule.

RECORDED CONTENT
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