Friday, October 18
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Building: Main, Room: 100 Main Gallery
Poet and graphic designer Chaun Webster will deliver an artist talk on
Friday, October 18th, at 11am in the Main Gallery. Webster's work draws from
an interest in the work of sign in graffiti, the layering of collage, andthe
visuality of text. These methods are used in Webster’s work to investigate
race – specifically the instability of blackness and black subjectivities,
geography, memory, and the body. Correspondingly much of these
investigations engage the question of absence, how to archive what is missing
from the landscape particularly as a number of communities watch in real
time, neighborhoods once populated with familiar presences, dissolve inthe
vernacular of redevelopment and its attendant colonial logic. Webster’s
debut book, GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by
Noemi Press April 2018.