Open Call
On the historical reality and artistic representation of Lynchings
Arts Letters & Numbers
Eligibility
Live Streamed discussion between Ken Gonzales-Day and Lawrence Weschler
Number of Participants
500
Deadline
No deadline
Duration
September 10, 2021 - September 11, 2021
Meals
No meals
Public Programs
Courses, Critique, Discussion, Mentors, Panel, Publication, Readings, Seminars
Disciplines
Activists, Photography, Research, Scientists, Social Practice, Thinkers, Visual Arts
Languages
English, Italian, Korean, Spanish
Program Description
“Most of all, beware, even in thought, of assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of grief is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.” --Aime Cesare Over the past several decades, Los Angeles based photographer Ken Gonzales-Day has been engaged in one of the most trenchant and consequential explorations both of the historical reality of lynching and of the aesthetic and ethical complications involved in blithe latter day cultural appropriations of incidents which from the very start had been cast as prurient spectacles. Several years of archival research culminated, in 2006, with his publication of Lynching in the West (1850-1935), which revealed the shocking and long-occluded extent of extralegal executions not only of blacks but of Latinos and others as well, particularly in California. This research in turn informed several subsequent projects, including one in which he compiled often hand-tint
