In Front of the Work: An Archeology of Knowledge
Come look closely at the Samuel Levi Jones: An Archaeology of Knowledge exhibition with curator Leila Reichert and special guest I. India Thusi.
This hour-long gallery conversation brings together perspectives from contemporary art and the law. Guests reflect on Jones’s powerful work and explore questions of history, systems of knowledge, power, and representation.
Featured guests:
I. India Thusi is a Professor of Law and Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute. Her scholarship examines how law constructs, regulates, and polices race, sexuality, vice, and gender. She is the author of Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg (Stanford University Press), an ethnographic and legal study of sex work policing in South Africa. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, New York University Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is an American curator, critic, and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and was a 2023-24 Propel Fellow with the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation. Reichert has curated critically acclaimed exhibitions and published widely in leading art journals.
This hour-long gallery conversation brings together perspectives from contemporary art and the law. Guests reflect on Jones’s powerful work and explore questions of history, systems of knowledge, power, and representation.
Featured guests:
I. India Thusi is a Professor of Law and Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Senior Scientist at the Kinsey Institute. Her scholarship examines how law constructs, regulates, and polices race, sexuality, vice, and gender. She is the author of Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg (Stanford University Press), an ethnographic and legal study of sex work policing in South Africa. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, New York University Law Review, California Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, and other leading journals.
Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert is an American curator, critic, and editor. She is the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and was a 2023-24 Propel Fellow with the Association of Art Museum Curators Foundation. Reichert has curated critically acclaimed exhibitions and published widely in leading art journals.
Where is it happening?
Indiana University 1133 E 7th St, Bloomington, IN, United States, Indiana 47405
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Host or PublisherEskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University
