Navigating Precarity: Artists on Gender, Race and Caste

About the Event

In an art world rife with institutionalized instability, this panel and art exhibit convenes three artists from Mumbai, Delhi and Philadelphia to unpack the fraught relationship between creative practice and the systems that shape it. In India, caste elites act as gatekeepers in institutional art spaces, and caste-marginalized artists have to cross many barriers to find their footing in the art scene. Race, gender and class play similar constraining roles in the United States. Against this backdrop, the panel discussion will ask: How do artists sustain their work in spaces that support and constrain them? What does this mean for the future of art as a vehicle for political resistance, community building, and social change? And what can we learn about institutionalized precarity when artists share their experiences across different national contexts? Join this panel and exhibit to view powerful artworks and hear from artists who forge their way amid precarity, resist marginalization and embrace art’s potential as a force for global and local resistance.

Host or Publisher Center for Media at Risk