Sense and Nonsense, Practical Poetics | 20 Questions for 20 Years

About the Weekend:

As a studio seeking to prototype and disseminate creative approaches to social change, we are often met with critiques around practicality. This is an epistemological and strategic conundrum. Anthony Romero will question the thought architectures alive within and across institutions that keep binary logics of poetic and practical, sense and nonsense

About the Curator:

Anthony Romero is a Boston-based artist, writer, and organizer committed to documenting and supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. He is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College and earned his M.F.A. in Performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

He is a founding member of Sonic Insurgency Research Group with Josh Rios and Matt Joynt. SIRG was awarded a MAP Fund Grant in 2020. Multimedia works by SIRG have been exhibited in Sonic Terrains in Latinx Art at the Vincent Price Art Museum (Los Angeles), the Counterpublic Triennial at Luminary Arts (St. Louis), Acoustic Resonance at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art (Portland), Locust Projects (Miami, FL), State of the Art 2020 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis), Work for the People (Or Forget about Fred Hampton) at Co-Prosperity (Chicago).

Romero co-edited the book Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic with Daniel Tucker and Dan S. Wang (Soberscove Press, 2022). His most recent essays include “La Vivienda es La Cura: Latinx Art, Politics, and Housing Justice in East Boston” in The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Mey-Yen Moriuchi and Lesley Shipley (2023), and the essay “Sonic Legal Spaces: An Essay of Overdubs,” co-authored with Rios and Joynt, for Columbia University’s Academic Commons (2023). His essay “Asking for Permission/Listening for Consent” (2023) was published in Forging, the digital journal of Forge Project.

• Curatorial Conversation with Anthony Romero | OCT 5, 3-4:30 PM
• Kenny & Lori with Guests | OCT 4, 2-3 PM

The Hub Hours
Join us each weekend at Hibernian Hall from September 27 – October 19 for events as part of . The Hub is free and open to the public during the following hours:

• Thursdays & Fridays: 2–8 PM
• Saturdays: 12–10 PM
• Sundays: 12–6 PM

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