Conversation

Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation

Oct 13, 2022

1:00–2:00pm ET

Online

Co-published by Amherst College Press and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech emerged from a series of seminars guided by acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and activist Amar Kanwar at the Vera List Center. This collection of newly commissioned texts, artist projects, and historic resources examines aspects of freedom of speech informed by recent debates around hate speech, censorship, sexism, and racism. “Darkness” here holds the promise of complexity, discovery and, in Kanwar’s words, “visions from within the depths.”

This program brings together the book’s editors Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich with contributors Mendi Obadike and artist Chloë Bass in a conversation moderated by Re’al Christian who discuss the themes behind Studies into Darkness and the ways in which the book itself plays with the concept of darkness as both a tonal variation and a factor of legibility, a space from which truth can be extracted or hindered. This event is part of the Vancouver Art Book Fair’s Art Book Month.

Studies into Darkness: Editors and Artists in Conversation

This event is presented as part of the Vancouver Art Book Fair’s Art Book Month. Free and open to the public, VABF is a multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects. Art Book Month is a parallel series of events hosted in October in spaces locally in Vancouver, nationally, and internationally by artists, curators, collectives and institutions who are actively creating and presenting work in this medium.

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Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech

Conversation

Revisiting Studies into Darkness: Conversations on Freedom of Speech

A book with a black cover placed on a light gray background; white text on the cover reads "Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech, edited by Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich" in a serif font. Red, blue, and green edge printing; green and blue edges visible.

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Studies into Darkness: Manifestos, in Genre and in Practice

Mar 9, 2024

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“My language has disappeared.” A Conversation on Studies into Darkness

Amar Kanwar, Carin Kuoni, and Laura Raicovich

Book Launch, Performance

Studies into Darkness: The Perils and Promise of Freedom of Speech Book Launch

Jun 7, 2022

Panel, Performance

Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies Into Darkness

Sep 20–Sep 21, 2019

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Freedom of Speech: A Curriculum for Studies into Darkness

Nov 12, 2018–Sep 21, 2019

Conversation, Screening

Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning, 2017

Nov 11, 2018