Lecture, Performance
VLC Forum 2024: Tactics of Transmission
Oct 26, 2024
The New School, Starr Foundation Hall
Lower Level, 63 Fifth Avenue
New York City
Since 2022, artists Sofía Gallisá Muriente and Natalia Lassalle-Morillo have researched Puerto Rican collections and holdings at the Smithsonian Institute, examining their histories of accession, how they live in off-site storage, and the possibilities for mediating their return to the people and places they belong to. On the occasion of the VLC Forum 2024: Correct History*, the artists’ performance lecture Tactics of Transmission reflects on their experiences as unruly colonial subjects navigating the imperial archive, as well as on the historical gossip, findings, and revelations from their research process. A series of films emerging from this project are exhibited in Cooper Hewitt’s Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial, on view November 2, 2024, through summer 2025.
A festive reception concludes the VLC Forum 2024: Correct History*.
The program is co-presented with the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center as part of Historias, a multi-year initiative exploring Latinx New York’s transformative impact on the city. Launching in fall 2024, Historias is a partnership with the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, with lead support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
The Vera List Center Forum 2024 is presented as part of the center’s 2022–2024 Focus Theme Correction*. It is curated by Eriola Pira with Carin Kuoni, with research support by Ariana Kallinga and is convened with the support of Tabor Banquer, Re’al Christian, and Adrienne Umeh.
This event is supported by the Barbara Jordan Lectures: The State of Democracy and the Helen Shapiro Lectureship fund.
The Fall 2024 programs of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School are generously supported by members of the Vera List Center Board, individual donors as well as the following institutional funders:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Boris Lurie Art Foundation/The Schaina and Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation
Dayton Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Terra Foundation for American Art
and The New School