Anisa Jackson

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All, Curatorial, Writing, Talks & Events, Teaching, Creative Practice
(2021–2024)

Marking Time: Art In the Age of Mass Incarceration Symposium  

Curatorial, Talks & Events

Researcher for the traveling exhibition at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Brown Arts Institute, Two Rivers Gallery and symposium at University of Cincinnati  (2022)
(2023)

Mines to Caves

 Curatorial, Writing

Cauleen Smith solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum curated by Anisa Jackson, Curator at Large, and Simone Krug, Curator. 

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(2023) 

A Conversation with Cauleen Smith & Ryan C. Clarke

Curatorial, Talks & Events

A conversation between artist Cauleen Smith and geologist Ryan C. Clarke on the occasion of her exhibition Mines to Caves.

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(2023)

Black Geographies

Teaching

Fall 2023, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
(2023)

Urban Cultural Life

Teaching

Summer 2023, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
(2022)

TREAD/MILL at Aspen Art Museum

Curatorial, Talks & Events
TREAD/MILL is a performance by Imani Mason Jordan drawing from the history of the penal treadmill, which was utilised as a tool of punishment in British prisons and in the colonies, and tackling themes of material culture, labour, sweat, carceral logics, surveillance, endurance and orality. 

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(2022)

Black Film Anti-School at Aspen Art Museum

Curatorial, Talks & Events

Study session lead by filmmaker and curator Rabz Lansiquot exploring Black liberatory film. The session at the Aspen Art Museum explored theories of Aesthetics through the work of thinkers Clyde Taylor and Teshome Gabriel.
(2022)

Mountain / Time

Curatorial

Mountain / Time is a major time-based media exhibition exploring ideas of re-mapping, migration, Black and Indigenous geographies, storytelling, and time, in themes inspired by the intertwined histories and geographies of the mountains and their ecological systems.

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(2022)

The World We Became: Map Quest 2350, A Speculative Atlas Beyond Climate Crisis

Writing

A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures.

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