Symposium: Global Appalachia

Saturday, September 17, 2022, 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Speed Art Museum, 2035 S 3rd St, Louisville, KY

This event is FREE and open to the public. We encourage anyone and everyone to come and listen to the voices of today’s contemporary art from all over the world.

If you are registered to attend the IKT CONGRESS you do not need to register for the Symposium.

Since the 1980s, curators have used various metaphors for globalism to organize exhibitions: from an old model of “east and west,” to a map of transglobal “trade winds,” to a dispersed network of “platforms,” to an affirmative “archipelago” of the new world order. The IKT 2022 symposium proposes “Global Appalachia” as a term that both extends and intervenes in this ongoing conversation. “Global Appalachia” does not function only as a metaphor, it’s also a method rooted in the specificity of place. Focusing on environmental degradation, racial injustice, and toxic philanthropy, the symposium will explore how regional artists, activists, and curators confront these intersecting issues. Through the lens of this region, the symposium will think critically about problems and solutions that echo around the globe, aiming to foster a dynamic conversation that challenges stereotypes and outdated intellectual modes, and proposing new models for thinking about how art, curating, and activism of this region matter greatly to a global context. Read more…