The City College of the City University of New York Art Department Symposium Art Social Change, and the Urban Sphere

Held in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition: The Left Front: Radical Art in the "Red Decade," 1929-1940, this symposium will bring together contemporary artists, curators, and writers to discuss socially engaged artistic interventions in the urban sphere and ask panelists to respond to the question posed by the exhibition, "what could a revolutionary art be today?" Organized by the CCNY Art Department, with speakers Dread Scott on Wanted, his art project on the streets of Harlem; Johanna Fatemen on her collaboration with the feminist guerilla performance collective Pussy Riot; and Carlos Motta on Six Acts: An Experiment in Narrative Justice, a series of performative interventions in public squares held during the 2010 presidential elections in Bogota, Colombia. 

Panel Speakers:

Dread Scott, Artist, Activist

Johanna Fateman, Musician, Writer, Cultural Critic

Carlos Motta, Multi-disciplinary Artist

Moderated by:

Eva Franch i Gilabert, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Storefront for Art and Architecture