After the Fact Symposium Explores Significant Events and Their Impact

On Saturday, December 12, 2015, candidates from the ICP-Bard MFA program will present After the Fact, a one-day symposium examining the place and potential of "The Event."

Artists, writers, curators, thinkers, and activists will convene for panel conversations, discussions, and lectures. Featured participants include Jean Marie Casbarian, Milagros de la Torre, Nona Faustine, Alex Fialho, Gordon Hall, Katherine Hubbard, Steffani Jemison, Martha Joseph, T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, and Martha Wilson.

The symposium will explore how we process personal and political information, how we view and contextualize art, and how the worlds of both fact and fiction inform our everyday realities and our senses of self. Natural disasters, encounters with works of art, acts of political resistance, the genesis of authentic love, all are points of no return. What happens when we feel, live and experience the intensity that emerges, as if out of nowhere, as miraculous forces? How do we relate to contingencies, which change the way we perceive ourselves and engage in our world?

The symposium will take place from 11 am to 5 pm on December 12, 2015, in Seminar B/Shooting Studio at the School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street in New York. It is free and open to the public.

Open Studios

After the symposium, 19 candidates from the ICP-BARD MFA program will open their studios to share current work. Open Studios 2015 will be held 6–10 pm at 24-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City.

For more information, visit afterthefact2015.wordpress.com and follow #afterthefact2015.