UCSC Night at the Museum – Amending Worlds

Amending Worlds is a multi-media exhibition by UCSC graduate and undergraduate students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures. The panel will feature Micah Perks (UC Santa Cruz), Cathy Thomas (UCSB), and Kim Tallbear (University of Alberta), moderated by Carla Freccero (UC Santa Cruz). This year, THI is marking our 25th anniversary. The celebration will culminate with Night at the Museum, an event which welcomes members of the public to experience the ongoing exhibitions and gallery spaces at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History for free. Doors and exhibits open at 6pm, event program will begin at 7pm. AMENDING WORLDS EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 5-15, 2025 Amending Worlds includes installations, performances, visual art, film & video, and a computer game, distributed throughout the museum’s spaces. Prizewinners come from a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Art, Computational Media, Environmental Art and Social Practice, Film and Digital Media, Literature, and Politics. Carla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness at UCSC, where she has taught since 1991. She is the author of Father Figures; Popular Culture: An Introduction; and Queer/Early/Modern. She has co-edited collections on Premodern Sexualities; Species, Race and Sex; and Animal Studies. She publishes in early modern literature, queer and feminist theory, and animal studies. Micah Perks is the author of a short story collection, a memoir and two novels. Her most recent novel, What Becomes Us, won an Independent Publishers Book Award and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies. She has won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Blue Mountain Center and MacDowell. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University. She is a professor at UCSC in the Literature Department and has taught Women and the Apocalypse and US Feminist Utopias. Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexualities. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast and a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples, science, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs, cultural politics & (de)colonization. Cathy Thomas is a writer, filmmaker, and creative critical scholar whose work on the ‘Black Fantastic’ and decolonial feminist thought is enriched by discovering modes of play and resistance in comic books, literature, through cosplay, while wining up at Caribbean Carnival. As she approaches tenure, she is juggling 3 novels, 2 comic books, 1 trade book collaboration, 1 scholarly monograph, and 1 experimental textile+digital+sound art installation for a 2028 museum exhibition, all in various states of completion, delay, ecstasy, and exhaustion. She is an Asst Prof of English at UCSB and the Director of the UCSB Creative Critical Writing Initiative.

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