ICA at VCU Presents: LECTURE: Patrice Renee Washington

​​Join us for happy hour and conversation with exhibiting artist Patrice Renee Washington starting at 5 PM, with a talk at 6:30 pm, followed by a reception. This lecture will accompany the artist’s solo exhibition, Patrice: Renee Washington: Tendril on view at the ICA until June 09, 2024. Traces of Ecstasy Symposium: Traces of Ecstasy is a curatorial project that will premiere at the forthcoming fourth edition of the Lagos Biennial in February 2024. The pavilion and exhibition takes the biennial’s overarching theme of refuge and its historically charged location in Tafawa Balewa Square––a stadium in central Lagos named after the first and only prime minister, which hosted the country’s independence ceremonies in 1960––as a point of departure. Featuring an international selection of leading artists from Africa and the diaspora including Nolan Oswald Dennis, Evan Ifekoya, Adeju Thompson (of Lagos Space Programme), Raymond Pinto, and Temitayo Shonibare, Traces of Ecstasy bridges African indigenous thought systems, queer methodologies, and decentralized digital technologies to mount a critique of postcolonial nationalisms and reimagine alternative forms of African collectivity for the twenty-first century. Following its presentation in Lagos, Traces of Ecstasy will open as an expanded second iteration at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia from February – June, 2024. Coinciding with the readapted exhibition at the ICA VCU, we are pleased to invite you to the Traces of Ecstasy symposium, which will take place on March 29, 2024 (initially planned for June 2024). The symposium will gather artists, writers, scholars, and critics who have been instrumental in building the theoretical architecture of Traces of Ecstasy. Presentations, performances, and discussions will explore a variety of relevant themes such as the fraught relationship between colonial modernity and indigenous knowledge systems; the pitfalls of postcolonial statecraft; the transhistorical and transcultural intersections of queer and feminist theory, and African studies; and the affinities between African metaphysical schemes and digital technologies. The Institute for Contemporary Art will provide an honorarium of $500, round trip transportation to the site, lodging in Richmond, VA for two nights (Thursday March 28, Friday, March 29), and per diems. We would be thrilled to have you present at this conference and to hear from you. We are confident that the symposium will offer a unique opportunity for conviviality, collective study, and of course, an opportunity to encounter the exhibition in person.

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