Talk, Online

20 November 2024, 7:00pm ET

Serubiri Moses

In this talk, Serubiri Moses will consider the phenomenon of sound within the context of the exhibition Paul Maheke: In spite of my own desire to see you disappear, and address the idea of listening in an epistemological context. Here, his case study will be the character of Echo who emerges in Greek mythology, and studies of this character by Gayatri Spivak. Moses will consider the collaboration between Maheke and the musician Ndobo-emma in the making of the sound work currently on view at Mercer Union, while also drawing conclusions on the character of listening in context of dissonance, trauma, and discontinuity. The talk will aim to position Paul Maheke's work in dialogue with a black or Global South feminist framework.

fORUM: Serubiri Moses

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Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. His writing is primarily concerned with aporia, violence, as well as exhibition histories. His exhibitions are rooted in methods of collective teaching, and listening as an epistemology. He serves as part-time faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice, Germany/United States; Dark Study, United States; Digital Earth Fellowship, Netherlands; and delivered lectures at Williams College, Massachusetts; Yale University, Connecticut; University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The New School and basis voor aktuelle kunst, Netherlands; College of the Atlantic, Maine; and University of the Arts Helsinki. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2021); the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY (2019); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He is Contributing Editor at e-flux journal, and his forthcoming book Judith Namala: A Novella is published by CARA.

About the Series

fORUM is Mercer Union’s ongoing series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings, and performances.