Roundtable Discussions

Please Note:

• On the Agenda-at-a-Glance Schedule, the Workshop and Roundtable titles may have been changed for brevity and/or clarity as to what the discussions will cover.
• All Workshops, Roundtable discussions and Talks are 1 hour long (unless noted). They, therefore, end 45 minutes before the panels in the same time frame do.

DAY 1, NOVEMBER 4
MORNING ROUNDTABLES

Discussing New Online Platforms/Marketplace for artists
Moderator: Karen Fitzgerald, Artist
A discussion of new digital and in-person models that are emerging that can empower artists in today’s changing, dynamic art marketplace.

MID-DAY ROUNDTABLES

The No Borders Movement: A Case Study of the North America Movement
(With Reference to the No Borders Movements in the Balkans, and the 45 Spanish- and Arab-Speaking Countries)
Moderator: Jan Hanvik, Director, Crossing Bridges, New York City and New York State’s Hudson Valley, and Puentes y Redes A.C. (Bridges & Networks) in Mexico
This roundtable will be a progress report on the various links in the various disparate yet related – actually and potentially – institutional actors in the nascent global No Borders movement.

Artists as Intermediators between Scientists and the Public
Moderator: Matthijs de Block, Artist, Belgium
This talk will examine the role of visual artists as intermediators between fundamental scientific research and a wider audience.

EARLY AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

Queering Futures of Sex Ed Through Art: Resisting Erasure and Creating Change
Moderator: Amelia Thorpe, Executive Director of Queer ConneQT, New Brunswick
This discussion will highlight critical uses of DIY arts-based practices to queer educators’ approaches to sexual education, making space for creativity and emphasizing resistance to oppression and erasure.

LATE AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

Public Art and Landscape Architecture: “Overlapping Fields,” How Artists and Designers can Work Together
Moderator: Ponnapa Prakkamakul, Visual Artist and Landscape Architect, Massachusetts
This presentation focuses on observations and discoveries of how public artists and landscape architects can collaborate using various precedent projects from urban planning, urban design and landscape architecture.

DAY 2, NOVEMBER 5
LATE MORNING ROUNDTABLES

Exploring and Expressing the Power of Water in Art Works/
Giving Voice, Body, and Vision to Water
Moderator: Naoe Suzuki, Artist, Massachusetts
A member of the ecological artists’ collective Think about Water invites participants to share the many ways that they are exploring and expressing the flow, energy and power of water in its manifold forms.

EARLY AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

The Importance of an Artist Residency Experience
Moderator: Ada Pilar Cruz, Artist and Museum Educator at MoMA, The Drawing Center, and a Professor of Art History for Mercy College, New York
This talk will be a group discussion for artists seeking residencies and for those who have participated in AIR, to share, and discuss what is important about an AIR experience.

LATE AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

Participatory Practices – Participatory Theatre, larps (live action role playing games) and Digital-Physical Games
Location: Emmanuel College, Eisner Administration Building – Room 531, 400 The Fenway
Presenter: Lynn Hughes, Artist and Emeritus Professor in Studio Arts, Concordia University, Canada
This workshop will be run as a presentation, discussing the notion of larps (live action role playing games). Its focus will be on The Liveness Research Group, which is located at Concordia University in Montreal on unceded Indigenous lands. The Liveness Research Group looks at “liveness” across three different, but neighboring, practices: participatory theatre, larps (live action role playing games) and digital-physical games (games that are digital but focus on the body and sociality rather than the screen).

Using Contemplative Collectives to Foster Adaptive Change in a Time of Adversity and Promote Workforce Development in the Creative Economy
Moderator: Sam Harvey, Professional Development Specialist at Pratt Institute, New York
A discussion on the role of contemplative practices, mindfulness and creative self-care in aiding focus, positive uplift and resilience for the benefit of artists and arts leaders.

DAY 3, NOVEMBER 6
MORNING ROUNDTABLES

Dealing with Extreme Psychological Conditions/
A Shock to the System
Moderator: Jennifer Jean Okumura, Artist, Massachusetts
An interactive discussion on how we are thrust into extreme states – mental, physical, and emotional – that disrupt and alter our creative thought processes.

AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

Trans + Cultural + Exchange: Connecting the World through the Power of Art
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: Emmanuel College, Auditorium, 400 The Fenway
Moderator and Presenter: Mary Sherman, Executive Director, TransCultural Exchange
Ute Meta Bauer, International Curator; Professor, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University; and Founding Director of the NTU CCA Singapore
Jan Hanvik, Director, Crossing Bridges, New York City and New York State’s Hudson Valley, and Puentes y Redes A.C. (Bridges & Networks) in Mexico
Iris Hung, Director, Taiwan Art Space Alliance (TASA)
Susan Katz, Program Director, CEC ArtsLink
Bojana Panevska, Senior Advisor, TransArtists, The Netherlands
Caitlin Strokosch, President & CEO, National Performance Network, Louisiana
Tiffany Shea York, Assistant Director, Artist Residencies and Special Projects, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
This conversation with TransCultural Exchange’s director and partners will look at the importance and benefits of adopting an international perspective for artists and the organizations who support their work.

LATE AFTERNOON ROUNDTABLES

From Different Abilities to New Art Forms
Moderator: Audrey-Anne Bouchard, Interdisciplinary Stage Artist, Canada
As an interdisciplinary stage artist who found inspiration in her visual impairment to initiate a new creation methodology “beyond the visual,” this round table explores the interplay of the artists’ lived experiences and the potential of different abilities to influence the artistic process and the development of new art forms.