Poet | Artist | Activist: Let's Make A Plan: Christopher Higgenbotham, Christian Nagler, Cassie Thornton
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 4:30 pm
Open conversations with three artists/activists discussing their work, followed by performances. Free.
Location:
J. Paul Leonard Library, Labor Archives and Research Center
Directions:
Sponsor:
The Poetry Center, Labor Archives and Research Center, Service Employees International Union Local 1021
Contact:
The Poetry Center
E-mail:
Phone:
415-338-2227
Event extras:
"But if we listen to them they will say: come let's plan something together. And that's what we're going to do. We're telling all of you but we're not telling anyone else."
—Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons, Chapt. 4, "Debt and Study"
Christopher Higgenbotham
Christopher Higgenbotham is a passionate high school history teacher who also happens to be a big activist for social change and justice in his community. Christopher graduated from Morehouse in 2013. He lives by the words “Why Not?”
Christian Nagler
Christian Nagler is an artist, writer and translator based in Oakland, California. He works at the intersection of bodily movement and geo-financial systems. Recent projects include Market Fitness, Yoga for Adjuncts, and Cosmoconvulsive Anxiothenics which pursue economic critique through kinesthetic, participatory performances. He co-translated Empire of Neomemory by Heriberto Yépez, and has translated many other works by Central American writers. He was deeply involved in unionizing Bay Area adjunct faculty. He is doing graduate research on issues of performance in economic discourse and labor issues, and completing his first novel and book of poems.
Cassie Thornton
Cassie Thornton is an artist who is sometimes referred to as the Feminist Economics Department (the FED), and who works in collusion with Strike Debt in Oakland, California, a social movement dedicated to grassroots action. Her work investigates and reveals the impact of governmental and economic systems on public feeling, behavior and unconscious, with a focus on debt and security. Thornton has exhibited, lectured, and performed with the generous support of galleries, art and activist groups, non-profits, universities, and museums internationally. In 2015, Thornton was commissioned to complete a project with SEIU in Oakland, Evergreen State University in Washington state, Hastings Poverty Race and Law Journal in San Francisco, the SF LGBT Center, Storefront Lab in San Francisco, Recess Gallery in Portland, Portland State University, San Francisco State University, SOEX in San Francisco, Publication Studio in Oakland, CA and UC Berkeley. She has recently published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, ArtLeaks, and Temporary Art Magazine. Recent awards have come from Headlands Center for the Arts, Blade of Grass Foundation, CCA Social IMPACT Grant, Barclay Simpson Award and the Cannonball Miami Residency.
Image: Cassie Thornton