Politics Program, Historical Studies Program, Division of Social Studies, Center for Civic Engagement, American and Indigenous Studies Program, and Africana Studies Program Present
Talk by Ralph Lemon
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Olin Humanities, Room 201
Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, conceptualist, director, writer, and installation artist. He describes his talk as "about my work (art experiments) with Walter Carter (1907-2009), my centenarian collaborator from Little Yazoo City, Mississippi. Purportedly the oldest man in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Fifty years or so shy of being a full-time slave. But he was an ex-sharecropper, carpenter, gardener... his longest job was planting cedar trees. We had an 8 year "discussion" about our whereabouts, our bodies (and race of course), our belief systems, and mortality, through the most ineffable of languages, his and mine. It ultimately became speculative fiction. A complete collapse of past, present and future time. Something like that."For more information, call 607-280-4754, or e-mail [email protected].
Location: Olin Humanities, Room 201