Visualizing Abolition

Visualizing Abolition Online Conversations

Featuring artists, activists, scholars and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition.

Opening Tuesday, October 20, 2020 with Angela Davis

Series runs through May 11, 2021

Registration Information: https://ias.ucsc.edu

FREE - Registration required

Presented by UC Santa Cruz's Institute of the Arts and Sciences

What does it mean to think of abolitionism as a vision—one that challenges the social, economic, and political worldviews that prisons promote? For the 2020/21 academic year, UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with Gina Dent, associate professor, feminist studies, is pleased to present a series of online events featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition.

The events accompany Barring Freedom, a bi-coastal exhibition of art on view at San José Museum of Art October 30, 2020-March 21, 2021 and featuring Solitary Garden, a public art project, at UC Santa Cruz. Barring Freedom travels to NYC John Jay College of Criminal Justice April 28-July 15, 2021.

Visualizing Abolition Schedule 

All events are from 4-5:30 P.M. PST unless otherwise noted

October 20,2020          

Visualizing Abolition

Angela Davis and Gina Dent

October 27, 2020

Images, Memory and Justice

Bryan Stevenson 

November 13, 2020

Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips:

Black Quantum Futurism 

Livestream at indexical.org

November 17, 2020 

Visuality and Carceral Formations

Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, Nicholas Mirzoeff

December 1, 2020, 12-1:30 p.m.

Abolition Then and Now                                  

Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley

Events continue through May 11, 2021: https://ias.ucsc.edu/content/2020/visualizing-abolition