About the Event
Wednesday, October 22
6PM—Opening Reception with Anahita Bradberry and DiverseWorks at MATCH
Thursday, October 23
8:30AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Catastrophe Across the Venezuelan Diaspora
- Panel: when blackness breaks/makes
- Panel: Spectral Worldmaking: Haunting, the Archive, and Creative Practice
- Graduate Student Workshops #1-6
- Seminar: Anthropocene Genres in the Latinx Americas
10:15 AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Critiques of Settler Colonialism: Aesthetics of Land and Labor in the “South/West”
- Panel: Canon Making / Canon Breaking
- Panel: The Performance Art Museum
- Panel: Tarrying with the Gap
- Panel: Mediamaking / Mediabreaking
- Panel: Creatures of the Night: Queer Horror in the Margins
- Panel: Institutions and Worldbuilding
- Workshop: How to Build a Community-Engaged Asian American Diasporic Exhibition
- Seminar: Anthropocene Genres in the Latinx Americas
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Anahita Bradberry
11:45 AM—Lunch
12:15 PM—Keynote
- Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji Performance
2:00 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Making the Millennials: Mass Education, Meritocracy, Malaise
- Panel: Poetics for a World Without
- Panel: Raving and Its Discontents: Making and Breaking Night-Life-Worlds
- Panel: Not Here/Not Now: How Contemporary Artists Deploy Speculative Fiction to Imagine Alternate Worlds and Diffract the Complexities of the Present.
- Panel: Accumulation, Sedimentation, Duration
- Panel: Theorizing the Black Box 1: Inputs, Outputs, Processes Unknown
- Seminar: Black Studies: Breaking and Remaking Art History
- Seminar: Building and Breaking with Postcolonial Thought
- Workshop: The Revolution School Player Card Workshop: Worldmaking through Speculative Disidentity
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Ida Aronson
3:45 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Body Hauntings: Queer, Trans, Crip, and Racialized Crossings
- Panel: Reading Race Now
- Panel: In Other Worlds: Turning Back to 1990s
- Panel: But Who are You?: Worldbuilding and the “I” in the Academic Lyric Essay
- Panel: Intermedial Poetics and Revolutionary World-Making
- Panel: Alternative Art Pedagogies as Activist Platforms in Contemporary Art Practice
- Panel: Theorizing the Black Box 2: Film in/as Black Box
- Seminar: Black Studies: Breaking and Remaking Art History
- Seminar: Building and Breaking with Postcolonial Thought
- Workshop: Becoming worm/plastic/dirt: a workshop for plastic bodies
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Christopher Paul
6:30 PM—Keynote
- Tomashi Jackson and Gerald Horne in Conversation at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Friday, October 24
9:00AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: The Aesthetics of Reproductive Justice
- Panel: Abstraction between Art and Abolition
- Panel: Bad Feelings, Wrong Words: Feminist Scholarship Today
- Panel: Techno-Orientalism & Postcolonial Thought
- Panel: Minor Violences
- Panel: Beyond Magical Realism: Myth as Form in Contemporary Fiction
- Panel: Queer and Trans Filipinx Relationalities: Diasporic Strategies for Sustaining a Broken World
- Seminar: Lyric Beyond Containment
- Seminar: Affect Aliens
10:45 AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: The Poetics of Landscape
- Panel: Curricular Pathways in Latinx Art at the MFAH
- Panel: Staging as Worldmaking in Contemporary Performance
- Panel: Who Cares? Disaffection, Global Capital, Memory, and World-Making/Breaking in Filipinx Cultural Production
- Panel: Arts Funding and Its Nationalisms
- Panel: Archival Agility: Breaking with the “Document”
- Workshop: Artist Talk: Aarin Burch
- Seminar: Lyric Beyond Containment
- Seminar: Affect Aliens
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Lisa Harris
12:15 PM—ASAP/16 Award Ceremony and Lunch
2:00 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Wastelands of Empire: Militarism, Extraction, and the Limits of Repair
- Panel: Blood-Stained Lens: academic arrogance, reparative study, and world-making with Tamara Lanier’s family archive
- Panel: Speculative Aesthetics: Capitalism and Futurity
- Panel: Frictive Futures for Environmental Media
- Panel: Shifted site
- Seminar: Beast Time
- Seminar: For the Record
- Seminar: Creative Crossroads: African American Literature & Other Arts
- Workshop: artists in the classroom: pedagogy as world-breaking-making
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Saúl Hernández-Vargas
3:45 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Trans Making, Trans Breaking: Praxis/Practice as Medium
- Panel: The Great Derangement of the Senses: New Cinematic Idioms of the Anthropocene
- Panel: The Mall is Dead, Long Live The Mall
- Panel: The Aesthetics and Politics of Global Supply Chains
- Panel: Literary Indigestion: Waste, Excess, Disgust
- Panel: Practices of World-Building/Breaking in Gaming and with Game Engines
- Seminar: Beast Time
- Seminar: For the Record
- Seminar: Creative Crossroads: African American Literature & Other Arts
- Workshop: Keywords for Anti-Institutional Practice
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Kristina Kay Robinson
5:30 PM—Keynote
- Film Screening with Christopher Harris and Cauleen Smith at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Saturday, October 25
9:00AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Making and Breaking Color-Worlds: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media
- Panel: Pop Sapphism: A Roundtable
- Panel: “Let Gaza Live” and so will Our Humanity: Art from a Politics of Life and Horror
- Panel: Mess as Method: Backchanneling & Queer Diasporic Survival
- Panel: The Art of Worlding with Artificial Intelligence
- Panel: Techno-Orientalism 2.0
- Panel: Unknowable Worlds of Asian America
- Panel: Black Artistic Expression as Revolutionary Practice: A Multi Modal Exploration of Liberation and Future-Making Through a Black Gaze
- Seminar: Sojourners: Black Women Filmmakers of the 1960s-90s
10:45 AM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Dream Damaged: Minoritarian Aesthetics’ Serial Repetitions
- Panel: Disturbing the Peace: James Baldwin and the Intersection of Art and Activism
- Panel: Aesthetics of Surveillance and Security
- Panel: Kinmaking/Kinbreaking: ancestral legacies in artistic worldmaking
- Panel: Affective Inquiries in Postcolonial Visualities: Bodies, Institutions and Collectivities
- Panel: The Way We Write Now: Queer/Trans Forms of Black Study
- Panel: “‘I’m Too Classy for This World’: Black Music’s Queer Utopias”
- Panel: Making and Breaking Genres and Forms of the Global War on Terror
- Seminar: Sojourners: Black Women Filmmakers of the 1960s-90s
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Lovie Olivia
12:15 PM—Lunch
2:00 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Forms of Asian American Self-Consciousness
- Panel: How to Do Things With/Out Words: Materiality, Aesthetics, and the Worldbreaking Limits of Speech
- Panel: re: criticisms: revisiting arts criticism in the present
- Panel: The Working (Unworkable) World
- Panel: Nepantleras in New England: Worldmaking Alongside Anzaldúa
- Panel: Creative Economies of the African Diaspora
- Panel: (Re)interpreting Empire
- Seminar: Shapeshifting and the Other/worldly
- Seminar: The Worldmaking and Worldbreaking Practices of Contemporary Latinx Poetry
- Group Poetry Reading: Jadine Pluecker with M. Miranda Maloney, Jadine Pluecker, Mariposa Tejada, and Stalina Villarreal
3:45 PM—Panels, Workshops, and Seminars
- Panel: Archival Remix: Sounds and Aesthetics of Queer and Trans Oral Histories
- Panel: Performance and Documentary Poetics
- Panel: Queer Performance Curation as Method
- Panel: Coercive Mimeticism and the Politics of Identity
- Panel: Transition and Transformation at the Ends of Liberal Democracy
- Seminar: Shapeshifting and the Other/worldly
- Seminar: The Worldmaking and Worldbreaking Practices of Contemporary Latinx Poetry
- Workshop: The Art of Film Rejuvenation: The Case Study of Compensation by Zeinabu irene Davis
- Workshop: In Lignancy: a performance and talk back on embodied un/breaking
- Gulf Coast Artist Showcase: Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin
6:00 PM—Project Row Houses Tours and ASAP/16 Closing Reception
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The conference is made possible through generous support by the following sponsors: Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS) (Rice University), Center for Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (SWGS) (Rice University), Chao Center for Asian Studies (Rice University), Creative Ventures Fund (Rice University), Department of Anthropology (Rice University), Department of Art (Rice University), Department of Art History (Rice University), Department of English and Creative Writing (Rice University), Department of History (Rice University), Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (MCLCC) (Rice University), Humanities Research Center (Rice University), School of Humanities Dean’s Office (Rice University), Shepherd School of Music (Rice University), Terra Foundation for American Art, and the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
