Calendars:Fine Art Calendar/Fine Art Calendar/03-07-2020 -Event 2

GUEST LECTURE:: QUINCY GARIO

Topic: Piet Zwart Fine Art Guest Tutor Talk: Quinsy Gario Time: Jul 3, 2020 06:00 PM Amsterdam https://hogeschoolrotterdam.zoom.us/j/97072008999?pwd=L3VkK3RpbmR4d3A2RnUwdHJxMGlUQT09 Meeting ID: 970 7200 8999 Password: 230526

Guest tutor: Quinsy Gario - in conversation with Danny Giles on decolonizing institutions

Artist and activist Quinsy Gario joins Course Director, Danny Giles, for a conversation on the ongoing process of decolonizing arts and culture institutions in the Netherlands and across the world. The conversation will contextualize contemporary protest movements within historical legacies of institutional racism and reflect on related artistic and activist work happening in the Netherlands and the United States.

Quinsy Gario: Quinsy Gario is a visual and performance artist from the Caribbean islands that have Dutch colonization in common. He focuses on decolonial remembering and the actions that that remembering can engender.

His most well-known work, Zwarte Piet Is Racisme (2011–2012), critiqued the general knowledge surrounding the racist Dutch figure and practice of Zwarte Piet (Black Pete), later bringing into the open the governmental institutional support that keeps the figure alive in the Netherlands. He has an academic background in media studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies, is a graduate of the Master Artistic Research program at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and was a recurring participant of the Black Europe Body Politics conference series.

He received the Royal Academy Master Thesis Prize 2017, the Black Excellence Award 2016, the Amsterdam Fringe Festival Silver Award 2015, the Dutch Caribbean Pearls Community Pearl Award 2014 and the Hollandse Nieuwe 12 Theatermakers Prize 2011. In 2017 he received a Humanity in Action Detroit Fellowship and in 2017/2018 he was a BAK Fellow. Gario is a board member of De Appel, a member of Family Connection and of the pan-African artist collective State of L3.

Quinsy Gario's affiliation with DAI began in the academic year 2018 -2019 when he was the respondent to the Kitchen presentations November 2018 in Arnhem and the Kitchen support advisor in February and April in Epen.

In 2020 he will be acting as one of two 2019-2020 Kitchen support advisors, traveling with DAI to both Epen as well as PAF in St.Erme.