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Nov 9, 12:00PM at Punt Premises

Leo Cocar is the recipient of this year’s Hnatyshyn Foundation Young Curator Residency on Fogo Island.

During this talk, Leo will present the research that has been informing his future work with Derya Akay at the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.

Mobilizing (loose) interpretations of writing by philosopher Reza Negarastani, artist Cildo Meireles’ work Insertions Into Ideological Circuits, and Theodor Adorno’s writings on aesthetics (among others), this presentation will take the form of ruminations on the ways in which art objects (and exhibitions) may use alternate modes of socio-communal engagement (beyond the rarefied art world) as a means of breaking out of narrow arenas of both conceptualization and display.

Leo Cocar is a cultural worker from the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. His writing has appeared in Flash, e-flux, Bomb, C Magazine, Momus, and Numéro Berlin, among others. He was the 2024 Fogo Island Young Arts Curator and holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.