Making Space at the Armory

Antagonisms: A Gathering

Making Space at the Armory

Antagonisms: A Gathering

June 1, 2024

Various Spaces

How do we process conflicts and friction amongst close allies? And in discussion and debate, are antagonism and disagreement crucial to creating revolutionary transformation? These questions serve as the starting point for this gathering of artists, performers, scholars, and theorists in an evocative examination of the poetics of disagreement.

Led by playwright and poet Claudia Rankine, this symposium is punctuated with performances, panels, investigations of group dynamics, as well as imagined conversations between revolutionary thinkers. Participants include renowned postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, acclaimed cultural historian Saidiya V. Hartman, and choreographer Shamel Pitts | TRIBE.

Schedule

Saturday, June 1, 2024

1:00 PM–7:00 PM

Gallery

  • Anna Deavere Smith and Homi Bhabha in conversation as part of the Antagonisms panel "Listening for Silence" in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Alexander Sargent

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  • Helga Davis introducing the Antagonisms panel "A Livable World: The Revolutionary Hopes of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin" in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Alexander Sargent

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  • Kineta Kunutu, Jay Austin Williams, and Oge Agulué give a staged reading of an excerpt from Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return as part of the Antagonisms panel "Writing, Form, and Black Life" in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Alexander Sargent

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  • Claudia Rankine introducing the Antagonisms panel "A Livable World: The Revolutionary Hopes of Audre Lorde and James Baldwin" in the Veterans Room.
    Photo: Alexander Sargent

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Related Videos

  • Highlights from Antagonisms: A Gathering

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  • Antagonisms: A Gathering—A Livable World

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  • Antagonisms: A Gathering—Listening for Silence

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Support

Making Space at the Armory is made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF).

Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams.

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