Event Details

House, Shed, Shack: The Cultural Politics of Inhabitation
Thursday, February 20, 5:00-6:00 pm, Humanities 412 (Interdisciplinary Media Lab)
At what scale and under what discursive conditions does a structure become a house? In this talk artist and Black-feminist scholar Tia-Simone Gardner will discuss recent projects that examine questions of how race, power, and place intersect with built environment, looking specifically at the Tiny House Movement and the history of housing within her own family. She will talk about praxis-based research, addressing her work from the point of view as an artist turned scholar. She will also talk about her thinking around inhabitation in relation to the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies on the Mississippi River.