{"id":10672,"date":"2018-08-13T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?post_type=bates_events&p=10672"},"modified":"2018-11-07T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T20:52:29","slug":"panel-discussion-environmental-degradation-and-the-anthropocene","status":"publish","type":"bates_events","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/events\/panel-discussion-environmental-degradation-and-the-anthropocene\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel Discussion: Environmental Degradation & Histories of Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Artists: Sammy Baloji, Democratic Republic of the Congo\/Brussels; Maika\u2019i Tubbs, Hawai\u2019i\/Brooklyn<\/p>\n

Faculty: Leslie Hill, Associate Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Patrick W. Otim, Assistant Professor, History<\/p>\n

Please join us and participate in a discussion with visiting artists and faculty on these compelling topics.<\/p>\n

My reading of the Congolese past is a way of analyzing African identity today, through all the political systems that the society has experienced. That identity can be connoted through the occupation of space, how the environment is exploited, or through evident signs of a civilization that was built before, during, and after colonization, moving into the current era of globalization. The essence of my concern lies in the daily life of Congolese people. They themselves are traces of the recent past, which is also present. To superimpose the past onto the present reveals the will to denounce both past and present abuses. \u2013 Sammy Baloji<\/p>\n

Maika\u2019i Tubbs uses found detritus to create sculptures and installations that address themes such as ecology, resource consumption, and obsolescence. His recent work draws upon the geological discovery of plastiglomerate, a fusion of micro plastic, rock, sand, coral, and wood. The abundance of these human-made hybrids found along the coastline of Hawai\u2019i Island presents an indicator of humankind\u2019s environmental impact as well as a shift in the concept of nature itself.<\/p>\n

Followed by a reception in the museum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Funded in part by the Philip J. Otis \u201995 Endowment.<\/p>\n

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Olin Arts Center<\/span>, Room 104<\/span>
75 Russell Street<\/span>
Lewiston<\/span>, Maine<\/span> 04240<\/span><\/div>","simple":"Room 104 Olin Arts Center, Lewiston, Maine, 04240"},"featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2018\/02\/Sammy-Baloji-Untitled-13-2006-the-M\u00e9moire-series-archival-digital-photograph-on-satin-matte-paper-24-x-94-1-2-inches-courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Axis-Gallery-New-York-900x225.jpg","id":10589},"structureddata":"