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Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMa, Meta/Physical Therapy. This 2024 exhibition premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance, video, and sculpture, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego, Cynthia, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and ...

On Fire Talk: Working with Fire: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This talk opens in the wake of a 2012 arson attack on Women With A Vision (WWAV) and moves with the members of this Black feminist collective as they refused the terror of this attack and rose from the ashes to carry their foremothers’ work forward ever. Their story is a lesson for our times. Our whole world is on fire. And yet, WWAV shows us how the flames meant to destroy us can also ...

On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This year's wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan, the state's insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and ...