Panel Discussion: Exhibiting the Architectural Histories of Colonialism Today

Aamna Muzaffar, Danielle Dean, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió with Carmen Juliá

Panel Discussion: Exhibiting the Architectural Histories of Colonialism Today

Aamna Muzaffar, Danielle Dean, Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió with Carmen Juliá

L: Portrait of Danielle Dean. Courtesy the artist. R: Portrait of Manuel Carrio.

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Join us to celebrate Danielle Dean’s exhibition This Could All Be Yours!. The artist will be joined by curator Aamna Muzaffar and professor Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió. The discussion will be chaired by Spike Island’s curator Carmen Juliá and followed by a Q&A with the audience.

AAMNA MUZAFFAR

Aamna Muzaffar is Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art. Muzaffar collaborates on space, text, and moving image projects with artists and arts organisations as an independent creative director and technical supervisor.

DANIELLE DEAN

Danielle Dean is an artist based in Los Angeles. Dean received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and her BFA from Central St Martins in London. She is also an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has recently produced Amazon (Proxy), a performance for Performa New York, (2021), Amazon, a new commission and solo exhibition at Tate Britain, London, as part of the Art Now series (2022). Other solo shows include: Long Low Line, Time Square Arts, New York (2023); Bazar at the ICA San Diego (2023); and True Red Ruin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018). Dean participated in the 2022 Whitney Biennale in New York. Other group exhibitions include: This is Land, Contemporary Austin (2023); Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018); The Centre Cannot Hold, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2018); and Made in L.A., The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014).

MANUEL SHVARTZBERG CARRIÓ

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió is assistant professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of California, San Diego where he is also co-director of the Just Transitions Initiative, member of the Indigenous Futures Institute, and faculty in the Design Lab.

At UC San Diego, Shvartzberg Carrió’s teaching focuses on histories and theories of architecture and geopolitics, particularly how architectural technologies and territorial infrastructures mediate regimes of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and processes of decolonization, as well as design theory and praxis for a just transition.

His books, essays, and articles have appeared in collections from Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, Architectural Design, ARQ Magazine, Bloomsbury, Dialectic, Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development, The Avery Review, Places Journal, and others. He is a 2023-24 Getty Fellowship recipient and a 2023 Graham Foundation grant awardee for his first book monograph, Inland Empire: Settler Colonialism, Modern Architecture, and the Rise of American Hegemony, forthcoming from Duke University Press.