Torkwase Dyson: Visiting Artist Lecture

Join us for an evening with artist Torkwase Dyson as she shares an in-depth look at her practice and the works featured in If the word we: 59th Carnegie International. Lectures are free and open to the public. Tomorrow Was Yesterday T omorrow Was Yesterday is an animation informed by Torkwase Dyson’s ongoing research into oil and gas drilling in the Caribbean seabed. This program immerses viewers in an underwater environment conceptualized by the artist, where the machinery of the resource industry has taken hold. Dyson’s explorations question: “What is the magnitude of oil and gas extraction infrastructure? Why is there an incomprehensible distance between our everyday lives and the extraction points sprawled across this planet’s seabeds? Seabed mining is a transhistorical issue and I center process as a way of understanding its history and scale.” About the Artist Torkwase Dyson (born 1973, Chicago, IL; lives in Beacon, NY) has distilled a vocabulary of poetic forms to address the spaciousness of freedom and question the type of climates born out of world building. In 2021, Dyson’s work was on view at Hall Art Foundation, Germany. In addition, her work was presented at the 13th Shanghai Biennale. Dyson has had solo exhibitions and installations at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago; Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia; and Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont; and Serpentine Pavilion, Serpentine Galleries, London. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; The Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; and Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York. Finding Kresge Theatre Kresge Theatre is loc