Creative Time Summit



 

How does emergency produce revolution?

 

The Summit 2024, States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe, is organized in response to the unprecedented global protests against imperialism and a United States presidential election that many are calling a breaking point of democracy. The Summit confronts our era of crisis—the climate crisis, migrant crisis, constitutional crisis, affordability crisis, housing crisis, and on and on—not as singular moments in time but rather as a long historical arch set forth by the making and remaking of colonial borders. States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe presents new and reactivated forms of socially engaged art and political organizing that have emerged from an ongoing state of emergency and offers paths forward to working with and against governments, industry, and others in power toward land-based restitution, self-determination, and liberation.
 
Considering borders and statelessness, land rights, agriculture, climate, resources, formations for living beyond property, the Summit brings together artists, activists, and thought leaders from across the world who are mounting tactics of land justice, redistribution, reparation, sovereignty, and other reimaginings of the relationships between communities and land.
 
The Summit 2024 is curated by Creative Time Curator Diya Vij with Associate Curator Anna Harsanyi and Artist Research Manager Gervais Marsh in thought partnership with Summit 2024 Advisors: Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Ntone Edjabe, Emily Jacir, Maya Juracán, Adam Khalil, Dominic Leong, Aziz Sohail, and Hanlu Zhang.
 
Questions about accessibility at the Summit? Find out more here.
 

TICKETS

 
Tickets are available by sliding scale, get your tickets via this link to Eventbrite.
 

SCHEDULE

   
  FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20

Welcome Reception At CTHQ
6-8PM
 
CTHQ
59 East 4th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
 

   
  SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Summit Presentations at BAM
10am-5pm
 
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217
 
Summit Afters
8pm-12am
 
Sugarhill Restaurant & Supper Club
217 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205
 

    SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22

Plenary Sessions
11am-1pm
 
BRIC Arts Media
647 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY 11217
 
Pratt Institute School of Design
The Design Center
200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11205
 
Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Higgins Hall
61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238
 
Opening: Cosmologyscape, Alisha B Wormsley and Kite
2-5pm
 
The Plaza at 300 Ashland
85 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
 

SUMMIT 2024 PRESENTERS

 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
 

10am-1pm
DYLAN SABA
RIVER WHITTLE
MICHAEL PARTIS
SEAN CONNELLY
ALOFIPO SO'OALO FLEUR RAMSAY
ANDRÉS CANO SIERRA
TIZINTIZWA
(NADIR BOUHMOUCH
AND SOUMEYA AIT AHMED)

CENTRE D’ART WAZA
(FEZA KAYUNGU & PATRICK MUDEKEREZA)

ANCA BENERA AND
ARNOLD ESTEFAN

ATHER ZIA
ISSHAQ ALBARBARY
TANYA AGUIÑIGA
LEIL MORTADA
ALARM PHONE
1pm
Lunch care
activation with
Emily Johnson
(with lunch ticket)

2-5pm
KEZI COLLECTIVE
NATALIE DIAZ
DAR JACIR FOR ART AND RESEARCH (EMILY JACIR & REEM MUSSA KHATIB)
NATALIE BALL
KARACHI LAJAMIA
(SHAHANA RAJANI
AND ZAHRA MALKANI)

ANDREA BALLESTERO
ELIZA EVANS
MAO CHENYU
LAS NIETAS DE NONO (mulowayi iyaye nonó & mapenzi chibale nonó)
ABOU FARMAN
MARWA ARSANIOS
ENZO CAMACHO AND AMI LIEN
RINALDO WALCOTT
NEW RED ORDER


 

MC: Morgan Bassichis

 
 

Musicians

 
Assembled by Ethen Philbrick (cell) with Amirtha Kidambi (voice), Joanna Mattrey (viola), and Sugar Vendil (synthesizer).
 

Setting the Stage with Bahar Behbahani

 
Commissioned for the stage design of this year’s Creative Time Summit 2024, Bahar Behbahani’s I do not believe in time, I do believe in water – titled after a line written by Dionne Brand – is a meditation on waterways, floodlines, and the enclosures and openings created by their confluence.

 

Summit Plenary Sessions

 
Sunday, September 22
11am-1pm
 
Click here to see the full descriptions and bios.
 
Embodied Archives Shanna Sabio in partnership with GrowHouse (walking session)
 
Property Walk: Fort Greene David L. Johnson (walking session)
 
Embodied Mapping and Urban Transformation Nora Almeida, andrea haenggi, Jordan Packer and Estefania Mompean Botias, in partnership with Social Practice CUNY
 
Strengthening Democracy Through Community Media Maritza Carmona and ​Leon Taylor, BRIC Arts Media
 
No Other Way but Creative: A Participatory Conversation on Funding and More Hanlu Zhang
 
Learning from LAND: Art, Ecology, and Environmental Activism Jen de los Reyes
 
“This looks legal.” Scaling the Decolonization Rider Emily Johnson
 
Otherwise World Making: Queer Strategies Aziz Sohail
 
Emergent Care for our Communities: Climate Justice, Food Security and Mutual Aid Jen Chantrtanapichate and Davina Resto, Sixth Street Community Center
 
ISO Sumptuous Discovery DonChristian
 
Drafting an Access Statement Finnegan Shannon, in partnership with A Blade of Grass
 
Curating as an Act of Political Resistance Maya Juracán
 
To Eat Alone is to Die Alone Vivien Sansour
 
Disasters and Diasporas: An Exploration of Legacy, Climate Change, and Place through a Caribbean Lens in NYC Daphne Lundi, Rona Taylor, and Dr. Vanessa L. Deane
 
Solidarity as Enduring Practices: Learning from Disaster Utopias Gonzalo Casals and Mauricio Delfin, The Culture & Arts Policy Institute, Caron Atlas, Arts & Democracy and NOCD-NY, and Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo, Storyline
 
Live Art in Death Politics Tania El Khoury
 
“We will not pay your debts but feed everyone at our table”: On Abundance, Rupture, and (Re)balance Sarah Biscarra Dilley and Natalie Ball, Forge Project
 

Summit 2024 Reader

 
The Creative Time Summit 2024 Reader is a collective offering of essays, books, blog posts, interviews, sound and video works, alongside a selection of artist projects from around the world, all connected to the Summit’s multifaceted themes. Click here to access the Summit 2024 Reader.
 

Cosmologyscape

 
A Creative Time Commission by Alisha B Wormsley and Kite
Sunday, September 22
2-5pm
 
The Plaza at 300 Ashland
85 Flatbush Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
 
Join us for the opening of Creative Time’s latest commission: Cosmologyscape, by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite, is an invitation to the public to dream. The opening features Owíŋža Íčhiyopatȟapi (for Cosmologyscape), a score by Kite performed by 6 experimental musicians interpreting the digital tapestry of dreams on the Cosmologyscape website.
 

 

SUMMIT 2024 ADVISORS

 
Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini [Northern Chumash]) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator currently residing nitspu titʸu tsʔitɨnɨ Munsee.They serve as Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project and are completing a doctorate in Native American Studies from UC Davis.
 
Ntone Edjabe is a Cameroonian writer, journalist, DJ and the founding editor of Chimurenga magazine (estd. 2002), a pan African publication of culture, art, and politics based in Cape Town. Edjabe’s practice as a DJ weds musical erudition and explicit political engagement centered on Africa’s place in the world.
 
Emily Jacir is an artist, filmmaker, educator and founder of Dar Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem. Her interdisciplinary practice investigates histories of colonization, exchange, translation, resistance, and movement. Jacir has built a complex and compelling oeuvre through a diverse range of media and methodologies that include unearthing historical material, performative gestures and in-depth research.
 
Maya Juracán is a curator, activist, and a professor of Contemporary Art History at Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala. Leveraging her background in language, literature, social sciences, contemporary art, and cultural management, Juracán reshapes historical narratives through art.
 
Adam Shingwak Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective.
 
Dominic Leong (Kānaka Maoli) is a founding partner at Leong Leong, an internationally recognized architecture studio based in New York. He focuses on architecture as an aesthetic, social, and ecological practice. The studio operates at the intersection of art and living, collaborating with diverse partners to advance social agendas within the built environment. Dominic is also a co-founder and current advisor to Hawai’i Nonlinear, a Honolulu-based nonprofit that supports grassroots ‘Āina (Land / That Which Feeds) movements through Native innovation, storytelling, and creative design. He has held invited academic appointments at Columbia University, MIT, The Cooper Union and is the 2024 Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale School of Architecture.
 
Aziz Sohail is a Pakistani-born art curator, writer and PhD candidate in curatorial practice at Monash Art, Design and Architecture. Their research and resultant projects honour and recognise the power of queer and feminist collectivity, sociability, joy and wayward encounter.
 
Hanlu Zhang is a curator, writer, and editor interested in art as social practice. In 2020 she founded Social Practice Lab (SPL), a platform that curates socially engaged art and initiates collaborative projects. SPL engages with topics and communities related to urban-rurality, migration, social justice, and alternative practices.

 

 
 

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Support for the 2024 Creative Time Summit States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe has been generously provided by the Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, Trust for Mutual Understanding, Molly Gochman, Margaret Wang, Kathleen O’Grady, The Gochman Family Collection, The Surdna Foundation, and The Arts, Equity, and Education Fund.
 
Thank you to our venue partners, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
 
The official media partner of the 2024 Creative Time Summit is WNYC.
 
Creative Time programming support for 2024 has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Arts, Equity, and Education Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Lambent Foundation Fund, a fund of Tides Foundation, The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation, The May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., and The Rockefeller Foundation.
 
We are also grateful for the support of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) in partnership with the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams.