Art & the History of Art "Gravity and Recovery," by Justin Randolph Thompson

This performance/lecture by Justin Randolph Thompson emerges in relation to the initial research phases of his Creative-Capital-funded project Surveying Gravity. Surveying the history and legacy of the artist’s grandfather Randolph Bromery and his impact on higher education at UMass, the Amherst area and exponentially on the broad field of geosciences, the talk delves into notions of geological time, ancient forms of extractionist practices, Black history as global discourse, sonic freedom in jazz and the productions of alternatives to the arrogance of permanence. The event is an occasion to form a transdisciplinary cohort of artists, scientists and thinkers interested in wrestling with the complexities of a culture that tends to use monuments to forget.

A reception will immediately follow the lecture.