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Symposium: "Behold" at the Brooklyn Museum

Celebrate the opening of María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold with two roundtable discussions and a new immersive performance by Campos-Pons.

Cathy Mather, Community Contributor
Video by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born Matanzas, Cuba, 1959) with sound by Neil Leonard (born Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959). Still from Baño Sagrado (Rite of Initiation, Sacred Bath), 1991. Single-channel video transferred from Super 8 film (color)
Video by María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born Matanzas, Cuba, 1959) with sound by Neil Leonard (born Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959). Still from Baño Sagrado (Rite of Initiation, Sacred Bath), 1991. Single-channel video transferred from Super 8 film (color) (Courtesy of the artists. © María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Neil Leonard. (Photo: courtesy of the artist))

11:30 am–6 pm

Meet at the Center for Feminist Art and Overlook, 4th Floor
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Celebrate the opening of María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold—an exhibition spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s boundary-breaking work—with two roundtable discussions and a new immersive performance by Campos-Pons. Participants include artists Carlos Martiel, Helina Metaferia, Pamela Sneed, and Carrie Mae Weems, along with scholars Cheryl Finley, Tatiana Flores, Nikki A. Greene, Carmen Hermo, Jamaal Sheats, and Adriana Zavala.
Schedule
11:30 am: Curator tour
Center for Feminist Art and Overlook, 4th Floor
Carmen Hermo
12:30 pm: Opening invocation and art historical grounding
Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Cheryl Finley and Pamela Sneed
1:30 pm: Roundtable: “I Am from Many Places”
Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, Tatiana Flores, and Jamaal Sheats, with Adriana Zavala
2:30 pm: Coffee break
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor
3:30 pm: Roundtable: Legacy
Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Carlos Martiel, Helina Metaferia, and Carrie Mae Weems, with Nikki A. Greene
4:30 pm: Closing remarks
Auditorium, 3rd Floor
5 pm: Performance: A Mother’s River of Tears
Auditorium and Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd Floor; Center for Feminist Art and Overlook, 4th Floor
María Magdalena Campos-Pons and collaborators
Tickets are $25 ($20 for Members) and include Museum general admission. Not a Member? Join today!
This symposium and performance are made possible by Rishabh and Lopa Mehrotra as well as the Elizabeth A. Sackler Museum Educational Trust.

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