George Lipsitz at University of Wyoming: Expressive Culture in a World of Crisis
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2014-05-27

Dr. George Lipsitz at University of Wyoming: "Decorating the Way to Other Worlds: Expressive Culture in a World of Crisis"
April 22, 2014 at University of Wyoming

A presentation by Dr. George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara. "All across the nation and all around the world, artists and activists are creating new ways of being and new ways of knowing. Deliberate acts of collective co-creation are throwing new sounds, signs, and symbols as a way of building new social relations among people. From the renovation of dilapidated row houses in Houston's Third Ward to the installation of cardboard cutouts of immigrants on a fence in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., from a Hip Hop Street Fair in downtown Los Angeles affirming the rights of homeless people to the convivencia expressed in public gatherings throughout the western states in the U.S. of the Fandango movement where son jarocho music from Mexico serves as a provocation for rethinking the racial orders of the hemisphere, community based art making has become art based community making. "Decorating the Way to Other Worlds" will discuss how these new forms of active co-creation can help scholars ask and answer important questions."

George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which is The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights and the Ethic of Co-Creation co-authored with Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble. Lipsitz is co-editor of the American Crossroads series at the University of California Press, editor of the Critical American Studies series at the University of Minnesota Press, and Senior Editor of the journal Kalfou, a journal of comparative and relational ethnic studies published by Temple University Press.

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Video by University of Wyoming Television.
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