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https://fb.me/e/3AMtGd2ff Join us on Thursday afternoon for a conversation with Dmitry Vilensky, the first in our Field Reports series.

Slought is pleased to present "Field Reports," a series of conversations throughout October and November 2020 with contemporary artists, theorists, and curators whose work engages the politics and aesthetics of Central and Eastern Europe and elsewhere. +++ These intimate, midday sessions will provide an informal platform for thinkers to share and discuss their practices, reflect on how their work has been impacted by the pandemic, what is transpiring in their communities and... institutions; and how these factors intersect with democracy and democratic processes as they unfold throughout the broader Central and Eastern European region. +++ The Field Reports series is presented in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Department of Russian and East European Studies and the Art History Department Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, with support from Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation More info at https://slought.org/resources/field_reports.

Slought and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women at the University of Pennsylvania are pleased to announce The Sis Uprising: A Critical Kiki, an online event on Thursday, October 8, 2020 from 5-7pm. The event is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live on YouTube. Performed by artist Arien Wilkerson, The Sis Uprising is a conceptual Black spectacle on COVID-19, the protests, and the interwoven legacies of race, gender, sexuality and... Black queer artistic insurgency. See our website for a teaser and more information: https://slought.org/resources/the_sis_uprising Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/373866570295361/?active_tab=about

Slought invites your participation in "Atlas of Affects," an exhibition in the Slought galleries of material traces, media artifacts, artistic projects, written texts, and other representations of the pandemic, opening in late September 2020. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the archive, so long as their submission concerns an affect of this moment. By "affect," we mean a personal experiencesuch as fear, anger, disgust, shame, desire, joy, or lovethat is reflective of soc...ietal trends and political realities. Join us in archiving your affective experience of the pandemic by sending us submissions to [email protected] along with a short contextual description. For more about this project's theoretical groundings and what we hope to see in submissions, please visit https://slought.org/resources/atlas_of_affects Image: Detail from Aby Warburg's Ur-words of the Affective Language of Gestures," (1927). Warburg Institute.

Slought is pleased to announce the launch of the Rx/Museum Initiative. Developed by a consortium of educators and providers at Penn Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania, and leading museums and arts institutions across Philadelphia, the Rx/Museum Initiative features a curated series of 52 artworks and essayistic reflections that embody the interplay between museums and medicine. Every Monday, subscribers will receive an artwork in their inbox accompanied by insightful co...mmentary about medicine as a humanistic practice. Each reflection examines traditionally challenging themes for clinicians - managing uncertainty, nuance, ambiguity and preconceived notions of death, illness, and suffering. Subscribe at rxmuseum.org.

Slought and the Creative Resilience Collective announced a mutual aid fundraiser in solidarity with the movement for Black lives and racial justice on June 10, 2020 that collectively raised over $14,797. The drive ran from June 10-24, 2020 and matched up to $7,000 in donations made to the seven Black-led organizations. These seven organizations were chosen for their efforts to provide direct aid and life sustaining services to Black trans folks, youth, and movement organizers.... Thank you to all who participated in the fundraiser. We received over 85 donations totaling $7797.75 and honored all donations (up to our $7,000 commitment) by matching receipts submitted to a publicly accessible form. Donations were matched 1:1 based on the receipt and order they were submitted. An anonymized public spreadsheet for all donations matched is available for accountability on our website. In addition to the fundraiser, $600 has been set aside to provide unrestricted $100 honoraria to six young Black Philly-based artists, to support existing work and the production of a set of printed posters for them to sell. https://slought.org//fundraiser_for_health_and_racial_just

Photo courtesy of Isaac Scott. Philadelphians protest racism and police brutality. June 6, 2020.

Slought is pleased to announce Act as if it were possible: A Voter's Guide to the issues and urgencies at stake in the coming election featuring photographs by Isaac Scott. https://slought.org/resources/act_as_if_it_were_possible Traditional voting guides often tell you who to vote for. Our Voter's Guide instead asks: what issues and urgencies are at stake in this particular moment? What voices, experiences, and histories are vital to this election? We answer this question using projects from our extensive archive. The issues raised in the last twenty years of conversations at Sloughtincluding racism, mass incarceration, immigration, climate justice, public health, and housing insecurityreflect concerns intimately familiar to all Americans, and they have only intensified since these projects were first staged.

"We Can't Breathe" by Ryan Navazio

Slought is pleased to announce Our Work is Not Done, an essay and selection of resources from our archive organized in response to the ongoing struggle against anti-Black racism. In early December 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech entitled "Our Work is Not Done" at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia. In it, he argues that our work will not be done until everyoneand especially our Black brethren...is "admitted, fully and completely, into the body politic of America." Despite the intervening years between Douglass' visits to Philadelphia and the present, different forms of bondage continue to affect our Black communitiesmass incarceration, debt, racism and discrimination, policing, and surveillanceall of which continue to diminish and endanger Black life in Philadelphia and across the country. The conversations set into motion by the recent protests across the United States and around the globe have made the urgency of reconceiving how we have been socialized to think about race all the more legible. To contribute to this effort, we are offering a modest series of recordings drawn from our archives that engage issues raised by the present and ongoing activism, including those related to anti-Black racism and subjugation in all its forms, as well as strategies of collective memory, representational justice, and decolonization. We hope these resources might contribute to this ongoing work of transformation, with those close to us and beyond. More at Slought.org/resources/our_work_is_not_done Slought.org/resources/our_work_is_not_done_resources Photo by Ryan Navazio.