On Saturday, December 12, candidates from the ICP-Bard MFA program will present After the Fact, a one-day symposium examining the place and potential of The Event.

Artists, writers, curators, thinkers and activists will convene for panel conversations, discussions and lectures. Featured participants include Jean Marie Casbarian, Milagros de la Torre, Nona Faustine, Alex Fialho (Visual AIDS), Gordon Hall, Steffani Jemison, Martha Joseph, T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, and Martha Wilson.

The symposium will explore how we process personal and political information, how we view and contextualize art, and how the worlds of both fact and fiction inform our everyday realities and our senses of self. Natural disasters, encounters with works of art, acts of political resistance, the genesis of authentic love, all are points of no return. What happens when we feel, live, and experience the intensities that emerge, as if out of nowhere, as miraculous forces? How do we relate to contingencies, which change the way we perceive our selves and engage in our worlds?

Open Studios: After the symposium, 19 candidates from the ICP-BARD MFA program will open their studios to share current work. Open Studios 2015 will be held from 6–10 pm at 24-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City.

For more information, visit https://afterthefact2015.wordpress.com/

Top image: © Bia Monteiro