In this video, Carrie Mae Weems presents a selection of her work in a public lecture, followed by a conversation with Mabel O. Wilson at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union.
Speaker
Carrie Mae Weems is a widely influential conceptual artist known for work that investigates history, identity, and power. Weems’s artistic practice is primarily photographic but also incorporates text, fabric, audio, installation, and video. Her approach to image-making ranges from staged and serialized narrative to appropriation and adaptation of archival and ethnographic imagery.
Weems’s many accolades include the National Medal of Arts, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Joseph Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, among others.
Moderator
Mabel O. Wilson is the Nancy and George E Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. Among her many publications, Wilson most recently co-edited the volume Race and Modern Architecture: From the Enlightenment to Today (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020).