Performance

In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World

Performances

Sunday, April 18, 2021
4 – 5:30 pm
Zoom, Virtual Program

Columbia University Visual Arts MFA candidates and recent alumni present new video, sound, and performance work during this live program, in response to We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz. This exhibition looked at how artists have historically responded to the rise of authoritarianism and xenophobia as well as racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry, also addressing issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity.

Participating Artists:

Aika Akhmetova
Lindsey Brittain Collins
Baris Gokturk
Juan Hernández Díaz
Yifan Jiang
Joseph Liatela
Kate Liebman
Paula Lycan
Cara Lynch
Farah Mohammad
Yi Sa-Ra

This program will take place live on Zoom.

Free with RSVP; registration required.

Kate Liebman, video still from Legal Tender, 2020. Text by Kyle Dacuyan; music/sound by Michael Costagliola; performance by Andalyn Young and Kyle Dacuyan; with AntiGravity Performance Project.