This Friday, February 18, at 5:00 pm Professor Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University) will give a talk “Gunshots in the Garden: Art, Re-Use, and the Racialized Landscapes of Leisure”. The talk will take place in the CMA’s Lecture Hall.
Outside Theaster Gates’s Stony Island Arts Bank on the South Side of Chicago is an object that was removed from a park in Cleveland, disassembled, and then reassembled in a new location: the gazebo, formerly standing near the Cudell Recreation Center, where twelve-yearold Tamir Rice was murdered by Cleveland police. In this talk, I address the gazebo as object in relation to discourses of public art, monuments, and appropriation, placing it in the context of the political trajectory of gardens and garden structures in American cultural history, racialized landscapes of the city and the nation, and Atlantic histories of race, land, and leisure.
