Recent Talks
Celebrating the Legacy of Ernest Cole
In conversation with Hinde Haest, Leslie Matlaisane, and Denise Wolff on the occasion of the 2022 re-issue of Cole's House of Bondage by Aperture Foundation and the exhibition "Ernest Cole: House of Bondage" at FOAM Museum (27 Jan–10 June 2023)
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Online via Zoom
MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography
Decentering the Document
Organized on the occasion of New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, and Logo Oluwamuyiwa
Wednesday, 19 April 2023 from 1.30pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Ming Smith in a Minor Key
Open Study Session
Bringing together three creative and critical practitioners—Garrett Bradley, Rizvana Bradley, and Christina Sharpe—who will each offer meditations on a single photograph from the show
Tuesday, 2 May from 6–8pm EDT
Image: Ming Smith, Cascading Light, 1981. © Ming Smith.
The Conditions of the Archive—Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos
A lecture on the making of Marilyn Nance: Last Day in Lagos for New York Art Book Fair (NYABF) Classroom Series
Sunday, 16 October at 12pm EDT
Dia Art Foundation, 537 West 22nd Street, New York.
Rehearsals of Reverence
A paired lecture with Jessica Lynne, as part of the Loophole of Retreat: Venice, on the occasion of Simone Leigh's US Pavilion, Sovereignty.
Saturday, 8 October 2022 at 1pm CEST
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
ICA Talks
In Conversation with Deborah Willis in conjunction with Deana Lawson
Thursday, 20 January 2022 from 6pm
Streaming on icaboston.org
MoMA Forum on Contemporary Photography
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 from 1.30pm EDT
A celebration of Tina M. Campt’s new book A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See (2021)
Online via Zoom
David Goldblatt and Beyond
A Panel Discussion with Gabi Ngcobo, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, and Jo Ractliffe
PACE Live Program for David Goldblatt: A Strange Instrument, curated by Zanele Muholi
Tuesday, March 23 2021 from 1pm EST
Online via Zoom
Creative Conversations: Eric Gyamfi and Oluremi C. Onabanjo
Houston Fotofest Talks Program
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 7–8pm EST
Online via Zoom
Sonia Boyce in Conversation with Gabrielle Goliath, Moderated by Oluremi C. Onabanjo
"Living Just Enough" Talks Program (Goodman Gallery & Barnard College)
Friday, Oct 23, 2020 from 1pm EST
Online via Zoom
MoMA 10th Anniversary Forum on Contemporary Photography
What Does the World Look Like in 2020?
Tuesday, Sept 22, 2020 from 12pm EST
Online via Zoom
Bucksbaum Award Program
A Conversation with Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Thursday, March 5, 2020 from 6.30–8pm EST
Whitney Museum of American Art, Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and Theater
The Conditions of the Archive: FESTAC 77
In Conversation with Marilyn Nance
Monday, January 27, 2020 from 6.30–8pm EST
Denniston Hill & Independent Curators International
401 Broadway, Suite 1620
New York, NY 10013
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
The Last Day in Lagos: Encountering Marilyn Nance’s FESTAC 77 Photographic Archive
Entanglements of Black Visual Culture: Blackness, Archives, and Performativities Panel
Thursday, October 17, 2019 from 10.45am–12.15pm EST
Black Portraitures, New York University (Kimmel Center)
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
Triangulating the Outsider & Tracing Techniques of Ecstasy
There Are No Shadows Here: The Perfect Moment at 30
Lecture on Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989)
Saturday, July 20, 2019 from 3–4pm EST
Washington Project for the Arts, D.C.
Image: © Tiona Nekkia McClodden (2019)
FESTAC 77: Unpacking the Archive
In conversation with Marilyn Nance
June 11, 2019
C-MAP Africa Research Group, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Image: © Marilyn Nance (1977)
To See and Be Seen: The Photobook as a Site of Subjectivity
MassArt Photography Department Visiting Lecture
March 19, 2019 from 3.30–5pm EST
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Image: Liz Johnson Artur, Berlin: Bierke (2016)
Everyone is Present
In conversation with Terry Kurgan
February 27, 2019 from 6.30–8pm EST
Magnum Foundation, New York
Regarding Frames of Representation
In conversation with Catherine E. McKinley and Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
January 22, 2019 from 7–8pm EST
DUMBO House, Brooklyn
Artist Talk
In conversation with Naima Green
June 25, 2018 from 6–8pm EST
Arsenal Gallery, Central Park
Image: © Naima Green
Living Archive
Performance after Apartheid: In Conversation with Jay Pather
May 5, 2018
1-54 FORUM
Pioneer Works, New York
Image © Katrina Sorrentino and 1-54
Points of Departure
In Conversation with Mimi Cherono Ng’ok
May 1, 2018
Photography Expanded: Counter-Histories Symposium by Magnum Foundation
The New School, New York
Chin(A)frica: An Interface
In conversation with Samuel Fosso and He Xiangyu. Moderated by Xin Wang
March 29, 2018
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Iwalewahaus Curatorial Lecture
Research, Collecting, Exhibitions, and Publications: Developing a Curatorial Praxis
February 13, 2018
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Welcome Visitors
In Conversation with Penny Siopis
January 20, 2018
The Walther Collection Project Space, New York