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The 2022 Berlin Family Lectures with Poet Claudia Rankine
"Meanwhile"
Lecture 1: "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist Jennifer Packer"
April 6, 2022
Though Jennifer Packer’s paintings are frequently described as psychological depictions of interior lives, this first Berlin Family Lecture will consider how her paintings inhabit the processing of historical time. How does trauma live in the bodies that are not its apparent victims? After witnessing and videotaping the murder of George Floyd, Darnella Frazier said: “Everybody is asking me how I feel, I don't know how I feel.”
How do utterances such as these sit within Packer’s work? Meanwhile, as we reckon with Frazier’s statement, how do Packer’s paintings manage and communicate traumatic time within the bodies of her subjects? How do her paintings exist in alternate spaces at the same time?
The 2022 Berlin Family Lectures with Poet Claudia Rankine
"Meanwhile"
Lecture 1: "Meanwhile in the Work of Artist Jennifer Packer"
April 6, 2022
Though Jennifer Packer’s paintings are frequently described as psychological depictions of interior lives, this first Berlin Family Lecture will consider how her paintings inhabit the processing of historical time. How does trauma live in the bodies that are not its apparent victims? After witnessing and videotaping the murder of George Floyd, Darnella Frazier said: “Everybody is asking me how I feel, I don't know how I feel.”
How do utterances such as these sit within Packer’s work? Meanwhile, as we reckon with Frazier’s statement, how do Packer’s paintings manage and communicate traumatic time within the bodies of her subjects? How do her paintings exist in alternate spaces at the same time?
