Programme: 

Thursday, 20 February, 5pm, CPG exhibition space: A guided tour with students of the CCC RP Master through the LaToya Ruby Frazier exhibition with a performative reading of a Letter to Angela Davis.  

Wednesday, 26 February, 7pm, CPG auditorium: Projection of The Otolith Group: INFINITY minus Infinity (2019) with an introduction by Kodwo Eshun, artist, theorist and co-founder of The Otolith Group, and subsequent conversation involving the students and the public.  

INFINITY minus Infinity, 2019, 52min, UK/AE, draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martiniquan philosopher and poet Edouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva and the racial formation of geology theorised by British geographer Kathryn Yusoff to dramatize an audio-visual experiment in choreo-poetics. Commissioned by Sharjah Architecture Triennial and Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2020 - Forum Expanded.  

Thursday 5 March, 7pm, CPG exhibition space: CCConversation with Peggy Perriot, writer, activist, and researcher lives and works in Brussels, reflecting on the works by LaToya Ruby Frazier on display at CPG.  In her practice, Peggy Perriot is involved in projects linking information, media, activism, radio art, and technology. She worked as a radio-journalist and as a technical webmaster in media and non-profit projects. She lectures on writing, technology, African-American culture, and science-fiction. She is working with A.Pass and Erg (École de Recherche Graphique) in Brussels and is rethinking les Ateliers des horizons (ex-ecole du magasin, Grenoble, France) together with Le Magasin team. Her current project is Maskenfreiheit. 

The curatorial intervention has been conceptualized by Garance Bonard, Vanessa Cimorelli, Basile Collet, Emilie Moore, Doriane Geneste Loupiac and Cecilia Moya Rivera, first year students of the CCC RP Master, Visual Arts Department. 

About LaToya Ruby Frazier at CPG : LaToya Ruby Frazier is one of the most influential artists of her generation, working by means of photography, video and performance, whose research addresses industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, family and communal history in contemporary American society. LaToya Ruby Frazier at CPG, includes The Notion of Family(2001-2014), On the Making of Steel Genesis: Sandra Gould Ford (2017) and Et des terrils un arbre s'élèvera (2016-2017), running from February 12 to March 11, 2020. 

More information on :  www.centrephotogeneve.ch 

LaToya Ruby Frazier, born in Braddock/Pennsylvania into an African-American community and currently based in Chicago, received her BFA in applied media arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania (2004) and her MFA in art photography from Syracuse University (2007). She also studied under the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (2010–2011) and was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow for visual arts at the American Academy in Berlin (2013–2014). Frazier is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.