States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe

Creative Time is thrilled to announce the return of the Creative Time Summit in celebration of the nonprofit’s 50th anniversary, to be held from September 20–22, 2024 at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and various locations across New York City. Following this return, the Summit will run as a biennial event. This year, the weekend-long conference will center around the theme of States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe, fostering and engaging in radical dialogue surrounding the question: how does emergency produce revolution?

This question arises against a backdrop of unprecedented global protests confronting imperialism and a United States presidential election that many are calling a breaking point of democracy. The Summit confronts an era of crisis—whether in food, climate, migration, constitution, housing, affordability—not as singular moments in time, but rather as a long historical arch set forth by the making and remaking of colonial borders. Against this framework, the Summit will ground its conversations in tactics of land justice through the themes of borders and statelessness, land rights, and formations for living beyond property.

States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe is organized by Creative Time’s Curator Diya Vij with Assistant Curator, Community Engagement, Anna Harsanyi, and Artist Research Manager, Gervais Marsh, in consultation with an advisory committee of comprised of Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Ntone Edjabe, Emily Jacir, Maya Juracán, Adam Khalil, Dominic Leong, Aziz Sohail, and Hanlu Zhang. The Summit will present an interdisciplinary roster of speakers working across art, art criticism, media, law, education, and political action who are mounting tactics of land justice, redistribution, reparation, sovereignty, and other reimaginings of the relationships between communities and land.

The speakers at the 2024 Creative Time Summit are Alarm Phone, Tizintizwa (Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed), Tanya Aguiñiga, Isshaq Albarbary, Marwa Arsanios, Anca Benera and Arnold Estefan, Kazembe Balagun, Natalie Ball, Andrea Ballestero, Diana Buttu, Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien, Centre d’Art Waza (Patrick Mudekereza), Mao Chenyu, Dar Jacir for Art and Research, Natalie Diaz, Eliza Evan, Sean Connelly, Karachi Lajamia (Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani), Kezi Collective, Las Nietas de Nonó, Leil Mortada, Lenni Lenapexkweyok (River Whittle), New Red Order, Alofipo So’o alo Fleur Ramsay, The Shipibo Center (Abou Farman), Andrés Cano, Rinaldo Walcott, Ather Zia.

About Creative Time Summit
The Creative Time Summit is an annual convening for thinkers, dreamers, and doers working at the intersection of art and politics. Functioning as a roving platform, the Summit brings together artists, activists, and other thought leaders engaging with today’s most pressing issues. Presenting a critical range of perspectives, the Summit provides strategies for social change in local and global contexts. Launched in New York City in 2009, the Creative Time Summit was the first major international platform for socially engaged art, and has since grown to encompass an expanded field – featuring a range of multidisciplinary practices from music to policymaking.

About Creative Time
Since 1974, Creative Time has commissioned and presented ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and even in outer space. Our work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression. We are acclaimed for the innovative and meaningful projects we have commissioned. We are committed to presenting important art for our times and engaging broad audiences that transcend geographic, racial, and socioeconomic barriers.

Press inquiries: creativetime [​at​] culturalcounsel.com. Category: Land & Territory, Borders & Frontiers / Subjects: Collaboration, Knowledge Production / Participants: Creative Time, Justine Ludwig, Diya Vij.