Dark Opacities Lab: Fugitive Planning in Practice

This roundtable will introduce and explore the work of Dark Opacities Lab: a hub for BIPOC political and aesthetic study and strategy at Concordia University. The lab theorizes opacity through the triangulation of race, politics, and aesthetics: from theorizing around redaction to creative trans of color survival strategies; from historicizing visuality beginning with plantation slavery and interlocking colonialisms to envisioning abolitionist tools working against carceral technologies. Dark Opacities Lab engages with the evolving terms of opacity as a way to question the easy and extractive logics at play around race and representation, and to reorient around anticolonial struggles, global anti-racist social movements, and to centre the intersectional and the internationalist.

The roundtable will introduce the lab's three zines, its multi-year projects of "Nazar: A Theory of the Evil Eye" (2024-2027) and "No Pigs in Paradise" (2027-2030), as well as the work of toggling visibility as part of its fugitive practice in the university.

How can you participate? Join us in person by or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions or if we can make this event more accessible for you: Contact us at info.4@concordia.ca

Balbir K Singh 

Mélinda Pierre-Paul Cardinal 

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo

Sue Shon

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