ABOUT SPEAKING TRUTH | SUMMIT X
Can speaking truth to power unravel the age of disillusion we find ourselves in?
As fierce debates about the nature of truth rage on globally, Speaking Truth | Summit X explores radical truth-telling and its implications, manifestations, potentialities, and challenges across disparate yet interconnected fields. Join the conversation using the #CTSummit tag on Instagram & Twitter!
ABOUT THIS SECTION
Speakers in this section analyze how we can offset the political effects that shape our present condition by re-imagining various forms of institutional, physical, and mental decolonization through empowering fictions and future utopias of togetherness. We address the effects of fiction that are critical in drawing attention to the framing mechanisms of deception and explore how art and culture have the capacity to experiment with strategies of deception and fiction that catalyze change.
ABOUT LAUREN WOODS
“I feel compelled now more than ever to ‘make it plain’ - to speak more directly, boldly, and [be] overtly provocative, to name ‘the thing’ [white supremacy] every chance that I can.”
Lauren woods’ projects engage history while contemplating the socio-politics of the present. She creates ethno-fictive documents that investigate invisible dynamics in society, remix memory, and imagine other possibilities. woods’ current work American Monument prompts consideration of cultural circumstances under which African-Americans lose their lives to police brutality.