On Tuesday, February 24, at 12pm, CCS Bard will present a conversation featuring Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Evan Calder Williams, and Lucas Blalock. The talk will center on Wolukau-Wanambwa’s recent exhibition Scene at Eastman (George Eastman Museum, 2024-5).
Introduced by Casey Robertson, Public Engagement Manager.
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (b. 1980, UK/Uganda) is an artist, writer, and editor. His recent publications include INDEX2025 (Roma, 2025), “ECHO—LOCATION” (e-flux Journal #153), Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism), co-written with David Campany (MACK, 2022); Dark Mirrors (MACK, 2021); and the photographic monograph Hiding in Plain Sight, co-authored with Ben Alper (Harun Farocki Institute, 2020). His solo exhibition, Scene at Eastman (George Eastman Museum, 2024-5) closed in Spring 2025, and is the subject of an eponymous short film (directed by Adam Golfer, 2025).
Dr. Evan Calder Williams is an Associate Professor at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, where he teaches the yearlong course Theory and Criticism in Contemporary Art, in addition to elective graduate seminars and a seminar on Disability Studies in the undergraduate Human Rights department. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse; Roman Letters; Shard Cinema; and two forthcoming books, Why Fire and Manual Override: A Theory of Sabotage. He is the translator, with David Fernbach, of Mario Mieli’s Towards a Gay Communism. His essays have appeared in numerous exhibition catalogs and in journals including Film Quarterly, Cultural Politics, WdW Review, The Italianist, Frieze, La Furia Umana, World Picture, The Journal of American Studies, Mute, and Estetica. He is part of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine and is a founding member of the film and research collective 13BC. His solo and collaborative films have been shown at institutions such as Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, 80WSE, MoMA, Images Festival, mumok, Portikus, Swiss Institute, and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts. He received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his doctoral research. He is currently working on a book about sickness.
Lucas Blalock is a photographer whose work uses our everyday material culture and the nearly universal legibility of photography as means to explore (and suggest) relationships to our shared environment. Looking for wrong footedness between these two readily knowable quantities, Blalock employs this open set of potentials as the basis of his work. Blalock’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the ICA LA (Los Angeles, CA), Museum Kurhaus (Kleve, Germany), and the Abroms-Engel institute for the Visual Arts (Birmingham, Alabama) and many group exhibitions including the 2019 Whitney Biennial and Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 at MoMA. Blalock’s photographs are held in numerous public collections and he has published multiple artist books that foreground his interest in pictures, process, and the slipperiness of representation. Blalock is an Assistant Professor of Art at Bard College, the author of Why Must the Mounted Messenger Be Mounted? (Objectiv, 2022), and a 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow in Visual Art.