Performance: 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public

In her 45-minute performative slide lecture, Geyer personifies the archetypical (male) scholar of anthropology, speaking from the immanently authoritative position of academia and drawing authority from citing a canon of academic authors. The subject matter of her speech is the construction of a false memory of Native American culture, through ethnographic research and, more generally, the process of acquiring knowledge and its intertwinement with power and oppression.

Geyer's talk is accompanied by slide projections of photographs taken by the artist at Chaco Canyon, an epicenter of cultural life in North America, pre-1300. "Spiral Lands/Chapter 2" is an unsettling consideration of the way in which science and the quest for knowledge oppresses the identity of their very subjects, and a concise critique of the aggressive racism naturalized by capitalist democracy.

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