Convergence Research | Anthony Sutton

Date:

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | 6pm-7pm

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Format:

Convergence Research is back for the new year! Join us for January’s session featuring Anthony Sutton, Managing Editor of Gulf Coast: A Magazine of Literature and Fine Art and current PhD student in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

In this interactive performance-lecture, Sutton thinks through art and immigrant identity through the lens of Filipino heritage. From this vantage point, the video installation Pila (Lines), by artist Kiri Dalena (part of Blaffer Art Museum’s current exhibition Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions) is analyzed and recently deceased Filipino poet Nick Carbó is mourned to theorize the ways in which Western methods of art making can be subverted and made new for marginalized peoples.

What is Convergence Research

Convergence Research is a collaboration between the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Blaffer Art Museum that supports students and faculty in the McGovern College of the Arts to explore connection and collaboration between the disciplines in the arts and beyond. It is a platform for experimentation and research with the goal of providing opportunities to push the boundaries of the artistic disciplines. Convergence Research promotes interdisciplinary inquiry and techniques to stimulate creative process and cultivate works that are performative, temporary and in any stage of process.