DESCRIPTION:
Improvising Agency for Change is part of Vision Festival 22. For more information: www.artsforart.org/vf22
Conference made possible by the Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University school of Arts and Sciences, the University of Pittsburgh, and Arts for Art

SPEAKERS:
Adam Zanolini (CUNY Graduate Center):
“The Sound of Survival: Undying Humanity in an Age of Cataclysm” 5:50

Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University):
“The Vernacular Avant-garde and the Low Arts of Resistance” 48:35

Fumi Okiji (Northwestern University):
“Fleshiness of Jazz Record: The Tradition in Four
Hundred and One Folds” 1:56:34

Ingrid Monson (Harvard University): “Courage and Improvisation”
2:46:00

Panel: The Sound of Resistance: Arts and Social Justice
Featuring:
Cooper-Moore (multi-instrumentalist; composer); Patricia Nicholson Parker (choreographer; artistic director, Vision Festival); James Brandon Lewis (tenor saxophonist; composer); Luke Stewart (bassist, composer); Gargi Shinde (Program Director, Chamber Music America Jazz); Brandon Lopez (bassist; composer) 4:15:10

KEYNOTE: Fred Moten (University of California, Riverside):
“A Resistant Previousness” 6:14:10