Collective Behavior and Future Endeavors: A Conversation with Shahzia Sikander and Wendall K. Harrington

An outdoor sculpture with a golden surface. An open framework resembling a hoop skirt rises from the ground to the waist of a female figure, suspending the figure above the ground.

Shahzia Sikander, Witness, 2023. Painted milled high-density foam, steel, fiberglass, and glass tile, 18 × 13 × 13 feet. Installation view, Madison Square Park, New York. Photo: Lynda Churilla. © Shahzia Sikander

Join Shahzia Sikander, an internationally renowned Pakistani-American multimedia artist and a Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) Arts & Practitioner Fellow, and Wendall K. Harrington, Professor in the Practice of Design and Head of Projection Design, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, for a conversation addressing the artist’s practice, her reframing of South Asian visual histories through a contemporary feminist perspective, and her exploration of gender, race, and colonial histories. Introduction by Kymberly N. Pinder, Ph.D. 1995, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean, Yale School of Art. 

Generously sponsored by the Yale Schwarzman Center; the Yale RITM; the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale; the Yale School of Art; and the Yale University Art Gallery’s Martin A. Ryerson Lectureship Fund.

Learn more about Shahzia Sikander and Wendall K. Harrington.

Enter the Yale University Art Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Lecture Hall at 201 York Street.