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Danish Colonialism and Embodied Memory 

  • American Scandinavian Society 317 East 52nd Street New York, NY, 10022 United States (map)

“Danish Colonialism and Embodied Memory”, La Vaughn Belle at the American Scandinavian Foundation.

 

St. Croix artist La Vaughn Belle has explored the Danish colonial history of the Virgin Islands through sculpture, photography, video, painting, collage, and site-specific works.  In this conversation, she explains the role of the body in her work, and how bodies bear memories that are often discarded by formal histories.   

Belle with be in conversation with Dr. Erica Johnson