This conversation was recorded on 17th October 2021 as a part of the exhibition Owed to a certain Emptiness: Infra-structuring the Conflictorium between Robert Sember and Avni Sethi held at the Aronson Galleries at The New School hosted by the Vera List Center of Art and Politics in New York.
Robert Sember works at the intersection of art and public health. He is a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, which helped establish Vogue’ology, an initiative by and for members of the African-American and Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community in New York City. His ethnographic research in the U.S. and South Africa has focused on governmental and non-governmental substance abuse, mental health, and homelessness service sectors with an emphasis on HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, and treatment access. Robert teaches Interdisciplinary Arts at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. From 2010-2019 Robert was on the faculty of the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society at the University of Amsterdam’s Graduate School of Social Sciences. Robert was a 2009-2011 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellow. He is the recipient of the New School’s Distinguished Teaching (2016) and Social Justice (2018) teaching awards.
To know more about the exhibition visit - https://veralistcenter.org/exhibitions/owed-to-a-certain-emptiness/
To know more about Conflictorium visit - https://www.conflictorium.org/
