Creative Time Summit 2024 | Diya Vij Introduction

ABOUT THIS SECTION Diya Vij, Curator, Creative Time, introduces the Creative Time Summit 2024: States of Emergence: Land After Property and Catastrophe. ABOUT DIYA VIJ Diya Vij is the Curator at Creative Time, guiding the curatorial direction of the organization. Over the past 15 years, she has sought to critically investigate the role of public art in politics and civic life, working with dozens of leading contemporary artists across various positions held at major NYC cultural institutions including the Queens Museum, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the High Line. She serves on the Boards of the Laundromat Project, Poetry Project, and is Co-Chair of the Board of A Blade of Grass and co-curated the Counterpublic 2023 public art triennial in St. Louis. ABOUT CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT 2024 | STATES OF EMERGENCE: LAND AFTER PROPERTY AND CATASTROPHE How does emergency produce revolution? Organized in response to the unprecedented global protests against imperialism and a United States presidential election that many are calling a breaking point of democracy. The Summit confronted our era of crisis—the climate crisis, migrant crisis, constitutional crisis, affordability crisis, housing crisis, and on and on—not as singular moments in time but rather as a long historical arch set forth by the making and remaking of colonial borders.