Sidore Lecture: Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee’s World of Images, Words and Life Practice

Internal Alchemy & External Play Birth the Curiously Engaged Life

How Self-Creation and Inquiry Come together in Shanta Lee’s World of Images, Words and Life Practice

What is the internal alchemy needed to engage in a curious life? How can the concept of engaging with the unknown, unseen and intangible co-mingle with ideas of self creation through the mediums of writing, photography and film? Artist, public intellectual and being what she calls a “practitioner of entanglement,” Shanta Lee weaves together these questions and shares how curiosity has unzipped across dimensions of her creation.

This lecture is an experiential journey across images, words and Shanta Lee’s life practice leaving the audience with a question for themselves:

What will be your version of internal alchemy and play that unzips into your version of a curiously engaged life?

Shanta Lee is an award winning multidisciplinary artist and public intellectual whose work engages with cultural and future discourses. Her published work includes GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2021) and Black Metamorphoses (Etrusan Press, 2023). Her current multimedia exhibition, Dark Goddess: An Exploration of the Sacred Feminine, which features her short film, interviews, and photography, and other items has been on view at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art and the Southern Vermont Arts Center.