Join historian Vikram Tamboli for a viewing of Cut Line by Miljohn Ruperto and Vishal Jugdeo, followed by a discussion with the artists about their process of research, interrogation, and collaboration around depictions of colonial displacement.

Vikram Tamboli works at the nexus of history, geography, and anthropology in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on the plantation and hinterland spaces of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil. In 2023, Tamboli was a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, and he is currently a Peter Buck Fellow of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. He is also the creator and co-director of the Healing and Harming Garden Project, an experimental part of the Plants and People(s) initiative of the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden at UCLA.

Vishal Jugdeo works with video, performance and installation to construct experimental narratives. His work considers the relational and psychical processes of image-making, often blurring fiction and document. In addition to numerous exhibitions and screenings, Jugdeo is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, and New Genres area head in the Department of Art at UCLA.

Miljohn Ruperto is interested in developing approaches to interrogating and expanding our conception of nature and history: e.g. historiography, the history of nature, and the nature of nature.