Department of Art History

Themes to be discussed: body-based performance, installation, diaspora, latin america, pop, gender, sexuality, middle east, turkey, psychology, museums, mythology, worldbuilding

Session 1 speakers: Tina Wang, Hindley Wang, Carla Nunez-Hernandez

Session 2 speakers: Ceyhun Firat, Maria Kuran

These chats will have a hybrid format, capped at 25 people maximum in person. The in-person portion will take place in the Logan Center and registration will be required. 

Please contact Toby Wu (tobywu@uchicago.edu) or Catilyn Au (cmau@uchicago.edu) with any questions.

On behalf of the Chat About 2021-22 organizing committee; Caitlyn Au, Q, Ambrin Ling, Claire Rich, Robyn Tisman, Toby Wu, and Ye Xuanlin

Chat About is a student-run open-critique hosted by graduate students, supported by the Department of Art and the History Department of Visual Arts.

These open-critiques are organized to build community and to hold space for inter-disciplinary discourse—with an emphasis of thinking alongside practice and research. Artists open their work to a spectrum of opinions and articulate their practice; art historians, curators, and scholars probe, suggest and situate these works through research and exploration. We hope that Chat About inculcates space to discover new affinities and relationships.