Jenni Sorkin: Between Abjection and the Object: Body Work in the 1990s

Jenni Sorkin: Between Abjection and the Object: Body Work in the 1990s

Lecture
CWAC 157
Add to Calendar 2020-02-11 17:00:00 2020-02-11 17:00:00 Jenni Sorkin: Between Abjection and the Object: Body Work in the 1990s This talk traces a history of craft practices and object making that centered on the body as both a source of stimulus and site of contestation for addressing urgent questions of gender and sexuality during the decade when identity politics elided with a new materiality in artistic production. Free Presented by the Department of Art History as part of the 2019/20 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation. Image: Elaine Reichek, Navajo (1992), Mixed media. CWAC 157 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
Elaine Reichek, Navajo (1992)

This talk traces a history of craft practices and object making that centered on the body as both a source of stimulus and site of contestation for addressing urgent questions of gender and sexuality during the decade when identity politics elided with a new materiality in artistic production.

Free

Presented by the Department of Art History as part of the 2019/20 Smart Lecture series supported by the Smart Family Foundation.

Image: Elaine Reichek, Navajo (1992), Mixed media.