This lecture celebrates the opening of the OI Museum Special Exhibition, Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings, curated by Kiersten Neumann and on display January 27–August 28, 2022: https://oi100.uchicago.edu/jls.
Themes to be discussed: Objects and people. Alienation and estrangement through abstraction. Asian femininity and the power dynamics of cuteness. Video in space. Attention, Silence, Abstraction, Writing, Performance, Time, Memory, Loss, Boundaries as Thresholds, Edges, Surfaces, Openings
Session 1 speakers: Caitlyn Au, Jack Schneider
Session 2 speakers: Elissa Osterland, Xinyang L.
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.
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 join us for our second Chat About Session of the Spring term this Friday!
Cameron Mankin & Robyn Tisman | Iona Liu, Thomas Lin & Yiran Chi
Cameron Mankin and Robyn Tisman explore the roles imagery, design, and textual materiality play in formation of both identity and art object itself. We discuss the use of found objects, surveillance footage and screens, and notions of inherent vice in the construction and dematerialization of new realities.
Registration is required for in-person attendance and capped at 25 max,
please reply this email (to tobywu@uchicago) to indicate your attendance.
Please contact Toby Wu (tobywu@uchicago.edu) or Catilyn Au (cmau@uchicago.edu) with any questions.
* Double Feature *
Themes to be discussed: photo/video, text, moving image, ethics, theology
Session 1 speakers: Abigail Taubman, Sindy Chen, Dill Ma
Session 2 speakers: Q, Jixin Jia, Evelyn Xue
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.
Dunt
Brett Swenson and Kirsten Ihns introduce their single-channel video series, Dunt (2019-ongoing). Toby Wu prefaces/waxes lyrical about surface tension in Dunt. We watch The Giant Bowl (2021) in full, then excerpts of Sleep Noises (2020). Everyone talks about how they feel. Kirsten reads her 2021 poem, hi hi hi hi, Brett shares sculptures in progress; they talk about world building together.
Federica Caneparo (Research Associate, Romance Languages and Literatures) will present her paper entitled "Petrarchs Triumphs and Early Modern Mural Painting"
Please join us this Wednesday, February 9, from 4:30-6:30pm for our ‘mock CAA panel,' followed by an informal discussion over (virtual) dinner; full schedule below. We're very excited to get a preview of CAA papers by Maggie Borowitz (PhD Candidate), Jesse Lockard (PhD, postdoctoral fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz—Max-Planck-Institut), and Solveig Nelson (PhD, Julius Rosenwald postdoctoral fellow at UChicago and visiting curator at the Art Institute of Chicago).