Department of Art History

“On Dispersed Chinese Art Digitization Project (DCADP)”

Ouyang Zhenyu, Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

*This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of East Asia

“Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Revolution”

Hilary Thurlow (Monash University, PhD Candidate, Art History and Theory) 

“Roberto Cabrera’s Index of Violence: Art and Disappearance in 1970s-80s Guatemala” 

Adriana Obiols Roca (University of Chicago, PhD Candidate, Art History) 

“Art and Artifice: Fried, Adorno, Cavell and the Case of Animated Statues”

Sam Lee (University of Chicago, PhD Student, Social Thought)

Rebecca Kosick will discuss archives and translation as both methods and outcomes of academic research. She will address her experiences working with personal and institutional archives, reflecting on practicalities (such as permissions and record-keeping) as well as bigger questions about how translation and archival work can shape critical writing. Kosick is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Poetry and Poetics and Co-Director of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol (UK).

Professor Lynn Rother

Unpacking Provenance: Thinking & Writing Object Histories 

February 19 10am-5pm, and 20th, 9-6pm, Neubauer Collegium Seminar Room

Prof. Lynn Rother with Dr. Max Koss, Leuphana Universität

In 1968, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica wrote to fellow neoconcrete artist Lygia Clark about the "participatory relation" in his aesthetic practice. He describes it as a devouring, libidinal fury, where the spectator steps out of their role as passive observer, interacts with the work of art, and experiences sensations that can never be known to the artist. Here, Oiticica subtly references what is perhaps Brazil's most famous modernist metaphor—that of Oswald de Andrade's cannibal.