“Sites at the Periphery: Performance, Photography, and the Making of Beijing’s ‘East Village’”
Nancy P. Lin (PhD candidate, Department of Art History)
Discussant: Madeline Eschenburg (Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Washburn University)
“The Tibetan Stupa as a Protective Force in Early Ming Burials”
Aurelia Campbell (Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Film Faculty, Boston College)
Discussant: Wei-Cheng Lin (Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Department of Art History)
“Arranging the Conquests: Section I of the Codex Mendoza”
The Urban Architecture and Design Initiative is delighted to host a virtual fall open house as a part of UChicago’s Orientation Week programming. During this 90-minute event, students will hear from faculty in the Social Sciences and Humanities who specialize in the urban built environment. After a short conversation with an introductory panel, students will rotate through Zoom breakout rooms and have the chance to engage with and ask questions of individual faculty members.
As early as 6,000 BCE Native North Americans east of the Mississippi selected a vast array of stones to carefully carve into enigmatic shapes with drill holes down the center. Thousands of these stones are in private and public art and archaeological collections, even thousands more are still deep in the ground.
How can art serve as evidence? Intensely naturalistic art—be it a photograph or an ancient sculpture—seems to make truth claims about the world around it. But a discussion of objects reveals that interpreting representational practices produces a host of common questions and dilemmas that thread through time and place.
Since early June, College alumna Cecília and Marina Resende Santos (both A.B. ’18) have been working on a project called Open sheds used for what?, a rotating installation aimed at activating and intervening in unoccupied open spaces in the city. Open sheds is manifest of the Resende-Santos’ shared interest in critical spatial practices as a form of art practice, which began during their undergraduate studies in Art History and Comparative Literature, respectively.