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Rachel Berger (Graphic Design faculty), Materiality of Resistance Symposium (March 7–8, 2024).
Materiality of Resistance Symposium - Day 1: March 7, 2024
The Nave Presentation Space, 1111 Eighth Street (unless otherwise noted)
Registration and coffee
8–8:45 am
Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, and Opening Remarks
8:45–9 am
- , Professor and Dean of Humanities and Sciences at CCA
- Elizabeth Mangini, Professor and Chair of History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA
Panel I: Material Exchange & Intercultural Sharing
9–10:30 am
Moderated by:
- Noriko Okada, “Saburo Hasegawa and His Students at CCACâ€
- Sara Dean, “The Radical Nature of Sharingâ€
- Chris Bennett, “Jannis Kounellis and ‘Amerikan’ Art: Space and Materiality in the 1960sâ€
- Caty Telfair, “‘The Nows of the Past and Future:’ Indigenous Modernities and the Prints of Pudlo Pudlatâ€
Panel II: Word and Image—Toward a New Ekphrasis
10:45 am–noon
Moderated by:
- Amanda Moore, “Beyond Ekphrasis and the Broadside: New Approaches to the Dialogue between Poetry and Artâ€
- Judy Halebsky, “Sources, Shared Knowledge and Writing a New Dictionary in Poemsâ€
- Dean Rader, “Engagement or Resistance? Notes on Inscrutability in Cy Twombly & Edgar Heap of Birdsâ€
Fine Arts Roundtable
12:15–1 pm
Moderated by: , Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program
- , Associate Professor, Printmedia Program
- , Associate Professor, Photography Program
- , Professor and Chair, Jewelry and Metal Arts Program
- , Associate Professor and Chair, Ceramics Program
PERFORMANCE, Resonance, 2024
1:05–1:15 pm
Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild, Graduate Fine Arts at CCA
Panel III: Labor & Embodiment
2–3:15 pm in the Nave
Moderated by:
- Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, “Cut, Tear, Fold, Walk: Abstraction, Labor, and the Body Between South Asia and the Americas, 1950s–1980sâ€
- Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, “Alternative Grammars of Representation and Refusal: On Chloe Bass’s Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Placeâ€
- Tom O. Haakenson, “Dada Sexualityâ€
Workshops I & II: Global Girls’ Tea Party
3:30–4:15 pm and 4:15–5 pm in the Nave
Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Associate Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies at CCA, and students in her Global Girls' course (all community members are welcome)
Public Lecture: Lorenzo Balbi
5:30–6:45 pm
Lorenzo Balbi is the artistic director of Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), and head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department of the Bologna Musei Institution.
Presented by CCA@CCA, HAVC, and Curatorial Practice.
Student Work Exhibition and Reception
7–8 pm at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art
Join us for a reception at the Wattis Institute immediately following Lorenzo Balbi’s public lecture. Refreshments provided.
Brought to you by History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA & Terra Foundation for American Art
Materiality of Resistance Symposium