Hand-shaped black and white clay murrini pieces with letters inside them, laid out to spell "The Materiality of Resistance."

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

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