Critical Studies Program Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture Wed, May 19, 2010, 7–11 pm

Critical Studies Program Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture

Wed, May 19, 2010
7–11 pm

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Film and Video Gallery

The 2010 Critical Studies Symposium, Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture, is an evening-long program, in which each of the six participants from the Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program present a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.

Session I:   7–9 pm

Jeannine Tang
Social Movement: Martha Rosler's Watchwords of the Eighties

Joshua Shirkey
Simone Forti: Constructing Minimalism

Emily Liebert
Parody as Pedagogy from Martha Rosler's Kitchen

Discussant: Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine


Session II: 9:30–11 pm

Luke Cohen
Complicity: Negotiating JK

Niels Henriksen
Medieval Forms of Dissent: Asger Jorn’s Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism (1961–65)

Liam Considine
“Popular Literature of Our Century": The Situationist International and Comics

Discussant: George Baker, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

Admission is free. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

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