Critical Studies Program Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture

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.