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.