Critical Studies Program Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture
Tues, May 17, 2011
6–10:30 pm
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Whitney Museum Second Floor (Kaufman Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery)
The 2011 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: 6–8 pm
Joe Madura
Structured Facts/Structured Feelings: Minimal Art in the AIDS Crisis
Amalle Dublon
Queer Sonics and Sub-architectures
Henrietta Stanford
'Facing' Ulrike Meinhof: Resistance; Politics; and Psychoanalysis in Silvia Kolbowski's A Few Howls Again?
Discussant: Emily Apter, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University
Session II: 8:30–10:30 pm
Maibritt Pedersen
Manipulating the World; Öyvind Fahlström’s games
Nate Harrison
The Yes Men: Parody in Aesthetics and Protest
W. Ian Bourland
Better Living through Chemistry: Odili Odita's Modernist Polymers
Discussant: Benjamin Buchloh, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
Admission is free. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.