Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium
Fri, May 18, 2018
5–9:30 pm
ISP Symposium, 2015. Photograph by Filip Wolak
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Floor 3, Theater
The 2018 Critical Studies Symposium is an evening-long program in which each of the six participants from the Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program presents a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.
Session I
5-7 pm
Discussant: Carrie Lambert-Beatty
Amelia AmesLa Peinture N'Existe Pas: Jutta Koether, Towards a Feminist Theory of Painting
Lauren Young
In, Around and Outside the Apartment (On Moyra Davey)
Joseph P. Henry
Empathy from Cacti to Brecht
Session II
7:30–9:30 pm
Discussant: Jennifer González
Kavita S. Kulkarni
Sunday Tea Parties & House Epistemologies: Marking an Ethics of Care in Underground Topologies of Pleasure
Alia Al-Sabi
Palestine as Crime Scene: Forensic Architecture and the Politics of Evidence
Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
A Pathological Baroque: Optical Deformation in José Val del Omar’s Fuego en Castilla (1961)
The event is free. Registration is required. For ticketing issues, please email ticketing@whitney.org.