2020 ISP Critical Studies Symposium
Fri, May 29, 2020
5 pm
ISP Symposium, 2019. Photograph by Filip Wolak
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The Critical Studies Symposium is an evening-long event during which each of the six participants from this year's Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program presents a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.
This program is free but registration is required.
Introduction by Lindsay Caplan
Ph.D. Art History, CUNY Graduate Center; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
Session I
5–7 pm
Discussant: Tina Campt
Professor, Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Amaris Brown
Where You Find A Wild Woman
Che Gossett
The Abolition Machine: Black Radicalism, Abolitionist Techno-Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Technology
Jonas Stark Johnson
Force Multipliers and Spiritual Fitness: Scenes of Exception in Everyday Self-Defense.
Intermission
7–7:30 pm
Session II
7:30–9:30 pm
Discussant: Soyoung Yoon
Assistant Professor and Program Director of Art History & Visual Studies, The New School
Pei-Chun (Viola) Hsieh
Press on and Play the Hits: Chen Ting-jung's You Are the Only One I Care About (Whisper)
Thomas Love
Surface and Emptiness: Ulrike Ottinger’s Ornamentik
Patricia Manos
Russian Blues, Rainbow Solidarity