2023 ISP Critical Studies Symposium
Fri, May 12, 2023
5–9:30 pm
ISP Symposium, 2019. Photograph by Filip Wolak
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The Critical Studies Symposium is an evening-long event highlighting the work of the six participants in this year’s Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program. Each presents a short paper on their current research and two discussants respond.
Session I
5–7 pm
Introduction: Cassandra Guan, Ph.D., Whitney Museum of American Art, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Fellow, and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program of Art, Culture, and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology
Discussant: Sharon Hayes, Professor of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Sophia Larigakis
“A mirror that moves when you do…”
Sonya Merutka
“Weighted Performance: Embodied Language, Disfluency, and Crip Temporality”
Dahlia Li
“On Photographic Generation: Stranded Affect, Mother Materials, and other Ornamentalisms”
Intermission
7–7:30 pm
Session II
7:30–9:30 pm
Discussant: Jennifer González, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Max Tolleson
“Marfa Myths”
Maddie Hampton
“Moyra Davey’s Autofictions”
Jazmín Lopez
“This Was Now”