Whitney Critical Studies Symposium
Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture
Wednesday 23 May, 2012
6 - 10:30pm, $0
Whitney Museum, Film and Video Galleries
945 Madison Avenue, Floor Two
The 2012 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
Trista E. Mallory
“Thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a starâ€: Emily Jacir’s Material for a Film
Paisid Aramphongphan
Improvising Against the Grain in 1960s Performance
Nadja Millner-Larsen
Up Against the Real
Discussant: Jennifer A. González, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Session II: 8:30–10:30 pm
Lindsay Caplan
Dialectics of the Open Work
Colby Chamberlain
George Maciunas and the Hospital
John A. Tyson
The Author as Producer as Pedagogue
Discussant: Benjamin Buchloh, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University
Session I: 6–8 pm
Trista E. Mallory
“Thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a starâ€: Emily Jacir’s Material for a Film
Paisid Aramphongphan
Improvising Against the Grain in 1960s Performance
Nadja Millner-Larsen
Up Against the Real
Discussant: Jennifer A. González, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz
Session II: 8:30–10:30 pm
Lindsay Caplan
Dialectics of the Open Work
Colby Chamberlain
George Maciunas and the Hospital
John A. Tyson
The Author as Producer as Pedagogue
Discussant: Benjamin Buchloh, Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University