Whitney Independent Study Program: Critical Studies Symposium, Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture
Friday 20 May, 2016
5 - 9:30pm, $0
Whitney Museum
99 Gansevoort Street, Floor 3
Session I, 5–7pm
Discussant: Tom McDonough
Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Binghamton University
Nicolas Linnert
“All Access Politics: Reality and Spectatorship in Two Film Installations by Jean-Luc Godard & Hito Steyerl”
Hammam Aldouri
“Sortir du Champ: Toward the Readymade as Artistic Practice”
Benedikt Reichenbach
“Materialism of Form: Binary Images as Models of Representation”
Session II, 7:30–9:30 pm
Discussant: Soyoung Yoon Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Studies, The New School
Kim Bobier
“Mine the Gaps: Subliminal Civil Rights Struggle in Lorraine O’Grady’s Art Is …”
Kaegan Sparks
“Routine Performance: Self-Management and Affective Labor in Martha Wilson’s Early Works”
Harold Batista
“Immediate Peers for the Generations: Intergenerational Cooperation and Mutual Dependence”