Haptic Bodies: Perception, Touch, and the Ethics of Being
Where: Barnard College
3009 Broadway
212-854-4689 Price: Free
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How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic— the perception and manipulation of objects using the sense of touch—as an ethics of being in the world. Feminist scholars, artists, and activists come together in this utterly unique two-day conference to examine the many ways in which touch helps us better understand the politics and aesthetics of embodiment, situatedness, and performance. Through a series of panels and artistic “happenings,” we consider how our senses—not only touch, but taste, sight, and sound—situate us as bodies in political and economic contexts (such as labor), as well as in personal and sensory ones.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday, March 3rd
4 PM – 5 PM: Weaving Gender/Quilting Race: The Politics of Digital Labor
Artist talkback with Vera P. Hall and Martha Friedman
Moderated by Tina Campt
5 PM – 6 PM: Reception
6 PM – 8 PM: Dance and Spoken Word Performances
Dance conduction – student/faculty performance led by Gabri Christa with live music by Burnt Sugar Arkestra
Spoken word performance by Ramya Ramana
Artist talkback moderated by Sarah Nooter
Saturday, March 4th
10 AM: Welcome by Tina Campt and Nancy Worman
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Art and the Senses: Panel 1
Josely Carvalho in conversation with Alicia Imperiale and Alex Purves
11:30 AM – 1 PM: The Haptics of Race
Rizvana Bradley, Ashon Crawley, Samantha Sheppard and Mila Zuo
Moderated by Tina Campt
1 PM – 2 PM: Lunch
2:30 PM – 4 PM Haptic Animalities
Joshua Bennett, Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar
Moderated by Carla Freccero
4:3o PM – 5:30 PM: Art and the Senses: Panel 2
Grisha Coleman Erin Manning in conversation with Victoria Wohl
Moderated by Nancy Worman
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