Critical Studies Program Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture

Kaufmann Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery, Second Floor

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 star”: 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











When: Wed., May. 23, 2012 at 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Where: Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St.
212-570-3600
Price: Free- first come first serve
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Kaufmann Astoria Studios Film and Video Gallery, Second Floor

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 star”: 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

Buy tickets/get more info now