Artist talk with Bethany Joy Collins
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Paul M. Farber, PhD
Director and Co-Founder, Monument Lab
Senior Research Scholar, Center for Public Art and Space, University of Pennsylvania
“Monument Lab: On Civic Practice and Possibility”
We encourage everyone who is on campus to join us for this in-person talk in Old Library 224. If you are not able to join us in person, please register for the Zoom link at https://visualculture.blogs.brynmawr.edu/
Linda Kim
Associate Professor of American and Modern Art, Drexel University
“Reciprocal Models: Imperial and Racial Formations at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair”
We encourage everyone who is on campus to join us for this in-person talk in Old Library 224. If you are not able to join us in person, please register for the Zoom link at https://visualculture.blogs.brynmawr.edu/
Monday, November 7th
Teach-In
Old Library 116
6:30- 7PM
Tuesday, November 8th
“Exceptional Circumstances Make Exceptional People”
Book signing and sale following lecture
Old Library 224
4:30- 6PM
Dr. Mia L. Bagneris
Associate Professor, Art History & Africana Studies
Director, Africana Studies Program
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (Bulbancha)
Anthony S. Foy
Associate Professor of English Literature
Swarthmore College
“Racial Publicity and the Self Unseen: Black Autobiography after the Halftone”
We encourage everyone who is on campus to join us for this in-person talk in Old Library 224. If you are not able to join us in person, please register for the Zoom link at https://visualculture.blogs.brynmawr.edu/
Sonal Khullar
W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies
Department of History of Art
University of Pennsylvania
“Decolonizing the Field: Art, Event, and Environment in India”
Referring to uses of the ‘field’ in art historical and anthropological discourses, this presentation considers a turn to site-specific, socially engaged, and collaborative artistic practices in India over the past two decades. Contemporary artists have assumed the role of fieldworkers, moving across scales and between sites over an extended period to critique modernist and capitalist systems. Through new languages of art and forms of relation, their practice challenges the organization of the art world. The affect and address of this art resonates with new modes of protest, demonstration, and gathering and with old patterns of pilgrimage, procession, and public action in South Asia. It demands reflection on methods in art history and the work of the art historian.
Assistant Professor
Department of Africana Studies
Smith College
2021-2022 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow, The LatinX Project, New York University
“Visualizing Indigenous Blackness: A Visual Ethnography of Garifuna New Yorkers”
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Professor of History, Howard University
“Exhibiting Slavery: A Visual History of Slave Collars”
Several permanent and temporary exhibitions in Europe and the Americas have attempted to represent slavery by featuring physical punishment. To achieve this goal most exhibitions display instruments of torture such as chains, shackles, and collars. To understand the broad implications of these representations of violence, this lecture attempts to build a visual history of slave collars. First, I retrace the use of lave collars to Antiquity. Second, I use engravings and paintings dating between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries to show how the representation of slave collars was widespread in European art during this period, therefore confirming the visible presence of enslaved people in Europe. Third, I connect these representations to similar devices today housed in museum collections in the Netherlands, Portugal, England, Brazil, and the United States. Finally, I discuss the broad implications of displaying this kind of torture device in museum exhibitions today.
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Professor of the Practice & Director of Curatorial Studies
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Tufts University
“The Art of Whiteness and Empire”
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