Please note that some sessions run simultaneously, and any sessions denoted as seminars have limited seating. To attend a seminar, you must pre-register for that seminar.
PUBLIC PANEL
Auditorium
Manton Research Center
Clark Art Institute
9:30–12:30 PM POETICS
This series of papers takes seriously the contemporary turn towards poetics to address aesthetics and the history of art from eco-poetics to Kevin Quashie’s aliveness. Poetics has emerged to challenge the limits of works created in relationship to an art market, the accumulation of capital, property, and the role of museums within histories of colonialism. In the words of Audre Lorde, poetry “forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival.” In this series of papers, scholars and poets will reconsider the encounter that is possible between historical bodies of work and the resonant bodies of poetics as a discourse in sound, rhythm, and language that allows a reimagining of history and art.
Caroline Fowler, convener, Starr Director, Research and Academic Program
Sora Han, professor of Criminology, Law & Society, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine
Jeremy Melius, lecturer, Department of the History Art, University of York
Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of English, University of Houston, Texas
SEMINAR
Scholars’ Seminar Room
Library, Upper Level
Manton Research Center
Clark Art Institute
You must pre-register in advance to attend this seminar
9:00 AM–2:00 PM WRITING INDIGENOUS ART HISTORIES
This seminar brings together some of the most prominent Indigenous scholars, curators, and artists working in the region to debate and share strategies that can serve to address these impasses. The presentations will delve into the writing of art history from Indigenous perspectives and interrogate possible orientations that help address the multivocality of artistic creations that circulate on the art market and are held in private collections and public museums. The discussion encompasses Indigenous epistemologies and the writing of art history, in dialogue with anthropology, curatorship, and museology.
Fernanda Pitta, co-convener, assistant professor in the Art Research, Theory, and Criticism Division, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Denilson Baniwa, co-convener, artist, curator, and activist, São Paulo, Brazil
Elvira Espejo Ayca, artist and former director of the National Museum of Ethnography and Folklore, La Paz, Bolivia
Candice Hopkins, director and chief curator of Forge Project in Taghkanic, New York
Maria Luísa Lucas, associate professor, Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Rember Yahuarcani, artist, Peru
PUBLIC PANEL
Auditorium
Manton Research Center
Clark Art Institute
2:30–5:30 PM SONIC INTERVENTIONS
Over the last two decades, art history has experienced something of a “sonic turn.” This session gathers scholars from a variety of disciplines to think together about sonic practices, methods, and theories. We will consider what these interventions might offer to art history, particularly as it relates to the writing of visual art and time-based media as well as museum practices.
Caitlin Woolsey, convener, Assistant Director, Research and Academic Program
Maria Hupfield, artist, Brooklyn, New York, on “An Incredible Sound”
Erica Moiah James, associate professor of Art History, University of Miami, on “Sonic Visualities and Gestures of Caribbean Modern Form”
Cash (Melissa) Ragona, associate professor of Art History and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, on “AFTERSOUND: Frequency, Attack, Return”
Dylan Robinson, associate professor in the School of Music, The University of British Columbia, on “qwà:l ye thqát / Hailed by Trees: Public Art’s Interpellation of Settler Subjectivity”
CLOSING CELEBRATION
Moltz Terrace
Lunder Center
Clark Art Institute
6:00–9:00 PM CLOSING CELEBRATION
A celebratory party, including live music, light bites, s’mores, and possibly a RAP-themed ice cream flavor
RAP 25 is free and open to the public, but please register to attend.