Note: All seminars are held at noon, 2nd floor, 70 Waterman. Lunch is provided
February 19: Contemporary Art and Materiality: A workshop of recent projects and exhibitions
Session Topic: For this session we will be sharing a variety of contemporary art projects - exhibitions, instillations, works by particular artists or collectives - that offer possibilities for the theorization and representation of materiality through the production of new modes of expression, material usages, aesthetics, design etc. One reading that may be instructive for reflecting on how contemporary art or art more general can be brought into the discourses of materiality is Gell's article 'Vogel's Net: Traps as artworks, artworks as traps" from the inaugural issue of the Journal of Material Culture.
contempArtMateriality_OilSugar_Rockawitz.ppt
Some project and instilations to look at:
Michael Rokowitz's The invisible enemy should not exist
The work of Shih Chieh Huang who will have an upcoming show at RISD entitled Connected: eject before disconnecting
Also Dr. Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum, will introduce the recent exhibit Styrafoam. The brochure is available as a pdf below.
March 19: Dr. James Wescoat - MIT Agha Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Talk title: Conserving Water Heritage at a Mughal-Rajput Palace-Garden Complex in Rajasthan
April 2: Dr. Severin Fowles - Department of Anthropology Barnard/Columbia
Talk title: "Archaeology and the Second Commandment: On Violence Toward Images"
April 16: Dr. Rachel Price - Brown University - Cogut Center for the Humanities
Provisional title: Object, non-object, transobject, relational object: Brazilian Concrete Poetics
