2024 ISP Critical Studies Symposium

Theater and Online, via Zoom

The Critical Studies Symposium highlights the work of the six participants in this year’s Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program. Each presents a paper on their current research and three discussants respond.

Introductory remarks: Sara Nadal-Melsió, ISP Associate Director
2 pm

Session 1
2:05–3:30 pm

Geelia Ronkina, “Unsettling the Score: The Epistolary Practice of Park McArthur, Constantina Zavitsanos and Other Forms in Flux”
Mentor: Denise Ferreira da Silva

Blake Oetting, “Charting Art’s ‘World’: Bars, Openings, Afterparties”
Mentor: Rachel Haidu

Discussant: Claire Bishop, CUNY Graduate Center

Break
3:30–3:45 pm

Session 2
3:50–5:15 pm

Olivia McCall, “Interminable: The Affective Labor of Caretaking in/of Archives of AIDS Activism”
Mentor: Ann Cvetkovich

Alex Fialho, “Self-Portraits After Photographs: Darrel Ellis’s Artistic Reckoning in the Time of AIDS”
Mentor: Tina Campt

Discussant: Pamela Sneed, Columbia University

Break
5:15–5:30 pm

Session 3
5:30–7 pm

Sarah Richter, “Recording, Reclaiming: Beverly Buchanan’s Wood”
Mentor: Sara Nadal-Melsió

Anamaría Garzón Mantilla, “Extraction, Abstraction and Erasure: Ecuadorian Modernism in the Late 20th Century”
Mentor: T.J. Demos

Discussant: Rachel Price, Princeton University

Open Discussion
6:45–7 pm

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