Past Event
2024 ISP Critical Studies Symposium
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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
ASL interpreters and live captioning will be available online and in-person for this event. If you need captions in a separate browser window or on your own mobile device, please email accessfeedback@whitney.org for StreamText link.