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Antonia Wright, And so with ends comes beginnings, 2019
HD color video; 4:30 min. Audio score written by Jason Ajemian
Courtesy of the artist and Spinello Projects, Miami
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Global Photography:
Temporalities and Spatial Logics
A 2-day virtual symposium
🗣Speakers include: Subhankar Banerjee, Samaneh Moafi, Thy Phu, Christopher Pinney, Leigh Raiford, Mark Sealy, Fiona Tan, and Will Wilson.
This virtual symposium questions how thinking creatively and critically through photography’s temporalities and spatial logics can open new models for considering global photographic practices. Organized in two parts, over two days, each panel will consist of two practitioners and two scholars who will share a pre-recorded ten-minute presentation followed by a live hour-long moderated discussion amongst the participants, and a Q&A session with audience members.
Free and open to all! For more info and to register please visit:
https://artmuseum.unm.edu/global-photography/
Global Photography: Out of Time
Thursday, September 9, 2021
10 AM – NOON MT / 11 – 1 PM CT
Featuring: Subhankar Banerjee, Thy Phu, Mark Sealy, and Will Wilson. Moderated by Heather Diack and Erina Duganne. Hosted by the University of New Mexico Art Museum
Global Photography: Across Space
Friday, September 10, 2021
10 AM – NOON MT / 11 – 1 PM CT
Featuring: Samaneh Moafi, Christopher Pinney, Leigh Raiford, and Fiona Tan. Moderated by Heather Diack and Terri Weissman. Hosted by The School of Art and Design and the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois
Organized by Heather Diack, Erina Duganne, Mary Statzer, and Terri Weissman.
The Social Life of Sculpture co-chaired with Dr. Christian Berger for the Association for Art History (UK)
In contemporary artist Paul Chan’s estimation, ‘art is more and less than a thing’ (‘What Art Is and Where It Belongs’, e-flux journal 10, 2009). Taking this claim, as well as anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s influential formula of The Social Life of Things (1988, Cambridge University Press), as points of departure, this panel investigates the social life of art, and more specifically sculpture, by looking closely at artistic practices that challenge standard histories of the monument across varying periods and places. Within the context of 20th–21st-century art, such an inquiry might engage categories of assemblage or the readymade; in more transhistorical terms, this could involve reassessing the afterlives of ancient or classical modes of sculpture.
Above all, we are interested in moments in which the unexpected resonance of ‘things’ is found. Rather than practices that simply celebrate the agency of things or the vibrancy of matter, we will consider how material and object choices call attention to historical and political conundrums. Whether by highlighting the significance of artefacts of popular culture or by excavating neglected materials and giving them new life, artists have engaged with the evocative potential of materials, their unstable sensibility, and the ways meaning is altered by context. The papers included in this panel explore these connections and mine how artists deploy the social life of sculpture as a means to problematise both historic and imminent moments of geopolitical crisis.
In Conversation with Mel Bochner @ Institute of Contemporary Art
ICA Miami welcomes art history scholar Heather Diack, author of Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), and artist Mel Bochner, who was profiled in the publication, for a conversation moderated by Gean Moreno, Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center.