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Brooklyn Museum celebrates the 2nd anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Feminism Now: New Feminist Art Scholarship
Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
10 a.m. Check-in and coffee
10:30 a.m. Introduction by Lauren Ross, Interim Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
Keynote address by Carey Lovelace, noted art writer, activist, curator, and co-president emerita of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Panel I: Interventions in Language and Activism
Moderated by Karen Shimakawa, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Panelists:
1:30 p.m. Gallery talk in Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection by Brooklyn Museum Student Guides
2:30–4:30 p.m. Panel 2: Subversion and Surveillance across Genres
Moderated by Johanna Burton, art historian, critic, and Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York City
Panelists:
Free with Museum admission, but registration is required via e-mail or by calling (718) 501-6214.
Feminism Now: New Feminist Art Scholarship
Saturday, March 28, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor
Highlighting the work of emerging scholars, including graduate and postgraduate students, Feminism Now presents groundbreaking contemporary research reflecting new directions and perspectives in feminist scholarship on a wide range of feminist issues and topics.
10 a.m. Check-in and coffee
10:30 a.m. Introduction by Lauren Ross, Interim Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
Keynote address by Carey Lovelace, noted art writer, activist, curator, and co-president emerita of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Panel I: Interventions in Language and Activism
Moderated by Karen Shimakawa, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Panelists:
- Saisha Grayson, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “All Around the Table: A Feminist Reframing of Lucy Orta’s 70 x 7 The Meal”
- Dong-Yeon Koh, Korea National University of Arts and Gallery Art 2021, "Different Eonnis are Coming: ‘Project L(esbian),’ the First Exhibition of Lesbian Art in Korea”
- Jennifer Kennedy and Elizabeth Linden, Binghamton University and Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, “Notes on Returning to the Future...”
- Marissa B. Vigneault, Bryn Mawr College, "Re: Post(Feminism)"
1:30 p.m. Gallery talk in Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection by Brooklyn Museum Student Guides
2:30–4:30 p.m. Panel 2: Subversion and Surveillance across Genres
Moderated by Johanna Burton, art historian, critic, and Associate Director and Senior Faculty Member at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York City
Panelists:
- Claire Grace, Harvard University, "Vanishing Acts: Chantal Akerman's De l'autre côté”
- Patricia Ann Grisafi, Fordham University, "Tracey Emin's Masturbatory Postmodernism"
- Anna Fisher, Brown University, “‘Autoheterobiography’ and the Epistolary Game in the Art of Chris Kraus and Sophie Calle”
- Zetta Elliott, Mount Holyoke College, “Hoochie No More: Mickalene Thomas Reframes the Blaxploitation Aesthetic”
Free with Museum admission, but registration is required via e-mail or by calling (718) 501-6214.
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