Author: Camara Dia Holloway
I am the Project Manager for the Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné at the Wildenstein Plattner Institute. I earned my PhD at Yale University in the History of Art Department and specialize in twentieth century American art with a particular focus on the history of photography, race and representation, and transatlantic modernist networks. I also serve as a Founding Co-Director of the Association for Critical Race Art History (ACRAH).
EXH: Artists for Haiti: Zwirner Gallery Raises Funds for Haiti Earthquake Relief
Smithsonian accepts costumes from pioneering performer Diosa Costello
EXH: “Disillusions, Gendered Visions of the Caribbean”
INT: ‘The African Diva Project’
Interview with Margaret Vendryes about the exhibition of “The African Diva Project” on the blog divaMissioN:
http://www.divamission.com/2011/09/divafeature-african-diva-project.html#more
also check out Vendryes’ website http://www.margaretrosevendryes.com
Asco, Firsthand (via Unframed The LACMA Blog)
LEC: Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism Lecture Series @ Parsons
The Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism will explore how representations of science, technology and social engineering intersect with visual cultural expressions of the African diaspora. Science fiction is the organizing trope that will unite all the guest presentations and works under consideration. Visiting artists and cultural theorists will lecture on the role of futuristic projection in African diasporic art, liteature, film and music. The expediency of science fiction as both a fractured mirror of historical experience and a projection of the collective desires of a displaced people will be discussed throughout the semester.
The Transdisciplinary Seminar on Afrofuturism features seven public lectures by guest artists and cultural theorists in the fall of 2011. These lectures are open to the public and will take place on Tuesdays at 6pm. The public lectures that are part of this seminar are produced with support from The Robert Lehman Foundation.
http://amt.parsons.edu/2011/08/26/transdisciplinary-seminar-on-afrofuturism-lecture-series/
Recent Works by David Hammons at LACMA (via Unframed The LACMA Blog)
SYMP: Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas @ Yale
Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas.
Indigenous Visions:
Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Beinecke Library
Friday and Saturday, September 16-17, 2011
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
CFP: Otherwise Engaged @ University of Leeds
An interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium
3 December 2011
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
Keynote Speaker, Prof. Lubaina Himid, International artist and curator, University of Central Lancashire
Call for Papers Deadline 15th September 2011
In 1995 Kobena Mercer published the first in his Annotating Art’s Histories edited series, Cosmopolitan Modernisms. In his introduction, Mercer stated that the series would offer:
‘[A] fresh approach [to art history] by showing how a shared history of art and ideas was experienced differently around the globe … In a situation where the aspiration to be all inclusive has become the official watchword of institutional policy, has the very idea of ‘inclusion’ now become a double-edged sword?’
In 2011, as a developing generation of artists, curators, art historians and academics enter the field of visual arts, this symposium at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, seeks to investigate how we are to engage with the challenges of a shared and plural art history that Mercer, and so many others, speak of. What is the meaning of ‘inclusion’ today, sixteen years after Mercer’s publication? The symposium hopes to explore the numerous ways in which issues of race, culture, class, sex and gender have been considered across the various arenas of visual art, and how this emerging generation of those operating in the visual arts engage with the existing challenges of the past, present and future.
Otherwise Engaged is a one-day symposium that invites postgraduate students to submit proposals that consider the challenges of intervention, integration, separatism, confrontation, assimilation, ghettoisation and accommodation. How have marginalised spaces and mainstream institutions engaged with these challenges? We are interested in exploring the processes, relationships and pluralities of the various sites of the marginal and the mainstream. What are the experiences and examples of specific interventions, theoretical strategic models, and tactical approaches from contemporary art practice and writing, culture, education and curating?
Otherwise Engaged is an interdisciplinary event that crosshatches experiences, perspectives and analyses from art history, fine art, cultural studies, museum and curatorial studies, feminist studies, gender studies, sociology and post/colonial studies, although papers from other disciplines are also welcome. While the symposium is situated in contemporary Britain and the complexities of representation and identity internal to Britain, we strongly encourage the exploration of relationships with other sites, both geographically and generationally.
We invite abstracts of a maximum length of 300 words by 15 September 2011 (20 minute papers). You will receive confirmation of acceptance of the proposed presentation by October 1, 2011. You will need to submit your proposal together with a completed form available from the conference organisers – contact espencermills@yahoo.com.
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