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DAY ONE: Materiality of Resistance Symposium

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mar 07

Thu, Mar 7 2024, 9AM - 7PM

Nave Presentation Space | 1111 8th St., SF, CA, 94107 View map

Part of event series: Materiality of Resistance Symposium

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Organized by

History of Art & Visual Culture

materialitysymposium@cca.edu

Event description

*All events will take place in the Nave Presentation Space inside the Main building unless otherwise noted.


8:45am - 9:00 am

 WELCOME, LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, AND OPENING REMARKS


9:00 am - 10:30am

PANEL I: MATERIAL EXCHANGE & INTERCULTURAL SHARING

Moderated by Jeanette Roan

  • Noriko Okada, “Saburo Hasegawa and His Students at CCAC”
  • Sara Dean, “The Radical Nature of Sharing” 
  • Chris Bennett, “Jannis Kounellis and ‘Amerikan’ Art: Space and Materiality (through Cy Twombly and Jackson Pollock) in the 1960s” 
  • Caty Telfair, “The Nows of the Past and Future:’ Indigenous Modernities and the Prints of Pudlo Pudlat”


10:45am - 12:00pm

PANEL II: WORD & IMAGE: TOWARD A NEW EKPHRASIS

Moderated by Aimee Phan

  • Amanda Moore, "Beyond Ekphrasis and the Broadside: New Approaches to the Dialogue between Poetry and Art"
  • Judy Halebsky, "Sources, Shared Knowledge and Writing a New Dictionary in Poems"
  • Dean Rader, "Engagement or Resistance? Notes on Inscrutability in Cy Twombly & Edgar Heap of Birds"


12:15pm - 1:15pm

ROUNDTABLE I: Fine Arts Round Table

Moderated by Việt Lê, Chair, Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program

Anthea Black, Associate Professor, Printmedia Program

Aspen Mays, Associate Professor, Photography Program

Curtis Arima, Professor and Chair, Jewelry and Metal Arts Program

Nathan Lynch, Associate Professor andChair, Ceramics Program & Glass Program

 

1:15pm - 2:00pm  LUNCH BREAK


2:00pm-3:15pm

PANEL III: LABOR & EMBODIMENT 

Moderated by Cindy Bello

  • Meghaa Parvathy Ballakrishnen, “Cut, Tear, Fold, Walk: Abstraction, Labor, and the Body Between South Asia and the Americas, 1950s- 1980s”
  • Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, Alternative Grammars of Representation and Refusal: On Chloe Bass’s Obligation to Others Holds Me in My Place 
  • Thomas O. Haakenson, “Dada Sexuality”


3:30pm - 4:15 pm & 4:15 pm-5:00 pm (Rear of The Nave) 

WORKSHOPS I & II: Global Girls’ Tea Party

  • Melinda Luisa de JesúsAssociate Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies, and students from 'Girl Culture' 
  • All community members are welcome!


5:30pm-6:45pm

CONNECTED PUBLIC LECTURE: Lorenzo Balbi

  • Lorenzo Balbi is the artistic director of MAMbO – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, and head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department of the Bologna Musei Institution. (This talk is presented by CCA@CCA, HAVC, and Curatorial Practice.) 


7:00pm - 8:00pm

STUDENT WORK EXHIBITION AND RECEPTION 

  • At CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, 360 Kansas St, immediately following public lecture by Lorenzo Balbi. Refreshments provided


ENTRY DETAILS - REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND

Register for Thursday's Events Here  (it's free!)

Funding for this program was provided by Terra Foundation for American Art.