Materiality of Resistance Symposium - Day 1: March 7, 2024

Registration and coffee

8–8:45 am

Welcome, Land Acknowledgment, and Opening Remarks

8:45–9 am

• Jacqueline Francis, Professor and Dean of Humanities and Sciences at CCA
• Elizabeth Mangini, Professor and Chair of History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA

Panel I: Material Exchange & Intercultural Sharing

9–10:30 am

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 in the 1960s”
• Caty Telfair, “‘The Nows of the Past and Future:’ Indigenous Modernities and the Prints of Pudlo Pudlat”

Panel II: Word and Image—Toward a New Ekphrasis

10:45 am–noon

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”

Fine Arts Roundtable

12:15–1 pm

Moderated by: Việt Lê, Associate Professor and 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 and Chair, Ceramics Program

PERFORMANCE, Resonance, 2024

1:05–1:15 pm

Zedekiah Gonsalves Schild, Graduate Fine Arts at CCA

Panel III: Labor & Embodiment

2–3:15 pm in the Nave

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”
• Tom O. Haakenson, “Dada Sexuality”

Workshops I & II: Global Girls’ Tea Party

3:30–4:15 pm and 4:15–5 pm in the Nave

Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Associate Professor, Critical Ethnic Studies at CCA, and students in her Global Girls' course (all community members are welcome)

Public Lecture: Lorenzo Balbi

5:30–6:45 pm

A Possible Model for the “Materiality” of Museums

Lorenzo Balbi is the artistic director of Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), and head of the Modern and Contemporary Art department of the Bologna Musei Institution.

Presented by CCA@CCA, HAVC, and Curatorial Practice.

Student Work Exhibition and Reception

7–8 pm at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art

Join us for a reception at the Wattis Institute immediately following Lorenzo Balbi’s public lecture. Refreshments provided.

Brought to you by History of Art & Visual Culture at CCA & Terra Foundation for American Art