March 8 - 9\, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Joshua Clover (UC Davis)
In the past two years there has been a substantial rise in the visibility of protest movements\, often specifically local in their demands yet global in their implications and c onsequences. From the ongoing social uprisings addressing democracy in the Middle East\, to the concerns with direct democracy in the Québec student s trike\, to growing protests against austerity measures in Europe\, and the Idle No More movement here in Canada\, the subjects of protest are numerabl e and varied. In scale\, location and ideology\, struggle is driven by indi vidual desires as much as by multitudinous subjects and might respond to is sues of politics\, economy\, arts\, ethics\, gender\, education\, social ju stice\, and other institutions of human life. The unpredictable continuity of the Occupy movement across diverse locations\, temporalities and topics speaks to the mutable aspect of contestation and the potential of subversiv e agitation.
This year\, the 36th Annual UBC Art History Grad uate Symposium takes up this critical juncture by considering hist orical and contemporaneous modes of claiming dissensus\, of acting and thin king against structures of power\, and of transgressing the limitations alr eady inscribed in our surroundings. The symposium consists of nine presenta tions by promising graduate students from across North America and a keynot e presentation by Joshua Clover\, poet\, critic and professor of English li terature and critical theory at the University of California Davis. He will address the current relation of communism to anarchism in contemporary spa ces of struggle in a presentation entitled “A Story of Two Squares\, or\, P ost-Industrial Communism.” Jaleh Mansoor\, art historian and assistant professor in the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and T heory (AHVA) at UBC\, will moderate his talk and the following discussion.< /p>
In conjunction with the academic symposium\, the concurrent exhibitio n Resonating Existent(s) brings together eight\, Canada-based artists who a ddress contestation by questioning the material and immaterial instruments of protest. The closing reception of the exhibition is scheduled for March 8th\, 4:00–6:00pm\, at the AHVA Gallery (Rm 112) in the Koerner Library\, a nd will include a performance by the Git Hayetsk Dancers.< /p>
You are warmly invited to our two-day long journey of intellectual di alogue and critical reflection on the issues involved in the tensions betwe en aesthetics and politics\, education in universities and activism on stre et. Please make our event more engaging with your presence!
Schedule
Friday\, March 8th
10:00am: Opening Remarks
10:30am: Morning session
Maeve Hanna (MA\, Université du Quebec à Montréal)
Water Rights: Rúrí and t
he Protest of Iceland's Waterfalls
Katherine Jackson (PhD\, University of British Columbia)
The Politics of Process:
Process and Production in Jeremy Deller's ‘The Battle of
Orgreave’
12:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm: Afternoon session
Haythe
m Guesmi (PhD\, Université de Montréal)
New Media and Aesthet
ics of Dissensual Politics
Michael Rattray (PhD
\, Concordia University)
Burning Bridges: A Brief Sojourn into Anarchi
st Pedagogy and the Québec
Student Direct Action
2:45pm: Keynote
Speech by Joshua Clover (University of California\, Davis
)
A Story of Two Squares\, or\, Post-Industrial Communism
Moderat
or: Jaleh Mansoor (University of British Columbia)
4
:30pm: Closing Reception for Resonating Existent(s) exhibition
AHVA Gallery (#112)\, Koerner Library\, UBC
with a performance by th
e Git Hayetsk Dancers
Saturday\, March
9th
10:30am: Morning Session
Yi Yi Mon (
Rosaline) Kyo\, (PhD\, University of California\, Berkeley)
O
ne\, Two or None at All? Doubles and Mirrors in the Photographic Portraits
of Empress Dowager Cixi
Kailani Polzak (PhD\, Unive
rsity of California\, Berkeley)
Spain\, France\, Moor and Mameluke: Vi
sual and Ideological Confusion in Goya's
Second of May 1808
12:0 0pm: Lunch
1:00pm: Afternoon Session
Joe Madura (PhD\, Emory University)
Parallel Practices: Individual and Col
lective Dissent in the AIDS Crisis
Paisid Aramphongphan<
/strong> (PhD\, Harvard University)
Baroque Contamination: Jack Smith\
, circa 1960
Gabriel Mindel Saloman (MFA\, Simon Fra
ser University)
On Hiatus: The Imminent Impossibility of the Art Strik
e
3:30pm: Closing Remarks
The 36th Annual UBC Art History G raduate Symposium Committee proudly thank our donors for their generous con tributions: Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies\, Canadian Studies Prog ram (UBC)\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory (UBC)\, Depar tment of History (UBC)\, Faculty of Graduate Studies Dean’s Office (UBC)\, First Nations Studies Program (UBC)\, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\, Museum of Anthropology (UBC).
Further info: www.ahva.ubc.ca
Contact: ahva.gradsymp@gmail.com
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