Please join us in celebrating the recent publications by our col
leagues Ignacio Adriasola and Erin Silver.
Ignacio Adriasola\, Fragment\, Image\, and Absence in 1960s Japan
Erin Silver
\, Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art
in North America
Friday\, March 31\, 2023<
br />2:00 p.m.
Room 1002\, Audain Art Centre
6398 University Bou
levard
ahva.ubc.ca
Please contact the AHVA Visual Resources Cent re for access to the event recording: ahva .vrc@ubc.ca.
Ignacio Adriasola is Associate Professor of modern J apanese art. Fragment\, Image\, and Absence in 1960s Japan was pub lished by PSU Press in December 2022. It examines how the notion of “the ob ject” was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid s ocial\, economic\, and environmental change. Reviving the legacies of the h istorical avant-garde\, Japanese artists and intellectuals of the 1960s for mulated an aesthetics of disaffection through which they sought to address the stalemate of political and aesthetic representation. By examining the d iscursive practices of artists working across a wide range of media\, and t hrough a close analysis of artwork\, philosophical debates\, artist theorie s\, and critical accounts\, the book shows how negativity became an efficac ious means of addressing politics as a source for the creative act of undoi ng.
Erin Silver is Assistant Professor of contemporary Canadian art a nd queer and feminist art history. Her second book\, Taking Place: Building Histo ries of Queer and Feminist Art in North America was published by M anchester University Press in February 2023. Examining feminist and queer a lternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-196 0s to the present\, Silver looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with\, respond to\, and challenge the institutio ns they have inherited. The book seeks to further queer feminist art histor ical methods previously articulated in her co-edited (with Amelia Jones) vo lume\, Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories (Manchester Uni versity Press\, 2016).
Images from top to bottom: Still from Free Fall\, for Camera\, Brendan Fernandes\, 2019\; Miki Tomio\, < em>EAR No. 201\, 1965. Takamatsu Museum of Art.
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