Decadence: Flows of Abundance and Deca
y
43rd Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium
Friday\, March 6\, 202
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9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Audain Art Centre\, Room 1002
6398 Univ
ersity Blvd
Keynote address by Dr. Julia Skelly\, Concordia Universit y
The AHVA graduate symposium and its concurrent exhibition is a coll aborative\, interdisciplinary event\, organized by current AHVA graduate st udents. In line with the University’s mandate our programming is aimed at c reating a rich academic environment and fostering intellectual exchange amo ng graduate students. This symposium is a unique opportunity to engage in q uestions concerning cultural mediation within visual art and the histories of art and architecture.
Originating in the Latin roots de\, meaning “apart/down” and cadere\, meaning “to fall\,” decadence c ame to signify decay\, or a fall from a more vital state. Beyond its lingui stic origins\, decadence has taken on a plurality of often contradictory me anings. Decadence: Flows of Abundance and Decay welcomes a variety of perspectives that explore the term’s malleability\, taking decadence as a generative force in understanding past and contemporary culture and poli tics. Considering Charles Baudelaire’s statement that decadence is “an inge nious style complex\, wise\, full of nuances and refinements\, forever exten ding the limits of language\, borrowing from all technical lexicons\, takin g colours from every palette and notes from every musical instrument.” This symposium sets out to locate and examine these complexities within distinc t historical and cultural contexts.
SCHEDULE
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strong>9:00 Refreshments
9:45 Welcome and Ope
ning Remarks
Dr. Julia Orell\, Assis
tant Professor Department of Art History\, Visual Art and
Theory\, UBC
10:00
Exploitation in
Memoriam: The Trap of Imperial Valorization and Postcolonial Nationhood thr
ough the War-time Photography of Glenn S. Hensley
Adrian Devea
u\, MA Candidate Department of Art History\, Visual Art an
d Theory\, UBC
10:25
The High-rise in
Press and Press Photography of 1950s FAZ - Chronological Manipulation of M
aterial Structures as a Means for Renewal
Dorothee Leesing\, P
hD Candidate Department of Central\, Eastern\, & Northern
European Studies\, UBC
11:10 Break
11:25
The Five Hundred Arhats by Wu Bin: Dimensions
of individuality in the late-Ming China
Elena Ren\, MA\, Department of Fine Arts\, HKU
11:50
Decadence as a Generative Force in the Tale of Genji
12:35 Lunch
1:45
Cybernetics\, Disability and Craft
S
harona Franklin\, Honorary Artist Speaker
2:35 B reak
3:00
Metamorphosis of the Bo
dy in Haruna in a Meteor Shower
Asia Adomanis\, MA/Ph
D Art History OSU
3:25
“You Eat Money from La SAPE”: Conversations with Women Sapeurs in Kinsha
sa\, Democratic Republic of Congo
Kristen Laciste\, PhD Candid
ate Department of History of Art and Visual Theory\, UCSC<
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4:10 Break
4:25
Queer Decadance Matters: Perspectives Pa
st and Present
Dr. Julia Skelly\, Affiliate Assistant Professor
Department of Art History\, Concordia University
5:30
Panel Discussion
Dr. Julia S
kelly\, Faculty Lecturer
Department of Art History an
d Communication Studies\, McGill University
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Dr
. Erin Silver\, Assistant Professor
Department of Art
History\, Visual Art and Theory\, UBC
6:00 Closing Rema rks
Concurrent with the symposium is an exhibition at the AHVA Galler y\, in the Audain Art Centre\, which runs from March 5 to 26
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