Save the date - February 2014 lectures and panels

Upcoming Lectures and Panels

Threewalls Gallery

Friday, February 14, 2014
119 N. Peoria #2C
Chicago, IL 60607
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www.tracersbookclub.com
In conjunction with Faith Wilding's Fearful Symmetries Retrospective.
TRACERS TAKES ON FEMINISM: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MOTHERHOOD, LGBTQ AND RACE.
Panel presentations, 10AM- 5PM
Organized by Jennifer Reeder and Carrie Ruckel, Tracers

Schedule:
10am-12pm - LGBTQ
(12-1pm - lunch)
1-3pm - Motherhood 3-5pm - Race

Panelists:
LGBTQ (10am - 12pm): Latham Zearfoss (moderator), Jillian Soto
, Daviel Shy
, Frederick Moffet
, Malic Amalya
, Silvia Malagrino
, Amina Ross
, NIC Kay

Motherhood (1 – 3pm): Lorelei Stewart (moderator), Christa Donner
, Brittany Southworth Laflamme
, Judy Ledgerwood
, Laura Letinsky
, Romi Crawford
, Julie Rodrigues Widholm
, Christine Tarkowski

Race (3 – 5pm): Isis Ferguson (moderator), Laura Kina
, Maria Gaspar
, Indira Johnson
, Laila Farah
, Alberto Aguilar
, Alexandria Eregbu
, Sima Azadi

 

College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference

"Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts"

Saturday, February 15, 2:30-5:00 PM
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
International South, 2nd Floor

Laura Kina, DePaul University
Margo Machida, University of Connecticut

This session will examine critical mixed race strategies for the miscegenation of racial representation in the visual arts. The 2000 U.S. Census was first to allow individuals to self enumerate as more than one race. Making multiracial populations visible both expanded the borders, blurred and posed a potential threat to existing monoracial categories. Beginning in the early 2000s there was a simultaneous neoliberal and conservative push for a postidentitarian/ postracial moment posed against the putative ossification of multicultural racial identity constructs. Curatorial frameworks and studio practices centered on race as a locus of investigation were challenged if not rendered invisible and seemingly obsolete. And yet race and attendant cultural issues have demonstrably remained pertinent for artistic production and analysis. A double tension has resulted in moves to both recognize the continuing importance of race and the critical push to reframe and disarticulate categories that cannot contain the complexity of increasingly miscegenated peoples, histories, and subjectivities. We will consider how dominant conceptions of race have changed (or not) in the visual arts as a result of the mounting discourses and bodies of artistic production that bring forward mixed race identity in various domestic, transnational and international contexts.

"Beyond the Bronze Venus"
Alison Fraunhar, Saint Xavier University

"Sensory Miscegenations: Representing Multiracial Bodies"

Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, University of California Merced
"Lacuna"
Maya Isabella Mackrandilal, artist

"Liminal Embodiments"
Zavé Martohardjono, artist

"Risky Subjectivity: Select Works by Korean Adoptee Artists"
Eun Jung Park, independent scholar

Macalester College 15th Annual American Studies Conference

February 27-28, 2014
 

Thursday, Feb. 27th Keynote Speakers - Laura Kina and Ralina Joseph Laura Kina "Mixed Race Asian American Art: On Becoming and Unbecoming a 'Happy Hapa'"
 

Friday, Feb 28th panel "Being Mixed Race" - Shannon Gibney, Marcus Gardley, Ralina Joseph, Laura Kina