Graduate Colloquium: New Work in Criticism

Paul Brewer "Transgression and Capitulation: Adolescence in Contemporary Visual Culture" Constructing a sociocultural history of artistic practices relating to an "adolescent impulse" in contemporary art.

C. Davida Ingram "The Art of Desiring Aids" Representations made by black artists and AIDS arts activists in the mid 80s frame new ways to look at difference.

Lyra Kilston "Rethinking the Future: The World Trade Center Memorial and the Politics of Memory" The aesthetics and politics of recent public commemoration, in the United States and abroad, and the complexities of constructing national memory.

Ramona J. Piagentini "Curating Crossings in the San Diego/Tijuana Border Region: inSITE 1992 to the Present" Drawing connections between cultural production, regional development, and personal and collective narratives in inSITE's cross-border exhibitions.

Reception at 7pm.

Time: 4:30 pm
Location: Olin, Room 102
Contact: 845-758-7598