Friday, March 1, 2019
 

3:30-5:00pm: “A Counter-Intuitive Trio,” a performance by Catalina Hernández Cabal and Lila Ann Dodge
The Confessional, Link Gallery

5:30-7:00pm: Keynote address, “Imaginal Publics and the Making of History: A Recommunications Primer for the Future Perfect,”

by Hannah Feldman (Art History, Northwestern), KAM 62

Saturday, March 2, 2019
 

8-9am: Symposium Registration, Link Gallery
“De esas cosas no se habla,” a performance by Paulina Camacho Valencia, The Confessional

 

9:00-9:15am: Opening Remarks (Alyssa Bralower), A+D 316

9:15-10:45am: Colonial Imaginaries, A+D 316
Moderators: Srinanda Ganguly and Sarah Richter
“The Painted Folktale: John Dunkley’s Formation of a New Narrative in Colonial Jamaica,”

Rebecca Lawder (U Missouri)
“The Negotiation of Icaros in Shipibo Textiles for Sale,” Alexandra Macheski (UCSC)

“Fables of Lycanthropos: The Sympoiesis of Wolves and Humans in Sanctuary,” Austin Hoffman (UIUC)

 

11:00am-12:30: Reconfiguring the Body, A+D 316
Moderator: Kirstin Gotway
“Performing the Hyphenated Self: Creative Praxis and Critique,” Sara Deniz Akant (Graduate Center, CUNY)
“Blurring Boundaries: Radical Depictions of Gender Identity in Franz Gertsch’s Photorealist Paintings and Lissa Rivera’s Photographic Series Beautiful Boy,” Maria Garth (Rutgers)
“Ron Mueck’s Uncanny Bodies and the Modal Transgression of the Cordon,” Cyanne Topaum (UIUC)
 

12:30-1:30pm: “Flashpoints: Critical Frictions in the Arts and Education,” a performance by Sarah Travis, The Confessional, Link Gallery, lunch provided

 

1:30-3:00pm: Situated Catalysts, A+D 316
Moderator: Catalina Hernandez
“The NSK State as Counter-Narrative,” Nicoletta Rousseva (UIC)
“Narratives of Home and Displacement in Community-Based Art,” Noni Brynjolson (UCSD)
"'I'm Still Scandalized': Narrativizing Sex Education in I Am Curious (Yellow)," Saniya Lee Ghanoui (UIUC)

3:15-4:45pm: Monumental Violence, A+D 316
Moderator: Lilah Leopold
“The Spectacle of Violence in Alfredo Jaar’s The Sound of Silence,” Luna Goldberg (SAIC)
“Pepón Osorio’s Embelequero Aesthetic In The Scene of the Crime,” Raquel Flecha Vega (UIC)
“Embedded in Black and White: Recontextualizing Monument Avenue Through the Photographic Archive,” Charlsa Hensley (U Kentucky)

 

4:45-5:00pm: Closing remarks (Sarah Richter), A+D 316

 

5:00-6:00pm: “Exo,” a performance by Alicia De León, The Confessional, Link Gallery

 

6:30pm: Public Reception at Quality, 110 N Neil St., Champaign IL 61820