Monday May 12 - 17:30, Lecture Room 2, Dept of History of Art
Professor Jane Garnett (University of Oxford)
Taking the Sun by the Hand: Insight and the Rhythms of Memory.
This talk puts in conversation the work of two Italian 20th-/21st-century artists - Maria Lai and Virgilio Sieni - who have reflected on how art can build community (indeed transform the very concept of community) through engaged gestures of connectivity. Both artists think about cultural depth - the archaeology of gesture creating spaces in past and present forms - and about how performance can simultaneously suspend and transmute the rhythms of the everyday, thereby opening up new possibilities of revitalisation and the exercise of agency. In rethinking art they reemphasise the significance of thinking historically.
Monday May 19 - 14:30, Seminar Room 1, Faculty of Architecture and History of Art
Mignon Nixon
Vietnam Garden: Notes on the Re-re-masculinization of American Culture
The Modern and Contemporary Art (MaCA) Seminars are organised by Dr Amy Tobin and Dr Saul Nelson.
