The growing popularity of the voice in contemporary art points to methodological challenges for a predominantly visually oriented history of art. Vocal expression transports ideas of immediacy, testimony, and connectivity, which seems to correspond to the rhetoric of more relational and socially engaged approaches in artistic practices. The rapid embrace of vocal strategies, alongside recent…
Bee Hughes: From Performative Printmaking to Performing Periods Bee is an artist, PhD researcher and lecturer working across the fields of arts practice, art history, media and cultural studies and sociology. In this presentation they will discuss the development of their recent art practice which has seen them shift from traditional printmaking rooted in Graphic…
You are warmly invited to participate in the next session of Talking Things, an interdisciplinary discussion group about material culture, bringing together scholars from a range of Schools who work on material objects. We meet twice per semester and always try to do so in the presence of the things about which we talk. Early…
The Museums, Galleries, Collections and Heritage Institute (MGCHI) based within the School of Art History engages in research, education and training in cultural heritage, with a particular focus on museums, art galleries and historic houses, and their collections. The institute was founded upon the expertise built up over many years from running our Museum and…
Topic: Whiteness. Please contact [email protected] for readings prior to the meeting.
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Topic: Feminist Interventions Online Please contact [email protected] prior to meeting for readings.
What can Art History contribute to research about the body? What are the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration in this field for art historians? How do we approach the archive, and what archives do we use? How does our work intersect with activist histories and concerns? Participants: Jackson Davidow (MIT), Victoria Horne (Northumbria), Neil…