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2018

A Bacchanal of Truth

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenor Aron Vinegar (University of Oslo) Session Abstract ‘Look out!’ I read this headline for the Annual Conference as a provocation launched in extremis. In the spirit of such an interpretation, this session is an exploration... Read More...

Art and Law: Objects and Spaces as Legal Actors

Day: Saturday 8 April Convenors Jack Hartnell (University of East Anglia) Kevin Lotery (Sarah Lawrence College, New York) Session Abstract This session considers the intersections between visualculture and the law. Art history has long investigated the role of the law,... Read More...

Art and Religion: Theology, the sacred, and visual culture

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Ben Quash (King’s College London) Ayla Lepine (University of Essex) Session Abstract When art enters religious territory, it can open new spaces of encounter that provoke, illuminate, challenge, and disturb. The attachments of religious conviction,... Read More...

Art, Craft, Science and Industry in Postcolonial Historiographies

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors: Deborah Swallow (Courtauld Institute of Art) Zehra Jumabhoy (Courtauld Institute of Art) Jahnavi Phalkey (King’s College London) Devika Singh (University of Cambridge) Session Abstract ‘Science in India’ (1982), at London’s Science Museum, was a collaborative... Read More...

Asia through Exhibition Histories

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Lucy Steeds (Afterall, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) Michelle Wong (Asia Art Archive) Sarah Turner (Paul Mellon Centre, London) Nada Raza (Tate Research Centre: Asia) Session Abstract What does it mean to... Read More...

Aural Affects and Effects: Explicit and implicit sounds and rhythms in contemporary visual media

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Olga Nikolaeva (University of Gothenburg) Christine Sjöberg (University of Gothenburg) Johnny Wingstedt (Dalarna University) Session Abstract When the body ‘looks out’ it does not only see, but it also perceives the visual by means of... Read More...

Beyond Boundaries: Artistic inquiries into borders and their meaning(s)

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Mey-Yen Moriuchi (La Salle University) Lesley Shipley (Randolph College) Session Abstract Borders have played a critical role in the development and distribution of culture, often acting as frameworks that help or hinder our ability to... Read More...

Beyond Disciplinary Borders: History of science and history of art

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors: Felicity Henderson (University of Exeter) Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge) Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge) Sietske Fransen (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) Katherine Reinhart (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) Roundtable Discussion Abstract One of the disciplines that... Read More...

Body as Architecture/ Architecture as Body

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Kelly Freeman (University College London) Rebecca Whiteley (University College London) Session Abstract [J]ust as the head, foot, and indeed any member must correspond to each other and to all the rest of the body in... Read More...

Contemporary Art Histories

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Sam Rose (University of St Andrews) Emalee Beddoes (Museums Worcestershire and Division of Labour Gallery) Session Abstract Since Mieke Bal’s Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (1999), art historians have increasingly self-consciously turned to contemporary... Read More...

Critical Pedagogies: What constitutes ‘critical’ pedagogy for art and art history today?

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Emily Pringle (Tate) Trevor Horsewood (Association for Art History) Session Abstract This session explores a range of connotations and theoretical positions associated with the term ‘critical’ and its relation to teaching and learning in art... Read More...

Dada Data: Contemporary art practice in the era of post-truth politics

Convenors Sarah Hegenbart (Technische Universität München) Mara-Johanna Kölmel (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) Session Abstract The era of post-truth politics poses a new challenge for contemporary art practice. If populist politicians persuade the masses by simplified conceptions of reality, how can art... Read More...

Dangerous Bodies – Look out! Fashioned bodies on the boundaries

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Royce Mahawatte (Central Saint Martins, London) Jacki Willson (University of Leeds) Session Abstract This panel explores the cultural intersection between bodies, fashion and transgression. Bodies are political players in culture. What role do fashioned bodies... Read More...

Dangerous Portraits in the Early Modern World

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Jennifer Germann (Ithaca College) Melissa Percival (University of Exeter) Session Abstract Portraiture was a dynamic and, at times, disruptive artistic practice in the Early Modern period. Portraits could and did undermine, reconfigure, or otherwise step... Read More...

Deskilling or the Displacement of Skill: Artistic production outside of the studio

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Dave Beech (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg and Chelsea College of Art, London) Danielle Child (Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University) Session Abstract This panel proposes that in art deskilling did not happen. Labour... Read More...

Dialogues: Things and Their Collectors

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Nicole Cochrane (University of Hull) Lizzie Rogers (University of Hull) Charlotte Johnson (Victoria and Albert Museum) Session Abstract Acts of acquiring, collecting, curating and reception of the object are generally understood as reciprocal relations between... Read More...

Difficult Conversations: Collaborative art practices across political divides

Day: Saturday 7 April Convenors Alla Myzelev (State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo) Shirley Siegal (Independent Artist) Session Abstract In essence, this session is about difficult, sometime impossible, conversations. Following the theme of the conference, ‘Look Out’, it hopes... Read More...

Figuring Change: The early modern artistic reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Day: Thursday 5 April Convenors Lydia Hamlett (History of Art (University of Cambridge) Philip Hardie (Classics, University of Cambridge) Session Abstract This session – co-convened by a classicist and an art historian – explores the art-historical legacy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses... Read More...

Framing Space through Architecture and Film

Day: Friday 6 April Convenors Jessica Schouela (University of York) Hannah Paveck (King’s College London) Session Abstract We experience architecture and film as media of duration that unfold in time. The encounter of an embodied spectator or inhabitant with a... Read More...

From the Phoenicians to the Celts: Toward a global art and architectural history of the ancient Mediterranean

Day: Thursday 5 APril Convenors Kimberly Cassibry (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) S Rebecca Martin (Boston University, Massachusetts) Session Abstract A transcultural history of art goes beyond the principle of additive extension and looks instead at the transformatory processes that constitute art... Read More...
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