Last week, Associate Professor Tom McDonough talked with undergraduate and graduate students about Dieter Roth’s 1979 portfolio 2×5 Dogs in the Kenneth C. Lindsay Study Room in the University Art Museum. Be sure to like the Undergraduate Art History Association on Facebook to find out about upcoming events!
Month: October 2013
Next VizCult: Luis Castañeda, Syracuse University, TODAY
This week at CEMERS: Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland
CEMERS lecture
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
2:30 pm
LN 1106 (IASH conference room)
Reception to follow
Theresa Coletti, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher
Department of English
University of Maryland
“Sex and the City: Sacred and Social Epistemologies in the Chester Slaughter of the Innocents”
The biblical story of the Slaughter of Innocents recounted in Matthew’s gospel provided late medieval English urban communities the opportunity to gaze upon a symbolic image of social and political relationships in which they might discern their own likeness. Vernacular dramas on the Slaughter appropriate themes and tropes associated with medieval interpretations and celebrations of the Innocents’ feast to critique social and material categories of late medieval urban life. This paper examines the Slaughter of the Innocents in the Chester mystery cycle, the most provocative of the English plays on this subject. In the Chester Slaughter, dramatic reflexivity involves an elaborate comic subplot in which mothers of the Innocents struggle verbally and physically with soldiers of Herod seeking to murder their children. In one such contest, a mulier attempts to thwart the soldier who threatens to attack her child if it has a “pintell” (penis); the woman insists that the child has “two holes under the tayle.” Her challenge puts into play a series of substitutions that focus on questions of social and sexual identity, exposing their intersections with power and knowledge. Analyzing the web of social and symbolic relationships signified by the mulier’s act, this paper contends that the challenge of counting holes under the tail encodes an anxious critique of the major categories of difference on which civic authority and social structure were based.
Graduate student activities: Yuri Chang at Berkeley
Nam June Paik, The More the Better, 1988.
Last week, doctoral student Yuri Chang presented a paper at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of a panel on 1970s South Korean literature, film, and state-sponsored visual art, her presentation explored the politics of representation of power and memory in public space by examining cultural exhibitions – in particular the monumental art projects sponsored by the South Korean government for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 1995 Gwangju Biennale – as attempts to manipulate traumatic historical memory with a spectacle of capitalist success. For more information, follow the link.
Next VizCult: Luis Castañeda, Syracuse University
Binghamton in California
Meiqin Wang (PhD 2007), Associate Professor in the Art Department at California State University, Northridge is currently an ACLS American Research in the Humanities in China fellow and based in Beijing. Recently, she returned to California for a short visit and had lunch with Nancy Um and Hala Auji (PhD 2013).
Alumni Activities: Leigh George featured in Binghamton University Magazine
Click here to read Binghamton University Magazine’s profile of alumna Leigh George (MA ’96, PhD ’02), who has put her study of art history to use as a tool for understanding social media.
The Department of Comparative Literature presents Mark Amerika’s Immobilité
The Department of Comparative Literature cordially invites you to attend the screening of “the world’s first feature-length mobile phone art film,” Mark Amerika’s Immobilité, to be followed by a Q&A session with the artist.
Mark Amerika is a critically celebrated artist/writer/media theorist and professor of digital arts at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His “avant-pop” digital art (re)mixes popular and mass-media culture with an avant-garde spirit. Immobilité takes this mix to heart by exploring the possibilities offered by the low-tech materiality of an ordinary cell phone to create a highbrow narrative and stunning audio- visual product. Immobilité explores relationships between images, bodies, landscapes and movements to tell a story of intersubjective blurring.
The event, which is cosponsored by the Department of Art History, takes place on October 16 from 4:40-7:40 in LT 1506.
Graduate Activities: Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi at Tel Aviv University
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Na’ama Klorman-Eraqi, who has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Art History department of the David and Yolanda Katz Faculty of the Arts at Tel Aviv University beginning this fall. While conducting her own research, Na’ama will also be teaching an undergraduate course on gender and contemporary art in the spring.
Faculty Activities: Nancy Um in Harpur Perspective
Click here to read a profile of Associate Professor Nancy Um for her year at the Getty Research Institute as a Scholar in Residence for the theme “Connecting Seas: Cultural and Artistic Exchange.” Um is at work a book manuscript titled The Material World of the Overseas Merchant in Yemen: Ceremonies, Gifts, and the Social Protocols of Trade, 1700–1750.
Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King
Thanks to everyone who attended “Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King.” We hope to welcome you back in Binghamton again soon!
More information is available at http://www2.binghamton.edu/art-history/news/anthonykingconference.html
Undergraduate activities: UAHA trip to Dia:Beacon and Storm King
The Undergraduate Art History Association is hosting its second trip of the semester next Saturday, October 19! See below for more information.
Binghamton Art History 