Conference Schedule
un-histories: art and the unconcluded
March 10, 2018
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street
Room 190 (turn left after entering the front doors)
Conference panels are free and all are welcome.
Lunch, coffee, and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
9:30 AM — Coffee / Introduction
9:45-11:00 AM – Panel 1: The Local, the Global, and the Diasporic
Moderator: Emily
— Julia Huynh (Ryerson University)
Navigating Multiple Histories & Discrepancies in Understanding Nineteenth Century Photography in Viet Nam
— Masaki Kondo (York University)
Evoking the Archived Collective Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: The Temporality of Affectivity in Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young’s Untitled (Structures) (2012)
— Annemarie DiCamillo (University of Georgia)
Art as Resistance: Imaginative History-Making within the Visual Work of Artist Made Bayak
11:15-12:15 PM – Panel 2: Past / Present
Moderator: Louie
— Annie Wong
“Searching for the Past” in Henry Heng Lu’s, Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in Canada
— Andrea Yávar (University of Toronto)
How does the Peruvian State Oppress Indigenous Women?
12:15-1:15 PM – Lunch in Lambert Lounge
1:15-2:30 PM – Panel 3: Curating Un-histories
Moderator: Christian
— Amanda Figueroa + Ravon Ruffin (Harvard University + Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
Re-Curating History in Contemporary Art
— Cass Gardiner + Quizayra Gonzales (Parsons + University of the Arts)
Crafted Strangers: Curatorial Practice to Reclaim & Reimagine Identity
— Karina Iskandarsjah (OCAD University)
Liminal Forms
2:45-4:00 PM – Panel 4: Unfastening the Archive
Moderator: TBA
— Amanda White (Queen’s University)
Can the Herbarium be Un-done?
— Emma Sharpe (Ryerson & York University)
Feeled Recordings: An Embodied Exploration of Archival Ephemera
— Thom Jeffrey Garcia (OCAD University)
Relic, Reliquary, Reliquarium: The role of Experimental Preservation in the generation of speculative design and architecture
4:15-5:30 PM – Panel 5: Spaces and Place
Moderator: Kate
— John Wright (University of Leeds)
The Ecology of Cultural Space: un-histories, heterotopia and artist-led collectives
— Ido Govrin (Western University)
Philosophical Archeology
— Stephane Gaulin-Brown (McGill University)
The Legibility of Place: Robert Smithson and the locus of logos
6:00-8:00PM – Closing reception and exhibition in OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West (7-10 minute walk south from 100 McCaul St.)
un-histories: art and the unconcluded
March 10, 2018
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street
Room 190 (turn left after entering the front doors)
Conference panels are free and all are welcome.
Lunch, coffee, and refreshments will be provided throughout the day.
9:30 AM — Coffee / Introduction
9:45-11:00 AM – Panel 1: The Local, the Global, and the Diasporic
Moderator: Emily
— Julia Huynh (Ryerson University)
Navigating Multiple Histories & Discrepancies in Understanding Nineteenth Century Photography in Viet Nam
— Masaki Kondo (York University)
Evoking the Archived Collective Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: The Temporality of Affectivity in Leslie Hewitt and Bradford Young’s Untitled (Structures) (2012)
— Annemarie DiCamillo (University of Georgia)
Art as Resistance: Imaginative History-Making within the Visual Work of Artist Made Bayak
11:15-12:15 PM – Panel 2: Past / Present
Moderator: Louie
— Annie Wong
“Searching for the Past” in Henry Heng Lu’s, Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art in Canada
— Andrea Yávar (University of Toronto)
How does the Peruvian State Oppress Indigenous Women?
12:15-1:15 PM – Lunch in Lambert Lounge
1:15-2:30 PM – Panel 3: Curating Un-histories
Moderator: Christian
— Amanda Figueroa + Ravon Ruffin (Harvard University + Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
Re-Curating History in Contemporary Art
— Cass Gardiner + Quizayra Gonzales (Parsons + University of the Arts)
Crafted Strangers: Curatorial Practice to Reclaim & Reimagine Identity
— Karina Iskandarsjah (OCAD University)
Liminal Forms
2:45-4:00 PM – Panel 4: Unfastening the Archive
Moderator: TBA
— Amanda White (Queen’s University)
Can the Herbarium be Un-done?
— Emma Sharpe (Ryerson & York University)
Feeled Recordings: An Embodied Exploration of Archival Ephemera
— Thom Jeffrey Garcia (OCAD University)
Relic, Reliquary, Reliquarium: The role of Experimental Preservation in the generation of speculative design and architecture
4:15-5:30 PM – Panel 5: Spaces and Place
Moderator: Kate
— John Wright (University of Leeds)
The Ecology of Cultural Space: un-histories, heterotopia and artist-led collectives
— Ido Govrin (Western University)
Philosophical Archeology
— Stephane Gaulin-Brown (McGill University)
The Legibility of Place: Robert Smithson and the locus of logos
6:00-8:00PM – Closing reception and exhibition in OCAD University’s Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond Street West (7-10 minute walk south from 100 McCaul St.)
Made possible by:
Office of Graduate Studies The President's Office Faculty of Art Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and School of Interdisciplinary Studies |
OCAD University
100 McCaul Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada OCADU is an accessible venue [email protected] |