Presented By: Department of English Language and Literature
VCW's Critical Visualities conference
Visual Culture and Performance
THURSDAY, MARCH 8 (3222 Angell)
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"
1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"
3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"
11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?
With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.
10:00am-12:00pm | Panel 1: Script/Transcript
Shawn Michelle Smith (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "The Performative Photographic Index"
VK Preston (Toronto), "Performing Witch Archives: Decriminalizing Witchcraft"
Emily Wilcox (U-M), "Moonwalking in Beijing: Mediating Michael Jackson in Global Hip-Hop Dance"
1:00-3:00pm | Panel 2: Speculation/Fabulation
Sara Blair (U-M), "Occupational Hazards: The Performance of the Photo Portrait"
Hentyle Yapp (NYU), "Fireworks, Shine, and Postsocialist Form"
Tavia Nyong'o (Yale), "Towards a Critical Politics of Afro-Fabulation"
3:15-5:00pm | Feedback Session for Graduate Student Works-in-Progress
FRIDAY, MARCH 9 (3222 Angell)
9:30-11:30am | Panel 3: Life/Afterlife
Ruby Tapia (U-M), "Against 'Passive Resistance': On Photography, Facelessness, and the Juvenile Exception"
Anna Watkins Fisher (U-M), "The Play in the System: Parasitical Performance Art and the Art of Resistance from Within"
Rebecca Schneider (Brown), "Slough Media: Performance, Media Object, and the Production of Obsolescence"
11:45am-1:15pm | Closing/collective reflection: Where next?
With any questions, please don't hesitate to be in touch at visualculture@umich.edu.
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Co-Sponsored By
- School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender
- History of Art
- Comparative Literature
- Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
- University Library
- William L. Clements Library
- Women's and Gender Studies Department
- Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
- Center for World Performance Studies
- Department of American Culture
- Department of Anthropology
- Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies
- Digital Studies
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