Critical Resources: A Visual Culture Workshop

Sunday, January 13 at Human Resources (410 Cottage Home St)

A symposium featuring work by emerging artists and visual/performance studies scholars organized by Queer Lab Director and UC Riverside Professor Jennifer Doyle. The event is meant to foster interaction between scholars and artists, and between the circles that form around diverse schools in the area. All are welcome to attend this free seminar and support emerging work (creative and academic, academically creative and creatively academic).The program is organized to raise awareness regarding the distinct character of the Los Angeles creative and intellectual community - this event will feature work that is queer, feminist, decolonial, anti-capitalist, utopian. Historical, theoretical. Performative and visual. Recovery projects and discovery projects. See Queer Lab's website and our Facebook event page for more information.

PROGRAM

9:30-10:00, coffee & pan dulce

10:00-11:30

Kristen Galvin (UCI), "The Ladies Auxiliary of the Lower East Side"

Jennifer DeClue (USC), "The Quality of Blood: Pinky and the Purple Flower"

Tracy Zuniga (UCR), "Look at Me: The Black Woman's Body in the Art of Renée Cox"

 11:45-12:45

Artist's Talk: Christina Sanchez

12:45-1:30/LUNCH BREAK

1:30-2:30

Artist's Talk: Cake and Eat It

2:45-4:15

Ruti Talmor (Pitzer College), "Mediating Objects and Refracted Visions in Ghana and its Diasporas"

Karrmen Crey, (UCLA) "Documenting Cultural Shift: Institutional Analysis of Aboriginal Documentary Film Production."

Ronak Kapadia (NYU/UCR), "Warm Data: US Military Prisons and the Sensorial Life of Empire"