Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023: BORDER FORMS: (RE)DRAWING LINES

15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023
PROFESSORS: Natasha Bissonauth & Tammer El-Sheikh

Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in the discipline. Consider for example, the region-specific genealogies so foundational to art history. What would it mean to trespass such borders? Where is the line? And by extension, how are the formal characteristics of a border generative in art making and art thinking? By emphasizing Black and Brown art histories that reorder and disorder the bordered logics of the discipline and that imagine possibilities for the visual beyond surveillance regimes, this intensive graduate seminar in Visual Art and Art History elaborates on the border as a political tool, a conceptual device, and an aesthetic gesture.

EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Fri. May 5, 4-6pm
Book Talk
Lahore Cinema with Iftikhar Dadi
Accolade East Building, Room 244

Thu. May 11, 4-6pm
Panel Discussion: On Curating Borders
Eunice Bélidor,
Sarah Rifky, Anna Shah Hoque, and Cheryl Sim; moderated by
Marissa Largo
Accolade East Building, Room 244

Fri. May 12, 4-6pm
Artist Talk
Divya Mehra in Conversation with Natasha Bissonauth
Accolade East Building, Room 244

Thu. May 18, 2:30-5 pm
Film screening + Discussion
Photo Booth (John Greyson); discussant Tammer El-Sheikh
Ross Building, N102

Fri. May 19, 2:30-5pm
Film Screening + Discussion
A trilogy by Larissa Sansour; discussant Amanda Boulos
Ross Building, N102

Artwork:
Zarina, Dividing Line, 2001
Woodcut printed in black on Nepalese handmade paper mounted on Arches cover white paper