Bodies and Borders
September 8th - Homi Bhabha- Art and Imminence
September 9th 2011
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Over the past three decades, identity-based groups and practices have been seen as confirming and expanding the views of disenfranchised populations, especially in regard to voting rights, civil rights and equality. More recently, some theorists have suggested that identity politics has been exhausted, has become so ambiguous as to be meaningless, or has undermined the radical potential of the social process of becoming. Yet, the concept of identity continues to anchor both academic and activist resistance to domination, marginalization, sexism, racism, colonialism, and oppression. How does the construction of emancipatory knowledge about bodies take place, particularly in this current geopolitical landscape? What do such practices look like? What are the moral and ethical imperatives of artists, arts scholars and critics for fostering solidarities against injustice? How do we—or should we—advocate for multiplicity and seek avenues for destabilization and radical politicization?

Please email to register - arttherapy@saic.edu

September 9th – Price Hall, Art Institute of Chicago
111 S. Michigan Ave.
Free with museum admission
Free for SAIC students, faculty, and staff with a valid ID
Please email to register - arttherapy@saic.edu

9:30am
Registration

9:45am – 11:00am
In conversation - Students with Homi K. Bhabha

Students: Kate Brown, Art History; Brandon Evans, Visual & Critical Studies; Charles Fogarty, BFA Sculpture; Katrina Funk, Art Therapy; Ross Jordan, Art History & Arts Administration; Josh Rios, Visual & Critical Studies; Nancy Tien, Performance; Wesley Wilson, Art & Technology Studies


11:10am – 12:30pm
Re-examining Bodies and Borders in Practice: Theory and Pragmatism

Panel Presenters:
Delinda Collier, Art History, SAIC; Jose Ferreira, Sculpture, SAIC; Lavie Raven, Chicago Community Activist

12:30 – 1:30pm
Lunch - Sullivan Galleries

1:30 - This is a Movement

Presenter: FM Supreme

1:45pm – 3:15pm - Building Burning Bridges

Panel Presenters:
Kate Brown, Art History; Chris Campe, Visual & Critical Studies; Ally Eregbu, BFA; Brandon Evans, Visual & Critical Studies; Charles Fogarty, BFA Sculpture; Katrina Funk, Art Therapy; Ross Jordan, Art History & Arts Administration; Jeannette Perkal, Art Therapy; Josh Rios, Visual & Critical Studies; Nancy Tien, Performance; Wesley Wilson, Art & Technology Studies





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