College Art Association
90th Annual Conference
Philadelphia
20-23 February 2002
QCA-sponsored session, Thursday, 2:30-5 p.m.: “Post-queer?: gender, sexuality and the subversion of legibility” - session chairs: Noreen Dean Dresser and Jeffery Byrd - scheduled speakers: “Golden queers” by Rinaldo Hopf; “Reading the Farrakhan effect in Glenn Ligon’s Million Man March series” by Darby English; “A queer film director and comfort women: Byun Youngju and her documentaries on victims of war and heteronormativity” by Jongwoo Kim; “Amazons, bears, chickens and divas: the ABC’s of post Stonewall body ideal” by Jack Waters; “Returning the gaze” by Deborah Kelly - discussant: Susan Obarski
Also on Thursday, from 8-10:30 p.m.: “How do lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered artists address the nude?” - session chairs: Tee Corinne and Sherman Clarke - scheduled speakers: “The male pre-Raphaelite ‘stunner’: nudity and homosexual identity in the work of Simeon Solomon” by Roberto Ferrari; “Romaine Brooks, Natalie Barney, and the photographic nude” by Joe Lucchesi; “Intimate experiences: the bisexual identity and the nude” by Laurie Toby Edison; “Queer desire and the interracial nude” by James Smalls; “The subject of Claude Cahun: the nude and self-exposure” by Sharon Morris; “The transiting self: the nude self-portraits of transman Loren Cameron and hermaphrodyke Del LaGrace Volcano” by Tee Corinne
CAA affiliated society panel, Friday, 12 noon-1:30 p.m.: “Discrimination in academia: challenging the myth of the liberal arts” This will be a forum in which issues of discrimination faced by queer scholars, artists, and students can be discussed. While the official call for participation ended in the summer, the goal is an open discussion on being LGBTQ in academia, positive and negative. For more info, contact Darden Bradshaw at tapestrywvr@earthlink.net
In addition to these panels, the officers are working on a reception and on the agenda for the annual business meeting. Details will be published in the pre-conference issue of the newsletter, due in January 2002.
The overall CAA Members’ Art Exhibition will be held at the Painted Bride Art Center with the theme “Hopscotch: associative leaps in the construction of narrative.” The call for entries appears on the back cover of the fall 2001 issue of Art journal. The deadline is November 1st.
The 2003 panel committee (James Saslow, Harmony Hammond, Flavia Rando) has submitted the following proposal:
Beyond “The Usual Suspects”:
Expanding the Queer Canon
In the early years after Stonewall, gay/lesbian art history and criticism excavated a basic pedigree of works, personalities, and social contexts, but since the mid-1980s many writers have shifted from data-gathering to analysis, to examining the same provisional canon from a variety of new theoretical perspectives. The time now seems ripe for a re-emphasis on empirical research: finding substantive factual material to integrate into our expanded theorization of the queer presence in culture, in order to create a more comprehensive and textured account, and to explore whether added information calls for transformation of current analytical paradigms. We seek papers that present new information about unfamiliar individuals, groups, times or places, or about a neglected genre or iconography, including forms of visual culture outside traditional categories of fine art. We wish to foreground lesser-known figures, both those who have recently come to light and those who have long been mentioned “in passing,” but whose life and works have seldom been discussed in depth from a queer viewpoint -- ranging from historical figures like Sodoma in the Renaissance to modern artists, patrons, and other arts professionals whose recent deaths have removed barriers to speaking plainly.
(If the panel is accepted by the CAA program committee, the call for participation will come out with next year’s call in the early spring 2002.)
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