"InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads"
12-13 November 2004, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City
Here is the preliminary program for the “InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads” conference which will be held in November and which has been the major preoccupation of the caucus officers in recent months. The program is still subject to changes but the conference is shaping up to be very busy and exciting, with 18 different panels, almost 100 speakers, plus film showings and associated exhibitions. This will be the biggest and most comprehensive gathering ever held around issues of queer visual culture. Coming as it does only a week after the upcoming national election, it will provide a timely space to assess our overall theme: the crossroads of goals, tactics, and resources at which queer culture and all alternative/progressive cultural activism find themselves in the rapidly changing political and artistic landscape. Early registrations indicate that we may have as many as 200 artists, curators, scholars, and other arts professionals in attendance. We urge everyone who can make it to register. The cost is very low ($35, $10 students/low-income) and they accept credit cards. To register, go online at CLAGS.org, where further changes to the program will be listed.
Jim Saslow, conference co-organizer
saslowj@aol.com
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
DAY 1: FRIDAY, November 12
9:00-10:00 am REGISTRATION, COFFEE
Concourse Lobby
10:00-11:00 OPENING PLENARY
Auditorium
Moderator and opening remarks: James M. Saslow, Conference Chair and Queer Caucus for Art Co-Chair; Jenni Sorkin, Queer Caucus for Art Co-chair
Announcements, welcomes
Greetings from sponsors: Queer Caucus for Art, CLAGS, CUNY Art History, Steven J. Goldstein MD, Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
11:00-1:15 BREAK
11:15-1:15 FIRST PANEL SESSION
Session 1: What Brings Us to These Crossroads?
Chair: Terry Wolverton (artist, Los Angeles)
Arlene Raven (author, New York)
TBA
Session 2: Pedagogy and Academe
Chair: TBA
- Richard Mann (San Francisco State U): Queering Art History in the Classroom
- Kim Surkan (Five Colleges Women’s Studies Research Center): Looking Butch, Being Boys: Images of Crossdressing and Transgenderism at Women’s Colleges
- Karyn Sandlos and Jen Gilbert (York U, Toronto): The Strange Indirection of Aesthetics: Toward a Queer Pedagogy
Session 3: Queer Eye for Ancient Material Culture
Chair: Nancy Rabinowitz
- Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College): Women in Attic Vase Painting: Bifocals Needed
- Anne Elizabeth Haeckl (Kalamazoo College): A “Band of Brothers” from Roman Egypt: Paired Portraits of Young Men from “La Maison des Palmyréniens” at Coptos, Egypt
- Walter D. Penrose, Jr. (CUNY Graduate Center): Before Queerness: Visions of a Homoerotic Heaven in Ancient Greco-Italian Tomb Paintings?
Session 4: AIDS and Queer Art
Chair: Lester Strong
Artists: Ernesto Pujol, David Waggoner, Amy Sadao, Barton Lidice Benes
1:15-2:15 LUNCH
2:15-4:45 SECOND PANEL SESSION
Session 5: ReGenerations 1: “Thirty-Something” Artists Talk About Their Work and Being Queer
Chair: Harmony Hammond (Santa Fe)
- Angie Piehl, painting (San Antonio)
- Anthony Goicolea, photography (Brooklyn)
- Jess Dobkin, performance (Toronto)
- Tina Takemoto, performance (Oakland) [i.e. San Francisco; moved to Saturday panel: ReGenerations 2]
- Kami Chisholm and Elizabeth Stark, film/video (San Francisco)
- Terry Berlier, sculpture/installation (Davis)
Session 6: Contemporary Lesbian Art: Old and New Media
Chair: TBA
- Jennifer Hamilton (St. Mary’s U): “Where Are All the Lesbians?”: Educating “Difference” through Mainstream Television
- Jenn Joy (NYU): Against the Rising Tide of Conformity: Painting Politics / Carrie Moyer
- Catherine Grant (Courtauld Institute of Art): Haunting Looks: Adolescence, Homospectrality and Photographic Space in the Work of Hellen van Meene and Sarah Jones
- Pavel Leszkowicz (Poznan U, Poland): Queer Performing of Pain: Gina Pane and Catherine Opie
Session 7: Deconstructing the Queer-Next-Door: Interrogations of Queer Realness and the “Normal”
Chair: Shana Agid
- Shana Agid (California College of the Arts): Becoming the (White) Man: Loren Cameron’s Body Alchemy and the Pitfalls of the Real
- Melanie Corn (UC-Santa Barbara): Buying Real Health: AIDS Advertising and Gay Masculinity
- Kenyon Farrow (Critical Resistance, New Orleans): On the “Down-Low”: Exploring Black Masculinity and Sexuality
- Bruce King-Shey (California College of the Arts): Designing a Queer Reality
Ellis Hanson (Cornell U): Shooting Elephant / Gus van Sant
Session 8: De-Centering Anglo-America: Race, Ethnicity, and Geography in Queer Culture
Chair: TBA
- María DeGuzmán (U of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Queering the Visual and Latinidad(es): Text as Imagined Photo and the Forensic Facultad of Cultural Critique and Construction
- Jorge Minguell (Johns Hopkins U): Miguel Alabadalejo’s Cachorro (Bear Cub)
- Tomasz Kitlinski (Maria Curie U, Poland): Queering the Visual in Eastern Europe Today: Art and Activism Against Heterosexism
- James Smalls (U of Maryland-Baltimore County): The History and Dilemma of Black Queer Visual Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries
4:45-6:15 RECEPTION
Concourse Lobby
6:15-7:30 DINNER BREAK
6:00-9:00 EXHIBITION: OPENING RECEPTION - Leslie-Lohman Gallery
7:30-10:00 FILM SCREENING
Auditorium
- “Playing a Part: A Story of Claude Cahun,” 40 minutes, introduced by filmmakers Lou Bailey and Lizzie Thynne
- “The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe,” 95 minutes, Barefoot Nations Productions
DAY 2: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13
9:00-9:30 COFFEE - Concourse Lobby
9:30-11:00 THIRD PANEL SESSION
Session 9: Queer Pleasures, Queer Desires
Chair: Erica Rand
- Jonathan David Katz (Larry Kramer Center, Yale U): Richard Hamilton, Sex Tourism, the Erotic of Submission
- Erica Rand (Bates College) and Deborah Bright (Rhode Island School of Design): Queer Plymouth
- Michele White (Wellesley College): My Queer E-Bay: Imaging, Imagining, and the Visual Culture of Buying
Session 10: The Renaissance Revisited
Chair: James M. Saslow
- Preston Bautista (J.P. Getty Center): Anxiety, Spirituality, and Desire: The Reconstruction of Masculinity in the Oeuvre of Jacopo da Pontormo
- Will Fisher (Lehman College, CUNY): The Erotics of the Chin in Early Modern English Culture
- James Saslow (Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY): Gianantonio Bazzi, “Il Sodoma”: A Queer Reappraisal
Session 11: The National Queer Museum: A Design Competition
Panel: Staff of Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York) and competition artists.
EXHIBIT: Museum proposals will be on exhibit in the Graduate Center Concourse on the day of the panel.
11:00-11:15 BREAK
11:15-1:15 FOURTH PANEL SESSION
Session 12: The Alchemy of Gender
Chair: Ann Meredith (artist, San Francisco)
- Sara Davidmann (artist; U of the Arts, London): The Reflected Image and the Presentation of the Self: A photographic collaboration with trans men
- TBA
Session 13: The Aesthetics of Cruising
Chair: Jonathan Weinberg
- Jonathan Weinberg (Clark Art Institute): Pier Groups
- ThinkArchitecture (Vienna, Austria): Cruising Visual Cultures
- Simon Leung (UC-Irvine): TBA
- Tirza True Latimer (Kensington, CA) and E.G. Crichton (Artist, San Francisco): Lesbian Mating in the Post-Alcoholic Era
Session 14: Queer Visual Culture, 1870-1914
Chair: Whitney Davis
- Roberto Ferrari (Florida Atlantic U): Looking Back with a Queer Eye: Simeon Solomon and Friends
- Whitney Davis (UC-Berkeley): Narcissism in Homoerotic Visual Culture and Freudian Theory
- Miranda Mason (U of Leeds): “Is there room in Queer for me?”: Reading Sarah Bernhardt’s bust of Louise Abbéma (1878) with scholarly, lesbian desire
- Cassandra Langer (New York) and Irene Javors (New Jersey City U): Le Temps perdu: The Trauma of Modernism in the Lesbian Portraits of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970)
1:15-2:15 LUNCH
2:15-4:45 FIFTH PANEL SESSION
Session 15: New Delivery Systems
Chair: TBA
- Patricia Cronin: “Memorial to a Marriage”
- Adam Putnam, artist
- LTTR: 3 representatives
Session 16: ReGenerations 2: “Thirty-Something” Artists Talk About Their Work and Being Queer
Chair: Harmony Hammond (Santa Fe)
- Jennifer Guerin, sculpture/installation (Tucson)
- Tobaron Waxman, photography/performance/video (Chicago/New York)
- Jenny Rogers, performance (New York)
- Tom Holmes, photography (Los Angeles)
- Ginger Takahashi, collaborative art practices (Brooklyn) [moved to Friday panel: ReGenerations 1]
- Jeff Byrd, performance (Cedar Rapids)
Session 17: Men on the Verge: The Queerness of Masculinity in Late Victorian Britain
Chair: Chris Reed (Lake Forest College)
- Peter Trippi (Dahesh Museum): J. W. Waterhouse: “Virile” painter of “feeble” men
- Jongwoo Jeremy Kim (New York U, IFA): Frederic Leighton’s Oriental Resurrection: “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it”
- Jeremy Melius (UC-Berkeley): Ruskin’s Little Bear and the Genealogy of Queer Reading
- Andrew Stephenson (U of East London): “Cosmetics, Stage-fashions, Mirrors and Masks”: Representing and Reconfiguring Maculinities in Late 19th-Century British Art
Session 18: Out of the Archives: Alternative Archival Resources
Chair: Richard Meyer
- Thomas Waugh (Concordia U, Canada): The Underground Collector
- Richard Meyer (U of Southern California): New Approaches to Art and Sexuality in Alternative Archives
- John Potvin: What to Look [Out] For: Phrenology, Gaydar, and the Queer 19th-Century Photograph
- Allen Ellenzweig (New York City): The Robert Giard Photographic Archive Goes Mainstream: Art Photography or Community Documents?
- Jill Casid (U of Wisconsin-Madison): Shadow Flesh: Volatile Bodies in the Photographic Archive
4:45-5:00 BREAK
5:00-6:00 CLOSING PLENARY SESSION Auditorium
Moderator: TBA
Panel: Three members of program committee. Short personal reports on what has taken place over the past two days, emphasizing implications for the direction of queer culture today, and suggestions for future practices and strategies.
Audience discussion to follow.
6:00-7:30 CLOSING RECEPTION Concourse Lobby
6:00-9:00 EXHIBITION: OPENING RECEPTION - Leslie-Lohman Gallery
LOGISTICS:
The CUNY Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue (34th Street) in New York City. No specific hotels have been mentioned on the conference website. You can of course stay with friends or Google for a hotel. A compilation of hotels which are or were moderate or cheap may be found at http://artcataloging.net/miscellany/hotels.html
Queer Caucus for Art newsletter, October 2004
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