Graduate Symposium - (In)Appropriated Bodies - Fall 2012 : Nov 16
A.D. White House, Open to the Public
Friday, Nov. 16
5:00 pm - Keynote Speaker - Amelia Jones
Professor & Grierson Chair in Visual Culture, McGill University
Queering Performance and Performing Queer: The "Inappropriate" Performances of Nao Bustamante
Saturday, Nov. 17
9-10:30 am - (In)Appropriated Female Bodies
Amanda Beresford - Troublesome Breasts: Michelangelo's "Night" and the Iconography of the Medici Chapel
Lara Schweller - On Teeth: Embodiment in the Art of Suzanne Lacy, Jay Defeo, and Louise Bourgeois
Katherine Korroch - Trickle, Splash, Shoot: Chang Jia's Standing Up Peeing
10:45 am-12:15 pm - (In)Appropriated Masculinities
Cheryl Harper - Peeping at Tom: Deciphering the Body of Wesselmann in the First Decade of Work
Erin Lehman - Appropriating La Toilette: Contextualizing Gustave Caillebotte's Male Bathers
Syantani Chatterjee - Troubling Gender in Bharatanatyam: The Practice of the Self in Padam Performance by Male Dancers
1:30-3:00 pm - (In)Appropriated Institutions
Kaia Magnusen - Death, Dance and Decay in the Weimar Republic: Otto Dix's Bildnis der Tanzerin Anita Berber
Chu Chiun Wei - Contextualizing the Performance Art of Tehching Hsieh and Chen Chieh-Jen in Taiwan's Martial Law Era
Katherine Kerrigan - Satirical Dissections: Jimmie Durham's Displays of Fake Indian Artifacts, Body Parts, and Expeditionary Souvenirs
3:15-4:45 pm - (In)Appropriated Violence
Juan C.G. Hernandez - Drawing Mutilations and Dissecting Bodies: Re-Appropriating Simulacra
Lauren C. Richman - Theatrical Violence & Emotional Rupture: Christian Boltanski's Short Films, Paris 1968-1971
Shyla Foster - Postfeminist Appropriation in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
