ARTMargins Workshop at Cornell
Drawing Concepts: Thinking via Practices & Archives of Modern Art in the Global South
September 27-28, 2024
The Workshop aims to prepare the groundwork for future special issues on the Aesthetics of Decolonization. We will facilitate a dialogue among the ARTM (Print)/AMO (Online) editors, invited scholars, and Cornell faculty and graduate students, to explore collectively what it means to think conceptually from archives of modern art in the Global South.
In a series of roundtables – historiographical and methodological – we pose the broader question: what concepts do art historians who work with archives of modern art across the Global South encounter or develop via their own writings?
We see the Global South as broadly encompassing sites of marginality in canonical Euro-American art history – bringing into its fold both the postcolonial worlds of the Global South and Indigenous, hemispheric perspectives, as well as Eastern Europe. We are thinking, in particular, of ideas and concepts such as humanism, utopia, liberation, freedom, responsibility, friendship, solidarity, and their various vernacular counterparts.
FRI SEP 27 (G22 Goldwin Smith)
2:30 pm: Opening Remarks by Iftikhar Dadi and Sven Spieker
3:00pm-4:30pm: Roundtable 1: Theorizing and Writing with Concepts
Presenters: Iftikhar Dadi; Anneka Lenssen; Yi Gu; Bojana Videkanic
Moderator: Sanjukta Sunderason
4:30pm-6:30pm: PhD Workshop
Presenters: Alice Fung, Ayesha Matthan, Eric Goh, Leonardo Santamaria-Montero
Moderators: Douglas Gabriel and Nancy Lin
SAT, SEP 28 (AD White House)
9:00am-9:15am: Opening Remarks by Jolene Rickard
9:15am-12:45pm: Roundtable 2: Archives and Historiography
Presenters: ARTM and AMO Editors
Moderator: Raino Isto
PARTICIPANTS
Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell)
Pedro Erber (Waseda University)
Yu Gi (University of Toronto)
Douglas Gabriel (University of Florida)
Raino Isto (AMO)
Zsuzsa László (Central European Research Institute for Art History)
Anneka Lenssen (UC Berkeley)
Nancy Lin (Cornell)
Jolene Rickard (Cornell)
Susan Snodgrass (AMO)
Sven Spieker (UC Santa Barbara)
Megan Sullivan (University of Chicago)
Sanjukta Sunderason (University of Amsterdam)
Bojana Videkanic (University of Waterloo)
Cornell History of Art PhD students
Alice Fung
Eric Goh
Ayesha Matthan
Leonardo Santamaria-Montero
Sponsored by the Department of History of Art
Cosponsored by the Institute for Comparative Modernities
