A podcast from the Research & Academic Program
What does it mean to make art history? Today more than ever, we must consider the role of art in society, how knowledge is shared (or obscured), and the way histories are made—and unmade. In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing asks these questions, while also considering the personal stakes of scholarship. Each episode offers a lively, in-depth look into the life and mind of a scholar or artist working with art historical or visual material. Discussions touch on guests’ current research projects, career paths, and significant texts, mentors, and experiences that have shaped their thinking. We invite you to join us in and listen in on these conversations about the stakes of doing art history today.
In the Foreground is available on iTunes, Spotify, and anywhere else you may listen to podcasts.
EPISODE 4
Season 1
August 25: “The Nature of All Our Forms”: María Magdalena Campos-Pons on Performance Art
September 1: “Surfaces of Projection”: Dell M. Hamilton on Performance Art and Black Embodiment
September 8: “An Archive of Exchange”: C. Ondine Chavoya on Chicanx and Latinx Art History
September 15: “To Speak Across Time”: Gabriele Finaldi on Museums
September 29: “An Embodiment of Experience”: Steven Nelson on African Art and Writing History
October 6: “A Set of Ways of Engaging”: Lisa Lee on Thomas Hirschhorn & Materiality
October 13: “An Art History Yet to Come”: Kirsten Scheid on Palestinian Art
October 20: “Looking as Knowing”: Svetlana Alpers on Critical Thinking and Photography
November 3: “An Enactment of ‘The Impersonal’”: Brigid Doherty on Re-thinking Subjectivity in Art
November 10: “Can You Show Thinking?”: Mieke Bal on Film & Writing
November 17: “Philosophical Grounding”: Michael Ann Holly on Creating Visual Studies
acknowledgments
In the Foreground is hosted by Caro Fowler, and produced by Caitlin Woolsey, Samantha Page, and Caro Fowler, with music by lightchaser, editing by John Buteyn, and additional support provided by Gabriel Almeida Baroja, Alice Matthews, and Yubai Shi.
Virtual programs at the Clark have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
