To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Research and Academic Program (RAP) at the Clark, we are gathering for four days under the theme Writing Art History to think together about the ways in which writing art history is changing rapidly.  
 
The celebration comes to a close with two panels on Saturday.

PANEL 5: 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
This series of papers takes seriously the contemporary turn towards poetics to address aesthetics and the history of art from eco-poetics to Kevin Quashie’s aliveness. Poetics has emerged to challenge the limits of works created in relationship to the art market, the accumulation of capital, property, and the role of museums within histories of colonialism. In the words of Audre Lorde, poetry “forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival.” In this series of papers, scholars and poets will reconsider the encounter that is possible between historical bodies of work and the resonant resounding bodies of poetics as a discourse in sound, rhythm, and language that allows a reimagining of history and art.

Speakers:

Caroline Fowler, convener, Starr Director, Research and Academic Program 

Sora Han, professor of Criminology, Law & Society, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 

Jeremy Melius, lecturer of History of Art, University of York 

Roberto Tejada, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of English, University of Houston, Texas

PANEL 6: 2:30–5:30 PM
Over the last two decades, art history has experienced something of a sonic turn. This session gathers scholars from a variety of disciplines to think together about sonic practices, methods, and theories. We will consider what these interventions might offer to art history, particularly as it relates to the writing of visual art and time-based media as well as museum practices.

Speakers: 

Caitlin Woolsey, convener, assistant director, Research and Academic Program 

Maria Hupfield, artist, Brooklyn, New York, on “An Incredible Sound” 

Erica Moiah James, associate professor of Art History, University of Miami, on “Sonic Visualities and Gestures of Caribbean Modern Form” 

Cash (Melissa) Ragona, associate professor, Art History and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University, on “AFTERSOUND: Frequency, Attack, Return” 

Dylan Robinson, associate professor in the School of Music, The University of British Columbia, on “qwà:l ye thqát / Hailed by Trees: Public Art’s Interpellation of Settler Subjectivity”

Free. Advance registration strongly encouraged. Register here. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.