Lecture: Amelia Jones
Thursday, September 19, 7:30 PM
Vollum lecture hall
This event is open to the public.
"Performance and 'Relationality' in the 1970s: Chris Burden and the Conceptual Body"
This lecture provides a historical framework for currently trendy notions of "relationality" in contemporary art by looking at Chris Burden's early performances and performance installations anew. Jones argues that Burden's work from the 1970s participated in the wide scale opening up of relations among performer, art materials, and spectators or participants, shifting art making into a social, temporal, spatial, and intersubjective practice with explicit political valance, setting the stage for "relational aesthetics" as defined in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Amelia Jones is Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture at McGill University in Montréal. Her recent publications include major essays on Marina Abramović (in TDR), on feminist art and curating (including the edited volume Feminism and Visual Culture Reader (new edition 2010)), and on performance art histories. Her book, Self Image: Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject (2006) was followed in 2012 by Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts and her major volume, Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History, co-edited with Adrian Heathfield. Her exhibition Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art took place in 2013 at Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, in Montreal.
For more information, contact Geraldine Ondrizek.
Submitted by Brittney Corrigan-McElroy.
Posted on Aug 15, 2013