The Department of Art History presents:
A Public Lecture with Barbara Clausen
Research Fellow
The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art
When:
Thursday, February 10, 2011 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Where:
EV Building, Room EV-1.615
1515 Ste. Catherine Street West
Cost:
Free of charge. Everyone welcome.
Information:
Email Dr. Alice Jim at ajim@alcor.concordia.ca
Event description:
Joan Jonas is one of the most important performance and video artists of our time. Her performances, installations and videos from her ground breaking Organic Honey series in the early 1970s to the highly acclaimed and most recent Reading Dante (2010) have been presented and exhibited in numerous international exhibitions world, giving vision to the visual politics that govern the cultural realities we live in to this day. Her vision of performance continues to inspire generations of artists, each seeing her work afresh. This generosity and curiosity lie at the heart of the collaborations she embarks on with artists of different generations, including Carlos Amorales, and Kiki Smith, as well as composers, Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, and Jason Moran. Jonas's work remains at the spearhead of performance art's future: creating never ending scenarios and visions, giving life to artistic knowledge of all types and times, through her double lens. This lecture will look at Jonas particular exploration of gender, narrative and the concept of experience as a an act of translation and critical interaction.
Barbara Clausen is a curator and art historian working and living in Vienna and Montreal. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University in Montreal and researching on Canadian Performance art from the 1960s until today. She recently completed her PhD in art history at the University of Vienna on the Documentation of Performance Art and the work of Babette Mangolte. Since 1999, Clausen has curated in various art institutions in Europe and North America.
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