Art on the Dark Side - Symposium May 15 - 17, 2008

Thursday, May 15

6:00 - 6:45 pm

Registration

7:00 pm

Fred Wilson
Keynote Address
The symposium will open with a keynote address by Fred Wilson, an artist who was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999, and in 2003 was selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. Wilson is known for his unorthodox re-installations of museum collections that lead viewers to recognize that changes in context create changes in meaning. He questions—and forces the viewer to question—how curators shape interpretations of historical truth, artistic value, and what kinds of biases our cultural institutions express.

Friday, May 16

9:00 - 9:45 am	Coffee and Registration
9:45 - 10:00 am	Introduction
10:00 - 10:45 am	*The Art of Haunting: Looking into the Shadows of the Modern* Sarah L. Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University
10:45 - 11:05 am	'The Humanity of the Scene': Empathy and the Abject in George Bellows and John Sloan David Peters Corbett, Professor, History of Art, York University
11:05 - 11:25 am	Audience Q&A
11:25 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 - 1:20 pm	*Antilynching Images: Representing Violence, Terror and the Abject* Dora Apel, W. Hawkins Ferry Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art, Wayne State University
1:20 - 1:40 pm	Marsden Hartley's Steamy Aryanism: A Case Study of Eugenics and Modernism Randall R. Griffey, Associate Curator of American Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum
1:40 - 2:00 pm	Audience Q&A
2:00 - 2:30 pm	Coffee break
2:30 - 4:30 pm	Open Discussion in Bellows Room Moderator – Henry Adams, Professor of American Art, Case Western University
4:30 - 6:00 pm	Current exhibition reception, Derby Court and Ross Photo Gallery Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power

Saturday, May 17

9:30 - 10:15 am	Coffee and Registration
10:15 - 10:30 am	Welcome
10:30 - 10:50 am	*The Optical Superego: Magic Realism and the Social Imaginary* Angela Miller, Professor of Art History, Washington University
10:50 - 11:10 am	Gothic Camp: Greer Lankton and Questions of Identity in the Art of the East Village Jonathan Weinberg, Artist and Independent Art Historian
11:10 - 11:30 am	Audience Q&A
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Midwestern Americanists Meeting Bellows Room
1:00 - 2:30 pm	Artists' Roundtable On the Dark Side: Contemporary Artists discuss the Gothic Moderator - Sean Foley Fred Wilson Laurel Nakadate Paul Shambroom
2:30 - 3:00 pm	Audience Q&A