The CUNY Graduate Center at CAA 2018

From Wednesday, February 21 through Saturday, February 24, CAA will convene in Los Angeles for its 106th Annual Conference. We are proud of the numerous students, faculty, and alumni of the art history program at the CUNY Graduate Center who are coming to CAA this year as presenters, chairs, discussants, and organizers of affiliated programs! See below for a list of participants:

Graduate Center Student and Faculty participation at CAA 2018:
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WED 2/21

Urban Interventions in Postwar California
“The Urban Border: Photography and Immigration in Los Angeles”
Nadiah Rivera Fellah, The Graduate Center, the City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 403B

Art, Agency, and the Making of Identities at a Global Level, 1600-2000, Part II
“Frida Kahlo’s Invention of Jewish Identity”
Gail Levin, The City University of New York
Time: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 409A

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THURS 2/22

Activist Art Practices in Institutions
“”We’re living in dangerous times:” How Dia Joined Forces with Group Material and Martha Rosler to Combat the Decline of American Democracy, 1988–89”
Natalie Musteata, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 405

Projecting the Body: Beyond the Ocular
“Bodily Engagement with Early Cinema: The Moviegoer & the American Artist”
Katherine Manthorne, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 501A

**Graduate Center CUNY Breakfast **
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: La Brea Room, Lobby Level, Westin Bonaventure Hotel, 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles

“Pop Art and Class, Part I”
Co-Chair; Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College/The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 409A

Changing Hands: When Art History Meets the Art Market (The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA)
“Artistic Ownership: Martin Kippenberger’s Authorial and Market Manipulations”
Sydney Stutterheim, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 404B

Between Nation-“ness” and Nation-“less” in Postwar Asia
“Fluxus, Revisited in Global Context: Fluxus in South Korea in the 1960s and 1993”
Sooran Choi, Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 501B

Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging
“Drawing Manuals, Albums, Medleys”
Patricia Mainardi, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 406B

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FRIDAY 2/23

Autonomy and the 1960s
“Scoring Autonomy: The Work-Concept from Classical Music to Cagean Performance”
Saisha Grayson, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 409B

Pop Art and Class, Part II
Co-Chair: Mona Hadler, Brooklyn College/The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 501B

Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s
“After Dansaekhwa: Early Video Art in 1970s’ South Korea”
Haeyun Park, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 409B

Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Address Controversies (Public Art Dialogue PAD)
Co-Chair: Harriet Senie, The City College of New York, The City University of New York
“Moving the Monument: Ximena Labra’s “Tlatelolco 1968/2008”
Mya Dosch, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 402B

Distinguished Artist Interviews
Judy Baca interviewed by Anna Indych-López, CCNY & The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of Judith F. Baca
Time: 3:30PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 515B

Feminist Art in Response to the State (The Feminist Art Project TFAP)
“Self-Harm as Resistance: Domesticity and Violence in Brazilian Women’s  Video Performances, 1974-1982″
Gillian Sneed, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Time: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 404A

Chicanx/Latinx Art after PST: LA/LA. Sustaining the Field
Sonja Gandert
Time: 6:00-8:00PM, City University of New York, Graduate Center; U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF)
Location: Self Help Graphics, 1300 East 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90033
– U.S.Latinx Art Forum officer Sonja Gandert in partnership with Self Help Graphics and Art, will host a panel to discuss how to sustain the field of Latinx/Chicanx art after PST: LA/LA.
– 6:00 – 6:45pm Tour of Día de los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy
– 7:00 – 8:00pm Panel with US Latinx Art Forum and guests
– Program is FREE and requires RSVP.
– More info and RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-chicanxlatinx-art-after-pst-lala-sustaining-the-field-tickets-42646727510

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SATURDAY 2/24

Inter-Arts Exchange as Modernist Method, circa 1900
Chair: Aaron Slodounik, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 501B

Experiments with Technology in Latin American Art: From the 1960s to the 1980s
Co-Chair: Tie Jojima, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 404B

Nineteenth-Century Critical Rivalries (Society for Paragone Studies)
“Against Paragone: Alfred Jarry and Paul Gauguin”
Aaron Slodounik, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 501A

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Graduate Center Alumni Participation at CAA 2018:
TUES 2/20

“How Will Feminist Culture Engage the Future?”
Kathleen Wentrack, The City University of New York, Queensborough CC, Chair
Time: 7-9:00pm
Location: University of Southern California, Mudd Hall of Philosophy, Room 203

WED 2/21

State of the Art (History): Re-Examining the Exam (Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology AHPT)
Co-Chairs: Karen D. Shelby, Baruch College, The City University of New York/Art History Teaching Resources; Kathleen Wentrack, PhD, Queensborough CC, The City University of New York
“Reacting to the Past: Game Play as a Replacement for Traditional Assessment Methods”
Mary Frances Zawadzki, Texas A&M
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 402A

Keeping Up Appearances: Historicizing Trans and Gender Variance in and across Art History
“Canonical Undoings: Notes on Trans Art and Archives”
Stamatina Gregory, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 501C

Championing the Relevancy of Studio Art and Art History in the Twenty-first Century: Stories of Success and Advocacy (Community College Professors of Art and Art History CCPAAH)
“Art History and Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning: A Model for Twenty-First Century Pedagogy”
Kathleen Wentrack, The City University of New York, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Time: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 402A

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THURS 2/22
How Many Ways to Miss the Mark? Lucio Fontana Between Formalism and Historicity
“Out of the Rubbles: Fontana and Cagli, 1936-1949”
Raffaele Bedarida, The Cooper Union
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 409A

International Image Interoperability Framework Use Cases for Enhanced Research and Collection Engagement
Chair: Emily Pugh, The Getty Research Institute
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 404B

The Postwar Environment in Global Context
“The City-Body Nexus: Argentinean ‘Ambientaciones'”
Daniel R. Quiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 406B

– Bus Tour of Great Wall of Los Angeles with Prof. Anna Indych-Lopez and Public Art Dialogue (PAD) organizer, Annie Dell’ARia
– Join us for a bus tour of The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judy Baca, this year’s recipient of the Public Art Dialogue (PAD) Annual Award. Refreshments will be served.
– Bus will meet outside the main entrance of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
– RSVP: Please email Annie Dell’Aria at dellarab@miamioh.edu
Time: 11:00AM–2:00PM
Location: Field Trip to Great Wall of L.A.

Changing Hands: When Art History Meets the Art Market (The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA)
Co-Chair: Veronique Chagnon-Burke, Christie’s Education
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 404B

Intercontinental: Indigenous Artists of the Americas on the Contemporary Art Stage
“Indigeneity and the Artist as Activist: Chavajay and Cordova at SITE Santa Fe”
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, Ford Foundation
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 409B

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FRI 2/23

University of California Press Exhibitor Session: Creative Art Book Promotion and How to Find Audiences that Matter
Panelist: Anastasia Aukeman, Parsons School of Design, New York City
Time: 8:30AM–10:00AM
Location: Room 511A

Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s
Chairs: Jeehey Kim, Independent Scholar; Midori Yamamura, Kingsborough Community College
– ” “Delicious Life”: The Cold War and Saison Culture at Japan’s Turn towards the Tertiary Industry”
Midori Yamamura, Kingsborough Community College
– “Cold War and Photography in the 1970’s East Asia”
Jeehey Kim, Independent Scholar
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 409B

Taking it to the Streets: The Visual and Material Culture of Women’s Marches
“Not All Women Have Pussies: Towards a Transfeminist History of Protest Art”
Tara Burk, Rutgers University
Time: 4:00PM–5:30PM
Location: Room 501B

Craft: Unsettling Hierarchies
“Rule Following: Lowell Darling and Uncivil Obedience”
Monica Steinberg, University of Southern California
Time: 6:00PM–7:30PM
Location: Room 408B

SAT 2/24

Experiments with Technology in Latin American Art
Discussant: Daniel Quiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 404B

Interaction with Color Redux
Chair: Joyce Polistena, Pratt Institute
Time: 10:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 402B

The Exhibition as Critical Practice (Southeastern College Art Conference SECAC)
“Beyond Fountain: The 1917 Independents Exhibition”
Sarah Archino, Furman University
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 407

Time, Space, Movement: Art Between Perception, Imagination, and Fiction
“Space, Time, and Motion in Maziar Moradi’s Ich Werde Deutsch”
Peter Chametzky, University of South Carolina
Time: 2:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 406A