Art and politics are contested and overlapping fields that are complexly manifested in the theory and artwork of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists. This symposium seeks to investigate artists attempts to deploy art as a means of political force and to critically engage with radically changing conditions of modern and contemporary life. This tradition stretches across media and time, from the visual strategies of the historical avant-garde in the early twentieth century to more recent artistic work emerging in opposition to globalism, and the ensuing political, economic, and military domination of the new worlds super-powers. Selected from an international pool of applicants, six graduate students will present their papers at the symposium. Keynote address: Friday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. Thomas Keenan Director, Human Rights Project, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Bard College Symposium: Saturday, April 14, 10:00 a.m.4:30 p.m., Founders Room, sixth floor 10:00 a.m. INTRODUCTION David E. Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, The Museum of Modern Art 10:1510:45 a.m. Tom Williams, Stony Brook University Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg, Pop Art, and the Cultural Revolution 10:4511:15 a.m. Taína B. Caragol, The Graduate Center, CUNY Hemispheric Tendencies: The Display of Latin American Abstract and Perceptual Art at the Center for Inter-American Relations (19671977) 11:1511:45 a.m. Luke Skrebowski, Middlesex University, England All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke’s Systems Art 11:45 a.m.12:15 p.m. DISCUSSION Branden JosephModerator Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary American and European Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University 12:151:45 p.m. LUNCH BREAK 1:452:15 p.m. Irmgard Emmelhainz, University of Toronto Jean-Luc Godards Militant Filmmaking Between Bretons Objective Engagement and Sartres Engaged Activism (19671974) 2:152:45 p.m. Taro E. F. Nettleton, University of Rochester An Adult is Being Beaten: Infantility, Development, and Power in Shuji Terayama’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup 2:453:15 p.m. Emily Liebert, Columbia University Mapping Alternatives: The Center for Land Use Interpretation and the Politics of Neutrality 3:15 4:30 p.m. DISCUSSION Claire BishopModerator Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Warwick University Please join us for a reception following the symposium. Presenters were selected from an international pool of applicants by an advisory committee consisting of: Claire Bishop, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Warwick University Salah Hassan, Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, and Associate Professor, Department of Art History at Cornell University Branden Joseph, Associate Professor, Modern and Contemporary American and European Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University From The Museum of Modern Art: Amy Horschak, Educator, Department of Education David E. Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, Department of Education Joachim Pissarro, Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs Symposium organized by: Amy Horschak, Educator, Department of Education, The Museum of Modern Art David E. Little, Director, Adult and Academic Programs, Department of Education, The Museum of Modern Art Both events are open to the public and will take place at The Museum of Modern Art, on Friday in Titus 2 and on Saturday in the sixth-floor Founders Room. Tickets can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the Film and Media desk at The Museum of Modern Art or online at http://www.ticketweb.com/. For complete information please visit, http://www.moma.org/education/symposium_2007.html Or e-mail Amy Horschak at Amy_Horschak@moma.org