knowledges

knowledges

Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas

Danielle Roney, Penumbra, 2019. PVC sheet, LED mesh, controller, data-driven animations, participant biofeedback recordings, steel, 1 power supply, 2 data/power cables. Courtesy of the artist.

October 7, 2019
knowledges
August 24, 2019–January 5, 2020
Colloquium: November 5–7, talks related to art, research, and social justice
Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas
1301 Mississippi St
66045 Lawrence KS
www.spencerart.ku.edu
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The exhibition knowledges at the Spencer Museum of Art rethinks the academic art museum as an active participant in a university's research community by highlighting the work of artists as researchers and art as a form of research. The exhibition features site-specific commissions by four contemporary installation artists: Assaf Evron, Danielle Roney, Fatimah Tuggar, and Andrew S. Yang

The work of these artists corresponds to four different areas of research supported by the Spencer Museum's Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI): data visualization, immigration, social histories, and ecologies. The exhibition's title is intentionally lowercase and plural to emphasize that knowledge creation does not only occur in laboratories, scholarly publications, and lecture halls. Art is a form of knowledge that contributes to many fields of inquiry, and the installations in knowledges reflect on the many ways knowledges are created.

In conjunction with the knowledges exhibition, IARI will host a three-day colloquium to reflect on art, research, and social justice, November 5–7.  This colloquium also serves as a pre-conference for the national Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) gathering hosted at the University of Kansas November 7–9.

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