Digital conference
The exhibition Mapping the Collection at Museum Ludwig, Cologne takes a new approach to understanding the US-American art of the 1960s and 1970s, taking the societal and political upheaval of these two decades as the backdrop. Postcolonial and settler colonial, feminist and queer discourse are the starting point from which familiar narratives and common modes of reception of US-American art are questioned.
The digital conference will bring together art historians, critics, and curators to discuss the development of US-American art in these two decades and beyond. Like the exhibition, the conference’s focus is on art-historical discourses that are informed by queer studies, feminist theory, and postcolonialism. The talks discuss, question, and challenge familiar narratives as well as the connections between art history and canon. Curatorial practice will be discussed as a possible way of offering new routes for understanding and interpretation that paint a much more varied and diverse picture of US-American art.
Participants
Dr. Fiona Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Art History in the Fine Art Department, Newcastle University, UK
Lena Essling, Curator of Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne, Institute of Art History, University of Münster
Genevieve Hyacinthe, PhD, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Prof. Jonathan D. Katz, PhD, Associate Professor of Practice in Art History and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Stephanie Weber, Curator, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Concept and moderator: Janice Mitchell, Terra Foundation Collection Research Fellow in American Art
Please sign up until October 8 by sending an email to: socialmedia [at] museum-ludwig.de.
You can learn more about the exhibition here.
The exhibition is the result of the Terra Foundation Research Fellowship in American Art at the Museum Ludwig. The conference is funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
