George Levitine Lecture: Mabel O. Wilson, "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems"
George Levitine Lecture: Mabel O. Wilson, "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems"
Since 1971, the department and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art have jointly sponsored the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art.
The 52nd Annual Sessions of the Symposium will be held virtually on Friday and Saturday, March 4th and 5th, 2022. The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 4th, when Professor Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University, will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture at the University of Maryland. The title of her talk, which she will deliver at 6 pm, is "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems."
In her lecture, entitled "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems," Professor Wilson will examine how prolific artist Carrie Mae Weems creates mise en scène explorations of history, place, and meaning. Weems meticulously constructs counter histories that expose how photography became a tool in the arsenal of racialization. Across her works Weems asks if it is possible to disengage the racial double bind that melds the ahistoricity of blackness that located Black people outside of modernity to the primacy of blackness that kept it fundamental to modernity’s historical unfolding and modernism’s fertile imagination.
Register here for the Livestream
Register for in-person lecture: https://go.umd.edu/InPersonMAS22Keynote. Registration is limited to the first 75 people.
Click here for information about Saturday, March 5th program.
Since 1971, the department and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art have jointly sponsored the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art.
The 52nd Annual Sessions of the Symposium will be held virtually on Friday and Saturday, March 4th and 5th, 2022. The symposium will begin on Friday evening, March 4th, when Professor Mabel O. Wilson, the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University, will deliver this year’s George Levitine Lecture at the University of Maryland. The title of her talk, which she will deliver at 6 pm, is "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems."
In her lecture, entitled "Spaces in the Shadows – the Archives and Architectures in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems," Professor Wilson will examine how prolific artist Carrie Mae Weems creates mise en scène explorations of history, place, and meaning. Weems meticulously constructs counter histories that expose how photography became a tool in the arsenal of racialization. Across her works Weems asks if it is possible to disengage the racial double bind that melds the ahistoricity of blackness that located Black people outside of modernity to the primacy of blackness that kept it fundamental to modernity’s historical unfolding and modernism’s fertile imagination.
Register here for the Livestream
Register for in-person lecture: https://go.umd.edu/InPersonMAS22Keynote. Registration is limited to the first 75 people.
Click here for information about Saturday, March 5th program.