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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Joo, Eungie. "Crisis to Collapse: The Racialized Subject in Contemporary American Art," University of California, Los Angeles, January 2002.
This dissertation project explores the racialized subject in visual art during the rise and fall of identity politics in the contemporary art establishment. While mainstream critical and curatorial contexts afforded a fairly narrow view of race, identity, and politics to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s, many artists and their works demonstrated an interdisciplinary complexity that extends far beyond the object, canvas or gallery. This understanding includes the literary, philosophical, economic, and experiential, and deserves consideration free of the trivializing confines of “identity,“ “political correctness,“ or “multiculturalism” that have elsewhere been used to dismiss the contributions of the period. Towards this goal, the dissertation considers several key works of the 1990s to discuss the formal and philosophical questions posited by the racialized subject in visual art, literature, and curatorial practice and the impact of those ideas and their interpretation.
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