Feminism and the State: Art, Politics, and Resistance | TFAP@CAA: The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels at the College Art Association Annual Conference 2018

FEMINISM AND THE STATE: ART, POLITICS, AND RESISTANCE

As the first convening of TFAP@CAA conceived during the Trump administration, this symposium will address urgent, intertwined threats to feminism and radical artistic practice under a political regime antagonistic to both. Following Martha Rosler's astute analysis that "[a] critique of ideology necessitates some materialistic grounding if it is to rise above the theological," the symposium will be rooted in the material conditions of feminist practices that resist patriarchal ideologies, especially on the level of state-sanctioned control and oppression. The symposium will also open space for the discussion of practices of art and art history that shed light on historical precedents and paths for feminist resistance, with a special focus on methodologies pressing at the limits of art history. Finally, the symposium will act as a tactical platform, where feminists whose practices may not wit within conventional definitions of art are invited to share their skills and strategies.

Symposium Chairs: Jamillah James, Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Los Angeles; and Lanka Tattersall, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles

PROGRAM:

10:00-10:15 am -- Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Connie Tell (TFAP, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, Rutgers University)
Symposium Chairs: Jamillah James, Curator, Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Los Angeles; and Lanka Tattersall, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles

10:15-11:00 am -- Keynote Address
Martha Rosler

11:05 am-12:30 pm -- Borders, Bodies, and Access to Knowledge as Power
Panelists: Shoghig Halajian, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Litia Perta. Additional participants to be announced.
• This panel will discuss the multi-disciplinary struggle for cultural capital in Contemporary Native American Art and share first person aspects of an unknown, organic, highly diverse Native American art movement, based in New York City, a movement that encompasses the founding of contemporary Native American film and theater in the United States as well as the strongest contemporary Native visual arts movement outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

12:30-1:30 pm -- Lunch Break

1:30-3:00 pm -- The Web as a Political Space
Panelists: Aria Dean, Ceci Moss, Guadalupe Rosales, Marine Syms, Angela Washko.

3:05-4:30 pm -- Roundtable: Curatorial and Artistic Strategies around Activism, Representation, and Collective Space
Participants: Courtney Fink, Kate Johnson & Sarah Williams, Young Joon Kwak, Cauleen Smith. Additional participants to be announced.


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Directions to MOCA and Parking info

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For more information contact:
Connie Tell
Director, The Feminist Art Project
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
640 Bartholomew Road #125a
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: 848-932-3726
tfap@rci.rutgers.edu