February 2023 CAA 111th Annual Conference- New York City, NY
Mid-February I attended the 111th Annual College Art Association conference. The first session I took in was "Intersections and Entanglements: Objects of Mobility in the Ancient and Early Modern Periods"
Chairs: Patricia Alexander Lagarde, Tulane University and Scott Miller, Northwestern University Discussants:
• “An Obelisk, A Glass, and a Cast: Why Mobility Matters for Roman Art History” by Kimberly B. Cassibry
• “A Concentrated Vision Made Portable: Round Fans, Aesthetic Staging, and the Lin'an Art Market” by Meng Zhao, University of Michigan
• “Mobility and Transformation: The Chinese Porcelain Fu Lion in Seventeenth-Century Peru”, by Joaneath A. Spicer
• “The Haw'itmis That Discovered Europe: Nuu-chah-nulth and Colonial Entanglements” by Monica Anke Hahn.
I attended the Convocation, which was pretty depressing...i.e., prompted by its closure, a beautiful telling of the history of San Francisco Institute of Art... a key-note speech on the general state of arts and liberal arts/humanities education being under funded, primarily due to monies being funneled to STEM programming, due primarily to political might of the far right.
I attended a logistically informative session titled "Meet the Editors: Book Publishing for First Time Authors" Chairs: Lisa Regan, TextFormations
Aaron M. Hyman, Johns Hopkins University Discussants:
• "Yale University Press", Amy Canonico, Yale University Press
• "Penn State University Press", Eleanor Goodman, Penn State University Press
• "Princeton University Press”, Michelle Komie, Princeton University Press
• "Duke University Press" Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press
I went on a really inspired/inspiring Merrily Kerr Chelsea Gallery exhibitions tour that included several exciting exhibitions:
• Shades of Daphne @ Kasmin Gallery, 509 West 27th Street
• Chiharu Shiota @ Templon Gallery, 293 Tenth Ave
• William Christenberry & RaMell Ross @ Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street
• David Hockney @ Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, ground floor
• Y.Z. Kami @ Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street
• Roberto Cuoghi @ Hauser & Wirth Gallery, 542 West 22nd Street
And my favorite session, titled “Hybridity and Praxis: The Artist as Researcher”, was encouraging re: taking on a practice-based PhD
Chairs: Laura Hyunjhee Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
Christina Corfield, SUNY University at Buffalo Dept of Media Study
Discussants:
• "Cardboard as Intermedial Site", Christina Corfield, SUNY University at Buffalo Department of Media Study
• "Flocks as Emergent Turn in Narrative", Kevin Sweet and Laura Hyunjhee Kim, University of Texas at Dallas
• "Sonic Futures: The Decolonization of Voice", Dorothy Resplandor Santos, University of California, Santa Cruz
• "Touch Praxis", Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweida
