Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2017
Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4BB, UK
Convened by Julia Tatiana Bailey (Tate) and Alex J. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh)
Supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art
Reserve your place now for this major international conference. Led by Tate Research, the two-day event brings together historians of art and visual culture, to share new scholarship exploring the crossed boundaries and expanded limits of art from the United States. Border Control: On the Edges of American Art is presented as the culmination of the three-year Tate Research project Refiguring American Art and coincides with a related display at Tate Liverpool.
As space is limited, attendees must RSVP to julia.bailey@tate.org.uk by 5 May 2017.
Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
SCHEDULE
Thursday 25 May
14.00 Arrival and coffee
14.30 Welcome
Caroline Collier (Director, Partnerships and Programmes, Tate)
John Davis (Executive Director for Europe and Global Academic Programs, Terra Foundation for American Art)
14.50 Introductory Remarks | Julia Bailey and Alex Taylor
15.00 Keynote
Philip Ursprung
Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, ETH Zurich
‘Most humans, it seems, still put up fences around their acts and thoughts’: The Legacy of Allan Kaprow
15.40 Break
16.00 Session 1: Performing the Political
Monica Steinberg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southern California
Political Re-presentation: Artist-Candidates and the Boundaries of the Electoral Process
Catherine Spencer
Lecturer, University of St Andrews
Simultaneous Experience: Performance Art and the Psychology of the Border Zone
John A. Tyson
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art
‘On Sale at the Fondation Maeght’: Hans Haacke’s Un-American Art
Faye Gleisser
Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Artist Residency as Cultural Conduit: Sarabhai Patronage and the Stakes of Sponsorship
17.20 Discussion, chaired by Julia Bailey
18.00
Drinks reception and private view of the display Constellations: Highlights from the Nation’s Collection of Modern Art. Bernard Perlin, Orthodox Boys 1948
20.00 End
Friday 26 May
09.30 Arrival and coffee
10.00 Welcome | Alex Taylor and Julia Bailey
10.20 Session 2: Entering the Common Culture
Anthony Grudin
Associate Professor, University of Vermont
Policing Art’s Borders: Pop Art and Vulgarity in the 1960s
Marina Moskowitz
Reader, University of Glasgow and Edwin Pickstone, Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art
Interdisciplinary: A Conversation about Rudolph Ruzicka
Suzanne Hudson
Associate Professor, University of Southern California
‘Toward a Happier and More Successful Life,’ or When Veterans Made Art in the Modern Museum
Sarah Rich
Associate Professor, Penn State
Ellsworth Kelly’s Abstraction
11.40 Discussion, chaired by Alex Taylor
12.20 Lunch
13.20 Keynote
Cécile Whiting
Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine
The Panorama and the Globe: Expanding the American Landscape in World War II
14.00 Session 3: Traversing Space, Transcending Place
Fiona Curran
Senior Tutor, Royal College of Art
Between the Earth and the Sky: Planetary Borders in Vija Celmins’ ‘Untitled (Desert/Galaxy)’
Matthew Holman
PhD Candidate, University College London
‘Borders Meandering But Determined’: Becoming an ‘Apatride’ with Joan Mitchell and John Ashbery (1959–65)
Elizabeth Buhe
PhD Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Sam Francis’s Polycentric Abstraction
15.00 Discussion, chaired by Moran Sheleg, PhD Candidate, UCL
15.40 Response
Jo Applin, Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art
16.00 End
The conference will take place on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May 2017 at Tate Liverpool.
Enquires should be directed to julia.bailey@tate.org.uk.
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