ABOUT Charlotte Moorman’s innovative performance art, collaborations with other artists, and founding and coordination of the Annual New York Avant Garde Festival from 1963 until 1980 made her a fixture in the New York art scene as well as a significant—albeit understudied—figure in the history of contemporary art. In conjunction with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum’s exhibition, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the AvantGarde, 1960s–1980s, the Emerging Scholars Symposium welcomes six graduates students from PhD programs across the country to present papers on Moorman’s life and work and the larger impact of her creative vision on artistic practice from the 1960s to the present.
A FEAST OF ASTONISHMENTS: EMERGING SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM
The symposium has been organized by Faye Gleisser and Erin Reitz, PhD candidates in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, with the generous support of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the Department of Art History. Special thanks are due to the Block Museum’s Corinne Granof and Cynthia Noble for their guidance and Lindsay Bosch and Holly Warren for their logistical support. Exhibit Dates: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University January 16–July 17, 2016 Grey Art Gallery, New York University September 8–December 10, 2016 Museum der Moderne Salzburg March 4–June 18, 2017 Cover photograph: Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik’s TV Bed, Bochum Art Week, Bochum, West Germany, August 28–September 3, 1973 © Hartmut Beifuss
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016 EVANS ALUMNI CENTER PANEL PRESENTATIONS BLOCK MUSEUM KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION
SCHEDULE 9:50 AM
10:00 AM
Evans Alumni Center: Welcome and opening remarks by Corinne Granof, Curator of Academic Programs, Block Museum; Faye Gleisser and Erin Reitz, PhD candidates in Art History, Northwestern University Panel #1: Collaborations and Contexts Moderated by Elise Archias, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago o Saisha Grayson, PhD candidate in Art History, CUNY, “Producing Platforms: Charlotte Moorman, Lucy Lippard and Catalytic Curating” o Caitlin Schmid, PhD candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University, “‘Musicians Using Bizarre Sounds’: Charlotte Moorman’s New York Avant Garde Festival and Performance Art as Music”
11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:15 AM
Panel #2: The Body Moderated by Laura Joseph, Consulting Curatorial Associate, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s o Sophie Landres, PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, “Deus Ex Machina: How Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik First Humanized Technology” o Hayan Kim, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Legacy of the Living Sculpture: Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik, 1965–1972”
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Panel #3: Popular Media and Persona Moderated by Michelle Puetz, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum o Chris Reeves, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Late Night Avant-Garde” o Evelyn Kreutzer, PhD candidate in Screen Cultures, Northwestern University, “Of Water Tanks and TV Bras: Media Self-Reflexivity and the Implied Listener in the Video and Performance Art of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik”
3:15 PM
Block Museum: Q&A in the galleries with curators Corinne Granof and Laura Joseph
4:00 PM
Keynote: Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, "Public Figures and Breakers of Laws: A Critique of Contemporary Performance Art"
5:00 PM
Reception
For more information about the symposium—including brief biographies of the participants—and additional programming related to the exhibition, please see the Block Museum’s website: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu
SCHEDULE 9:50 AM
10:00 AM
Evans Alumni Center: Welcome and opening remarks by Corinne Granof, Curator of Academic Programs, Block Museum; Faye Gleisser and Erin Reitz, PhD candidates in Art History, Northwestern University Panel #1: Collaborations and Contexts Moderated by Elise Archias, Assistant Professor, School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago o Saisha Grayson, PhD candidate in Art History, CUNY, “Producing Platforms: Charlotte Moorman, Lucy Lippard and Catalytic Curating” o Caitlin Schmid, PhD candidate in Historical Musicology, Harvard University, “‘Musicians Using Bizarre Sounds’: Charlotte Moorman’s New York Avant Garde Festival and Performance Art as Music”
11:00 AM
Coffee break
11:15 AM
Panel #2: The Body Moderated by Laura Joseph, Consulting Curatorial Associate, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s o Sophie Landres, PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, “Deus Ex Machina: How Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik First Humanized Technology” o Hayan Kim, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Legacy of the Living Sculpture: Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik, 1965–1972”
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM
Panel #3: Popular Media and Persona Moderated by Michelle Puetz, Pick-Laudati Curator of Media Arts, Block Museum o Chris Reeves, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Late Night Avant-Garde” o Evelyn Kreutzer, PhD candidate in Screen Cultures, Northwestern University, “Of Water Tanks and TV Bras: Media Self-Reflexivity and the Implied Listener in the Video and Performance Art of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik”
3:15 PM
Block Museum: Q&A in the galleries with curators Corinne Granof and Laura Joseph
4:00 PM
Keynote: Kristine Stiles, France Family Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University, "Public Figures and Breakers of Laws: A Critique of Contemporary Performance Art"
5:00 PM
Reception
For more information about the symposium—including brief biographies of the participants—and additional programming related to the exhibition, please see the Block Museum’s website: http://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu
ABOUT Charlotte Moorman’s innovative performance art, collaborations with other artists, and founding and coordination of the Annual New York Avant Garde Festival from 1963 until 1980 made her a fixture in the New York art scene as well as a significant—albeit understudied—figure in the history of contemporary art. In conjunction with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum’s exhibition, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the AvantGarde, 1960s–1980s, the Emerging Scholars Symposium welcomes six graduates students from PhD programs across the country to present papers on Moorman’s life and work and the larger impact of her creative vision on artistic practice from the 1960s to the present.
A FEAST OF ASTONISHMENTS: EMERGING SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM
The symposium has been organized by Faye Gleisser and Erin Reitz, PhD candidates in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, with the generous support of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the Department of Art History. Special thanks are due to the Block Museum’s Corinne Granof and Cynthia Noble for their guidance and Lindsay Bosch and Holly Warren for their logistical support. Exhibit Dates: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University January 16–July 17, 2016 Grey Art Gallery, New York University September 8–December 10, 2016 Museum der Moderne Salzburg March 4–June 18, 2017 Cover photograph: Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik’s TV Bed, Bochum Art Week, Bochum, West Germany, August 28–September 3, 1973 © Hartmut Beifuss
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016 EVANS ALUMNI CENTER PANEL PRESENTATIONS BLOCK MUSEUM KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION