Public Programming Highlights This list includes events held between September 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Due to COVID-19 and with the health and safety of our community in mind, our public programs remained virtual this past year. Despite the challenges we collectively faced, we embraced the opportunities created by online public programming that allowed us to organize a wide-ranging series of engaging presentations. Our virtual events brought scholars, artists, conservator, curators, and students together in conversation with a diverse, international audience, often from as many as twenty different countries. We look forward to staying connected to our ever-expanding community, and to gathering in the hallways of the James B. Duke House once more. For more information about events at the Institute, please see the events archive on our website. While there, we hope you will enjoy viewing the recordings of many of our past events.
Artists at the Institute Taking advantage of the Institute’s location in one of the world’s leading art centers, the Graduate Student Association invites artists to discuss their work at the Institute. Begun in 1983, the series normally includes two presentations per semester. The 2020 - 2021 student coordinators are Lilia Kudelia, Alexa Chabora, and Xitong Tang.
Madeline Hollander is an artist who works with performance, film and installation to explore how human movement and body-language negotiate their limits within everyday systems of technology, intellectual property law, and daily ritual. Her performances and installations present continuously
looping events that intervene within spatial, psychological and temporal landscapes, and engage with alternate modes of viewership, replication and archive.
Patty Chang discussed her practice starting from performance, moving through video, expanding to research projects such as the acclaimed exhibition titled Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake 2009-2017 at the Queens Museum in New York, up to her current multichannel project Milk Debt on view at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn from March 5 to May 16, 2021. Chang is an artist working in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her early performance work was influenced by 1960s and ‘70s performance work, as well as identity politics of the 1980s and ‘90s. More recently, her work has been focused on site-specific, performative, narrative projects that deal with cultural imaginaries, the environment, and the body.
83 The Institute of Fine Arts Annual 2020 - 2021
Annual Lecture Series, Colloquia, and Consortia
