Tentative Schedule for Bodies of Art Conference
Thursday:
9:00 – 9:15 Welcoming Remarks (Senate Chambers)
Richard Shusterman, Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
9:15-10:15 Linda Nochlin (Senate Chambers)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Session A (3 presenters, Senate Chambers)
Peg Brand, IUPUI;
“Mistaking Monstrous Beauty: ORLAN’s Virtual Beauty”
Rachel Hurst, St. Francis Xavier University;
“Love and Sex Forged In Silicone: Amber Hawk Swanson, Femininity and Synthetic
Embodiment”
Emily Newman, City University of New York;
“I just got to change: Faith Ringgold, Oprah Winfrey and the Plight of the Black Female
Body in the Late 1980s”
10:30-12:00 Session B (3 presenters, Live Oak)
Jennifer Shaw, Indiana University;
“Unsettled Bodies and Embodied Vision: Dorothea Tanning’s Prismatic Works of the
1950s”
Jennifer Sudul, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU;
“Cattle, Colanders and Cathedrals: Niki de Saint Phalle’s Women”
Elizabeth Adan, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo;
“Between the Body and the Image in the Work of Francesca Woodman”
Lunch-12-1:30
1:30-2:50 Session A (3 presenters, Senate Chambers)
Elise Archias, California State University, Chico;
“Everyday Sex in Schneemann’s Concretions”
Laini Burton, Art Theory, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University;
“Pipilotti Rist’s Metaphoric Body: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)”
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University, Kuwait;
“The New Woman: From the Stigmatized Tattoo to Spatial Body Graffiti”
1:30-2:50 Session B (3 presenters, Live Oak)
Jennifer Grayburn, University of Virginia;
“Science and Social Influence in Medieval Gynecological Manuscripts and Images”
Ilenia Colon, University of Central Florida;
“The Hyper-real Body: The Cristos Yacentes of Gregorio Fernández”
Ellery Foutch, University of Pennsylvania;
“Embodying the Medium: Eugen Sandow and Bodybuilding as Sculpture”
BREAK
3:00-4:50 Session A (Senate Chambers)
Raphael Cuir, Advancia-Negocia, Paris;
“’Know Thyself ,’ Art and Anatomy : A Discontinued History”
Anna Schober, Verona University;
“Concepts of ‘gender’ as triggers of artistic imagination”
3:00-4:50 Session B (3 presenters, Live Oak)
Dawn Leach, University Oldenburg and the Academy of Fine Art, Düsseldorf;
“Body Pieces by Nan Hoover: Sublation of Gender”
Michelle Meagher, University of Alberta;
“Suzy Lake: Self Presentation and the Aging Artist’s Body.”
Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross;
“Kiki Smith’s and Judith Schaechter’s Bodies on Glass”
5-6 ORLAN (Senate Chambers)
6:30-Opening Reception
Friday
9-10:00 Session A (AH 205 2 presenters)
Robin Veder, Penn State;
“Georgia O’Keeffe, Ida Rolf, and Muscle Memory”
L. Ryan Musgrave, Rollins College, FL
"Somatic Experience in Feminist Aesthetics: From Addams to Spero."
9-10:50 Session B (Culture Building, 3 presenters)
Lori Beavis, Concordia University, Montreal;
“Sexy Indians: An examination of Native Sexual Identity in the work of contemporary
Native Canadian artists”
Pradeep A. Dhillon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
“Imaging Critique: Amrita Sher-Gil on Paul Gauguin’s Body Exotic”
Karen A. Stock, Winthrop University;
“Somatic Cartography: The work of Susan Harbage Page”
11:00-12:00 ORLAN walk-through