Since shameless self-promotion seems to be a prerequisite of participating in CAA, I figured I’d join in the fun.
(though, I wouldn’t be pushing it if it weren’t going to be great!!) :) (more…)
CAA News
Encouraged by the warm climate and the postmodern architecture in Los Angeles, conference organizers have recently decided that the 2010 CAA annual conference will be in Dubai, and they’re are already hard at work at next year’s sessions. Here are some samples of panels that have already been accepted:
The Merleau-Ponty effect in high modernism: Greenberg and Fried’s secret love affair with phenomenology in the underground café culture of 1950s Manhattan. (or, “Was that really Clement Greenberg in that photo of a Happening at the Franklin Furnace?”)
A Paradigmatic Paradigm shift; from Diderot to Baudrillard and back again in seconds on Second Life (this panel will be presented as a webcast only, streaming live from the book fair)
Hands off my object fetish: touching the curve, stroking the brush, and redefining the tactile in the realm of supraphysicality.
Dismantling Discursivity in the 21st Century: Sanctioning the myopia of an iconographic taxonomy of signs and analogons (signalagons) in pictorial representation.
Impacted Colon: The Role of Paper Titles in Signaling Political Affiliation, Disciplinary Adherence, and Career Aspiration.
Untouching Site/Sight: privileging smell, dissembling the somatic, and recannonizing the metasenses.
IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH. THIS JUST IN:
Mary Kelly has been abducted by a rebel faction of Greenbergian formalists, and is currently MIA. An unmarked black sedan intercepted her while on her way to her office at UCLA, just after being dropped off by her husband early this morning, witnesses say. “Yes, I’m sure it was her…I saw the hair” one student said, still in shock after hearing that her Lacan seminar had been cancelled for the day. Previous reports suspected that conference proceedings may be interrupted by such traditionalists, but authorities had expected the disruption to occur at the Convention Center. The incident at the Broad Center has artists and art historians alike in a tizzy.
But, in all seriousness folks, the Mary Kelly lecture scheduled for tonight HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The Hammer will have a lovely open house instead. Stay tuned for further details.
If you spot a black car that fits the description above, and has the license plate SFFRJET, please notify the authorities immediately.
Here’s a heads-up for a free event to those of you arriving in Los Angeles on Tuesday. This conversation, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), comes in the first days of the exhibition Dan Graham: Beyond. I hope to attend; if I do I’ll have some images and commentary afterward. Check out MOCA’s Calendar for more events at the museum this week.
“Periodizing Contemporary Art: Alex Alberro in Conversation with Johanna Burton”
February 24, 2009
7:00 PM
MOCA Grand Avenue, Ahmanson Auditorium
Join leading scholars Alexander Alberro and Johanna Burton for a broad-ranging discussion of contemporary art and culture. Alberro will offer an overview of his book-in-progress, “Periodizing Contemporary Art,” to which Burton will respond. The speakers will then engage the audience in a collective dialogue about the politics, possibilities, and problems of contemporary art today and in the recent past. “Periodizing Contemporary Art” is cosponsored by the Contemporary Project at the University of Southern California and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
