Conference - Situate Yourself
The Art History Graduate Student Association (AHGSA) of Concordia University invites you to its annual art history graduate conference
Situate Yourself / Situez-Vous
A Graduate Conference on Embodied Knowledge in Art and Visual Culture
Keynote Speaker
Natasha Myers
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Program in Science and Technology Studies, York University
"Feeling/Knowing, Making/Growing: Artists, Scientists, and Botanical Experiments"
Though the ends of art and science may be very different, artists and scientists have much in common, especially when it comes to the finely honed craft skills and forms of embodied knowledge that shape their various modes of experimental inquiry. In this talk, I explore how both artists and scientists work through the tensions between "feeling" and "knowing" as they build experimental systems to explore the contours of sentience and sensibility in botanical life. In the process, I show how both artists and scientists get affectively entangled with the moving, sensing plants that form the centre of their inquiry, and how the intensity of their feelings come to shape their botanical knowledge.
Additional information
Where:
FRIDAY MARCH 16: MB 3.210
Concordia University, JMSB building, 1450 Guy Street
SATURDAY MARCH 17: EV 1.615
(York Amphitheater), Concordia University, EV Building
1515 Ste-Catherine West
When: 16 - 17 March 2012
Current Situation At Concordia University
Please note that many student associations across Quebec, including at Concordia University, have been voting to go out on strike and many groups have strikes that are currently in effect or will be by the time of the Situate Yourself conference. Strike organizers have been clear that they wish student events to continue and that these will not be disrupted in any way by picketing or other actions. In fact, striking students are being encouraged by strike organizers to attend such events as alternative forms of education while classes are not being attended. AHGSA has taken steps to acknowledge and incorporate the strike within our conference to show our support and solidarity by way of performative protests, impromptu art exhibitions, and participatory art projects taking place during the conference.