12 Jun 2023 15 00 - 21:00 Symposium Translation, Mediation, Power Translation can be understood in different ways: as a practice, a concept, a technique, a method, a site of contestation. This symposium is especially interested in the unsettling potential of translation as a form of mediation that can either re-enact or challenge structures of power. 14 15 Jun 2023 14 00 - 21:00 Symposium Bichos Animal Fantasies between Art and Madness From the late 1960s onwards, Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–1988) developed a series of unstable and manipulable sculptures that she named bichos — ‘beast’, ‘animal’, or ‘critter’. 15 Jun 2023 19 00 Artist Talk Staged Reading Falatório Stella do Patrocínio´s Chatter Stella do Patrocínio (1941-1992) was hospitalized in 1962 in the psychiatric hospital Colônia Juliano Moreira in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 21. In the asylum, where she remained until her death, she developed her unclassifiable falatório, a performative, poetic, violent, critical, and prophetic chatter, centering around bichos as one of the main and disruptive figures. 19 Jun 2023 19 30 Lecture Screening Xiaowei Wang Rendering Intelligence: Biomedical Datasets and the Impossible Image The impossible image describes the botanical illustrations crucial to building the British Empire, and the ways botanical drawings emerged as a moral model. Wang will draw the connections between the impossible image of botanical illustrations and the traces of the impossible image in current understandings of generative AI. 28 Jun 2023 19 00 Discussion Metaverse Landscapes Technology and Territory Coming out of what the New York Times has called a long tradition of innovation and impunity that marks the Silicon Valley, how can one understand the entrepreneurial and territorial politics of the Metaverse and related developments in the digital sphere? 3 Jul 2023 19 30 Lecture Thomas Harrison From Material to Symbol, to Model: The Bridge This lecture will present the bridge as a structure of interconnectivity by which one passes from one form or familiarity to another. The bridge is a model of communication. By locking two into the space of one, it enables thought and the experience of the social. 7 Jul 2023 19 30 Lecture Amelia Jones Performing Absence as Intervention: The Case of Lee Lozano The artist has long been understood in conventional Western art history, art criticism, and curatorial practice as the site of active agency, as the origin of the meaning and value of the work of art. 12 Jul 2023 19 30 Lecture Reading Maggie Nelson The Forms Things Want to Come As Rather than take up the literary world’s on and off obsession with classifications and genre demarcations, this talk will center on the relationship between ideas, things, forms, and shapes — how writing can be a practice of, as poet A. R. Ammons once put it, looking for ‘the forms|things want to come as’.
