A Symposium with Students
June 14th, 2007Monday and Tuesday, June 11 and 12, the Pulitzer hosted an experimental symposium in relation to Portrait/Homage/Embodiment. It was essentially a series of conversations with professors and graduate students from five schools: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Wash. U. (departments of art history) and Ohio State (the department of art). The program–determined by students–allowed for some great moments of dialogue between art historians and artists. Not least among them: a discussion on “the performance of portraiture” followed by a kind of performative conclusion by Ann Hamilton.
We should have some textual and visual documentation in the “events and programs” section of our website in the coming weeks. Check back soon. In the meantime, I recommend you take a look at the documentation of our Sugimoto symposium on September 30, 2006. The interesting “reflections” on the symposium, written by four graduate students in attendance, had a considerable influence on our decision to invite so many more graduate students to this recent symposium.
