9:00-9:30am: Art & Design Building, Room 331

Symposium Registration & Coffee

 

9:30-9:45am: Opening Remarks

 

9:45-11:00am: Land, Landscape, and Non-human Actors

Moderator: Tai Wakabayashi

 

Blair Winter

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“Reinterpreting the Generalife Gardens in Granada as a Domestic Space”

 

Zheming (Taro) Cai

University of Toronto

“Cultivating a Garden: Landscape-Making as Maintenance”

 

Marvin Veloso

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

“Seagulls in the City”

 

11:15am-12:30pm: The Corporeal and the Queer

Moderators: Hannah Brown and Rebekah Gooding

 

Jessica Zi Chen

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

“Transpersonal Ecology: Reimagine a Common in Marwa Arsanios and Naomi Rincón-Gallardo’s Experimental Videos”

 

Ashley Dequilla

University of Illinois Chicago

“Specters and Bones of William Jones”

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Mal Meisels

University of California Los Angeles 

“The Passy Cravat, 1864: Maintaining (Anti)Queerness and Imperial Forms on the By Estate”

 

12:30-2:00pm: Lunch Break

 

2:00-3:15pm: Survival, Borders, and Nation Building

Moderators: Lilah Leopold and Sam Veremchuk
 

Sam Veremchuk

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

“New Art in Post-Soviet Ukraine”

 

Ilinca Stingaciu

Queen’s University

“Caught in the Crossfire: Attacks on Religious Heritage and Power Dynamics During War”

 

Anneliese Hardman

University of Illinois Chicago 

“Khvay Samnang’s Preah Kunlong: Way of the Spirit (2016-17) and Preah Kunlong (2016): Embodied Neak Ta, Intervention in Ecocide, and Prescription of Deep Ecology” 

 

3:30-4:45pm: Material Institutions

Moderators: Sharayah Cochran and Alec Johnsson
 

Portia Silver

Case Western Reserve University

“The Perpetuity of Plastic: Maintenance and Colonialism in Everlasting Plastics”

 

Eric Mazariegos, Jr.

Columbia University

“Is All That Glitters Really Gold? A Case Study of Bogotá’s Museo del Oro, Entropy, and Research as Counter-Maintenance” 

 

Ashley McNelis

University of California Riverside 

“Mother Art’s Laundry Works: Making Maintenance Visible”

 

5:00pm: Closing Remarks