Category: Happenings at Bard

A lecture by Mark R. Eischeid Thursday, September 10th 11:50 AM Mark R. Eischeid is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon where he teaches history, theory, and design. He received his MFA in Art Space + Nature from the Edinburgh College of Art, an MLA from UC Berkeley, and a…

Acts of Political Uncertainty: Towards a Daily Practice of Resistance When : Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, starting at 6:00pm, open to the public Where: Lázló Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, Bard College Jeanne van Heeswijk’s lecture will demonstrate how active forms of citizenship can engage constituencies and communities in critical public issues. Van Heeswijk will describe how…

Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time-Stretching a Talk by Mara Mills Talking books for blind readers spurred the commercialization of mainstream audiobooks after World War II, but the two formats soon diverged in terms of reading strategies. Mills will discuss the cultural imperative for aural speed reading that drove early…

Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Bard College alumna, Class of 1959. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body.…

Peter Christensen Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Rochester will give a talk Modes of Transmission in Late Ottoman Architecture This talk will examine the nature of architectural culture and production within the late Ottoman empire. In its last century of existence, the Ottoman empire bore witness to both a rapid dissolution of its…

THE GROUP PHOTO AND THE”POLICY OF DISAPPEARANCE” IN STALIN’S RUSSIA The aim of this lecture is to analyze from the political and aesthetic perspective the phenomenon of the elimination of the “public enemies” from group photos in Russia during the Stalin era. The analysis has as its empirical starting point photographs we have discovered in…

Assistant Professor Fine Arts and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Robert Slifkin will give a talk “The Empty Room and the End of Man” During the 1960s and early 1970s many artists in the United States created works that through their monumental scale, use of refracted light, and architectonic enclosures encouraged viewers…

Sanctified Sandals—Polemics and Prophetic Relics in an Era of Technological Reproducibility Barry Flood, Professor of Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, NYU Monday, November 10, 2014 Olin, Room 102 5 pm Although recent controversies about the historical representation of the Prophet Muhammad have focused on figural paintings, these were relatively…

Theater and Performance and the LAIS Program present a lecture by José Estaban Muñoz “Feeling Brown: The Performativity of María Irene Fornés and Tania Bruguera”   Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 6:30 pm Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio