Creleisure Talk: What\u2019s Hidden in the Subterranean?
\nSaturday, June 18 | 2-3 PM | RSVP Free
\nScholars of Oiticica will discuss their reactions to the realization of PN15, which was only previously known through archival research. Speakers are encouraged to release subconscious thoughts that arise through their experience. Points for discussion include: How does this project reflect Oiticica\u2019s years in New York and what he pursued after? Where is the Subterranean located among the public and private spheres?\u00a0 If the site of the park or garden is in some ways, always already supra-sensorial, how does the PN15 live within that space?
\nWith
\nLaura Harris, Assistant Professor, NYU
\nAim\u00e9 Iglesias-Lukin, Director and Chief Curator, Americas Society
\nElisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art
\nJess Wilcox, Curator, Socrates Sculpture Park
\nImage Credit: Maquette for Subterranean Tropic\u00e1lia Projects: PN15 Penetrable, 1971. Nylon mesh and cardboard. Photographer Miguel Rio Branco, \u00a9C\u00e9sar and Claudio Oiticica
\nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS Laura Harris
\nAssistant Professor
\nNew York University<\/p>\n
Laura Harris is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Art & Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University, an M.A. from the New School for Social Research, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019s research interests include film, media and visual studies, hemispheric American studies, black studies, and feminist and queer studies. She is the author of\u00a0Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, H\u00e9lio Oiticica and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness\u00a0(Fordham University Press, 2019). She has also published in\u00a0Social Text,\u00a0Women & Performance,\u00a0Criticism,\u00a0The South Atlantic Quarterly\u00a0and other journals.<\/p>\n
Before joining the faculty at NYU, Harris worked as an Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside and as a Lecturing Fellow in the English Department and the Cinematic Arts Program at Duke University. Aim\u00e9 Iglesias-Lukin
\nDirector and Chief Curator
\nAmericas Society<\/p>\n
Aim\u00e9 Iglesias Lukin is an art historian and curator. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she has lived in New York since 2011. She is finishing her PhD in art history at Rutgers University with a dissertation titled, \u201cThis Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York 1965\u20131975,\u201d which seeks to map the international networks through which migrant artists from across the hemisphere created communities in the metropolis, analyzing topics of travel, exile, and identity in these artists\u2019 artworks.<\/p>\n
She completed her M.A. at The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and her undergraduate studies in art history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her research received grants from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Terra and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, and the ICAA Peter C. Marzio Award from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her writing has been presented at conferences internationally and published by prestigious museums and academic journals, including the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum. She curated exhibitions independently in museums and cultural centers and previously worked in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and Fundaci\u00f3n Proa in Buenos Aires. Elisabeth Sussman
\nCurator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography
\nWhitney Museum of American Art
\nImage Credit: Scott Rudd Elisabeth Sussman joined the Whitney as Curator in 1991 and was named Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography in 2004. She oversees the Whitney\u2019s collection of photography and the Photography Acquisition Committee, and organizes special and touring exhibitions. Most recently, she co-curated Rachel Harrison Life Hack, Nick Mauss: Transitions, and co-organized the Whitney\u2019s presentation of Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. She has also curated or co-curated two exhibitions which won International Association of Art Critics (AICA) annual awards for best monographic show in New York; Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective (2010), and Gordon Matta-Clark: \u201cYou Are the Measure\u201d (2007). Other notable Whitney exhibitions include Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes (1993), Nan Goldin: I\u2019ll Be Your Mirror (1996), and the Whitney Biennial in 1993 and 2012. Before joining the Whitney, Ms. Sussman served as Interim Director (1991) and Deputy Director for Programs (1989\u201391) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, following stints as Chief Curator (1982\u201389) and Curator (1976\u201382). Jess Wilcox
\nCurator & Director of Exhibitions
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Jess Wilcox is the Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park where she has curated several group and solo exhibitions including \u2018Chronos Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space\u2019; Virginia Overton: \u2018Built\u2019; \u2018Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again\u2019; \u2019The Socrates Annual\u2019 exhibitions; and the Folly\/Function architectural competition. From 2011-2015 she worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, organizing public programs and public artworks including Agitprop!, an exhibition of historical and contemporary political art. Wilcox has a BA from Barnard College and a Master\u2019s degree from Bard CCS.<\/p>\n
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