On June 11 and 12, 2007, Camran Mani and Matthias Waschek moderated an informal symposium related to the exhibition Portrait/Homage/Embodiment. The participants were graduate students of art history or art and their professors from five universities: Harvard, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Washington University in St. Louis. The format of the event consisted of 10 to 15-minute presentations or, in some cases, performances, followed by discussions. The program of the event was determined by the students in consultation with the moderators.

Monday, June 11, 2007

SESSION 1 (Entrance Gallery): Dealing with Art History

 

Lanka Tattersall, Harvard University

The interface of the body and the canon

Kate Nesin, Princeton University

Bruce Nauman and the artist’s definition of the Artist

Lisa Lee, Princeton University

Double Takes: Roni Horn's Asphere (condensation, distortion, and negation)

Zachary Biberstine, The Ohio State University

The power (or powerlessness) of the artist over the fate of his work

Carol Armstrong, Princeton University

Conclusions/questions

 

SESSION 2 (Main Gallery South): The Performance of Portraiture

 

Peter Reese, The Ohio State University

The residue of action (object, image, conversation, rumor…)

Chris Meyer, Harvard University

Roland Barthes’ conception of the photographic pose: relevant to other media? From Warhol’s Most Wanted Men to Salcedo’s untitled chairs

Mary Campbell, Stanford University

Salcedo and crime: the presence/absence of the body; monetary compensation in place of commemoration

Ann Hamilton, The Ohio State University

Conclusions/questions

 

SESSION 3 (Cube Gallery): A Cindy Sherman Salon

Sarah McGavran, Washington University in St. Louis

A strange precursor: Sherman’s soup tureen

James Nisbet, Stanford University

Sherman in relation to the history of photography

Frederique Baumgartner, Harvard University

Sherman’s position to the discipline of art history

Anna Warbelow, Washington University in St. Louis

Sherman through the lens of subsequent “performance” photographers

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University

Conclusions/questions

 

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

SESSION 4 (Lower Main Gallery, Lower Gallery): The Anonymous and the Autographic

 

Iris Mickein, Princeton University

The ’ethics’ of physiognomy – the role of affect in the production and reception of portraits

Allan Doyle, Princeton University

Felix Gonzalez-Torres and the ethics of remaking Klaus Barbie

Dan Hackbarth, Stanford University

Medardo Rosso between media

Michelle Foa, Princeton University

The disappearance of the image: undermining a genre associated with the real

Sasha Wachtel, Harvard University

Giacometti’s frustration

John Klein, Washington University in St. Louis

Conclusions/questions

 

SESSION 5 (Entrance Gallery): Portraiture and Abstraction

Jamie Boyle, The Ohio State University

The incorporation of audience

Adele Mattern, The Ohio State University

“Soup Tureen: An Interview”

Matthew Bailey, Washington University in St. Louis

The relevance of authorial intentions and curatorial decisions

Mary Brunstrom, Washington University in St. Louis

The possibility of architecture as portraiture

Camran Mani and Matthias Waschek, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

Conclusions, questions, and final remarks