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Moderated by Ohio State’s Courtney Hunt and Carmen Winant
Virtual
Free for all audiences (registration required)
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Explore how power and privilege shape our institutional histories—and more crucially, what those histories leave out—in this cosponsored talk with California-based visual artist Stephanie Syjuco.
Institutional repositories, archives, and museums are tasked with housing cultural collections, framing narratives, and creating research opportunities for future generations. What happens when the holes, blank spots, mislabeled categories, and margins of an archive reveal more about who isn't included in a national story?
Syjuco will share recent projects drawing on research from online databases, internet searches, civic libraries, and museum archives. At stake is an understanding of how archives (and images) function to reinforce and reinscribe existing power structures, creating barriers for placing oneself into the line of history.
Diversities in Practice
A new collaboration with Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts, Department of Art, and Living Culture Initiative, this series will include talks and moderated discussions that feature artists engaged in social justice-oriented projects and practices. Working in varied media, Christine Sun Kim, Stephanie Syjuco, and others will challenge our assumptions by taking a complex, and sometimes personal look at issues of accessibility discrimination, race-based displacement, capitalism, labor, and systems of authority and authenticity. These presentations will be available to view online throughout 2020–21 as well as options to watch with a small ticketed audience at the Wex. Check wexarts.org for updates and details.
Interested in appearing on camera at the Wexner Center as part of this talk? Ten free tickets are available for students and the public to watch this artist talk at the Wex in Free Space. You’ll be featured on camera for the artist and online viewers as well as have the ability to participate in the Q&A. Please email education@wexarts.org with questions or to reserve a ticket by Mon, Oct 12, at 5 pm.
Above: Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage), 2019 (detail) Wooden platform, digital photos and printed vinyl on lasercut wood, chromakey fabric, printed backdrops, seamless paper, and artificial plants Mixed media 20 x 17 x 8. ft. overall Part of the solo exhibition Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2019 Photo: Stephanie Syjuco
Block Out the Sun, 2019 (detail) Photographic intervention in the archives of the Missouri Historical Society Thirty archival pigment prints (8 x 10 in. each) mounted on aluminum and displayed in custom vitrine Photo courtesy of the artist
Block Out the Sun, 2019 (detail) Photographic intervention in the archives of the Missouri Historical Society, Mercantile Society, and the Missouri Public Library Thirty archival pigment prints mounted on aluminum (8 x 10 in. each), wooden risers, and display case Installation 36 x 96 x 48 in. overall Produced during an artist residency in summer 2019, supported by The Luminary and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Dodge and Burn (Visible Storage), 2019 Wooden platform, digital photos and printed vinyl on lasercut wood, chromakey fabric, printed backdrops, seamless paper, and artificial plants Mixed media 20 x 17 x 8 ft. overall Part of the solo exhibition Stephanie Syjuco: Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2019 Photo: Stephanie Syjuco
Anarchive, 2020 (work in progress) Large format digital paper prints, endless configuration Images generated from a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Image courtesy of the artist
Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of history and citizenship. Her recent exhibitions include Being: New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Public Knowledge at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Rogue States at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. She lives and works in Oakland, California. Learn more at the artist’s web site.
Courtney Hunt is the Art & Design Librarian in Ohio State’s Fine Arts Library and an assistant professor at The Ohio State University Libraries. Hunt provides innovative instruction and research consultation for Ohio State’s Departments of Art; Arts Administration, Education & Policy; Design; and History of Art, as well as for members of the public and independent researchers. Hunt is an active member of the Art Libraries Society of North America, serving on the Professional Development Committee and volunteering as a blog editor for ArLiSNAP. Hunt takes great care in creating a welcoming and empowering space for students, faculty, artists and researchers. More about the speaker.
Carmen Winant, the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Ohio State’s Department of Art, is an artist, writer, and former Dean of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has participated in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and Sculpture Center in New York and the Wexner Center, MoCA Cleveland, and Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Winant has also curated the performative lecture series Practice, presented in Columbus, Los Angeles, and New York, and has published two artist’s books, My Life as a Man with Horses (Think Press) and My Birth (ITI Press and SPBH Editions). More about the speaker.
Cosponsored by Ohio State's Department of Art's Visiting Artist Program and Wexner Center for the Arts
MADE POSSIBLE BY American Electric Power Foundation Greater Columbus Arts Council L Brands Foundation The Columbus Foundation Ohio Arts Council Institute of Museum and Library Services Huntington Bank Nationwide Foundation
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Kaufman Development Cardinal Health Foundation
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