‘Conspiracies of Silence and “Other Crusaders”: Rasheed Araeen, David Medalla, and Reconfigurations of Visibility in the 1970s’, Bodies in the Archive: The Role of Art History symposium, Centre for Contemporary Art at University of St Andrews

  • Eleanor Roberts (Invited speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audienceInvited talk for an academic audience

Description

'Bodies in the Archive: The Role of Art History' symposium, Centre for Contemporary Art at the University of St Andrews and the School of Art History, 2019. The event details were as follows: What can Art History contribute to research about the body? What are the challenges and benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration in this field for art historians? How do we approach the archive, and what archives do we use? How does our work intersect with activist histories and concerns?

Speakers were Jackson Davidow (MIT), Victoria Horne (Northumbria), Neil Macdonald (St Andrews), Eleanor Roberts (Roehampton), Camilla Røstvik (St Andrews), Catherine Spencer (St Andrews) and Lucy Weir (Edinburgh)
Period18 Mar 2019
Held atUniversity of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • performance art
  • visual art
  • Diversity
  • Postcolonial Studies