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Rachel Haidu on Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art
06 June 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Rachel Haidu on Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art, with Briony Fer and Jenny Nachtigall.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Queenie Lee – History of Art
Location
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IAS ForumSouth WingLondonWC1H 0AW
Briony Fer and Jenny Nachtigall will be in conversation with Rachel Haidu about her new book, Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art (Chicago, 2023). With Each One Another, Haidu argues that contemporary art can teach us how to understand ourselves as selves—how we come to feel oneness, to sense our own interiority, and to shift between the roles that connect us to strangers, those close to us, and past and future generations. Haidu looks to intergenerational pairings of artists to consider how three aesthetic vehicles––shape in painting, characters in film and video, and roles in dance––allow us to grasp selfhood. Better understandings of ourselves, she argues, complement our thinking about identity and subjecthood.
About the Speaker
Professor Rachel Haidu
Professor of Art History at University of Rochester
Rachel Haidu is Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. She is the author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964-1976 (MIT Press/October Books 2010) and Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art (University of Chicago Press, 2023), as well as numerous essays on modern and contemporary artists. Her current book project examines questions of transition both as a historical process and in the framework of gender and trans studies. Along with Hannah Feldman, she is co-editor of an upcoming volume tentatively entitled “Touching Paper: Writing Towards Art, Love, and the Weather.”
More about Professor Rachel Haidu