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Julia Bryan-Wilson

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Art and Art History welcomes visiting scholar Julia Bryan-Wilson for a public lecture, Louise Neverlson’s “Darkness” on Tuesday, November 3. The department will also hold a roundtable discussion on November 4 entitled “Gender”.

Julia Bryan-Wilson

Bryan-Wilson is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley. A scholar and critic, she has written about artists such as Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Sadie Benning, the Cockettes, Simone Forti, Cristóbal Lehyt, Ana Mendieta, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, and Anne Wilson in publications that include Art Bulletin, Artforum, The Craft Reader, The Textiles Reader, October, The Journal of Modern Craft, and many exhibition catalogs.

Bryan-Wilson’s research interests include questions about artistic labor, feminism, queer theory, fabrication/production, performance, visual culture of the nuclear age, photography, and textile handicraft. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, which was named a “best book of the year” by Artforum magazine, and the editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris, which was published in 2013 by the MIT Press. Her current work includes a monograph about artist Louise Nevelson.

Roundtable description

In his 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, cultural studies scholar Raymond Williams historically examined key terms and concepts that were used mostly uncritically. Interestingly, while he wrote about the keyword “sex” and showed how its earliest English meaning was meant to secure the division of people into “men” and “women”—from the 14th century “secus” or “sexus” referring to a “section” of humanity, it became predominant only in the 16th century. In this roundtable on “gender,” participants will examine the various cultural fictions that arise from our everyday acceptance of our being “women” and “men” as well as the contestations that have arisen to these social positionalities and subjectivities.

Event details

Louise Neverlson’s “Darkness” with Julia Bryan-Wilson will take place on Tuesday, November 3, 6–7:30 p.m. at the ART Auditorium.

The roundtable discussion will take place Wednesday, November 4, 12–1:15 p.m. in Burns Hall, East-West Center room 4118.

For more information on the events, visit the Department of Art and Art History website.

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