Image source: Baseera Khan, By Faith, 2020, The Kitchen at Queenslab. Photo: Ariana Sarwari.

Lumi Tan: “Invisible Rooms: Performance and Institutions”
Critical Conversations Lecture

Thursday, October 28, 4:00 PM
Live on zoom and on the Department of Art Facebook.
Free and open to the public; details here.

Lumi Tan will speak about “the ways in which performance practices shift institutional value systems through her work curating time-based art for the white cube gallery, black box theater, and most recently, the computer screen. Thinking of issues of process, intimacy, documentation, audience, and site, Tan will connect this current work to the historical context of The Kitchen and the role of small scale institutions in the contemporary art ecosystem.”

Image source: Still from FKA Twigs – “Cellophane” directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

Andrew Thomas Huang: “Queer Morphologies & Digital Spirits”
Davis Family Lecture

Thursday, November 18, 4:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall, Room 177
Free and open to the public; details here.

Huang will share an overview of his “mixed media filmmaking career which interweaves live action, visual effects, puppetry and animation with his passion for folklore, mythology and queer futurism. The lecture will explore the process of world building and focus on the emergence of hybrid methodologies within one’s visual practice. This talk will also explore how combining digital tools with performance can enable new forms of self-reinvention and the construction of digital identities.”

Both lectures are part of the Department of Art and the Center for Art Research’s Fall 2021 Visiting Artist Lectures.