the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Jan
26
Shannon Jackson
Performance, Precarity, and Social Engagement
6:00 pm | Foundation Building Rm 215
Shannon Jackson uses the perspectives of performance studies to recast questions about the role of cross-disciplinary art practice in a context of economic precarity. How has performance been understood across expanded visual art forms? How do the associations attached to performance limit or propel new kinds of social and aesthetic experiments? How are artists and critics re-skilling—or not—in a supposedly cross-disciplinary art world? And can the prevailing, if belated, acknowledgement of economic injustice and “precarity” provoke new kinds of re-skilling?
About Shannon Jackson
Shannon Jackson the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of the Arts and Humanities is the Director of the Arts Research Center at UC-Berkeley. Her most recent book is Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics.