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The Production of the Self (Philadelphia, 23-24 Apr 20)
Fiske Kimball Room, Main Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Apr 23–24, 2020
Registration deadline: Apr 1, 2020 Lara Demori
The Production of the Self: Marisa Merz Study Day & Workshop
In this daylong program, curators and scholars pay homage to artist Marisa Merz’s life and legacy and discuss often overlooked aspects of her practice, including:
The relationship to reproductive labor, domesticity, and the classical;
Experimentation in material and form;
Merz’s connection (or lack thereof) to contemporaneous women artists in Italy and abroad;
Her ambiguous position amongst artists associated with Arte Povera.
This program includes presentations by invited speakers as well as a series of roundtable discus- sions. It is preceded by a public talk about Merz on April 23 by Connie Butler, chief curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Marisa Merz Program
(Changes and additions to the program are reserved.) 10–10.15 am: Welcome and Introduction
Carlos Basualdo (The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art) Lara Demori (The Marcello Rumma Fellow in Contemporary italian Art)
Amanda Sroka (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art) 10.15–10.40 am: Marisa Merz as an Anti-Penelope Luigia Lonardelli (Curator, MAXXI, Rome)
10.40–11.05 am: Marisa Merz: Actions, Interactions and Performative Sculpture Teresa Kittler (Lecturer, University of York, York)
11.05–11.30 am: Marisa Merz: sculptural and film experiments in the kitchen, 1967-1968 Lara Conte (Associate Professor, Università Roma Tre, Rome)
11.30–12.30 pm: Round-table discussion and moderated Q&A
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12.30–1.45 pm: Lunch
1.45–3.00 pm: Tour of Marisa Merz in the contemporary galleries (G271) 3.00–3.25 pm: Drawing Intimacy: Marisa Merz's works on paper in the 1970s Francesco Guzzetti (Postdoctoral Fellow, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York) 3.25–3.50 pm: Lead and aluminum in Marisa Merz’s Art. Layers of Meaning
Silvia Bottinelli (Senior Lecturer, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar and Curator, Milan)
3.50–4.30 pm: Round-table discussion and moderated Q & A 4.30–4.45 pm: Closing remarks
5.00 pm: Reception
Please RSVP to Lara Demori (Lara.Demori@philamuseum.org) by April 1. Limited capacity. Scho- lars and students travelling from outside Philadelphia will receive a small stipendium.
This program is supported by the Consulate General of Italy, Philadelphia, and the Italian Cultural Institute.
Reference:
CONF: The Production of the Self (Philadelphia, 23-24 Apr 20). In: ArtHist.net, Feb 28, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022), <https://arthist.net/archive/22707>.
