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Talk: In Praise of Blatant Images with Andy Campbell

Saturday, January 20, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join Andy Campbell, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC-Roski School of Art and Design and former Critic-in-Residence at the Core Program for a lecture that will consider the series of photography workshops held on women’s lands called “ovulars” (in contra to the “seminar”) alongside the short-lived annual magazine, The Blatant Image, as mutually constitutive social forms, offering an historic and geographically displaced parallel to Dissent and Desire., which looks at the photographic practices of Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s dozens of women gathered in Southern Oregon during the Summer to skill-share and learn photography from one another. Called “ovulars,” the organizer/midwives of the workshops encouraged the participants to experiment with media and theorize their own photographic practices in relation to burgeoning feminist thought. One outcome of the ovular was the annual publication titled The Blatant Image, which sought to give a platform to women photographers from across the United States, and introduced artists such as Carrie Mae Weems, JEB, and Tee Corrine to its broad readership.

About Andy Campbell

Andy Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at the USC-Roski School of Art and Design. A former Critic-in-Residence with the Core Program (2014–2016), Campbell’s work addresses the politics of identities alongside visual and material cultures that have received little to no critical attention. He is also an independent curator and critic, and his writings can be found in Artforum, X-Tra, Piedrín, GLQ, Rhizomes, Aperture, and elsewhere.

Details

Date:
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Blvd
Houston, TX 77006 United States
Phone
(713) 284-8250
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