Wednesday 4.1.15 6:00 PM
Lectures
School of Art and Art History
April 1, 6p | Price Auditorium
111 South Michigan Ave.
Elise Archias (Asst. Prof. AH) gives a lecture entitled, Bodies circa 1970 (Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, and Carolee Schneemann), as a part of the Art Institute of Chicago's Lecture Series.
Elise Archias's book, The Concrete Body - Rainer, Schneemann, Acconci (forthcoming), explores the ways the use of the body as a material in the work of three prominent performance artists revised radical modernist aesthetics for the 1960s as part of broader critique of everyday life within spectacle culture.
As visiting assistant professor at UIC in the School of Art & Art History, Archias’s research and classes center around modernism, performance art, and contemporary art, asking questions about the relationship between abstract ideas and physical materials and needs in 20th- and 21st-century life and aesthetics. Recipient of UIC's ICAH Award for collaborative research with graduate student Becky Bivens, for their seminar at the Modernist Studies Conference, "Beyond the Autonomy/Relationality Binary" in November 2014.
