ABOUT Charlotte Moorman’s innovative performance art, collaborations with other artists, and founding and coordination of the Annual New York Avant Garde Festival from 1963 until 1980 made her a fixture in the New York art scene as well as a significant—albeit understudied—figure in the history of contemporary art. In conjunction with the Mary and Leigh Block Museum’s exhibition, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the AvantGarde, 1960s–1980s, the Emerging Scholars Symposium welcomes six graduates students from PhD programs across the country to present papers on Moorman’s life and work and the larger impact of her creative vision on artistic practice from the 1960s to the present.
A FEAST OF ASTONISHMENTS: EMERGING SCHOLARS SYMPOSIUM
The symposium has been organized by Faye Gleisser and Erin Reitz, PhD candidates in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, with the generous support of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the Department of Art History. Special thanks are due to the Block Museum’s Corinne Granof and Cynthia Noble for their guidance and Lindsay Bosch and Holly Warren for their logistical support. Exhibit Dates: Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University January 16–July 17, 2016 Grey Art Gallery, New York University September 8–December 10, 2016 Museum der Moderne Salzburg March 4–June 18, 2017 Cover photograph: Charlotte Moorman performs Nam June Paik’s TV Bed, Bochum Art Week, Bochum, West Germany, August 28–September 3, 1973 © Hartmut Beifuss
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016 EVANS ALUMNI CENTER PANEL PRESENTATIONS BLOCK MUSEUM KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION