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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom
 es Jane Blocker\, Associate Professor\,\nDepartment of Art History\, Unive
 rsity of Minnesota\, to speak at our\nannual lecture series (follow this l
 ink for a complete list of this year's speakers).\nTitle: 'Of Empty Stages
  and Imperfectly\nDeferred Memories: Matthew Buckingham’s Historiographic 
 Method'\nAbstract: Using Joseph Roach’s assertion that\n“the most persiste
 nt mode of forgetting is memory imperfectly\ndeferred\,” this paper (which
  is drawn from a larger book project\ncalled History as Prosthesis: Contem
 porary Art and Historical\nMethod) considers the historiographic strategie
 s employed by\ncontemporary artist and filmmaker Matthew Buckingham in his
  film\nAmos Fortune Road (1996). Buckingham’s film tries to\nunderstand th
 e historical depiction of Amos Fortune\, an African man\nenslaved in 18th 
 century America who late in life created a\nsuccessful business as a tanne
 r and purchased his own freedom as\nwell as the freedom of at least two ot
 her slaves. The film examines\nthe relation between the archival record (w
 hich consists of a\nnumber of receipts\, wills\, inventories\, and contrac
 ts) and the\nfictional accounts of Fortune’s life. Rather than attempting 
 to\nsort out the truth of Fortune’s past\, to find the single accurate\nac
 count\, Buckingham shows how fact and fiction are mutually\nproductive sor
 ts of history\, and how a space opens up within\nforgetting—the space of i
 mperfect deferment—in which memory is\nperformed. The paper argues that he
  accomplishes this by playing\nwith inter-titles\, overlaying factual and 
 fictional information\,\nbringing photography as a privileged discourse of
  truth into doubt\,\nplaying with temporality\, and by contemplating the f
 utures that are\nimagined in the past.\nBiography: Dr. Jane Blocker is a s
 pecialist in\ncontemporary art and critical theory. She offers courses suc
 h as\nArt Since 1945\, Contemporary Art\, Alternative Media: Video\,\nPerf
 ormance\, and Digital Art\, as well as courses on gender and\nsexuality\, 
 and 20th century theory and criticism.

Her research has\nfocused primaril
 y on performance art as it developed concurrently\nwith postmodern\, femin
 ist\, and constructionist theories. Her first\nbook\, Where is Ana Mendiet
 a? Identity\, Performativity and\nExile (Duke University Press\, 1999)\, c
 onsiders the artist's\nwork in relation to the performative production of 
 identity.\nWhat the Body Cost: Desire\, History\, and Performance.\n(Minne
 apolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2004)\, her second\nbook\, critica
 lly examines the historiography of mid-twentieth\ncentury performance. Her
  current book\, called Seeing Witness:\nEssays on Contemporary Art and Tes
 timony\, examines the witness\nas a privileged subject position by analyzi
 ng installations\,\nperformances\, photographs\, and films by such artists
  as Alfredo\nJaar\, James Luna\, Eduardo Kac\, Christine Borland\, Felix\n
 Gonzales-Torres\, and Ann Hamilton.\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Jane Blocker 'Of Empty Stages and Imperfectly 
 Deferred Memories: Matthew Buckingham’s Historiographic Method'
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