Simon Visiting Professor 2006/7, Douglas Crimp
Professor Douglas Crimp, Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History, University of Rochester, a major public intellectual in the USA, with a international reputation in contemporary art criticism, visual studies, and queer theory, has accepted CIDRA's invitation to visit the University of Manchester as Simon Visiting Professor for two week-long visits in 2006-7.
Spring visit: 16-20 April 2007
Tuesday 17 April 3-5 pm, Masterclass at the Whitworth Art Gallery:
Douglas Crimp in conversation with Amelia Jones (Art History/Visual Studies), Monica Pearl (English and American Studies), and Helen Rees Leahy (Museology)
Readings are now available to collect from the SAHC Postgraduate Office in A21, Humanities Lime Grove. This event is free to attend and separate booking is not required. All welcome.
Wednesday 18 April 5-7 pm in Bragg Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre:
Douglas Crimp lecture: Coming together to stay apart: Ronald Tavels screenplays for Andy Warhols films
This event is free to attend and booking is not required. All welcome.
Thursday 19 April, 6 pm at Urbis, city centre:
Professor Crimp will also give a lecture at Urbis, entitled Playing in the city:
During the 1970s a new generation of New York artists began using abandoned and transitional spaces on the west side of downtown Manhattan to make experimental artworks, notably Joan Jonas's outdoor performance piece Delay Delay (1972) and Gordon Matta-Clark's "destructed" warehouse pier Day's End (1975). At the same time, in the exhilaration of early gay liberation, gay men appropriated these same areas for cruising and outdoor sex. Apart from Matta-Clark's remark that, while looking for a pier to work in, "the ones that I originally found were all completely overrun by the gays," there has been little acknowledgment of a connect between the two scenes. But the connection was there in the experience of some of the players in the city, which Crimp's memoir of the period seeks to portray.
Tickets are £3 and can be bought in advance or on the door. For more information or to reserve places call Urbis on 0161 605 8204 or 0161 605 8220.