Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

Call for Papers │ Conference Utopias of (Non)Knowledge: The Museum as a Research Hub

Call for Papers

Jacques Rancière connects the notion of knowledge with that of ignorance: a person who knows must be aware that they do not know. Rancière’s theory of an ‘ignorant teacher’ problematizes the hierarchical regime of the one-way transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. By criticizing the neoliberal production and commodification of knowledge in this way, he reminds us that the purpose of democracy is to attain equality, and in particular the equality of knowledge. What he offers instead can be described as a modernist model of a ‘knowledge utopia,’ where all citizens are equal and therefore equally involved in practices of (not) knowing. […]

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Workshop │ The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group

Events

The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group is in the process of reimaging itself, and we are seeking collaborators in shaping its future. This June and July we will host two sets of global workshops, spread across multiple time zones, to explore the complex relationship between performance and institutions of pedagogy. We begin from the premise that performing/performance engenders specific ways of knowing. At the same time, organizations and institutions are, themselves, formal and informal rule systems that codify modes of being across their architectural, textual and digital platforms. At the intersection of these considerations, we will focus on embodied knowing, […]

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Call for papers | Perspective, n ° 2022 – 2 TELL | INHA

Call for Papers

The journal Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art will devote its n ° 2022 – 2 to the question of the relations between narration, art and art history . Whether it is a question of the stories on which the images and works of art are based, of those that (for themselves) constitute his viewers, or of the “narratives” carried out by historians of art, this issue intends to seize the act of telling as a heuristic tool as fruitful as it is destabilizing. The image and the art object tell, even in the absence of figurative diegetic content, if only as witnesses of an era or […]

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Job | Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Assistant Professor in Art History | Lingnan University | Hong Kong

Jobs, Research Fellowship

    Lingnan University, a distinctive liberal arts institution in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is committed to the provision of quality whole-person education by combining the best of Chinese and Western liberal arts traditions. It strives to pursue excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and community engagement. With three academic Faculties, it offers a wide range of undergraduate degree programmes in arts, business and social sciences. Lingnan’s liberal arts education is characterised by a broad-based interdisciplinary curriculum with specialised disciplinary studies; close student-staff relationship; a vibrant residential campus; ample global learning opportunities; active community engagement and multifarious workplace experience.  The […]

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News | Tina Barton Receives New Zealand Order of Merit

News

In a period of declining government support for the visual arts, it is always welcome when a colleague receives official recognition for their contribution to art history. This year Associate Professor Tina Barton was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to art history and curation. Tina is currently the director of the Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and continues to supervise in the Art History honours and postgraduate programmes. Tina commenced her career at the Auckland Art Gallery (1988‒92) and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa […]

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