Berkeley/Stanford Symposium

Date
Sat May 8th 2021, 10:00am - 2:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Art & Art History
Location
Zoom
Berkeley/Stanford Symposium

The fifth annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at SFMOMA presents Touch Me (Not): Making Contact.

The Berkeley/Stanford Symposium is an annual gathering of emerging voices in the arts organized by graduate students in art history at Stanford and UC Berkeley.

The ascendance of COVID-19 has forced us to reconsider the facets of our lives that we took for granted before. One of these is the day-to-day experience of contact, touch, breath, and life. This year’s Berkeley/ Stanford Graduate Symposium seeks to address the multiple ways in which we now think about contact — from its affective, material, aesthetic, and social implications to its presence in relationships between the human and non-human, in the realms of ritual, knowledge production, art-making, and reception. How then do we make and unmake contact individually and collectively, through time and space, and across borders geographical and corporeal?

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