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The Clark – Saundra Weddle on the Place-Based Networks of Sex Workers in Early Modern Venice

This urban history lecture examines sex workers’ residences and places of solicitation, situating them in relation to members of their professional network, including their procurers, some of whom were gondoliers. Mapping these locations in relation to pedestrian and boat routes reveals a spatial syntax that connected sex work with the rhythms of everyday life, demonstrating that location itself serves as an actor within this complex network.

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The Clark Connects – Storytelling with Keely Kempster Sarr – The Chariot of Aurora

Keely Kempster Sarr, Coordinator of Family and Community Programs, tells the story of The Chariot of Aurora, painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

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Category: Studio Shows & Interviews

The Clark Connects – Storytelling with Keely Kempster Starr – Daphnis and Chloe

Keely Kempster Sarr, Coordinator of Family and Community Programs, explores the story of friendship and blossoming romance behind the sculpture Daphnis and Chloe by the French artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

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The Clark – Joan Kee, ‘Black and White, Reconsidered’

Among the most prominent collaborative works involving both an African American and Asian American artist, Black & White (1993) by Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim occupies something of exemplary space in an art history particularly attuned to multiculturalism and its analogues. Joan Kee, professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan, argues that its urgency lies in how deftly it revealed humanist efforts at reifying minoritarian personhood as part of a larger and more insidious counter-humanist enterprise where the individual was simply another byte to be identified, collected, and harvested. Perhaps clearer now than it was in 1993, Black & White emerges most forcefully as an argument for a view of abstraction embedded in habits, routines, and rituals sustaining multiple structures of regulation as perpetuated through discourse, technology and politics.

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The Clark – Virginia Burrus, ‘Curating Earthquakes’

Clark Fellow Virginia Burrus presents, “Curating Earthquakes: Between Ballroom Marfa’s ‘Hyperobjects’ (2018) and Jerome’s Life of St. Hilarion (390).” This lecture explores the relation between memory and place, shuttling between Marfa, Texas, and Paphos, Cyprus, a contemporary exhibition and a fourth-century literary work. Earthquakes, and larger dynamics of destruction and resilience, provide a particular point of convergence, as the lecture engages both memory and place in their intimately material and more-than-human dimensions.

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Category: Lectures & Forums