The Clark – From the Tower to the Void, Mary Miss’s Perimeters

Sarah Hamill (Sarah Lawrence College), Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark's Research and Academic Program , considers the curiously underexamined work of the 1970s: artist Mary Miss’s Perimeters/Pavilions/Decoys (1978), which is situated on the grounds of the Nassau County Museum of Art. Rosalind Krauss opened her landmark 1979 essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” with the work, but it has received scant attention since.

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The Clark – Where the Ozama Meets the Caribbean Sea Dominican Art and Social Advocacy in the Ecotonerap

Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar College), the Research and Academic Program's Caribbean Art and Its Diasporas Fellow presents a talk on the role of artists in addressing concerns about the vulnerability of the population of the poor communities living along the banks of the Ozama River in Santo Domingo in the face of violent political repression, rampant environmental pollution, and the impacts of climate change.

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The Clark – The Organic Line Towards a Topology of Weak Links

Small is working on a book that takes as its point of departure the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s concept of “the organic line.” Small suggests that Lygia Clark’s concept regarding this line compels us to reconsider fundamental terms such as medium, mark, and edge, while providing a model for transforming linear and comparative models of art history into topological formations. These formations, in turn, mutually deform the “center” and the “periphery.”

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The Clark – Thomas Hirschhorn Communication, Circulation, and the City

Clark Fellow Lisa Lee (Emory University) considers contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn’s strategies and motivations for using unorthodox modes of circulation—gifting, pamphleting, hawking, abandoning—in pursuit of a nonexclusive audience for his work. By setting his work in movement across Paris, Hirschhorn’s experimental incursions into public space increasingly tested the possibility of meaningful communication.

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The Clark – Performing Artists in Residence, Spiegel im Spiegel

Pianist Jeewon Park and cellist Edward Arron, co-directors of the Clark Art Institute's Performing Artists in Residence program, play Arvo Pärt's "Spiegel im Spiegel" in a private presentation at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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