Seminar on Griselda Pollock
Professor Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize 2020 for her work as a feminist art historian and transdisciplinary cultural analyst. The aim of this seminar is to explore different aspects of her work as a theorist.
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Pollock has been at the center of art historical debates since the 1970’s, and her studies have had a strong influence on both art history and visual studies, as well as on curating, museum practice and the arts.
In this seminar, we will highligh the potential and impact of her critical studies on gender, sexuality, class and race in visual culture and beyond.
On Monday, the seminar will take the form of a Zoom webinar where you can follow along and ask questions in the chat.
Zoom link for Monday can be found here.
On Tuesday, you are invited to join the organizers in a Zoom meeting to participate fully in a discussion of two selected Pollock articles. The meeting is open for everyone, and students at all levels are especially welcome.
Zoom link for Tuesday kan be found here.
No registration necessary: Just click on the links at the stated time.
Programme
Monday 22 February, 10.15-15.30 CET
20 minute presentations plus questions
10.15-30: Welcome
10.30-11.00: Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, "Gender/Class/Race – Identities across time and category"
11.00-11.30: Asbjørn Grønstad, "Pollock, film studies and the concentrationary"
11.45-12.15: Sigrun Åsebø, "Feminist Desire: Griselda Pollock and historiography"
12.15- 12.45: Tania Espinoza, "Pollock and psychoanalysis"
Lunch
14.00-14.45: Elspeth Mitchell and Yelin Zhao, "Art, Feminism & Education: co-emergence in a feminist space.”
14.45-15.30: Redi Koobak and Kari Jegerstedt, "Rendering Difference: Art, Politics and the Call to Decolonise."
Panel/Concluding remarks
Tuesday 23 February, 12.00-14.00 CET
Reading seminar/workshop (Responsible: SKOK)
In this part of the seminar, two selected articles by Pollock will be discussed, and Griselda Pollock herself will hold an introduction at the start of the day.
Participants are encouraged to read the following articles ahead of the reading seminar:
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (introduction only: page 18-39)
See also the accompanying video: Tracy Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995
Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995
The seminar is organized as a cooperation between The Holberg Prize, the research project The Feminist Legacy in Art Museums (FLAME) and Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK).
GRISELDA POLLOCK
- Born in 1949 in South Africa
- Professor in art history at the University of Leeds
- Founded and became the first director of the trandisciplinary Centre CATH (Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History) in 2001, a positions she still holds
- Helped establish the discipline feminist art history, and has had a profound influence on the development of feminist cinema studies
- Received the Holberg Prize in 2020 for her groundbreading contributions to feminist art history and cultural studies
(Source: The Holberg Prize)
The 2020 Holberg Conversation with Griselda Pollock
