Scholar

Paul Ramírez Jonas

Public Installation, Sculpture, Video, and Performance Artist, and Professor, Art Department Chair, at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.

Paul Ramírez Jonas was born in Pomona, California in 1965 and raised in Honduras. Educated at Brown University (BA, 1987) and Rhode Island School of Design (MFA, 1989), Ramírez Jonas, currently lives and works in Ithaca NY.

Over the last thirty years Ramírez Jonas has created works that range from large-scale public installations and monumental sculptures to intimate drawings, performances and videos. Through his practice he seeks to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. His...

Adriana Johnson

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine

Adriana Johnson is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine. Her first book was Sentencing Canudos: Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil (2010). She is finishing Infrastructures of Visuality in Latin America, and planning Thinking Water, about how visual forms in Latin America materialize a knowledge of drought, rivers, rains, and sea.

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art, and, in particular, its subset, Endurance Art. Since 2009, she has been the co-coordinator...

Sintia Issa

PhD candidate in Visual Studies and Teaching Assistant at UC Santa Cruz

Sintia Issa lives and writes in Beirut. She is a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, retelling in her dissertation the story of neoliberalism in postwar Lebanon through the story of waste. Her public contributions on the politics of infrastructure, labor, migration, feminist histories, and visual culture have appeared in the Public Source, a women-led, award-winning, independent journalism project where she is editor at large, Knowledge Workshop, Legal Agenda, and more. She trained as an art historian at the University of...

Ra Malika Imhotep

Black Feminist Writer, Performance Artist, and PhD Candidate of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Their academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor. They are a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-political education project, The Church of Black Feminist Thought and a member of the curatorial collective, ...

The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire

February 22, 2024
The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire in conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, Feb 22, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The February program features...

The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

March 21, 2024
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo in conversation with Salar Mameni Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The March...

The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

November 16, 2023
The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye November 16, 2023 Noon — 1:00 PM Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The...

The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski

October 19, 2023
The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski October 19, 2023 Noon - 1 p.m. Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex, D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-...

Wu Hung

Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago and Professor of Art History

Wu Hung has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His interest in both traditional and modern/contemporary Chinese art has led him to experiment with different ways to integrate these conventionally separate phases into new kinds of art historical narratives, as exemplified by his Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation of Chinese Pictorial Art (1996), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square: the Creation of a Political Space (2005), A Story of Ruins:...