Installation view, Emilio Rojas: tracing a wound through my body, September 21–November 6, 2022, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College, Boston, MA. Photo: Jim Manning.
Public Engagement
Conferences & Dissertation Workshops
“Dust as Human, dust as Cosmic in Contemporary Art and the Mythopoetic,” Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, London, ON, Canada (Co-chair with Toby Lawrence), 2024.
“Luxurious Lechery,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, New York (Co-chair with Jonathan González), 2024
“Multidirectional Carework: Imprinting Diasporic Imaginaries in Public Space,” Strategies for Impermanent Mark-Making in Public Space, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, CA (Panel Organizer: Kari Cwynar), 2023
with Gabriel Sacco, “Artspace’s Open Source Art Festival with the City of New Haven: A Case Study in Neighborhood Advisory Committees,” All Ears?! How Museums Use Community Advisory Groups to Listen and Act Towards Local Relevance and Engagement (Panel Organizer: Daniel Tucker), College Art Association, New York, 2023
“Migratory and Ritualized Pedagogical Dispersions of the 2010s: Tania Bruguera and Tania El Khoury,” on panel Care and Mutual Aid in Community Art Practices since 1980 (Panel Organizer: Kristen Carter), Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, University of Toronto, 2022
“On the Edge of Pedagogical Rituals from Tania Bruguera and Tania El Khoury,” on panel Looking Otherwise: Aesthetics of Viewing and Beholding, Association for the Study of the Art of the Present: Edge Play, Los Angeles 2022 (Virtual)
“Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics,” Visualizing Abolition Dissertation Workshop convened by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2022
“Returning to the Open Wound of the Archive with Emilio Rojas through Gloria E. Anzaldúa,” Visual Arts and the Feminist, Affective Archive: The Present and Future of the Archive in Arts-Based Research (Panel Organizers: Julia Polyck-O’Neill and Leah Modigliani), Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Université de Montréal, 2021 (Virtual)
“‘The Artist’s Path’: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Performative Migratory Aesthetics,” on panel Nations, Borders, and Diasporas (Panel Organizer: John-Michael H. Warner), The Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference, 2021 (Virtual)
“Networks of (Be)longing, or an Exhibited Speculation on ‘Absurd’ Social Aesthetics” and a performative reading by Mengda Zhang from Dust-Free Chatroom, 2018–present, Ad Absurdum: The Politics and Poetics of Absurdity in Avant-Garde Art and Thought, Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, 2020
“Towards a Historical ‘Performing With’ in the Early Works of Spiderwoman Theater and Urban Bush Women,” Performance Studies International 25, University of Calgary, 2019
“Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Barren Cave Mute: Alchemical Migrations,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Tai Kwun Centre for Arts & Heritage and the University of Hong Kong, 2019
“Immersive Performativity as Relational Political Action: Fall 2018 Philadelphia Case Studies,” Social Action in Museums: Mindset and Practice (Panel Organizer: Casey Riley, Minneapolis Institute of Art), Midwest Art Historical Society Annual Conference, 2019
“Learning from Tania El Khoury’s ear-whispered at Bryn Mawr College,” co-presented with Carrie M. Robbins, “When Home Won’t Let You Stay”: Art and Migration in the 21st Century (Panel Organizers: Ruth Erickson and Ellen Tani, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston), College Art Association, New York, 2019
“A Journey in Super-8: A Filmic Frame for Ana Mendieta’s Early Works,” HIGH/LOW: Taste, Quality & Resolution in Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley, 2019
“Migratory Identity in Feminist Performance Art Situated in the United States, 1970–2016,” 12th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, Bryn Mawr College, 2018
“A Feminine Avant-Garde: Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms,” Apolitical My Ars!: Dissent, Resistance, and Revolution in the Avant-Garde Arts, Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, 2017
“Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Barren Cave Mute (1974): ‘Alchemical’ Self-Processes,” Matters of Sensation, Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Georgia State University, 2017
“A Cyborgian Disclosure: Marian Embodiment in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s The Annunciation (Marian Ilmestys),” Action!: Performance, Sport, and Moving Bodies in Film and Visual Media, Film Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Pittsburgh, 2017
“A Cyborgian Disclosure: Marian Embodiment in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s The Annunciation (Marian Ilmestys),” 11th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, Bryn Mawr College, 2017
Invited Lectures and Crits
“Tania El Khoury in Conversation with Laurel V. McLaughlin,” The New Social Environment, The Brooklyn Rail, 2024
Guest Critic, MFA Program in Studio Art, University of Missouri, 2024
Guest Critic and Essayist, Low-Residency MFA Program in Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2024
Guest Critic and Essayist, Low-Residency MFA Program in Studio Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2023
“Exhibition Strategies,” MFA Seminar: Exhibitions, Portland State University, OR, 2023
“Curatorial Practices: A Navigation in Institutions,” Curating Contemporary Art, Emerson College, Boston, MA, 2022
“Curatorial Sites and Spaces,” Methods of Inquiry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2022
“Dyschronics,” Queer Art of Failure, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, 2022
“tracing a wound through my body: A Conversation with Emilio Rojas,” Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 2021
“Networks of (Be)longing,” Curatorial Affairs in the Arts, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, 2020
“Rina Banerjee: Make Me a Summary of the World,” Race, Identity, and Experience in American Art, Temple University Honors and Regular Art History Courses, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
“Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms, A Case Study for Rethinking Gender in the Museum,” Honors Art History Course, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, 2018
“‘Feminine’ Identity and Experience in Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms,” Art History Department, Honors and Regular Courses, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
“Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms,” Art at Noon Series, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
Public Conversations
“Wake Forest University Alumni Panel in the Arts,” Wake Forest University, January 30, 2024
“Border Pedagogies, Queer Kinships, and Archival Resonances: Tania Bruguera and Emilio Rojas,” Moderator, Emerson Contemporary, Emerson College, November 5, 2022
“Spatial Power: A Screening on the Queer Modernist Legacy of Eileen Gray,” with artists Emmanuela Soria Ruiz and Allie Hankins, Moderator, in conjunction with The Longest Leg exhibition at Fuller Rosen Gallery and in collaboration with the Low-Res MFA in Visual Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art of Willamette University, January 9, 2022
“A conversation with manuel arturo abreu,” manuel arturo abreu Patreon Website: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=18759632, January 29, 2021
“Giant Spiders, Suburbia, and Portals: An Activation and Conversation about Online Communion with Tabitha Nikolai and Emma Lugo” in conjunction with Networks of (Be)longing, Center for Contemporary Arts & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 2020
“Opening of Networks of (Be)longing with performance from Dust-Free Chatroom by Mengda Zhang and Q&A,” Center for Contemporary Arts & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 2020
“Rami George ‘Video Playlist’ Screening and Q&A,” in conjunction with Networks of (Be)longing, Center for Contemporary Arts & Culture and the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 2020
“Museums Meet-Up Panel,” Museum Studies Program, Bryn Mawr College, 2019
“Juxtapositions, Transpositions, Reconfigurations: A Conversation about Rina Banerjee’s Contemporary Works Alongside Historical American Art,” PAFA Scholars Day, Conversation with Ramey Mize and Tausif Noor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
“Curatorial Conversation: Focus on the Middle East with The Metropolitan Museum of Art Assistant Curator, Clare Davies,” Bryn Mawr College, 2018
“Conversation with Dictaphone Group (Tania El Khoury and Abir Saksouk),” Co-Moderator with Professor Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2018
“Building Community in Diaspora: An Artist Talk with Didier William and Néstor Armando Gil,” Co-Moderator with Mechella Yezernitskaya, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
“Embody the Art: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury,” Co-Moderator with Carrie M. Robbins, Curator of Art & Artifacts, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2018
“Artist Conversation: Memory and Form” with artists Danièle Dennis, Monika Uchiyama, James Allister Sprang, Eric Yue, AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration with the Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
“Artist Conversation with Tania Bruguera and PAFA Students,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
“A Conversation with Linda Lee Alter,” with co-curator, Mechella Yezernitskaya, and Linda Lee Alter, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2017
“An Artist’s Panel on ‘Feminine Forms,’” with Judith Brodsky, Eileen Neff, and co-curator, Mechella Yezernitskaya, Points of View Speaker Series, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
“Curatorial Conversation with Jo Anna Isaak,” with co-curator Mechella Yezernitskaya, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 2017
“How Conversations & Collaborations Extend the Museum,” with co-curator Mechella Yezernitskaya and the Edna S. Tuttleman Director of the Museum, Brooke Davis Anderson, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
“passages: A Conversation,” with co-curator Francesca Ferrari and Gallerist Anthony Bowers, and artists laura carlson, Yaochi Jin, Jiwon Woo, and Jeremy Jirsa, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, in collaboration the Incubation Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
“Seeking Refuge,” with filmmaker Iva Radivojević and Meta Mazaj, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2016