Join CHAT for a Distinguished Faculty Lecture from Leah Modigliani (Tyler School of Art). Dr. Modigliani will be lecturing on "Critical Plagiarism and the Politics of Creative Labor."
Whether theorized as a puncture in one's emotional life, as a mediation compelling or protecting from empathic response, as an indexical trace, or as manifestation of ideological construct, photographs are most often understood as evocative markers of the past; evidence of lost loves or labors. However, as Kaja Silverman has recently reminded us, photographs also present viewers with an image they can relate to now, an image analogous to our own condition. In this talk Dr. Modigliani will discuss her process of using historic photographs and texts as raw material for new creative works that engage new audiences in critical discourses about history and politics.