The Light of Memory with Jonathan D. Katz
@ Wrightwood 659
659 W Wrightwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
Opening Friday, December 15th, at 5:30PM
Please join us Friday, December 15, at 5:30 pm to reflect and memorialize lives lost to the AIDS epidemic. This event is part of our World AIDS Day programming, which includes the exhibition Daniel Goldstein: The Marks We Leave Behind, on view in the 4th floor atrium beginning December 1, 2023. Goldstein’s moving work both literally and figuratively evokes the toll of the Plague through the ghostly imprint of bodies—once present, now lost—onto the leather cushions of worn gym equipment. We will be joined by Curator Jonathan D. Katz, who will discuss Goldstein’s work in the context of San Francisco in the 1980s and was himself a longstanding member of the gym from which Goldstein sourced the materials for his work. Those who attend are encouraged to bring a text of 100 words or less on someone they wish to remember lost to AIDS. Participants will have the opportunity to read their text aloud and inscribe it in the memorial book accompanying the exhibition.
Speaker Bio:
Jonathan D. Katz (he/him/his) is the Associate Professor of Practice, History of Art and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is a founding figure in queer art history, responsible for the very first queer scholarship on a number of artists. His scholarship spans a period from the late 19th century to the present, with an emphasis on the U.S., but with serious attention to Europe, Latin America, and Asia as well. He has written extensively about gender, sexuality, and desire, producing some of the key theoretical work in queer studies in the visual arts. His books include Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, which was co-authored with Moira Roth, and the anthology Art AIDS America. Katz is widely known for his many essays that constitute the first queer studies scholarship on artists as diverse as Jasper Johns, Leon Polk Smith, Robert Indiana, John Cage, Agnes Martin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Robert Rauschenberg. He’s also written extensively on Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the notion of Eros, the culture wars, and protest art.
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