Senior Lecturer Jack Crawford gives talk – Style as Substance: Video Art’s Politics of the Self
On Wednesday, November 13 at 4:30pm the Vanderbilt Museum of Art and the Vanderbilt Department of History of Art and Architecture presented Style as Substance: Video Art’s Politics of the Self, at talk by Senior Lecturer Jack Crawford. This talk was be held in Cohen Memorial Hall 203.
Historicizing the lush contemporary video work featured in Gloss: A Measured Response to Recent Video Art, this talk charted a strain of video and art film practice since the eighties that treats style as substance. With sardonic wit, playful exhibitionism, and libidinal adoration, this work deploys popular culture for political self-fashioning.
Jack Crawford, PhD, is Senior Lecturer of History of Art and Architecture at Vanderbilt University. Her research and teaching focus on interdisciplinary performance and artistic practices that engage with gender and sexuality. Her current book project theorizes and historicizes an aesthetic of “queer maximalism” in US-based performance since the 1960s.
