Sheyda from Lungs Team will be presenting their research at the 110th CAA Annual Conference, facilitated by the College Art Association of America. During the panel entitled “Reparative Collectivities, Communities and Ecologies: Toward a Reparative Art History,” Sheyda will be joined by the discussant, Gabrielle Moser (York University); panel chairs Alexander Strecker (Duke University); Jasmine Magaña (Duke University); and presenters Maya Wilson-Sanchez (OCAD University); Marianna Davison (University of California, Irvine).
Introduction
Artists have long participated in reparative efforts in their communities, ranging from educational initiatives and artist-run spaces, to spearheading protest movements. These efforts highlight the drive to repair, rather than destroy, our prevailing systems, while also working to develop alternatives.
For over two decades, a key starting point for thinking about repair has been Eve Sedgwick’s call for “reparative reading,” a methodological orientation grounded in interpersonal psychoanalytic dynamics occurring at an intimate scale. Today, as the structural integrity of many aspects of society are being questioned, our panel asks how repair can take place at increasingly larger scales: beginning with the artwork and radiating out to the institution, the neighborhood, the city, the nation-state, transnational diasporic populations—even at the level of ecology, exceeding a human-centric perspective.
Weaving together three different approaches, our conversation foregrounds artist-led, collective efforts that expand the notion of the reparative to wider ecologies of practice and creation. Our examples are both historical and contemporary, demonstrating how the work of repair must be ongoing, renewed with each generation.
The conference opens on February 16 with 140 virtual live sessions to be held in Zoom from February 17–19, and 60 virtual live sessions to be held in Zoom from March 3–5. Access to recorded content will be available through April 14. The Book & Trade Fair will be virtual.
Registration for CAA 2022
https://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/conference2022/registration