The Clark – Humane Ecology, Eight Positions Opening Lecture

In conjunction with the opening of Humane Ecology: Eight Positions, the Clark Art Institute has hosted a lecture by Curator of Contemporary Projects Robert Wiesenberger. The lecture was presented in the Clark’s auditorium on July 15, 2023. Eight contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of ecological relationships has included sculpture, sound installation, video, and plantings. Each artist represents a distinct approach and place, or “position,” and the complex dynamics between living things and their environments is essential to their thinking. Through their work, these artists illuminate patterns of cultivation and care, migration and adaptation, extraction, and exploitation that span historical, geographical, and species lines. Humane Ecology is presented in outdoor and indoor spaces at the Clark, including both the Clark Center and Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

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The Clark – Edvard Munch, Trembling Earth Opening Lecture

Jay A. Clarke, Rothman Family Curator, Art Institute of Chicago, introduces Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth, the first exhibition in the United States to reveal how Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944) animated nature to convey meaning.

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The Clark – Ancient and Modern ‘Body Worlds’ with Kathryn Howley

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Kathryn Howley (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU / Beinecke Fellow) argues that the bodily preoccupation of ancient Egyptian art is one reason why it has proven unusually appealing to modern audiences, ever since the beginnings of modern Egyptology in Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798.

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The Clark – Sehwan’s Noise Fields Of Women’s Densities, Intensities, Entanglements, and Cacophonies

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Shundana Yusaf (University of Utah / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow) explores the dynamic exchange between listeners, sound, and space in the tomb of Lal Shabaz Marwandi. Located in Sehwan, Pakistan, the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Marwandi is the most cacophonous shrine in South Asia.

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The Clark – Invisible Hands with Margaret S. Graves

In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Margaret S. Graves (Indiana University / Florence Gould Foundation Fellow) discusses craft skills in the Middle East. These skills are usually portrayed as dying out in the nineteenth century, but were in fact redirected toward a new market generated by the colonial project: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.

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