Jean-Ulrick Désert is a visual-artist born in Haiti. Désert's artworks vary in forms such as public billboards, actions, paintings, site-specific sculptures, video and objects and emerges from a tradition of conceptually engaged practices. Well known for his “Negerhosen2000” performances and his “Burqa Project” as a response to 9-11, his practice may be characterized as visualizing “conspicuous invisibility”. He has exhibited widely at such venues as The Brooklyn Museum, Walker Art Center, Studio Museum of Harlem, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Bueno Yerba in USA and internationally at the Havana, Martinique, Dakar Biennales, and galleries Savvy Contemporary, Kunstverein-Wolfsburg. He was selected as the solo-artist to represent the Haiti Pavilion in the 2019 Venice Biennale and is currently developing a permanent artwork at Humboldt University Berlin to commemorate the American scholar W.E.B. DuBois.
He is the recipient of awards including Berlin’s Art-senate Research Grant, Villa Waldberta-Munich, Kulturstiftung der Länder, Warhol Foundation via Small Axe Journal, LMCC. His work has been featured in academic books, most recently “Queer!? Visual Arts in Europe” 2019, and journals such as “NKA” established by the late Okwui Enwezor as well as lifestyle magazines such as Harpers Bazaar. Désert is an alumnus of The Cooper Union and Columbia University where he studied architecture. He advises for Trans Arts Institute, a MFA program in Berlin. After a number of years in New York and Paris, Désert established his Berlin studio-practice in 2002.
Image courtesy Jean-Ulrick Désert.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, February 27, 5pmat KRESGE HALL
ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Tania Bruguera (b. 1968, Cuba) is an artist and activist whose performances and installations examine political power structures and their effect on society's most vulnerable people. Her long-term projects have been intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education and politics. Bruguera has received many honours such as the Robert Rauschenberg Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Prince Claus Fund Laureate and her work has been extensively exhibited around the world, including the Tate Turbine Hall Commission and Documenta 11. Her work is in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Van Abbemuseum, Tate Modern and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana.
She holds an M.F.A. in Performance from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), as well as degrees from the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Escuela de Artes Plásticas San Alejandro in Havana, Cuba. She has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and from her alma mater (SAIC).
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, February 5, 5pmat KRESGE HALL
ROOM 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Join the department in showcasing the work of our undergraduate students!
Wednesday, November 13, 5-8 pm, ground floor of Kresge Hall.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, November 13, 5pmat KRESGE HALL (GROUND FLOOR)
Art, Theory, Practice at Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
For 25 years, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby have been producing one of the most singular and exciting bodies of work in experimental cinema. Their videos combine animation, wry humor, and custom-written songs into interwoven vignettes that explore the perplexities, heartaches, and fleeting wonders of the contemporary world. This program features a selection of Duke and Battersby’s earlier work, as well as their most recent video, You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born, which tells the story of a fictional woman, from her birth in the 1970s to her death in the 2040s—a life, the artists write, that is “characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy.”
In person: artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 21, 7pmat The Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
