Conference 2007: “Homeland: Borders & Boundaries”

Conference 2007: Homeland—Borders & Boundaries
 

Homeland:

How do we question, challenge, explore, and redefine the notion of homeland in an age of (in)security? How do corporeal and celebral borders act as barriers, which prescribe and delineate our expressions and conceptions of identity? Where do cultural boundaries intersect with geographic borders, as we position ourselves within both national, regional, and global communities?

Keynote Speaker

David Levi Strauss is a writer and critic in New York, where his essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture. His collection of essays on photography and politics, Between the Eyes, with an introduction by John Berger, was published by Aperture in 2003, and Postmedia is currently preparing an Italian edition. The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photography Books of the Twentieth Century with catalogue essays by Strauss, was published by P.P.P. Editions/D.A.P. in 2001. Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics was published in 1999 by Autonomedia, Semiotext(e), and Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (with photographer Bobby Neel Adams) was published in 1998.

He received a Guggenheim fellowship for 2003–04, and the 2007 Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in New York. Strauss currently teaches in the Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and in the new MFA program in art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts.