You can also tune on via Zoom, link in bio!
Today, Monday March 28
3:00-4:00 CST
Keynote Speaker: Aimee Rubensteen @aimeedotnet / “Today is Tomorrow’s Archive: Building Scaffolding for Jewish Art”
How do we (re)construct Jewish art to reflect our own experiences and rituals? There is a certain incompleteness to the traditional, yet amorphous canon of Jewish arts that has led me to create new spaces for contemporary artists exploring Jewishness, womanhood, queerness, and disability. From these artists—and the multitudes of selves between and beyond their identities—Jewish art emerges as a platform for activism and dialogue. Drawing on her experience in archives, exhibitions, publications, and conversations with artists, Rubensteen will focus on the importance of building scaffolding for interdisciplinary projects and multi-sensory performances in person and online. New sites are still
needed for artists to traverse through ancestral and contemporary Jewish texts, tastes, and traditions. How do we collectively create and support the ever-evolving body of Jewish art? When today’s art becomes archival material, will it demonstrate our collective communities? With Web3 approaching, what will become of Jewish art in physical and virtual spaces?
#reconstruct #ritual #jewishness #interdisciplinarity #intersectionality #archive #jewishart #howdowemoveforward
Don't forget about the 2022 Conney Conference Performances tomorrow night! Free and open to the public
#live #liveperformance #dance #jewishdance #celebrate #joinus
What a great first day! Lovely reception featuring @highballholiday and celebrating the release of the Oxford Handbook on Jewishness and Dance - available now!
#jewishnessanddance #oxfordhandbook #outnow #new #party #dance #jewish #jewishness
This year we also have a curated selection of artists featured as part of the 2022 conference (link in bio):
Arie Galles
Bruria Finley @bruriafinkel
Carol Man @carolxman
Cheslyn Amato @cheselynamato
Cynthia Beth Rubin @cbrubinstudio
Gilah Yelin Hirsch
Jacqueline Kott-Wolle @jkwpaintings
Dr. Maarten K. van der Heijen
Robin Schwartzman
Shalom Gorewitz
Stuart Pimsler
Yitzchock Moully @moullyart
If you would like to tune into this year's Conney Conference check out our link tree!
Sun: 1:00-4:00 presentations, 5:00-7:00 reception
Mon: 9:00-4:30 presentations (break for lunch 12:00-1:00)
Tue: 9:00-4:30 presentations (break for lunch 12:00-1:00), 7:00-9:00 performances at Overture Center
Wed: 9:00-3:30 presentations (break for lunch 12:00-1:00)
#zoomin #conference #jewishart #happeningnow
In honor of Marv and Babe Conney, Professor Ori Soltes will deliver a special lecture titled, “Transcendent and Interdisciplinary: Butterflies in Holocaust and post-Holocaust Imagery.” Dr. Ori Z. Soltes is the Goldman Professorial Lecturer in Theology and Fine Arts at Georgetown University. He is the former director and curator of the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
The Conney Conference on Jewish Arts is generously made possible through the Mildred and Marv Conney Fund. May their memory be a blessing.
https://conneyproject.wisc.edu/marv-conney/
http://https://conneyproject.wisc.edu/
#inmemoriam #lecture #butterflies #postholocaust #holocaust #imagery #jewishart #spring
The conference will address themes of interdisciplinarity, diversity and intersectionality in the changing landscape of the Jewish Arts. In a moment in which we are experiencing a generational shift among Jewish identifying artists to a more inclusive and polyvocal, fluid understanding of Jewish identity, the politics of Jewishness are foregrounded in astounding new ways. From graphic novels to digital art and highly charged dance and performance, to theater, music and literature, we see both a return to ritual and a search for new narratives of the contemporary Jewish experience. The 8th iteration of the Conney Conference on Jewish Arts will focus on the remarkable evolution of the field as it has expanded into the future while acknowledging its own histories.
For more information on the Pyle Center visit: https://pyle.wisc.edu/
For more information about The Conney Project please visit our website - link in bio!
#jewishart #conference #pylecenter #jewish #art #contemporaryart #scholarship
Link in bio!
Featured Artwork: Laurie Beth Clark @lauriebethclark Versteckte Kinder, 2012
@jewishartsalon
#jewishart #tellyourjewishfriends #jewishartsalon #judiskasalongen #madison
