Evening with John Muse and Homay King
November 28, 2023
Blue World Gallery
Andrew Uroski, Austin Mayer, John Muse, Zabet Patterson, Homay King and Kaja Silverman gather to discuss John and Homay’s recent Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition titled EXTRA MEDIUM and to virtually walk through Blue World Gallery where even more of John’s work has been installed.
40 Years of Theory: Kaja Silverman "Before the Before"
March 24, 2023
The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
To celebrate 40 years as a center stage for critical theory--the first of its kind in the US--the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory held a series of symposia with major theorists, beginning with a lecture from Kaja Silverman.
Looking for Langston (1989) Panel Discussion
June 13, 2022
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Ja’Tovia Gary, Isaac Julien and Kaja Silverman in conversation before the Looking for Langston (1989) screening during the Poetic Cinema: Isaac Julien and the Sankofa Film & Video Collective programmatic series.
Photograph by Derek Rigby. Courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Talking Back: Dance Response Project
October 7, 2017
Slought Foundation
Organized in conjunction with Carrie Schneider's exhibition, Talking Back featured Kyle Abraham, Carrie Schneider, and Kaja Silverman in conversation about choreography, film, and the politics of intimacy. It highlighted Abraham and Schneider's most recent collaboration, Dance Response Project (2013–2014), a series of seven short improvised dance videos featuring Abraham performing solo and, at times, with collaborators.
More Than Private: The Work of Carrie Schneider
October 7-December 13, 2017
Slought Foundation
More Than Private was an exhibition of the photographic and video work of New York–based artist Carrie Schneider, curated by Kaja Silverman. This is the first time Schneider’s work has been exhibited in Philadelphia, and her largest solo show to-date on the East Coast. Works on view span the last decade, and include Las Bebidas, Recession, Derelict Self, Reading Women, the Summer Drawings, three of Schneider’s videos, and five of the Dance Response videos, on which Schneider collaborated with choreographer/dancer Kyle Abraham.
More than Private opened on October 7, with a conversation between Schneider, Abraham, and Silverman about the Dance Response Project, and a riveting performance by Abraham.
Silverman also conducted a second conversation with Schneider on November 30, that focused on Schneider's solo work and the notion of mutuality.
Identification, Desire, Mutuality
November 30, 2017
Slought Foundation
A conversation between Carrie Schneider and Kaja Silverman exploring relations and figures in photographic space. The conversation focused on Schneider’s solo works, including Las Bebidas, Recession, Derelict Self, Reading Women, Summer Drawings, as well as Silverman’s formulation of analogy as a way for us to relate to each other. It was linked to More than Private, an exhibition of Schneider’s work, curated by Silverman, that closed on December 13, 2017.
Listen to the conversation:
Patrick Anderson reads from Autobiography of a Disease, and talks with Kaja Silverman about "ultimate things"
September 11, 2017
Slought Foundation
Patrick Anderson introduced and read from his most recent book, Autobiography of a Disease, and then talked with Kaja Silverman about how we make sense of the indelibly vulnerable experience of being ill, and what to we “do” with that experience afterward.
Exhibition of Student Works Made in Art Now and Essays in Images and Words
May 5-10, 2017
Seraphin Gallery
This is an exhibition of the works made by the MFA students in Kaja Silverman’s "Art Now" lecture course, which she teaches at Penn every spring, and the undergraduate and MFA students in "Essays in Images and Words," the Speigel-Wilks Seminar that she and Sam Mapp taught at the ICA this past semester.
Rebecca Tennenbaum James Allister Sprang
Henryk Tomassini Monika Uchiyama
Konhee Chang Gwen Comings
Zoya Siddiqui Christina Qiu
Jeremy Jirsa Julian Feng
Yaochi Jin Yasmin Gee
Linda Lin Connie Yu
Eric Yue
Still/Moving: Kaja Silverman + Carrie Schneider + Kathleen Kelly In Conversation
April 27, 2017
Pratt
The conversation drew from Schneider’s recent lens-based work as well as Silverman and Kelley's recent scholarship, investigating the psychological and media-specific qualities inherent to still and moving image media, and the implications of shooting a body of work in both.
alexander streitberger, "See It In All Ways: The Virtual Panorama In Contemporary Art And Visual Culture"
February 16, 2017
University of Pennsylvania
In his book Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion, Oliver Grau presents the panorama as a forerunner of digitally produced, 360-degree immersive imagery. Introduced in the late 19th century by Irish painter Robert Barker, the panorama, a monumental 360-degree painting fixed on the inner walls of a circular building, offers a static, cylindrical image that immerses the spectator in an environment which he is only able to apprehend when moving around on the platform situated in the center of the rotunda. Consequently, the panorama can be described as a fixed, immobile image navigated by a body in motion.
Kaja Silverman: CAA Distinguished Scholar Session
February 16, 2017
Kaja Silverman, art historian and critical theorist, and Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania, is recognized as the Distinguished Scholar in this special session.
james welling + Kaja Silverman + Alex Klein in conversation
November 1, 2016
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Renowned American photographer James Welling discussed his work with Kaja Silverman, and Alex Klein, Dorothy and Stephen Weber Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The conversation will focus primarily on Welling’s recent work, particularly The Glass House, Meridian, Andrew Wyeth, Choreograph, and Chemical Photographs.
victor Burgin / Then and Now
September 13-November 6, 2016
Slought Foundation
The exhibition, curated by Kaja Silverman and Homay King, included a photographic series, US 77 (1977), and three digital projection works, Prairie (2015), A Place to Read (2010), and The Little House (2005).
The computational image: a seminar with victor burgin, kaja silverman, and homay king
September 14, 2016
Slought Foundation
This seminar focused on Burgin's experience of working in computational image space.
A Seminar With Victor Burgin, Kaja Silverman, And Homay King
September 13, 2016
University of Pennsylvania
This seminar addressed a broad range of Burgin's work, both as an artist and writer.
Walid Raad + Kaja Silverman (Part II): A Conversation about Art, Museums, and the Middle East
April 5, 2016
Slought Foundation
Walid Raad is a Lebanese artist who makes videos, installations, photographs and sculptures, and whose work frequently has a performance component. From 1989-2004, Raad produced fictionalized photographs, videotapes, notebooks, and lectures that related to real events and involved authentic research in audio, film, and photographic archives in Lebanon, under the rubric of The Atlas Group, an imaginary collective.
Elise Archias, “Our Narrowness: Holding Onto Modernism Circa 1960”
March 31, 2016
Slought Foundation
This talk considered Joan Mitchell’s paintings from the late 1950s as part of a larger project on the global persistence of abstract approaches to artistic form circa 1960.
Stopping with Astonishment before Gustave le Gray’s Sea and Sky
March 18, 2016
A Conversation with joanna scott
November 15, 2015
Penn Museum
Joanna Scott read from her book and discussed the life of De Potter, the Penn Museum, and the early days of collecting with Penn professors Kaja Silverman and Robert Ousterhout.
Walid Raad + Kaja Silverman (Part I): A Conversation
November 3, 2015
University of Pennsylvania
This seminar focused on the works of Kaja Silverman, and more particularly her recent book The Miracle of Analogy or The History of Photography, Part 1.
The Miracle of Analogy, or The History of Photography (Part I)
February 27—April 16, 2015
The Miracle of Analogy is the first volume in a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world’s primary way of revealing itself to us. It was published by Stanford University Press in February 2015.
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Can performances of transgression take place within sites of informatic control? Rather than using new media as a tool for quantification, the selected works pursue connections via disembodied avatars while emphasizing the particularity of embodied agents.
Itinerant Belongings
Slought Foundation
The exhibition, organized by Charlotte Ickes and Iggy Cortez, examined how artists have engaged with ideas of homeland and belonging that fail to cohere to a unitary sense of time or place. Through film, photography and performance, the artists in this exhibition explore the contours of belonging across different contexts.
Test The West: TJ Clark In Conversation With Kaja Silverman
October 13, 2014
Slought Foundation
The evening began with a talk by Clark about consumerism and its image-world. His talk was then followed by further conversation with Kaja Silverman about art and capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the relation of visual depiction to what he has referred to elsewhere as the "sales-pitch-world."
Judith Barry: Cairo Stories
September 15—October 24, 2014
Slought Foundation
A video and photographic installation based on more than 215 interviews conducted with women from many social and economic classes in Cairo between the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the beginning of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, curated by Kaja Silverman.
On Collecting: Kaja Silverman In Conversation With Keith And Kathy Sachs
Jaffe, University of Pennsylvania
The conversation was centered around collecting works of art as an intellectual activity. It is part of the University of Pennsylvania's History of Art Department 2104-2015 Colloquium Series and in anticipation of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's forthcoming (2016) exhibition of the Sachs Contemporary Art Collection.
