MAPPING MODERNISMS PROGRAM
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
National Gallery of Canada, Auditorium
9:00 – 9:45 – Introduction
9:00 – 9:15 – Welcome from National Gallery
9:15-9:45 – Introduction to the Multiple Modernities Project: Ruth Phillips & Elizabeth Harney
9:45 – 12: 00 – Panel 1: Mapping Movements (Moderator: Ruth Phillips)
9:45 – 10:15 – W. Jackson Rushing III, “George Morrison’s Surrealist Journey: Expatriation and Return of the Native Son”
10:15-10:45 – Elizabeth Harney, “Challenging the Cartography of the Modern with the Coordinates of Pan-Africanism”
10:45 – 11:00 – Coffee break
11:00-11:30 – Peter Brunt, “Falling into the World: The Art World of Aloi Pilioko and Nicolai Michoutouchkine”
11:30- 12:00 – Norman Vorano, “Our (Foot)prints are Everywhere: Pootoogook, Houston, Hiratsuka and the Politics of Mobility in Early Inuit Printmaking”
12:00 – 1:30 – Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 – Panel 2: Mapping Identities (Moderator: Elizabeth Harney)
1:30 – 2:00 – Susan Vogel, “El Anatsui: Ghanaian Modernist in Nigeria”
2:00-2:30 – Anitra Nettleton, “Conditions of Engagement: Modernism and Modernity in the Art of Two Black Twentieth-Century South African Artists”
2:30-3:00 – Nicholas Thomas, “Artist of PNG”: Mathias Kauage and his Contemporaries”
3:00-3:30 – coffee break
3:30-5:00 – Panel 3: Mapping Concepts (Moderator: Nicholas Thomas)
3:30 – 4:00 – Sandra Klopper, “Tivenyanga Qwabe and the (Re) invention of Zulu Tradition”
4:00 – 4:30 – Bill Anthes, “Indian Painting in an Expanded Field: Mapping Modernism in Native North America”
4:30-5:00 – Ian McLean, “Across Cultures: Indigenous Modernisms in Central Australia”
5:00 – 5:30 – Wrap-up Discussion