Jeanne Vaccaro: Trans Visual Culture and Oral History

Description

What tactile historical openings might a curatorial method of archiving yield? Thinking across trans visual culture and oral history, Jeanne Vaccaro presents work from her social and public practice.

Vaccaro is a scholar and curator of contemporary art and public practice whose research endeavors to recalibrate art history's norms and canons. Vaccaro is co-founder of the New York City Trans Oral History Project, inaugural scholar-curator at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and assistant professor of transgender studies at the University of Kansas. Her book in process, Handmade: Feelings and Textures of Transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity.

The event is free and open to the public, but ID is required to enter the Brody Learning Commons, where the event will be held. Light lunch will be provided.

This event is part of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center's Curating Archives event series.