FEATURING WORKS BY:
Tina Wang, MFA Student, Department of Visual Arts
Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Joint-PhD Student, TAPS & English
Clara Nizard, Joint-PhD Student, TAPS & English
Lily Scherlis, Joint-PhD Student, TAPS & English

Tuesday, November 30,
4:30 – 6:00 PM CT
Logan Center for the Arts, Room 801
**Exclusively In-Person**

Please register for the workshop HERE. Due to COVID-19 safety protocols at UChicago, we can only accept the first 25 participants registered for this workshop.

We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Please direct any questions or concerns to the workshop coordinators, Michael Stablein Jr. (mstableinjr@uchicago.edu) and Catrin Dowd (catrindowd@uchicago.edu).

A screening of performance documentation and video performance works-in-progress by current UChicago graduate students. An open forum for discussion and feedback will take place after the screening and the workshop.

Tina Wang is a Taiwanese-Latina performance artist with roots in New York and California. By immersing the body around the objects of menial labor, she challenges assumptions about where these objects belong, who belongs with them, and their relationship to living bodies. She obtained her BA in dance and psychology at Washington University, and Certificate in contemporary dance performance at the Peridance Center. Her work has been supported or presented at EMERGENYC 2020, Creative Capital’s taller, The Sable Project, NYFA Immigrant Artist Program, Judson Church, New York Live Arts, Governor’s Island, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial fundraiser, to name a few. She is currently a first year MFA student in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.

Drawing on queer theory and ecocriticism, Fabien Maltais-Bayda works across text, film, and performance to consider how bodies are co-constituted with the space-times they inhabit. He is interested in parsing how marginal bodies—both human and non-human—endure through precarious temporalities and shifting topographies. In particular, his current work attends to overlapping concerns around queer health and environmental degradation in 1990s California. This research focuses on temporal shifts between the chronic and the critical, examining how these dynamics register in a variety of cultural objects including road narratives, New Queer Cinema, HIV/AIDS zines, and durational body art.

Clara Nizard‘s research considers motion, movement, and mobility, particularly the ways in which these terms intersect and bind Anglophone and Francophone histories of the Americas together. Clara has also shown multi-media performance work focused on queer epistemologies in France, the UK, and Canada. She holds an MFA in Performance Practice as Research from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Lily Scherlis researches how personality and character are subject to aesthetic judgment in contemporary US culture. She studies the methods that people, institutions, and academic disciplines use to evaluate and reward others’ social performances (grades, wealth, security, affection, online likes, physical gestures, cultural capital, friendship). In addition to scholarly and extra-academic writing, she works in video and performance, and occasionally in sculpture and printmaking. Her work has been featured by the Smart Museum of Art and the Carpenter Center for Visual Art. She is also Nonfiction Editor at Chicago Review.