Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by the art historian Christina Knight entitled “Choreographic Time: Fugitivity, Opacity, and Chronology in Glenn Ligon’s To Disembark (1993).”

Christina Knight is assistant professor of art history as well as the Mellon assistant professor of global racial justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in African American studies with a primary field in the history of art. Before joining the Rutgers faculty, she was the founding director and assistant professor of visual studies at Haverford College, a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral fellow at Bowdoin College as well as a Ford Foundation Diversity fellow. Knight’s work examines the connection between embodied practices and identity, the relationship between race and the visual field, and the queer imaginary. She is currently completing a book manuscript that focuses on representations of the Middle Passage in contemporary American visual art and performance. Knight is also at work on a new project that examines the influences of drag culture on contemporary black art. Additionally, she is the director of knightworks dance theater, which she co-founded with her sister in 2013.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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