Ava Shirazi (Haverford College) "Skin in the Game"

Talk description:

This paper offers a close reading of contemporary artist Young Joon Kwak's sculptural series, Spartan Ruin. By juxtaposing Kwak's sculptural "skins" with ancient visual and verbal discourses on figuration and the athletic body, I propose that the work invites us to reorient our senses away from the forms of classicism that we've been trained to see and instead towards the layered kinesthetic histories of sporting bodies that Kwak's work invites us to feel.

Short Bio:

Ava Shirazi is an assistant professor of Classics at Haverford College and a faculty fellow in Visual Culture, Arts and Media. She is also a founding director of the::sense::archive, a research network and creative collective that fosters collaborations between researchers and artists who share the fields of sensory studies and aesthetics.

She earned her PhD in Classics from Stanford in 2017.

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