Rhiannon Vogl | (Re)flections on Lucy Lippard's I See / You Mean
Northrop Frye Centre (VC 102)
91 Charles St West Toronto, ON M5S1K5
We are pleased to invite you to our first talk from one of our NFC Doctoral Fellows, Rhiannon Vogl (Department of Art History).
About the talk...
Lucy Lippard’s only published novel, I See / You Mean, began as a wry conceptual experiment and became a sensual and provocative self-exploration. It is intimately tied to Lippard’s experiences within the contemporary art world, the rising feminist movement, and her desire to explore her relationship to both. In it, she moves away from conceptual ways of experiencing the world to more earthbound sensorial ones, blurring the complexities of her identity as a writer, critic and woman. This presentation explores the development of collage-as-methodology in Lippard’s writing, suggests the “sensuous grid” as a new framework for contextualizing Lippard’s approach to her practice, and offers a new understanding of Lippard’s relationship to Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt and Lee Lozano. It resituates I See / You Mean as a nodal point in Lippard’s career and emphasizes the importance of fiction writing in the critic’s work.
About the speaker...
Rhiannon Vogl (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Toronto. Her research is broadly concerned with the intersections of art criticism and publishing with conceptual and postmodern art and on self-reflexive modes of art writing. Her dissertation focuses on the lesser-known fiction writing of art critic Lucy Lippard, and its present-day republication. This research was funded by a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her writing has been published in RACAR, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, Border Crossings, Canadian Art, and BlackFlash Magazine. Before starting her PhD, Rhiannon was a curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada.