SEARCH   INTERSEXIONS     "InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads" Art Conference to Highlight Fall 2004 Season  The CUNY Graduate Center will play host to a conference titled "InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads," on November 12 and 13, 2004. The event, cosponsored by CLAGS and the Queer Caucus for Art of the College Art Association, in cooperation with the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Art History, will bring together visual artists, historians, critics and curators with an interest in queer arts, from a wide geographic and cultural spectrum.  According to the conference co-chair, Maura Reilly (Sackler Curator of Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum), the gathering “will provide a forum for the voices and images of contemporary practitioners in all media, and will spotlight contemporary developments in art-historical research, criticism and theory, museums and galleries.” The conference will also feature performance events, artists’ talks, and an associated exhibition.  “InterseXions” is intended to foster exchange of ideas about historical and contemporary arts among scholars, artists, curators, and other arts personnel, and to encourage cross-fertilization among disciplines and between writers and artists, theory and practice. Co-chair James M. Saslow (CUNY Professor of Art History and Theatre) notes the timeliness of the event’s focus: “The artistic and historical culture of the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer communities once again finds itself at a crossroads: established paths are worn away or petering out, while new challenges and contexts have opened up, and new directions must be charted.”  The conference is being organized by a committee of prominent artists, critics, and scholars in art history and related disciplines, who bring a diversity of individual perspectives, in their personal background and critical methodologies. About half the committee, made up of academics, curators, and practitioners of visual and performance arts, have been members and officers of the CAA Queer Caucus, which was founded in 1989. Members include:  Susan Aberth (Bard College, Latin American Art History), Tee Corinne (photographer and author, Oregon), Whitney Davis (UC-Berkeley, Art History), Jennifer Doyle (UC-Riverside, English), Harmony Hammond (artist and author, New Mexico), Happy Hyder (Lesbians in the Visual Arts, San Francisco), Jonathan David Katz (Larry Kramer Initiative for Gay and Lesbian Studies, Yale U), Richard Meyer (U of Southern California, Art History), José Muñoz (New York University, Performance Studies), Ann Pellegrini (UC-Irvine, Drama), Erica Rand (Bates College, Art), Flavia Rando (Jersey City University, NJ, Art), Ken Silver (New York University, Fine Arts), Patricia Simons (U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Art), James Smalls (U of Maryland-Baltimore County, Art History), Carmelita Tropicana (performance artist and author, New York), Margaret Rose Vendryes (York College, CUNY, Art History), Jonathan Weinberg (artist and scholar, Connecticut), Terry Wolverton (artist, Los Angeles).  To register for this conference, click here.  For information about the Queer Caucus for Art, visit their site at http://www.artcataloging.net/glc/glcn.html             The Graduate Center . City University of New York . Room 7.115 . 365 Fifth Avenue . New York, NY 10016 . 212.817.1955 . clags@gc.cuny.edu