In my research on photography, installation, painting, and spectacles (such as the panorama, diorama, etc.) I investigate how these forms reflect on the limits of experience within modernity, or propose new kinds of experience. To this end, I use methods such as phenomenology and queer feminist art history—both of which highlight the experiential—while also showing how the participant's engagement with an artwork is always social, historical, and informed by power relations.
My book Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (co-authored with Constance Lewallen, 2019) is the first study devoted entirely to Nauman's phenomenological installations (rooms, corridors, etc.). Presently, I'm preparing a history of the diorama for publication. My writing is also published in scholarly collections and journals, as well as public-facing venues, such as Art in America, Afterimage, Camerawork Quarterly, and The Brooklyn Rail, where I serve as editor-at-large. I enjoy curating events and exhibitions. These projects have been generously supported by fellowships and grants from the Warhol Foundation, Camargo Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and the Getty Center.
Currently Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, my courses include Modern Spectacles, Immersive Art, Queer Theories of Experience & Art, Avant-Garde Art, and Introduction to Visual Culture. I can be contacted at [email protected]. My CV is here.
My book Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters (co-authored with Constance Lewallen, 2019) is the first study devoted entirely to Nauman's phenomenological installations (rooms, corridors, etc.). Presently, I'm preparing a history of the diorama for publication. My writing is also published in scholarly collections and journals, as well as public-facing venues, such as Art in America, Afterimage, Camerawork Quarterly, and The Brooklyn Rail, where I serve as editor-at-large. I enjoy curating events and exhibitions. These projects have been generously supported by fellowships and grants from the Warhol Foundation, Camargo Foundation, Clark Art Institute, Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art, and the Getty Center.
Currently Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, my courses include Modern Spectacles, Immersive Art, Queer Theories of Experience & Art, Avant-Garde Art, and Introduction to Visual Culture. I can be contacted at [email protected]. My CV is here.