The department of Comparative Cultural Studies and the Asian Studies program present two curators in conversation on Nov. 1 at 5 p.m. in Liberal Arts room 120 for “Art in the Atomic Age: Japan, the Pacific Islands, and North America.”
This lecture features Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, and Shawn Skabelund, an artist working to reveal the complex issues, ecologies, and cultural histories of and in specific landscapes.
Gabrielle is the author of Invisible Colors: The Arts of the Atomic Age (MIT Press, 2019). Gabrielle taught at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was the recipient of a Hilla Rebay International Fellowship, working with curators at the Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, and Venice. She has also been the recipient of several KAKENHI Grantsfor Scientific Research in Japan.
Shawn has curated several exhibitions that explore themes including migration along the U.S/Mexico border, wildfires in the Southwest, and uranium mining and its impact on the Diné – the first exhibition entirely dedicated to the impact of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.
