PUBLIC LECTURE

Thursday, March 6, 6pm – 7pm

SCHOOL OF ART AND ART HISTORY
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
141 N. Riverside Dr.
Iowa City, IA 52242

Patrick Earl Hammie will discuss his recent project Significant Other, the conceptual sequel to his 2008 project Imperfect Colossi. This work presents a female and a male figure locked in a physical dialogue, hefting weight, and relocating the perceptions of ruined and objectified bodies that recall and carry on complex legacies of suffering and struggle. Informed by historical representations of Otherness, and recent shifts that locate women and people of color as central influencers of culture and politics, this series reorients inherited expectations and makes room for these bodies to populate new stations. Drawing on the emotive qualities of Romanticist painting and its use of heroic proportions to engage with political and humanistic expression, Hammie imagines bodies as occasions for us to encounter difference toward considering their capacity for establishing new narratives.