The latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, notes an exhibition in Rome, a writing workshop in New Haven, a performance premiere in New York, a documentary streaming at The New Yorker, and new publications and prizes from around the university.
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Discipline and desire in Rome
The MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome recently showcased the work of nine women performance artists, including two Yale undergrads, in a five-day exhibition inspired by the scholarship of Elise Morrison, an assistant professor of theater, dance and performance studies in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS).
Entitled "Discipline/Desire/Surveillance," the exhibition was organized by Morrison and Marta Jovanović, a performance artist and professor at Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA), and drew its themes from Morrison's first book, "Discipline and Desire: Surveillance Technologies in Performance" (University of Michigan Press, 2016).
The artists selected to participate in the program - including two Yale College students, Alice Kasdan and Abigail Murphy - developed performance and installation art works that explored a range of surveillance technologies and their impacts on political and personal life. The exhibition ran from Oct. 1-5.
"For me, this exhibition was a chance to return to the front lines of feminist surveillance art and performance," Morrison said. "It was a chance to foster and learn from the next generation of women as they navigate and take ownership of structures of power and resistance in this world we have made."
