Construction as Commitment: Nicki Green's Alchemical Clay

Name: Construction as Commitment: Nicki Green's Alchemical Clay
Start: 2025-10-16T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22904

Schedule

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Campbell Hall 160, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Virginia 22904 | Charlottesville, VA

Lindner Lecture, feat. Jeanne Vaccaro
This talk takes sculptor Nick Green's assertion that "clay is a trans material" as its starting point. In clay, the artist uses hand-making to study rituals of belonging and becoming, conveying construction as one iteration of commitment. The talk will engage the range of Green's practice as anchored in the ecstatic mysticism of the everyday.

Jeanne Vaccaro is a scholar and curator of contemporary art and public practice. Her writing and social practice trace the idiosyncrasy of the archive to activate liberation histories and coalitions. Jeanne’s book in process, Handmade: feelings and textures of transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity, and was awarded the Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Jeanne received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University under the mentorship of José Esteban Muñoz. She is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Museum Studies at the University of Kansas, and affiliate faculty at the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.