Detail of Plane Ticket to 2011 CAA Conference. February 8, 2011. (Image Credit: Tempestt Hazel)
My flight was a little delayed. Even so, what has been on my mind while preparing for the CAA Conference has been mainly two things: 1.) What is there to learn from last year’s CAA Blog experience, and 2.) How can I clone myself between now and Laguardia so that I can make it to every session and every event of the conference that I want to go to?
While everyone was focused on the Super Bowl, I was focused on plotting out my strategy for the conference. Similarly, as the Packers and Steelers were making game plans, so was I. It looks like we art scholars have more in common with athletes after all.
Some of the panels I am having the most difficult time deciding between for Wednesday are the following:
- Nation Building: The Politics of Space in the African City
- The Aesthetics of Sonic Spaces
- Oral Histories and the Archive
- Gender and Sexuality in the Art Museum
- High Heels and Leather Masks: When Fetish Becomes Art and Art Becomes Life
- Recurating: New Practices in Exhibition Making
- Interdependent Identity: Paradigm and Paradox in Contemporary Israeli and Palestinian Art
…and that’s just the first day. So, how do you be everywhere at once? If you’re looking for me, I’ll be the one on the run.