MATERIALITY
OF
RESISTANCE
Anbin Liu, Elif Aydinli, Shreya Shankar, and Weisheng Zhong (MArch 2023) install Flow State Pavilion at the CCA@CCA Fluid Mutualism Symposium, March 2022. Photo by Nicholas Lea Bruno.
The 2024 CCA@CCA theme, Materiality of Resistance, will center on a two-day symposium (March 7-8, 2024) exploring the artistic deployment of materials as tools to imagine, promote, and enact resistance to the status quo in American art and visual culture. By invoking the word “material,” we throw into relief substances—unique and many, observable and nearly imperceptible—that are marshaled and transformed by makers into things perceived as significant, useful, and of value.
Hosted by the History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) program at California College of the Arts (CCA), and made possible with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the symposium will convene writers, artists, designers, curators, and archivists to consider historical and contemporary stories where the materiality of making contributes to socio-cultural change. The symposium will comprise lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions of archival materials and new works, as well as hands-on workshops on CCA’s San Francisco campus.
For more information on the Materiality of Resistance Symposium, please visit CCA’s Calendar.
FACULTY COORDINATOR
Nil Bayraktar
Nilgun Bayraktar is Associate Professor of Film in the History of Art and Visual Culture Program and Film Program at California College of the Arts. Her work, focusing on migrant and diasporic cinema, contemporary art, and critical border studies, has been published in academic journals including Journal of European Studies, Screen City Biennial Journal and New Cinemas. She is co-editor with Alberto Godioli of Rethinking Defamiliarization in Literature and Visual Culture (Palgrave 2024) and author of Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art: Cinema Beyond Europe (Routledge 2018), which examines cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe since the 1990s. Her current book project, Border Futurities expands the chronological, geographic, and theoretical scope of her earlier research, looking beyond Europe to the Middle East, Africa, and the US-Latin American context to investigate the multiplication and diffusion of borderlands. She received a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Sabanci University, Istanbul, and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies & Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.