Last week I talked about the initial reorganizations I’ve been doing for Chapter 2, and how I’ve been looking to other genres of writing to help me think the text. Today, we’ll pivot back to the research side of things and take a look at the research trip I recently completed at the Walker Art… Continue reading Dissertation Work, June Update, Part II
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Dissertation Work, June Update, Part I
Last month I didn’t have much to report on with the dissertation, but that’s changed since then. Over the next two weeks, I’ll share these updates, because why limit myself to one post when I can do two? In terms of writing, the main thing that I’ve been doing recently is redrafting chapter 2 after… Continue reading Dissertation Work, June Update, Part I
Labor in the Space Between
Last week I attended my first in-person conference in three years. Titled “Labor in the Space Between,” this event was the annual conference for the Space Between Society, an organization I’ve been involved with since 2019. As the title suggests, the topic of this year’s conference was labor. Since I’d already talked about labor at… Continue reading Labor in the Space Between
Dissertation Work, May Update
Today’s post will be a short one because I don’t have a lot of updates from last month. The main thing that happened is that I finished a preliminary draft of chapter 2 and sent it to my adviser right before I left for Scotland. About a week after I returned, we got together to… Continue reading Dissertation Work, May Update
Dissertation Work, April Update
The last time I posted about the dissertation I had just come back from a research trip to New York. Right now, I’m in the midst of writing a very preliminary draft of Chapter Two. Let’s take a look at what I’ve been thinking about. Beyond recounting the historical narrative of the Neighborhood Circulating Exhibition… Continue reading Dissertation Work, April Update
Dissertation Work, March Update
On Saturday night I returned to Williamsburg after spending a few intense research days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reading about the Neighborhood Circulating Exhibitions. After months of delays and waiting due to the ongoing pandemic, I finally had an opportunity to resume my archival deep diving. Let’s take a look at this most… Continue reading Dissertation Work, March Update
CDHC and CAA, 2022
Usually, when I mention conferences on this blog, I talk about the research I presented. This past week though, I participated in two conferences in a different role. Instead of presenting my own research, I served as moderator, helping to provide a space for others to share their work. The first was the annual symposium… Continue reading CDHC and CAA, 2022
Dissertation Work, February Update
The most exciting update about my dissertation is that next month I’ll be resuming archival research by returning to the Met to look at the documents relating to their Neighborhood Exhibition Program. While I did visit a retrospective about the initiative last year, the archives were still closed at that point, so I was more… Continue reading Dissertation Work, February Update
Dissertation Work, January Update
This first month of the new year has been spent organizing for the year of research and writing to come. Partly it’s because I’m playing catch-up from December. Due to our recent move and the projects we needed to complete along with it, I didn’t do any dissertation work last month. But the new year… Continue reading Dissertation Work, January Update
Exhibition Work: December Update
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing and editing the exhibition texts: the object labels, introductory panels, and other writings that appear in a gallery and contextualize the pieces on display. Like every aspect of this exhibition, I’ve been consciously taking a more collaborative approach compared to my previous museum work. After writing the… Continue reading Exhibition Work: December Update