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CFP: NANCY HOLT SCHOLAR'S DAY

Deadline October 15, 2018

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Dia Art Foundation seeks participants for a scholar’s day devoted to Nancy Holt (1938–2014) taking place on Monday, February 11, 2019. 

Holt’s five-decade-long practice included work in art, architecture, and time-based media, which involved singular meditations on interior and exterior environments. Holt is well-known for her iconic Sun Tunnels (1973–76), a pioneering work of Land art located in the Great Basin Desert in northwestern Utah. Dia acquired Sun Tunnels in spring 2018, the first work of Land art by a woman to enter Dia’s collection. 

On the occasion of the acquisition of Sun Tunnels , the scholar’s day aims to recognize Nancy Holt’s singular understanding of location, experience, and site-specificity in critical relationship to the art of her generation, while also underscoring her import to contemporary art and artists.  The selected participants will have the chance to attend presentations by leading scholars that will focus on a single work or series by the artist. This will allow participants to further their own understanding of Holt’s body of works and to participate in discussions with their peers. 

We invite applications from graduate students and emerging curators and scholars (no more than 7 years of work experience and/or untenured faculty) from a wide variety of fields, including, but not limited to, architecture, art history, environmental studies, geography, history of science, literature, philosophy, and performance studies, among others. Participants will be chosen based on research interests that pertain to Holt and her expanded practice. 

Applications should consist of a single PDF file containing the following: