Tara Burk
Student Fellow
Tara Burk is a doctoral candidate in art history at The Graduate Center. Her dissertation examines shifting notions of political art and urban space in the late 1980s and 1990s, by focusing on feminist and queer art collectives in New York City. In recent peer-reviewed articles she has considered spatial aspects of visual ephemera, in early modern woodcuts of executions and in AIDS activist graphics.
Participating Years
2012–2013
Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future
The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?