🔉🔉Folks in the Bay Area, I'll be speaking in person at the 6th Annual Berkeley/Stanford graduate symposium on April 23, hosted by @sfmoma. Admission is free, 🔗 in bio for more info! 🔔🔔Thank you @tausifnoor @stanfordaah @ha_ucb and all the other organizers for the invitation! From the organizers: The concept of the non-finito, or unfinished artwork, has been a crucial concept in art history and visual culture since the 16th century. The sculptures lining the Hall of the Prisoners in the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence — works left unfinished by Michelangelo at the time of his death — stand as exemplary cases of artworks that have remained perpetually in progress. Unfinished or partially completed artworks retain a critical purchase within and outside of the Western canon, and central to the understanding of the non-finito are questions of intent. This discrepancy between works of art deliberately left incomplete and those that must remain unfinished due to social, political, and aesthetic circumstances is among the many salient questions for art historians, curators, artists, and viewers today — questions that challenge ideas about temporality, labor and value, and techniques of appreciation and assessment. Work in Progress, the Sixth Annual Berkeley-Stanford Symposium, takes on these questions across a range of disciplines, styles, periods, and geographies to draw connections between the unmade, unfinished, and the yet-to-be uncovered. Our Keynote Speaker, artist Kenneth Tam, will draw on these themes of vexed temporality to address how the aesthetic, social, and political come together in his practice to complicate and critique the notion of progress. Together, the conference opens up ways to think critically about how the many ruptures across history and within our contemporary moment have fractured the logic of linear progress to reveal new aesthetic potentials.