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jericho jennifer nelson

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art historian poet • a founding editor of @selva_journal
they + she • fil am
philadelphia • u delaware

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some things in and around Philly of late and out of order

great performances this weekend at @ghostharmonics by @alina_pleskova @makeshifthammer @hanahstrawberry and @chris___mccreary (not pictured due to an appliance meltdown at home)

great performances a couple weeks ago by @jenaos and @mccarthy_pattie

_My Snail_ at the PMA along with other friends there

and King David and St Michael and the dragon at Glencairn by @henkaipantomime

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I realized I accidentally left out the Joseon iron underglaze ware from my last post so decided to give them a spot of their own on the grid. by @henkaipantomime

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my favorite wares in the world

expanded beyond inlaid and/or incised Goryeo celadon on this visit to freak out over Goryeo metal inlay and Joseon iron underglaze taken in National Museum of Korea by @henkaipantomime

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THIS WILL BE UP FOR A YEAR BEFORE TRAVELING so AHA folks you have no excuse.

here finally are my favorite artworks among many brilliant ones in @drjbatario Jessamine Batario's spectacular show "Imagining an Archipelago" at Colby's art museum.

worker barongs with sand, pearls, and teeth (!) by @theacanlas.art Thea Canlas (_Export Quality [Value Studies: Uniforms]_, 2023) gave me chills

but also a page blown onto a wall by @craigsantosperez

another projected verse plus super hot lamp by Jerome Reyes @jeromeureyes

the end of a found tablecloth by Imelda Cajipe Endaya

details from the Canlas

another brilliant _Afterimage_ by @ssyjuco Stephanie Syjuco

@reynier_leyva_novo Reynier Leyva Novo's astonishing series of casts of weapons used in revolutions (_El deseo de morir por otros_, 2021)

a gigantic cyanotype by Mariquita (Micki) Davis @marimick

Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien's _Social Volcano (restless waves)_, my other favorite, from 2024 and made of watercolor and various organic materials from discarded food

and finally a clip from a video I'm still thinking about, @martha.atienza Martha Atienza's _Anito I_ of 2011-2015.

if we have to have museums, let's have more shows like this please taken in Colby College Museum of Art by @henkaipantomime

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my favorite pictures I got to take at the Celtic show. all sorts of locations across Europe and thousands of years and so many gorgeous surfaces. haven't even included here the best case in the show with glass bracelets and beads from the 5th-1st centuries BCE from Germany, Switzerland, and Slovenia showing bits of broken glass bracelets recycled into new metal bracelet fittings 😍 taken in Harvard Art Museums by @henkaipantomime

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this is one of the best books I've read in the last year. you do not have to have lost a baby to transform with this text. it's fucking incredible. read most of it before I got here and finished it on this beach with a storm coming in which felt right

thanks @niinausea for writing this, I know I'm behind but it's still reverberating taken in Gloucester, Massachusetts by @henkaipantomime

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very delayed post of gratitude. how to teach a large in-person lecture in the face of widespread cynicism about learning and AI? how to frame my home turf of early modernity for relatively fresh humans? is it possible to teach _briefly_ (!) about the 20th century without repeating the self-heroizing myths of North Atlantic modernism? how to teach contemporary art in this fouled world?

my TAs and I this spring ran an experimental version of the second half of the art history survey. on a personal note, it was also an opportunity to do some healing after horrifically scarring experiences teaching the survey a decade ago (in my pre Wisconsin years).

@oyawolefoluke and @gabrielletclement and another excellent TA (who did not consent to be represented here and so has been replaced by sketched on symbols of their vibes) were incredible collaborators, generously rolling with my idiosyncrasies and adjustments and offering up their own.

together under Gabrielle's leadership they came up with the amazing idea of the final section project shown here: every student in the class made strips with art concepts/works they had grown invested in on one side and important elements from their living communities on the other. then each section wove them together; and then out of those panels my TAs wove together this gigatapestry now in my office.

I have SO MUCH to work on and to continue to improve, but this may have been my most rewarding experience yet at @udarthistory.

thanks again to Foluke Oyawole and Gabrielle Clement and to my more private third TA. it was a real honor to work with and learn from you all. taken in University of Delaware by @henkaipantomime

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4 months ago

Thinking about what you want to do for the Renaissance Society of America conference when it comes to Philly next year? Consider sending a proposal to @sarakateberk and my panel on GENDER UNRULED.

Description and instructions continued in the comments; link to official RSA CFP will be in bio once it's live.

Gender Unruled: Beyond Essentialism in Material and Visual Culture, ca. 1350-1700

Gender is a social construct that has always disobediently aligned with an equally constructed biological dimorphism. Yet gender essentialism–the sense that some roles, like motherhood, are inherently female, and others, like kingship, are male–has lingered in scholarship on early modern material and visual culture. Elizabeth I is famously recorded, for example, to have said she had the heart and stomach of a king inside the weak and feeble body of a woman; scholars have often reiterated such essentializing distinctions even as they celebrate female empowerment and unearth suppressed feminist histories.

Theorists outside of art history like Anne Fausto-Sterling and Agustín Fuentes have dismantled the binarism of biological sex, and literary scholars like Simone Chess, Will Fisher, and Colby Gordon have opened up trans-theoretical approaches to early modern studies. Inspired by and re-thinking the work of Roland Betancourt, Kathleen Perry Long, Timothy McCall, and Patricia Simons, among others, this panel asks: why have pre-modern art historians less fully turned toward a more contingent and complex understanding of gender? Are there relevant differences between material, visual, and textual production with regards to gender presentation? Are there things scholars today might learn from the ways early modern agents themselves complicated the genders expected of them and of others?

Given the role of European settler colonial governance in enforcing dimorphic biological determinism, we are especially interested in papers that address case studies from global majority cultures and/or colonial contexts. Can .... taken in Philadelphia by @henkaipantomime

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last few weeks of poetry related events: the incredible triumphant parents of @morganapple0 and of course Morgan Parker herself at her porchfest

@alina_pleskova from an amazing set with @raenashirali for Chiara di Lello's "Childless Millennial" at Tattooed Mom

me and @jimmmjiminie trying to make real, not "sublime" poetry at the Raphael show

@levitylevitywellwell twice bc Jon Woodward is just that good (buy his damn book WANT FOR NOTHING from @slopeeditions )

and @internal_exile and @ryaneckes and me in support (thanks to Mike Nees for the pic of me)

Bob Carey @bogscary and @no_moreflowers Steph Cawley with new work and Olivia Muenz all supporting the Philly launch of hometown hero Michael Joseph Walsh @mkwlsh's A SEASON (get it)

and some final pics from porchfest bc it's important to dream of a new world: @neesmike , Jonathan Chou, @elektricityskape Anni Liu by @henkaipantomime

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Really excited to be hosting this great reading at Brickbat in about two weeks, with Paul Ebenkamp in from Berkeley, as well as local loves Ryan Dobran and Jericho Jennifer Nelson. See you there!! by @henkaipantomime

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very late post appreciating my two favorite works from the spring show at @villageoneart , "In the Mood for Love":

@alex_b_evans _A word for the fishes_, pushing through Böcklin and completed this year

and @zhangyanziyanzi Yanzi Zhang's _The Breathable_, a 2016 bandage turned handscroll

bonus pic of Alex Evans's entry in the Every Woman Biennial earlier this year by @henkaipantomime

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recent readings I have attended, belated style

big thanks to @ghostharmonics for having me along with @nikkivolpicelli , Anselm freaking Berrigan, and Jonathan Todd along with an incredible experimental electronic jazz band I loved, Untethered Trio

the next night I had the pleasure of finally meeting the kind of hero you want to meet, Brian Teare, who read with @blackwhom Zach Blackwood at @jeancalais ' always incredible Frank O'Hara's Last Lover to kickoff Ricardo @dome_neck's US tour along with his brilliant translator Chris Daniels.

plus two bonus pics from last night's open mic at Fergie's to celebrate some good news for my friends @gmyers25 (featured reader) and @internal_exile . always love that motley crowd by @henkaipantomime

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