Kristine Stiles
Art Historian
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
*At the UIC Theater, 1044 West Harrison Street, Room L-285

Stiles presents a lecture titled "Thinking About Visualizations of Trauma in Art."
A professor at Duke University, Kristine Stiles is a specialist in performance and experimental art forms. Internationally recognized for her scholarship on destruction, violence, and trauma in art, Stiles is the recipient of several fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim and a J. William Fulbright. She is the co-author (with Paul Schimmel) of Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 (1998). With Peter Selz, she co-edited Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (1996), which will be re-released in a revised, enlarged edition in 2007, with Stiles as sole editor. Her book Correspondence Course: Selected Letters of Carolee Schneemann and her Circle is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press in 2007. Stiles is currently at work on two books, Uncorrupted Joy: Art Actions, History, and Social Values and Concerning Consequences of Trauma in Art and Culture .

Stiles' lecture is generously supported by the John and Clara Higgins Foundation.