考陶德開放時間 – 插曲 2, S5: Hair Moments
Join The Courtauld for our fifth online series, ‘Open Courtauld Hour’
“It’s the difference between a good day and a bad day, hair is everything!” Fleabag, 2019
Hair is, undeniably, a defining feature of human identity, status and an apparatus to express and perform a sense of belonging. Hair can be chopped off, dyed and styled with the reassurance that it will (most likely) not cause much physical pain and that it will (hopefully) rejuvenate in time for the next fashion trend. A malleable assertion of ‘self’, hairs visual potency in art historical material can consequently style out hairs special power to inform social norms. Associated in the western canon of art history with traditional notions of beauty and fertility in women — abundant, flowing and visions of sensuous and sexually alluring hair a focal point of movements like the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood — artistic representations of hair and hairstyles can also illustrate a darker side to our discipline. Embodying one type of hair as the zeitgeist of the age, the paragon and ‘beau idéal’ of female beauty, imparts the barely hidden discrimination, stigmatisation, oppression, cultural appropriation and follicular racism aggrandised through idealised ‘princess-hair’.
This Open Courtauld Hour will interrogate the assumed banality of hair in art history, its everyday presence making it the perfect vehicle to reproduce and feed into systems of control. For this conversation we will be joined by Rachael Gibson (The Hair Historian) to historicise the chignons, coiffures and cuts of the Courtauld Collection, Serena Lee (founder of Inclusive Histories) to look into her arsenal of discoveries into hair adornment, head wrapping and headscarves within the African diaspora, Kyle Ring (founder of in.hair.itance) for an in conversation that celebrates the diversity, complexity and creativity of how people of colour choose to style, decorate and care for their hair and award winning poet, Shagufta K Iqbal, who will be taking on our ‘Odalisque in an interior with a parrot’, formerly known as, ’Young Oriental woman in an interior’, by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps in her one-off poetic interpretation. The session will be rounded up by a panel discussion and Q&A where we welcome audience questions.
這個在線迷你係列將提供簡潔的一小時彈出講座包, 表演和詳細的對象研究課程，探索和慶祝我們的收藏, 藝術史研究, 策展和保護.
該系列將觸及相關問題——通過藝術史領域放大當代社會思維. These episodes will explore how the public, artists and galleries are adapting to a digital world, showcasing art historical research in light of this global pandemic and providing a platform for creative practice in the age of social distancing.
最重要的是, 因為藝術與所有人有關, 這些非正式會議將使與會者有機會訪問, 通過不同的視角參與和閱讀藝術和藝術史——通過重述隱藏的故事來改造和重新思考藝術史討論. 這些劇集將提供新的視角, 藝術實踐的新途徑, 通過影響我們所有人的主題來看待藝術並閱讀其歷史.
Open Courtauld Hour 由 Bloomberg Philanthropies 支持.