Kelly Presutti: Talk of the Landscape
Join us Friday, June 2, 7-8:30pm for a talk by art historian Kelly Presutti. She will discuss learning to see landscapes, what they say about desire, and how Anna Ialeggio's 2 DIFFRN'T HAYSTACKS can make us see Monet differently. Meet Kelly and Anna at this free happening!
This talk will take place at the site of 2 DIFFRN'T HAYSTACKS located in the East Field. For accommodations, please contact us at (315) 655-3196. Light refreshments and hopefully a lovely sunset!
Enjoy a video excerpt from Ialeggio's 2022 participatory performance of 2 DIFFRN'T HAYSTACKS.
Detail of Monet's Meules, fin de l'été & Detail of Anna Ialeggio's 2 DIFFRN'T HAYSTACKS
Kelly Presutti is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University, where she teaches courses in modern Western art and the environmental humanities. Research interests include nineteenth-century art and visual culture, landscape, and ecocriticism. Her current book project, Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France (forthcoming with Yale University Press in 2024), looks to four landscape typologies—forests, mountains, wetlands and coasts—as sites of negotiation and contestation between state power, local inhabitants, and the environment. Recent publications include “‘A Better Idea than the Best Constructed Charts’: Watercolor Views in Early British Hydrography,” (Grey Room, 2021), an analysis of a set of watercolor views of the French coastline commissioned by the British Admiralty, and “The Sèvres’ Service des Départements and the Anxiety of the Fragment,” (Word & Image, 2021), a study of a French porcelain service that attempted, and failed, to represent a reconfigured nation for a Restoration monarch. Prior to completing her PhD, Presutti held positions at the Getty, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, among other arts organizations.
Anna Ialeggio is a queer white nonbinary artist, performer, and educator, currently living and working on Cayuga homelands (Ithaca, NY). They work in sculpture, performance, drawing, text, and participatory pedagogy, pairing a socially-oriented studio practice with ecological field work and embodied interdisciplinary research. Weaving through mediated, simulated, and fantastical infrastructure in order to articulate and celebrate biodiversity in ecosystems and ideas, Ialeggio has staged exhibitions and performances at local, national, and international levels. Their creative ethos is shaped by fortunate contact with localized collectivism: Bread & Puppet Theater, Signal Fire, Miss Rockaway Armada, KCHUNG Radio, rural mutual aid and environmental activist networks, Theater of the Oppressed, queer DIY spaces, and craft apprenticeships. Ialeggio received an MFA from the University of CA, Irvine in 2019 with a graduate emphasis in Visual Arts. They are Assistant Professor of Studio Arts at Wells College.