Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7 p.m.
Mirages and Archived Landscapes
Sarah Nance, Assistant Professor of Integrated Practice (Binghamton University, SUNY)
Nance creates shrouds for “archived” landscapes—environments, such as former inland seas, that are now observable only through fossil records, artifacts, or recorded data. These shrouds vary from handworked textiles to experimental vocal performances and, when installed on site, become surface layers that point to complex records of deep time. In her most recent work, Nance focuses on the complex visual experience of shininess and its ability to disorient and obscure. She considers the mirage in particular, as a phenomenon that creates slippages in a landscape’s boundaries in time and space.
The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and the Department of Art & Art History. The program is also part of the Clarke Forum annual theme, Thought Experiments.
This lecture complements an exhibition of Nance’s artwork on display from October 14 through November 12, 2025, at Dickinson’s Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building
(Cedar Street entrance), 595 West Louther Street. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. 3-5 p.m. and Sat. 2-5 p.m.
Topic overview written by Eli Scott-Joseph.
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