Performance+Architecture Symposium

Saturday, April 11, 2026 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Location:
Graham Hall-Hillyer

This symposium sets out to explore relations between performance and architecture—performing architecture, performance as architecture, and architecture as performance—to see how they affect our understanding, imagination, and habitation of physical and discursive space.  


Friday, April 10, 2026 at 5 p.m.


Presentation by Jane Sawyer, Founder and Director, Cook County Art Collective


Reception to follow


 


Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 10:30-4:30 p.m.


Presentations by:



  • Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, Carleton College
  • Claire Grace, Art History, Wesleyan University
  • Andrea Moore, Music, Smith College
  • Mechtild Widrich, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


RSVP requested.


Presented by the Smith College Department of Art and supported by the Maxine and Sigmund Kunstadter Lecture Fund; Smith Office for the Arts; Smith College Lecture Committee Funds; the Departments of Dance, Film and Media Studies, Music, Philosophy, and Theatre; and the Programs in American Studies, Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and Landscape Studies