Fall 2015 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, history of art
Lauren van Haaften-Schick's research considers the legal-juridical history of art, with a focus on philosophical and legal provocations in conceptual art and institutional critique. Current subjects include the work of Seth Siegelaub, artists' contracts, critical forms of circulation including artists' books and media interventions, and artists' labor, moral, and property rights. Recent exhibitions include Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, at The Center for Book Arts, New York; Albright College, Pennsylvania; Smith College, Massachusetts; and others (2012-14): and Non-Participation, at The Luminary, Missouri; and The Art League Houston, Texas (2014-15). Recent presentations and publications include: "The Artists' Resale Right," at the Artists Space Books and Talks, New York; "What Now? The Politics of Listening," at Art in General and the Vera List Center, New York; a presentation at the Law, Culture, and the Humanities conference at Georgetown University Law Centre; "Gauging the Gray Area" (with Helena Keeffe) for "Valuing Labor in the Arts" at the Arts Research Center, University of California–Berkeley; "Seth Siegelaub's Agreement as Critical Circulation" for "Living Labor, Marxism and Performance Studies," at New York University; lectures at Bureau Publik and Rum46, Denmark, for the series "Making Social Realities with Books"; and "Cariou v. Prince: Toward a Theory of Aesthetic-Judicial Judgments" (with Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento) in the Texas A&M Law Review. In 2012 she was the curator in residence for the Art & Law Program, New York. She has worked as a curator, gallerist, archivist, researcher, and grantmaker since receiving her B.A. in studio arts and art history from Hampshire College in 2006.