Chanda Carey, PhD

Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track

Art History, Creative Studies

Currently on leave
Office: CCS 347
Phone: 250.807.9058
Email: chanda.carey@ubc.ca

Research Summary

Global Contemporary Art History; Performance Art and its Mediation; Contemporary Art and Transculturation; Geographies of Art; Digital Humanities

Courses & Teaching

Global Contemporary Art; Performance Art in History, Theory and Practice; Eco-Art

Websites

ubc.academia.edu/ChandaCarey

Degrees

BA, University of California San Diego (Art History and Criticism)
MA, Art Center College of Design (Theory and Criticism)
PhD, University of California San Diego (Art History, Theory and Criticism)

Selected Publications & Presentations

“Film and the Performance of Marina Abramović: Documentary as Documentation.” In Documenting the Visual Arts, edited by Roger Hallas. Routledge. 2019.

“Ars and Techne: Jack Whitten Retrospective.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2017, no. 40 (June 1, 2017): 16–27. doi:10.1215/10757163-3885907.

“Towards an Open Work: Marina Abramović and Public Participation.” Athanor, XXXIII, 2016.

“Xu Bing: Erasure and Impermanence.” YISHU: Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art, 14(4):83-98, July/August, 2015.

“Pueblo Folklore, Landscape Phenomenology and the Visual Poetics of Fajada Butte.” In Cosmology across cultures: proceedings of a workshop held at Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 8-12 September 2008, 409:289-296. Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2009.

“No Room for Error.” Justin Michael Moore. Cirrus Gallery: Los Angeles. 2007.

Selected Grants & Awards

2017-18
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Emerging Scholar of Art & Art History
Franklin and Marshall College

2016-17
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow
New York University Center for the Humanities