Terra Foundation for American Art in Berlin

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Berlin

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2023 – 2025

Jenny Tang

Jenny Tang is the Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her teaching and scholarship interrogate how changing regimes of state and polity have shaped the artist, the work of art, and the history of art as a discipline, with an emphasis on comparative analyses of race and gender. She is currently at work on “Body Without Form: The Specter of the US Citizen in Modern Art,” a book on modernist aesthetics of the body in painting, sculpture, and visual culture as seen through the material history of American citizenship. Her research in development further examines the relationship between artistic production and the social reproduction of mobility for some bodies, along with incarceration and confinement for others.

 

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2021-2023

Dr. Jennifer Chuong

Jennifer Chuong is the Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Junior Fellow (on leave) at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In her research and teaching she uses critical making practices and the physical study of art to analyze art’s relationship to histories of race, science, and the environment. She is currently at work on a book project, “Surface Experiments: Art, Nature, and the Making of Early America,” which recovers the artistic, scientific, and philosophical fascination with surfaces as sites of physical transformation in the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. Through wide-ranging techniques like mezzotint engraving, paper marbling, veneer furniture, and oil painting, Americans explored the nature of material impermanence and imagined a new kind of society. A second research project analyzes the role of printmaking in materializing racial difference over the course of the long nineteenth century.

 

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2018-2020

Dr. Andrew Witt

Andrew Witt is the Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His teaching interests include the history of photography, contemporary art and aesthetic theory. Andrew completed his PhD at University College London in 2017 and his MA at UCL in 2010. His dissertation addressed the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1970s, focusing on the work of Agnès Varda, Allan Sekula, Asco, John Divola, Martha Rosler, Mark Ruwedel and the collaborative practice of Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.

His current research considers the development of avant-garde photography in Los Angeles and its relation to the communities of exile in the 1940s. From this research he is developing a publication on the photographic work of Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

Andrew is a regular contributor to Artforum .

 

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow 2016-2018

Dr. Larne Abse Gogarty

Larne Abse Gogarty is the Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Humboldt University. Her postdoctoral project addresses Chicago artists’ groups between 1945-1975 and explores issues of  figuration and the body in relation to a dominant, Cold War humanism as well as the specific politics of Chicago during the 1950s and 1960s. Larne completed her PhD at University College London in 2015, which presents a comparative history of socially engaged art during the 1990s, and cultural work produced within the proletarian avant-garde during the 1930s in the United States. She is currently revising her PhD for publication under the provisional title of The Art of Living: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art.  Overall, her primary research interests lie in modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on American performance, sculpture and social practice, Marxism, race and gender.

Larne has previously held positions at University College London (2015-2016), and has taught at Goldsmiths College and Chelsea College of Art. She completed an MA in History of Art at University College London (2009-2010) and a BA in History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies and University College London (2005-2008). In 2016 she co-organised ‘Reality Check: a symposium on art, psycho-politics and the limits of community’ (University College London) and in 2011, co-organised the conference ‘Performance and Labour’ (UCL and Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston) She is in the editorial collective for Cesura//Acceso, a journal for music, politics and poetics. Larne frequently writes criticism for Art Monthly and elsewhere.