The Ethics of Seeing: Kaira M. Cabanas on Creative Care and Arts Histories

Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 6 a.m.

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In this episode, which continues the miniseries focused on sound, media, and visual art, Caitlin Woolsey (Assistant Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute) speaks with Kaira M. Caba\\xf1as, professor of art history at the University of Florida, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women\\u2019s Studies Research. Kaira describes how her early studies helped her think about the relations and discontinuities between cultural contexts, and reflects on\\xa0 artists who practice film \\u201cotherwise.\\u201d She shares her most recent project focused on transatlantic exchanges in art and psychiatry, and critiques what is often perceived as the current \\u201ccrisis\\u201d in the discipline, asking: a crisis for whom?

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