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Joseph (Andrew) Salyer

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., performance, spectatorship, and identity: masculinity and failure, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • M.F.A., art, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • M.A., art, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • B.F.A., photography, Indiana University

Credentials

  • Professor of performing arts, 2024-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Visiting lecturer, 2022-24, School of Literature, Media, and Communication
    Curatorial project manager, 2022-24, Arts@Tech, Ivan Allan College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Part-time faculty, 2023-24, Art & Visual Culture Department, Spelman College
  • Marion L. Brittain postdoctoral fellow, 2019-21, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Teaching assistant, 2017-19, Integrated Liberal Studies Program & Afro-American Studies Department
    Project assistant, 2012-16, Center for Visual Cultures, Asian American Studies Program, & English Department
    Teaching assistant, 2010-12, Art Department
    Instructor of record, 2009-10, Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Adjunct faculty, 2009, Art Department, Herron School of Art & Design
  • Creative director, 2004-09, Fahrenheit Design, Indianapolis
  • Curator, 2002-04, The Photography Gallery, Indianapolis

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Artist-in-Residence (funded), School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts, Texas A&M University, 2023–24
  • Fulton County Arts & Culture Distinguished Creative Residency Fellowship, Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA, 2023
  • Bursary Award, International Federation for Theatre Research 2018 World Congress, Belgrade, Serbia, 2018
  • Artist-in-Residence (funded), Madison Public Library Downtown Branch, 2015
  • ASTR Fellowship, American Society for Theatre Research (professional organization), 2014
  • Performance Philosophy Interim Event Grant, Performance Philosophy (professional organization), 2014

Organizations

  • Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU), 2015-present
  • American Society for Theatre Research, 2014-present
  • College Art Association, 2018-present
  • International Federation for Theatre Research, 2018-present
  • Midwest Modern Language Association, 2013-present
  • New Media Caucus, 2013-present
  • Performance Philosophy, 2013-present
  • Performance Studies International, 2013-present
  • Society for Literature, Science, & the Arts, 2023-present

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "A Chromatic Lens For Reflection." Deanna Serlin: Watermark. Crosland Tower, Georgia Tech Library. Atlanta, GA, 2022.
  • "The Utility of Cultivated Futility: Jeff Chelf’s To Cut a Lake in Half." Jeff Chelf: M.F.A. Exhibition. Art Lofts Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI, 2021.
  • "White Men Falling." White Men Falling. Curatorial Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, WI, 2018.
  • "An Introduction." Please Read Carefully: An Exhibition of Instruction-Based Art. The Show Room, Big Car Collaborative. Indianapolis, IN, 2014.
  • "ANDREW SALYER READS HANNAH ARENDT." Emergency Index: An Annual Document Of Performance Practice, Vol. 6: 542-543. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2016.
  • "Eternal Return." Emmie Magazine, Spring 2011: 6-7. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011.
  • "Today." Jerry Saltz Art Critic's Fans', Friends', & The Tribe's Suggested Art Studio Door Signs Of Real Life or Fantasy, by Jerry Saltz & A Cast of Thousands, edited by Terry Ward. Blurb Books, 2010.

Art exhibitions, performances, and screenings

  • Yesterday (after On Kawara), ongoing record of daily Covid-19 deaths reported in the United States, using the same style as On Kawara's famous date paintings from his series, Today, http://www.yesterdayafteronkawara.com, 2020-2022
  • Many Voices Museum App (Version 1.0), Interactive museum platform developed with GT Computer Science and Computational Media Students, Atlanta, GA 2020
  • Ossuary, "An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark's Ossuary, in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself," Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2020
  • 4D Exhibition, An Attempt At Transparency, or: Cleaning a Large Glass Wall (while listening to Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States), or: The Spectacular Trap of Transparency, Performance and Installation, Art Lofts Gallery, Madison, WI 2018
  • White Men Falling, Falling, Performance, Curatorial Lab, Madison, WI, 2018
  • MUNICIPAL, "Andrew Salyer Reads Hannah Arendt," Madison Municipal Building, Madison, WI, 2016
  • An Evening of Intermedia Improvisations with Bruce Andrews and Friends, Threshold, "Pratfall, Laugh Track," performance, Madison WI, March 2016
  • Sylvère Lotringer's Mad Like Artaud, performance w/Tom Armbrecht (followed by a workshop with Sylvère Lotringer and Frederic Neyrat), Helen C. White Hall, Madison WI, 2016
  • Ossuary, "An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark's Ossuary, in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself," Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014
  • NMC10 - New Media Caucus 10-Year Anniversary Video Programme, "Eternal Return," single channel video, Llewellyn Gallery, Alfred State College, Alfred, NY; Sleeth Gallery, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV; Cassidy Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center CAA
  • Conference, Chicago, IL; Brick City Gallery, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, 2014
  • Wisconsin Triennial, "Sensible Analysis," Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI, part of Spatula&Barcode's Café Allongé, 2013
  • Performance Studies International, The Landscape Cracks / A Thousand Kisses, live performance, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2013
  • Ossuary, "An artistic gesture, conceived in the year 2013 for Laurie Beth Clark's Ossuary, in which a rectangular hole is cut within a museum wall in an effort to consider the architecture itself," University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Knoxville TN, 2013