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Ascendants: Bauhaus Handprints Collected by László Moholy-NagyÌýis a newÌýpublicationÌýthatÌýoffers a unique insight into one of the less familiar sides of the Bauhaus at large and Moholy-Nagy in particular. In May 1926, thirteen Bauhaus professors and students created handprints that were preserved by László Moholy-Nagy. ThisÌýbookÌýbrings together for the first timeÌýall ofÌýthe so-called Bauhaus handprints in their historical and contemporary contexts with scholars and artists touching upon and responding to the Bauhaus legacy.Ìý

This eventÌýisÌýdedicated toÌýthe less rational andÌýthe less well-trodden aspects of life at the Bauhaus. With guest speakersÌýProf.ÌýJan Tichy and Prof. Elizabeth Otto,Ìýin conversation with Dr Robin Schuldenfrei, it will exploreÌýquestions of early 20thÌýcentury beliefs, practices,Ìýcollaborations, andÌýworks produced both formallyÌýand informallyÌýatÌý³Ù³ó±ðÌýBauhaus.ÌýÌý

Organised by Dr Robin Schuldenfrei – (Katja and Nicolai Tangen Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism at The Â鶹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art)

Elizabeth OttoÌýisÌýProfessor of art history and gender studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo.ÌýShe is the author ofÌýHaunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical PoliticsÌý(MIT Press, 2019) andÌýTempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne BrandtÌý(2005), andÌýthe co-author ofÌýBauhaus Women: A Global PerspectiveÌý(with Patrick Rössler, 2019). Her coedited books includeÌýBauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art SchoolÌý(with Rössler, 2019),ÌýArt and Resistance in GermanyÌý(with Deborah AscherÌýBarnstone, 2018), andÌýPassages of ExileÌý(with BurcuÌýDogramaci,Ìý2017).ÌýÌý

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Jan TichyÌýis a contemporary artist and educator. Working at the intersection of video, sculpture, architecture, and photography, his conceptual work is socially and politically engaged. TichyÌýearnedÌýhis MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Photography and the Department of Art & Technology Studies. Tichy has had solo exhibitions at the MCA Chicago; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; CCA Tel Aviv; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago;Ìýand ³Ù³ó±ðÌýSanta Barbara Museum of Art andÌýelsewhere.Ìý His works are included in public collections of MoMA in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem among others. His large public art projects engage communities and offer platforms to share. In 2011ÌýProject Cabrini GreenÌýilluminated with the spoken word the last high rise building of the Cabrini Green housing projects in Chicago andÌýBeyond Streaming: a sound mural for FlintÌýat the Broad Museum in Michigan in 2017 brought teens from Flint and Lansing to share their experience of the ongoing water crisis.ÌýHe is particularly interested in the art and pedagogy of László Moholy-NagyÌýand is also co-curating, with RobinÌýSchuldenfrei, a retrospective on Bauhaus photographer LuciaÌýMoholy.ÌýInÌýsummer 2020 heÌýwasÌýanÌýinvitedÌýartistÌýatÌýtheÌýBauhaus ResidencyÌýprogramme,Ìýwhere he lived and workedÌýatÌýthe Schlemmer MasterÌýHouse.Ìý

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Robin SchuldenfreiÌýis the Katja and Nicolai Tangen Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Modernism at The Â鶹TVÍøÕ¾ of Art. She has written widely on modernism as it intersects with theories of the object, architecture and interiors. Her publications includeÌýLuxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933Ìý(Princeton University Press, 2018) as well as numerous articles, essays, and the edited volumes:ÌýIteration: Episodes in the Mediation of Art and ArchitectureÌý(2020),ÌýAtomic Dwelling: Anxiety,ÌýDomesticity, andÌýPostwarÌýArchitectureÌý(2012) and, co-edited with Jeffrey Saletnik,ÌýBauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse, and ModernismÌý(2009).Ìý