“The Ethics of Seeing”: Kaira M. Cabañas on Creative Care and Art’s Histories

In the Foreground: Conversations on Art & Writing

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. Cabañas, 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’s Studies Research. Kaira describes how her early studies helped her think about the relations and discontinuities between cultural contexts, and reflects on artists who practice film “otherwise.” She shares her most recent project focused on transatlantic exchanges in art and psychiatry, and critiques what is often perceived as the current “crisis” in the discipline, asking: a crisis for whom?