Pure Raw: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Re)presentation

Chris Thompson is a contributing editor of PAJ. He is assistant professor of Art History and Cultural Theory in the Maine College of Art MFA Program in Studio Arts. He is completing a book on the 1982 meeting between German artist Joseph Beuys and H.H. the XIV Dalai Lama of Tibet.

Katarina Weslien is associate professor of interdisciplinary studio and director of the Maine College of Art MFA Program in Studio Arts. For the past two decades she has been developing a multidisciplinary practice that fuses questions of materiality, cultural difference, and contemporary politics in installations and digital images that have been exhibited internationally.