Art Meets Theory: Jac Howard presents, “Returning”

Applied Theory presents Australian artist Jac Howard for an artist talk and artwork presentation. In this event, Howard will discuss her practice while also bringing her work Returning into the space, inviting participants to experience the intersections of art, touch, and theory firsthand.

Howard’s practice explores repetition, consumption, memory, and the intimate gestures of care and labor often associated with women’s work. Drawing on a background in Visual Arts and Critical Theory from Queensland University of Technology, her practice engages the embodied and emotional as acts of meaning-making and resistance. Through delicate, repetitive processes, she investigates how women’s embodied experiences dissolve boundaries between self and object, intellect and emotion, visibility and invisibility. Refusing to be bound by symbolic interpretation alone, her work invites viewers into the lived, bodily experience of perception—its limits, its textures, and its capacity to transform the ordinary into sites of reflection and relation.  

This program is part of the ASU Applied Theory Initiative, which explores how theory shows up in the world through lived experience. “Art Meets Theory” brings artists and theorists together to experiment with new modes of thinking, feeling, and making.

Light refreshments and drinks will be provided.

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