Elin O’Hara Slavick is a Distinguished Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches studio art, theory and practice. She received her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her BA in poetry, photography and art history from Sarah Lawrence College. Slavick has exhibited her work in Hong Kong, Canada, France, Italy, Scotland, England, Cuba, the Netherlands and across the United States. She is the author of Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography, (Charta, 2007), with a foreword by Howard Zinn.
Essays on Hiroshima by Slavick can be found in Critical Asian Studies (June, 2009) and the online Asia-Pacific Journal (August, 2009).
Slavick has lived in the North Carolina since 1994 and her father is from Memphis, Tennessee. She regularly visited the south as a child and Chapel Hill has become her home, much to her dismay at times. While there is cultural activity and causes to fight against and support in the south, she misses the intensity and level of art discourse, cultural production and collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that are the norm in New York City, Lyon, Chicago and Berlin.
Flags for Hiroshima (solo show)
Cosign Projects
St. Louis, MO
September 5 – October 30, 2009
Hiroshima (solo show)
Golden Belt, Gallery 100
Durham, NC
Opening November 20, 2009 until january 10, 2010
50 States Project (ongoing)
NC photographer
http://www.50statesproejct.net/
Current/Forthcoming Publications:
“Hiroshima: A Visual Record,”
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 30-3-09, elin o’Hara slavick, July 27, 2009
http://www.japanfocus.org/-elin_o_Hara-slavick/3196
“Hiroshima: After Aftermath”
Journal of Critical Asian Studies, Routledge, 41:2, 307 — 328, June, 2009
“Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies” (forthcoming)
John Armitage
In Chinese: University of Henan Press, 2010
“The Aesthetics of Empathy, Violence, Disaster and War,” (forthcoming)
Polity, 2011
“The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography”
Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, page 30
“Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism” (forthcoming)
Stephen Graham, Verso Books
“Power of Maps” (forthcoming)
University of Chicago Press, Denis Wood
Websites:
http://www.japanfocus.org
http://elinhiroshima.blogspot.com
http://www.unc.edu/~eoslavic
