February 23–25, 2012
College Art Association 100th Annual Conference, 2012 (CAA 100)
Los Angeles Convention Center West Lobby, Level 1
1201 South Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Organized by: Suzanne Lacy, Chair, and Sara Daleiden, Faculty Member, Otis Graduate Public Practice
with guest faculty members Pablo Helguera, Artist, and Sally Tallant, Chief Executive Artistic Director, Liverpool Biennial
Other participants:
Otis Graduate Public Practice faculty members S.A. Bachman, Andrea Bowers, Sandra de la Loza, Dana Duff, Bill Kelley, Jr., Karen Moss, and Renee Petropoulos; graduate students, and CAA visiting artists, critics and cultural practitioners
“The…feminist classroom.. is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgement of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.”
— bell hooks, “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”
Radical pedagogy and educational critique are key concepts in current debates on artistic public practices. Pedagogical models are explored, re-imagined, and deployed by art practitioners in highly diverse projects comprising laboratories, discursive platforms, temporary schools, participatory workshops, and libraries. Artists are revaluing the collective knowledge and agency of communities through process-based works that mix the aesthetic with the social and political. In the west lobby atrium of the L.A. Convention Center, Otis Graduate Public Practice (MFA) students occupy a prototypical classroom where changing and spontaneous groupings of students and faculty “perform” discussions on politics, relational and public practices, and the experience of learning exchanges. A changing series of presentations and discussions will be open to casual and immersive participation over three days.
Thursday, February 23, 12–5pm
Friday, February 24, 9am–6:30pm
Saturday, February 25, 1:30–5:00pm
Free and open to the public
This intensive performance and graduate level course, for which students receive college credit, is part of Otis’ Concentric Conversation Series which prompts discourse among cultural practitioners based in Los Angeles. Otis has the only educational program in the Southern California region dedicated exclusively to providing artists with advanced skills for working in the public sphere, focusing both on collaborative and individual art production.
Applications currently being accepted for Fall 2012.
For more information about the Graduate Public Practice Program, contact Program Coordinator Consuelo Velasco Montoya at 310-846-2610 or [email protected].
For more information about CAA 1010, visit conference.collegeart.org/2012/
Otis offers graduate degrees in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Public Practice, and Writing.
Get one-on-one instruction from world-renowned faculty who are important players in the global art and design communities. While each of these graduate programs is distinct, the Los Angeles network includes the most sought-after visiting artists, designers and writers, as well as constant dialogues with museums, galleries, and cultural institutions.
To request a viewbook, please visit: www.otis.edu/admissions/graduate_admissions/graduate_information.html
For information on Otis Graduate programs visit: www.otis.edu
With questions e-mail: [email protected]
