The UC San Diego Visual Arts Department is hosting a series of lectures and panels investigating contemporary theories, practices and debates in the making and reception of public culture as they move through the visual sphere.
http://visarts.ucsd.edu/html/splash.html
Collaborations with the Master of Public Art Studies Program, USC Roski School of Fine Arts; English and Comparative Literature, UCLA; the graduate MFA program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Calit2 [California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology]; and the Athenaeum, La Jolla.
Schedule of Events: All events take place at the UC San Diego Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space Thursdays @ 6:30 pm unless otherwise noted
Jan. 7 Take off: What is Public Culture? [panel]
Anya Gallaccio “What is Public Culture?”
Kyong Park “Anyang Public Art Project 2010: constructing a research-based, multi-disciplinary, community participation and process-oriented urban project in Korea”
Cauleen Smith “When Documentary Seems Like a Lie”
Teddy Cruz “Practices of Encroachment”
Jordan Crandall “New Media and Public Culture”
Moderated by John C. Welchman
Jan 14 Pros and Cons: Graduate Research in Public Culture [panel]
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Nicole Holland “Private as Public in the USSR”
David Mather “Mass Forms, Mass Agency in the Early 20th Century”
Sheryl Oring “I Wish to Say: Free Speech and Democracy”
David White “‘Network’ as a Tool for Neighborhood Engagement”
Rayanne Tabet “After the Flood: Reversing the Trans-Arabian Pipeline”
Cara Baldwin “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
Moderated by Edward Sterrett
Jan. 21 Public Culture and Democracy [panel]
Cynthia Truant [UCSD, History]
“Citizenship: constructions and contestation in France, 1700-1900″
Grant Kester [UCSD, Visual Arts]
“Democracy, Virtuality and Public Culture”
Marcel Henaff [UCSD, Literature and Political Science]
“Grace, the work of art, and public space”
Jan. 28 Claire Bishop [City University, New York]
“How do you bring a work of art to life?: Contemporary Art and/as Pedagogy”
Feb. 4 Steven Graham [University of Durham, UK; co-sponsored with Art Center, Pasadena]
“Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism”
Feb. 18 Boris Groys [New York University; co-sponsored with USC]
“Visiting Time: Contemporary Time-based Art”
WEDS Feb. 24 Vito Acconci
“From Words to Actions to Architecture”
Feb. 25 Brian Holmes
“Intellectuals and Social Movements: Doctrine – Debate – Defense – Invention”
March 4 Where is the Public Option? [panel]
[co-sponsored with and hosted by the Athenaeum, 1008 Wall Street La Jolla, CA 92037]
Rebecca Solnit
[writer and essayist, San Francisco]
Rick Lowe
[Project Row House, Houston]
Matt Coolidge
[Founder and Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation]
Suzanne Lacy
[Otis College of Art, Los Angeles]
Moderated by Teddy Cruz
March 11 Town Hall/Manifestos/Open Mic.
Moderated by Kyong Park and John C. Welchman
Spring Quarter
FRI April 9 Okwui Enwezor
TUES May 25 Alain Badiou [co-sponsored with UCLA]
For further information about the UC San Diego Visual Arts Department or the Public Culture lecture series please contact Sheena Ghanbari, [email protected]
