Fall 2017 Roski Talks

USC Roski School of Art and Design presents our fall 2017 Roski Talks graduate lecture series featuring weekly, in-depth presentations on contemporary art and criticism by visiting artists, curators, theorists, art historians, writers, organizers, activists, and other cultural producers who engage in critical, open, and rigorous conversations with graduate students and members of the community.

Fall 2017 lectures
All lectures are free, open to the public and take place at our Graduate Fine Arts Building or at Wong Auditorium from 6–8pm.

Tuesday, September 12
Shanti Pillai & Marc Gomes, Artists, Third Space Laboratory Theater
“To The Academy”: India, Theater, and Cultural Politics
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
 
Tuesday, September 19
Karen Moss & Bill Kelley, Jr. with Paulina Varas & Jennifer Ponce De Léon
A Dialogue Around Talking to Action, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Wong Auditorium

Tuesday, September 26
Shannon Ebner, Artist, Roski School of Art and Design
STRAY
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)

Tuesday, October 10
Laura Aguilar, Artist
My Story
Wong Auditorium

Tuesday, October 17
Suzanne Hudson, Associate Professor of Art History and Fine Arts, USC
“Toward a Happier and More Successful Life,” or When Veterans Made Art in the Modern Museum
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)

Tuesday, October 31
Pepón Osorio, Artist
Distinguished Lecture
Wong Auditorium

Tuesday, November 7
Tom Knechtel, Artist
Astrolabe
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)

Tuesday, November 14
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Curator
Outside the Cannon: Radical Women and Other Histories
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)

Tuesday, November 28
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Artist
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)

Visitors from the 2017 spring semester include:
Josh Kun, Professor, USC Annenberg School of Communication; Tania Bruguera, Artist; Jamillah James, Curator; Mark Allen, Executive Director, Machine Project; Ellen Gallagher, Artist; Sherin Guirguis, Artist, Roski Professor; Nayland Blake, Artist, Curator, Founding Chair of ICP/Bard MFA Program; Julia Meltzer, Video Artist, Director, Clockshop, LA.