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The Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts at the University of Houston is pleased to announce the spring 2018 interdiscplinary program "Against All Suns." This advanced seminar and series of co-curricular events brings together contemporary practitioners working in visual art, performance, philosophy, art history, creative writing, sociocultural anthropology, sound art, filmmaking, and community-engaged projects. "Against All Suns" explores contemporary questions of space and power, performativity, fiction, individual and collective agency, temporality, site, inhabitation, and history. The following events are open to the public; some events will be archived on the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts Interdisciplinary Initiatives Vimeo channel.
Monika Lipšic: February 13, 7pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Suzanne Lacy: February 20, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Walid Raad: February 21, 7pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Franco "Bifo" Berardi: February 26, 7pm
Honors College Commons at M.D. Anderson Library
David Mather: March 6, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Anna Friz: March 20, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110 (lecture)
March 22, 7pm
SITE Gallery (performance)
Gabriella Sanchez: April 3, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Jeff VanderMeer: April 10, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Ottessa Moshfegh: April 24, 6:30pm
Fine Arts Building Room 110
Anton Vidokle: February 16, 6:30pm (film screening)
June 14, 6:30pm (lecture)
Blaffer Museum
"Against All Suns" is a project of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts Interdiscipinary Initiatives program, and the DUST program (Desert Unit for Speculative Territories). This project is supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston, and the FACE Foundation, New York. For more information contact Abinadi Meza, Director of Interdisciplinary Initiatives: ameza@central.uh.edu
