PUBLIC CULTURE in the Visual Sphere

UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space
Thursdays @ 6:30 pm (unless otherwise noted on the schedule of events)

Curated by John C. Welchman

In collaboration with VALS committee 2009-10 (Visual Arts Department lecture Series: Anya Gallaccio, Teddy Cruz, Kyong Park, Suzanne Wright); the Public Culture graduate committee (Edward Sterrett, Orianna Cacchione, Cara Baldwin, Katrin Pesch, Sara Mameni, Tara Zepel), and Jordan Crandall.

Supported by the Visual Arts Department, UCSD; Dean of Arts and Humanities, UCSD; SoCCAS [Southern California Consortium of Art Schools]

Collaborations with 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 Upcoming Events

January 14:
Pros and Cons: Graduate Research in Public Culture [panel]
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Nicole Holland [PhD candidate, Visual Arts]
“Private as Public in the USSR”

David Mather [PhD candidate, Visual Arts]
“Mass Forms, Mass Agency in the Early 20th Century”

Sheryl Oring [MFA candidate, Visual Arts]
“I Wish to Say: Free Speech and Democracy”

David White [MFA candidate, Visual Arts]
“'Network' as a Tool for Neighborhood Engagement”

Rayanne Tabet [MFA candidate, Visual Arts]
“After the Flood: Reversing the Trans-Arabian Pipeline”

Cara Baldwin [PhD/Practice candidate, Visual Arts]
“We are the ones we've been waiting for”
Moderated by Edward Sterrett [PhD candidate, Visual Arts]

January 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”

January 28:
Claire Bishop [City University, New York]
“How do you bring a work of art to life?: Contemporary Art and/as Pedagogy”

February 4:
Steven Graham [University of Durham, UK; co-sponsored with Art Center, Pasadena]
“Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism”

February 18:
Boris Groys [New York University; co-sponsored with USC]
“Visiting Time: Contemporary Time-based Art”

February 24:
Vito Acconci
(Wednesday) “From Words to Actions to Architecture”

February 25:
Brian Holmes
“Intellectuals and Social Movements: Doctrine - Debate - Defense - Invention”

March 4:
Where is the Public Option? [panel]

[co-sponsored with the Athenaeum, La Jolla]
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

April 9:
Okwui Enwezor [visit combined with graduate symposium, Sat. April 10]
(Friday)

May 25:
Alain Badiou [co-sponsored with UCLA]
(Tuesday)

Media contact: sghanbari@ucsd.edu
858-822-7755