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In 2001, the University established the Arts Research Center (ARC), the first Organized Research Unit at UC Berkeley to focus exclusively on the arts. The core faculty are drawn from Architecture, Art Practice, English, Film Studies, History of Art, Music, New Media, Rhetoric, and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. The mission of ARC is to create a deeper appreciation within the academic community of art-making as a vital form of research that both interprets and re-imagines our world. ARC provides a forum where faculty, graduate students, and artists-in-residence can engagein dialogue about shared concerns, create new collaborative work, and pursue projects across disciplinary and departmental boundaries. ARC activities include an ambitious artists' residency program, an ongoing seminar series for faculty and graduate students, academic conferences, and support for innovative curriculum development in the arts. Artists-in-residence are selected from nominations by UC Berkeley faculty and curatorial staff.
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2008/09 Artists-in-Residence
Pauline Malefane |
In Fall 2008, the Arts Research Center co-sponsored a residency by Pauline Malefane, the South African opera singer, film actress and writer. Malefane has received international acclaim for her starring role in U-Carmen eKhayelistha (which she co-wrote and translated), an adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen set in a black township in Cape Town and performed entirely in Xhosa. Malefane spoke at a screening of U-Carmen at the Pacific Film Archive, participated in a conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance, and spoke to classes in the Department of Music, the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Center for African Studies. |
Philip Kan Gotanda |
Playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda (whose After the War had its world premier at ACT in 2007) will be in residence in Spring 2009, working with students on a revision of his play A Fist of Roses, an exploration of male violence against women originally created with Campo Santo. The project will culminate in a staged reading (dates and times TBA). Gotanda will also give bilingual Japanese-English reading of excerpts from his play Yohen, followed by discussion, on January 29th, 2009 at 4pm in the Durham Studio Theater. Co-sponsors of this residency include the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Center for Japanese Studies. |
Joan Jeanrenaud |
During 2008-2009, composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud will be in residence in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. A founding member of the world-renowned Kronos Quartet, Jeanrenaud will be collaborating with the choreographer and Professor Joe Goode to create a new work set on student dancers that will premier at the Berkeley Dance Project Concert (April 17th -26th, 2009). |
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