Additional details regarding past Consortium-sponsored events and courses are available upon request. If you would like more information about a specific item listed below, please send your request via email to ucb_arts@berkeley.edu. Thank you.

Fall 2007 Events

• Marianne Weems Arts Research Center Residency
• One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
• Shedding Light: Performance and Illumination by Denise Uyehara
• Contortions: The Performance Work of Patty Chang
• California Indian Day
• Girls Will Be Boys
• Focus on Twyla Tharp
• Poetry Reading: Trevor Joyce and Fergal Gaynor
• Global Hip-Hop, Global Voices
• ParaSite: A New Media Conference
• Contagious Middle Ages
• Out of TimeSpace: Critical Dialogues on Visuality and Alterity
• Robert Lepage: Performing Past and Present

Spring 2007 Events

• Shannon Flattery Arts Research Center Residency
• A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s
• Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• A Thousand Decisions in the Dark: A PFA Film Series with David Thomson
• Women of Color Film Festival
• The Anarcha Project: Sims and the Medical Plantation
• Rhythm, Rhyme and Representation: A Community Discussion on Hip-Hop & Gender
• Frame by Frame: Avant-Garde Film Preservation
• The Sound Garden
• Documentation, Demonstration, Dematerialization Conference
• Opera/Novel
• Speaking About The Arts
  • Jorie Graham Reading
  • Being Here: Presence/Remote Presence within Live and Media-Based Performance
  • Symposium: Music and Message with Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Returning to the Shore: A Scholarly Symposium in Honor of James Cahill’s 81st Year
  • State of the Arts Conference

Fall 2006 Events

• Shannon Flattery Arts Research Center Residency
• Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India , Berkeley Art Museum
• Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• The Peony Pavilion, Cal Performances
• Ali Kazimi: A Commitment to Justice, Pacific Film Archive
• Davis Francis: Film Scholar in Residence, Pacific Film Archive
• Poetry of the Everyday, French Studies
• Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle , Berkeley Art Museum
• Performance/Discussion with the Myra Melford Quintet, Department of Music
• John Zorn: Question and Answer Session, Cal Performances & Department of Music
• Speaking About The Arts
  • Asia: By Means of Performance
  • The 'Fourth Dimension' as Leitmotif of 20-Century Art: Space, Time, and Space-Time
  • In and Out of Time: Peter Galison and Pamela Lee
  • Ratan Thiyam of Chorus Repertory Theatre

2006-2007 Courses

• Machine Time/Time Machines: Technology and Temporality in New Media Art and Culture, Instructor: Irene Chien, Film Studies
• Arts of Time: Counting Machines and Human Measures, Instructor: Brooke Belisle, Film Studies
• The American Forest:  Its History, Ecology, And Representation, Professors: Margaretta M. Lovell (History of Art and American Studies) and Joe Mcbride (ESPM)

2005-2006 Events

• Jeanne Dunning: Study after Untitled , Berkeley Art Museum
• Ibsen Elsewhere, Departments of Scandinavian and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
• Shannon Flattery on Touchable Stories and the Richmond/Berkeley Project
• Women of Color Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive
• Readers Theater in a Medical Context , Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies/UCB Center on Aging/UCB Center for Medicine, the Humanities, and Law
• Reggie Wilson Arts Research Center Residency
• The Berkeley Symposium: The Politics of Public Art, History of Art
• Exhibit: American Mythology: The Monstrous & The Marvelous
• 2nd Annual Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholars Association Art Show
• Marina Grzinic: Re-politicization of Art From (the East of) Europe: Creativity and Resistance
• English Department Shakespeare Production- As You Like It
• Colloquium: Talking Back to Photography, History of Art/Rhetoric/Film
• World Premiere: Itasca:  A Poem for Voices & Live Electronics, CNMAT
• Speaking About The Arts (Spring 06)
  • An Evening with Quiltmakers from Gee's Bend
  • Early Music, Modern Instruments
  • Indian Charpai: Artistry and Utility
  • Lecture/Demonstration: Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu
  • Now-Time Venezuela: Oliver Ressler, Dario Azzullini, and Chris Gilbert in Conversation
  • Interventions Lecture: Carol Bove
  • Asian Ceramic Traditions in Contemporary Pottery
• Yosemite in Time at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Films From Along The Silk Road: Central Asian Cinema , Pacific Film Archive
• Sheng Xiang: Performance & Symposium, Cal Performances
• Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco, Berkeley Art Museum
• The Arts & The Atomic Bomb events
• Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• The Cradle Will Rock, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
• Peter Kubelka: Artist-in-Residence at the Pacific Film Archive
• Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Commedia dell’Arte: Yesterday and Today, Cal Performances
• Speaking About The Arts (Fall 05)
  • Li Jin: Artist’s Talk
  • Suman Mukherjee: On Contemporary Bengali Theater
  • Anatomical Aesthetics: Catherine Wagner's Photography and Spectral Music with Joanna Demers and Catherine Wagner
  • The Man of the Heart: Suman Mukherjee and Sudipto Chatterjee
  • Four Saints in Three Acts: Film Screening and Roundtable
  • Vincent Katz: Reading and Colloquium
  • Andrea Fraser: On Research and Site-Specificity
  • Shannon Flattery: Installation Art, Oral History, and Urban Activism
  • Panel Discussion: Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1947-1955
• When is Art Research? - Strategic Working Group Events
• Poetry After the Storm: An Event to Benefit Hurricane Katrina Relief
• The New Conditions: The Case of Art in Central and Eastern Europe:a lecture by Aleš Erjavec

2005-2006 Courses

• American Apocalypse: The Atomic Age & Nuclear Criticism, Instructor: Christine Palmer, American Studies
• Film and Visual Culture in the Atomic Age, Instructors: Erica Levin and Tung-Hui Hu, Film Studies
• Nuclear Time: History and Representation, Instructor: Mark Pedretti, Rhetoric
• Literature and Gravity, Instructor: Paul Haacke, Comparative Literature

2004-2005 Events

• Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004,  Berkeley Art Museum
• Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• Cabinet of the Muses: A Festival of Poetry and other Curiosities
• Celebrating Russian Classical Arts
  • Fall Conference: Celebration of Ballet in Russian History and Culture, Cal Performances
  • Bolshoi Ballet & Orchestra, Cal Performances
  • Spring Conference: Celebration of Classical Music in Russian History and Culture, Cal Performances
  • Conference: Glinka and His Legacies, Department of Music
  • The Czar's Guitars: Nineteenth-century Russian Guitar Music, Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman, guitars
  • The Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Cal Performances
  • A Celebration of Russian Choral Music, University Chorus and Chamber Chorus
• Filmmaker in Residence: Ximena Cuevas, Pacific Film Archive
• BAM/PFA Fall Arts Fest
• Visiting Artist Malcolm Purkey, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
• Blind at the Museum,  Berkeley Art Museum
• Listening to Lamentations, an Arts Research Center Program
• Panel Discussion with Joan Acocella: Reviewing Art,  Townsend Center for Humanities and Arts Research Center
• Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens, Berkeley Art Museum
• Women of Color Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive
• Ignacio Rábago Arts Research Center Residency
• Barestage Productions: One Room
• Embodying the Void: "Körper" at the Jewish Museum Berlin, an Arts Research Center Program
• Conference: Creative Partnership: In the Era of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
• Conference: Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics
• William Bolcom workshop performance, Department of Music
• Jorge Liderman concert at Edge Fest, Cal Performances and the Department of Music

2004-2005 Courses

• Installation workshop with Ignacio Rábago, Spring 2005 Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center
• Writing The Image: Exploring Literature And The Visual Arts, Instructor: Stiliana Milkova, Slavic Languages And Literatures
• Introduction to Dramatic Literature: Interpreting Performance/Documents, Instructor: Lara Shalson, TDPS 
• Dancing Girls, Instructor: Selby Schwartz, Comparative Literature 
• Writing About Art (The Craft of Writing), Instructor: J Bradley Rogers, Rhetoric

2003-2004 Events

• Ant Farm 1968-1978, Berkeley Art Museum
• Filmmaker in Residence: Robert Beavers, Pacific Film Archive
• ARC Annual Conference: When Is Art Research?
• Roberto Zucco, performed in French, Impromptu Theater and the Department of French
• Inspiration and Emptiness: Contemporary Poets on Writing, Meditation, and Buddhism
• Exhibition: Drawing Sentences: Equivalents and Analogues, featuring student works from ARC Resident Mirra's Fall 2003 course in Art Practice
• Filmmaker in Residence Charles Burnett, Film Studies Program
• Behind the Scenes at the San Francisco Opera: Staging Busoni's Doktor Faust, Department of Music and the Dean of Arts and Humanities
• Comus: a masque by Henry Lawes and John Milton, Department of Music
• Much Ado About Nothing, performance by members of English 117T
• Helen Mirra Arts Research Center Residency
• Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Art,Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• Performing Texts - a workshop with Carla Harryman
• National Theater of Greece and Hearst Greek Theatre Centennial, Cal Performances
• Julian Stallabrass speaking on The Aesthetics of Net Art, Department of History of Art
• Symposium - Wicked Problems: Information Technology, Collaboration and the Design Process
• Cloud Gate Dance Theater Residency, Cal Performances
• Art, Film, and Digital Media Conference at the Berkeley Art Museum
• Laetitia Sonami performs at CNMAT

2003-2004 Courses

• Drawing Sentences: Equivalents and Analogues, with Artist-in-Residence Helen Mirra
• Rhetorical Theory: Vision and Action: Theory Across the Arts, with Professor Shannon Jackson, TDPS and Rhetoric
• Sophmore Seminar: High Culture/Low Culture: Hitchcock and the Arts, with Professor Julia Bader, English
• Freshman Seminar: Arts at Berkeley, with Professor Charles F. Altieri, English

2002-2003 Events

• Artists-In-Residence
  • Fred Wilson, Arts Research Center, Department of Art Practice and Berkeley Art Museum
  • David Rabinowitch, Arts Research Center and Department of History of Art
  • Midori Sawato, Pacific Film Archive
  • Rob Nilsson, Pacific Film Archive
  • Fiona Shaw, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Cal Performances
• "The Arts" In Question - Arts Research Center Conference
• Merce Cunningham - 50th Anniversary Celebration at Cal Performances
• 21st-Century Poetics Reading and Discussion Series
• The Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic in Art, Architecture, and the Humanities Conference - College of Environmental Design
• The McLean Mix - Performance and Lecture at CNMAT
• José Rivera - Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Workshop and Lectures
• Art,Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• Hachivi Edgar Heap Of Birds - Department of Art Practice Lecture
• Frederick Wiseman - Artsit Residency and Film Screenings at the Pacific Film Archive
• Obsolescence and Relevance: New Work by John Jenkins and Eric Theise at the Townsend Center for the Humanities
• Black Panthers Berkeley Art Museum Exhibition Events
• Laetitia Sonami - Performance and Lecture, CNMAT
• Call and Response Symposium and Concert with Olly Wilson and Mary Lovelace O'Neal
• Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival
• The Consequences Workshop Performance, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
• Panel Discussion in conjunction with George E. Russell Exhibition, Townsend Center for the Humanities
• Reading and Panel in conjuction with exhibition: Exploring the Art of Alexander Rodchenko, Berkeley Art Museum
• Panel Discussion on Richard Misrach: Berkeley Work, Berkeley Art Museum
• Art,Technology, and Culture Colloquium
• Symposium: Visual Art in a Performative Mode, Department of History of Art
• An Amazing Luminous Fountain: The Art of James Castle, a talk by Jacqueline Crist, Berkeley Art Museum, the Department of Art Practice, the Disability Studies Program
• Lecture by art critic Barry Schwabsky
• Rebecca Solnit On Landscape, Gender, and Art, Landscape Architecture
• Gallery talks in conjuction with exhibition: Beyond Preconceptions - Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Berkeley Art Museum

• Fred Wilson Workshop
• David Rabinowitch at the Oliver Ranch
• Sophmore Seminar: Culture, Pop Culture, with Professor Julia Bader, English
• Freshman Seminar: Analyzing Film, with Professor Anton Kaes, German and Film Studies

2001-2002 Events

• Artists-in-Residence: Komar & Melamid, Arts Research Center and Berkeley Art Museum
• Improvisation Project:
  • Henry Threadgill Residency, Arts Research Center, American Cultures Program and the Department of Music
  • Visiting Artist Penelope Crawford, Department of Music
  • Musical Improv Conference, Department of Music
• Panel Discussion of Digital Photography in conjuction with Everyday Constellations: Photographs, Photograms and Sunprints by Susannah Hays, Townsend Center for the Humanities
• Artists, Intellectuals, and Institutions Conference, Arts Research Center
• Kusum Africa educational events, Cal Performances
• Song of Songs, performance and symposium, Cal Performances, UC Berkeley Department of Music,
• Interverse: Directions in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Conference, C21 Poetics, the 21st Century Poetics working group at the Townsend Center for the Humanities
• Silk Road Project, Cal Performances
• Persistent Vision, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies and Department of Music
• Tadashi Kawamata Lecture, College of Environmental Design
• Engaging a Post-9/11 World Through Art, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Departments of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies and Women's Studies
• Benjamin Buchloh and Charles Harrison: Aesthetics and Materialism, Department of History of Art
• Born to be Bad - Trash Film Conference, Graduate Film Working Group (a Townsend Center Working Group)
• Le Carrousel du Roi, reconstructed equestrian ballet, Music/Cal Performances
• Latina/o Performance Art Series, Ethnic Studies and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
• Anne Carson/Guillermo Galindo/Kett Watt Lecture: Discussing "Decreation"
• Martin Puryear in Conversation with Constance Lewallen, Berkeley Art Museum
• Panel on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Her Audience Today, Berkeley Art Museum
• Across the Spectrum: A Colloquium on Television Studies, Film Studies Program, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, American Cultures Center, Institute for the Study of Social Change,American Studies Program
• Vincent Carelli Residency, Pacific Film Archive
• Verdi Conference , Department of Music
• Valera & Natasha Cherkashin - Moscow: End of an Epoch, Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and CSEES
  

2001-2002 Courses

• Freshman Seminar: The Contemporary Arts around Us, with Carol Christ, English
• Freshman Seminar: Aesthetic Theory and the Arts in the Bay Area, with Charles Altieri, Consortium for the Arts/English

2000-2001 Events

• Consortium Artist-in-Residence Tim Miller at the Department of Dramatic Art and Dance
• Muntadas - On Translation: The Audience, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
• Ilya Kabakov : Lecture and Conversation with Philosopher-Critic Boris Groys, Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Kickback - Faculty Art Exhibit, Department of Art Practice
• Performances/Modernities/Shakespeares Symposoium, Department of Dramatic Art and Department of English
• Joe Brainard: A Retrospective, Berkeley Art Museum
• Indonesian Shadow Play Festival, Department of Music and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies
• Bright Minds, Strong Voices: Art by California Children, UC ArtsBridge Program
• New Faculty Work Premiers at University Dance Theater, Department of Music and the Department of Dance
• Art and Mortality: A Lecture and Presentation of Recent Work with Zoe Leonard, Townsend Center for Humanities
• Latina Theatre Lab: open performance and discussion, American Cultures and the Department of Dramatic Art
• Art and Aesthetics after Adorno, Department of Comparative Literature
• The Colorado Sisters: open performance and discussion, American Cultures and the Department of Dramatic Art
• Tempo: The Berkeley Festival of New Performance, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
• White Noises: solo performance and artist's talk by Shannon Jackson, Dramatic Art & Dance and Rhetoric
• Half In Doors And Half Out Out Of Doors': Mark Morris, Virgil Thomson, Gertrude Stein: a lecture by Steven Meyer, Washington University
• Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment exhibit and public programs, Berkeley Art Museum
• Minimalism: Then and Now exhibit and public programs, Berkeley Art Museum
• Gate Theatre of Dublin residency and performance, Cal Performances/Dramatic Art & Dance
• Steve Reich Regents' Lecturer residency and performance, Music/Cal Performances
• DeeDee Halleck and Paper Tiger TV residency, Pacific Film Archive
• Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks exhibit and The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars symposium, Berkeley Art Museum
• Bill T. Jones talk on Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane exhibit, Berkeley Art Museum/Cal Performances
• Appearances by filmmakers Peter Forgacs and Barbara Hammer at Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, Pacific Film Archive

2000-2001 Courses

• Course in Composing Music for Silent Film, a program of the Department of Music, in conjunction with the Pacific Film Archive
• Framing the Arts at Berkeley: Minimalism, with Charles Altieri, Consortium for the Arts/English
• Freshman Seminar: Culture, Pop-culture, with Julia Bader, English
• Freshman Seminar: Speaking of the Arts, Anthony J. Cascardi, Rhetoric
• Opera and the Classical World, with Ralph Hexter, Classics
• The Museum and the City, with Roger Montgomery, Architecture

1999-2000 Events

• CRASH: symposium on critical and historical issues in Net Art
• David Larcher Residency, Pacific Film Archive
• Equal Partners : Men and Women Principles in Contemporary Architectural Practice, exhibit and public programs, Berkeley Art Museum/College of Environmental Design
• Artsbridge Scholars Open House
• BOOM BOOM : Department of Art Practice Faculty Exhibit
• Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22, Bay Area premiere at the Center for Theater Arts
• Bodies of Knowledge performance & talk by Jill Sigman/Thinkdance
• Georg Graewe residency, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
• Dmitri Nabokov : Regents' Lecture & Dramatic Dialogue
• Dances That Describe Themselves, lecture by Susan Foster at the Department of Dramatic Art & Dance
• When Sorrow Turns to Joy, performance and public programs related to new work of musical theater by composer/musicians Jon Jang and James Newton, Cal Performances
• Le Carrousel du Roi, reconstructed equestrian ballet, Music/Cal Performances
• 24h00: web-based collaboration by French artist Valéry Grancher and UC students, Berkeley Art Museum
• Residency by theater artist Rhodessa Jones, Dramatic Art and Dance
• China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic exhibit and public programs, Berkeley Art Museum

• Performance Workshop with Regents' Lecturer Stan Lai , at the Department of Dramatic Art
• In the Realm of the Visual : Interdisciplinary Arts workshop with Dashrath Patel, Department of Art Practice
• Mark Morris & John Milton: L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, with Donald Friedman, English
• Framing the Matrix: Artists at BAM, Professor Jeff Kelley, Department of Art Practice
• Merce Cunningham, Revolutionary, Professor John Rapko, Department of Art Practice
• German Expressionist Dance, Professor Carol Egan
• Framing the Matrix: Artists at BAM, Professor Anne Healy
• Laurie and Herman: Laurie Anderson's Adaption of Moby Dick, Professor Shannon Jackson
• Freshman Seminar: Collections and Exhibits and the Berkeley Art Museum, with Charles Altieri, Consortium for the Arts/English
• Freshman Seminar: Speaking of the Arts, Anthony J. Cascardi, Rhetoric
• Freshman Seminar: BerkeleyLittle Theater, with Albert H. Bowker
• Freshman Seminar: The Museum and the City, with Roger Montgomery, Architecture
• Freshman Seminar:Photography as a Fine Art, with David Wright, History of Art
• Freshman Seminar: The Contemporary Arts Around Us, with Carol Christ, English

1998-1999 Projects

• Exhibits and academic programs surrounding Cal Performances' production of Peter Sellars's Peony Pavilion
• Fêtes of Fontainbleu recreation and performance, Music/Dramatic Art & Dance
• Graduate/faculty seminar with choreographer Merce Cunningham, Cal Performances
• Johan van der Keuken residency, Pacific Film Archive
• Joe Goode residency, Dramatic Art & Dance
• Interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with artist Robert Colescott, Berkeley Art Museum