When is Art Research? - Strategic Working Group
2005/06

In Spring 2004, the annual Arts Research Center conference addressed the question “When is Art Research?”  This topic generated a high level of interest and continued discussion amongst faculty and graduate students.  The following year, ARC member Shannon Jackson (Professor of Rhetoric and Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies) submitted a proposal to the Townsend Center for the Humanities to form a Strategic Working Group that would continue to address this fertile question.  “When Is Art Research?” became one of the two new Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Groups launched in 2005-2006.  The Strategic Working Group was composed of faculty, graduate students, and resident artists from Music, Film, Art Practice, Dance, History of Art, Architecture, Theatre, and English.  In the spring semester, the group interrogated the relationship between the practice of art and the university's research and teaching agenda. In addition to these meetings, the group coordinated with the Art Research Center and Townsend Center to present a series of events throughout the year. 

The following programs were free and open to the public.

Art Practice and the Academy: A Roundtable with Dick Hebdige
September 8, 4-6pm, Lipman Room (Barrows Hall) with a reception following.
Dick Hebdige, Film and Art Studio, Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (UCSB) will be joined by Elisabeth Le Guin, Musicology (UCLA); Shannon Jackson, Performance Studies and Rhetoric (UCB); Kate van Orden, Musicology (UCB); and Anne Walsh, Art Practice (UCB).
Presented by the Townsend Center Discovery Fellows
 
Kaja Silverman: Photography by Other Means
September 30, 2-4:30pm, Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
Presented in conjunction with the Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies 

George Baker: Photography’s Expanded Field
October 6, 5pm, Nestrick Room, 142 Dwinelle
 
Andrea Fraser: Research as Art
October 19, 3-5pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Presented in conjunction with the Arts Research Center

Shannon Flattery: Installation Art, Oral History, and Urban Activism
November 8, 4-6pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Shannon Flattery, Artistic Director of Touchable Stories will be joined by Sonja Manjon, Director of the Center for Art and Public Life (CCA)

Brian Conley: Artist's Talk
February 7, 4pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center

Heidi Gilpin: Space Choreographies: Dance, Technology, and Architecture
February 17, 3pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center

Jennifer Montgomery: Reconstructive Neurosis: Experimental Techniques of Cinematic Reenactment
March 8, 4pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center

Tim Miller: Performance Workshop
March 9, 10am, Durham Studio Theater

Reggie Wilson: Post-African/Neo-Hoodoo Dances
March 21, 4pm, Durham Studio Theater
Presented in conjunction with the Arts Research Center and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies

Isabel Allende: Telling Stories
April 6, 5pm, Durham Studio Theater

Freddie Rokem: Philosophy and Performance
April 20, 4pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center

William Pope.L: The Influence Lecture
April 28, 12pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center