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- Artist-in-Residence: Philip Kan Gotanda
- Lecture: John Onians on "World Art Studies: Why? What? How?"
- Conference: Queer Bonds
- Kaja Sliverman in Conversation with: Chantal Akerman
- The Botany of Desire Project: John Gromada & Alex Harvey Residency
- Kaja Silverman in Conversation with: Anri Sala
- Artist-in-Residence: Joan Jeanrenaud
- Kaja Silverman in Conversation with: Isaac Julien
- Symposium: Arts Research Fellows
- ARC Faculty-Affiliated Events
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Philip Kan Gotanda
Playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda (whose After the War
had its world premier at ACT in 2007) is in residence for the Spring 2009
semester, working with students on a revision of his play A Fist of Roses,
exploring how male violence interacts with different racial, cultural, and
sexual histories.
AUDITIONS/INTERVIEWS: Advanced Acting Company Class
RESEARCH TO PERFORMANCE: A Fist of Roses
January 21st, 2009, 2pm-5pm
317 Zellerbach
Gotanda is seeking UC Berkeley students as actors, researchers, choreography
assistants and assistant directors. To sign up or for more information, go to the
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies office, 101 Dwinelle Annex.
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READING: Yohen |
WORKSHOP SHOWING: A Fist of Roses
Monday, April 27th, 2009, at 7pm
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009, at 4pm & 7pm
Durham Studio Theater
Free admission
An exploration of male violence against women, Gotanda first created
A Fist of Roses with Campo Santo at San Francisco's Intersection for the Arts.
This residency is co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, 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.
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LECTURE: John Onians on “World Art Studies: Why? What? How?”
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009, 5:15pm
History of Art/Classics Library, 308J Doe
Free admission
The Arts Research Center is pleased to join with the Department of History of Art
to present John Onians, Professor Emeritus of World Art at the University of East Anglia,
where he created the School of World Art Studies.
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CONFERENCE: Queer Bonds
Thursday, February 19th & Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Berkeley Art Museum
Free Admission
Queer Studies invented itself around two founding elements: an "identity"
to designate its social bond, and a theory of "subversion" as what upsets it.
These twin conceptual frameworks may strike many today as largely exhausted.
Yet a new body of work is reinventing these rubrics by turning its attention to
the bonds and attachments–biological, affective, temporal, and formal–which
structure both contemporary and historical forms of sociability. Two broad
trajectories can be detected: on the one hand, an attempt to theorize the positive
nature of these bonds, and on the other to investigate the negative, counter-social
forces at work in them. This interdisciplinary, student-organized conference,
co-sponsored by ARC and a number of other departments on campus, aims to bring
together arts, humanities, and social science scholars working within a broad array
of approaches to think about these trajectories together.
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PLEASE NOTE PROGRAM CHANGE:
Due to a family emergency, Chantal Akerman will not be
present at this event.
Sunday, March 1st, 2009, 1:30pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Free admission
Seating: first-come, first-served
Acclaimed film/media theorist Kaja Silverman will screen and discuss
recent filmand installation work by renowned French feminist filmmaker
Chantal Akerman. Works will include clips from Sud (1999), A Voice in
the Desert (2002), and Down There (2006). The first of these works deals
with the imbrication of race and geographyin the American South; the
second and third focus on the Mexican-American border. Screened in its
entirety will be To Walk Next to One's Shoelaces (2004), a two-channel
installation in which Akerman and her mother read and discuss a diary
entry written by her grandmother, who died in Auschwitz. Silverman will
show how all of these works point back to Akerman's seminal 1976 film,
News From Home.
Belgian-born, Paris-based filmmaker Chantal Akerman has been praised
as "arguably the most important European director of her generation" and
her workheralded as "the single most important and coherent body of work
by a woman director in the history of the cinema." Her 1975 film Jeanne
Dielman 23, quai ducommerce, 1080 Bruxelles has been called "the first
masterpiece in the femininein the history of the cinema." In addition to dozens
of films, she has created video installations that have been exhibited at the
Venice Biennale and Kassel Documenta.Kaja Silverman is the Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at UC
Berkeley, and the author of seven books, including the seminal The Subject
of Semiotics (1983), as well as The Threshold of the Visible World (1995)
and World Spectators (2000). Forthcoming this year is Flesh of My Flesh.
She has written extensively on photography and time-based art over the
past eight years.This program is being presented by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley in
collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Image shown: Chantal Akerman, From the other side, 2002. Installation view.
Video installation in 3 parts (19 monitors + one projection), made from the film
De l'Autre Côté, 2002. Director : Chantal Akerman, Editing : Claire Atherton.
Courtesy Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris / New York.
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ARTISTS' RESIDENCY: The Botany of Desire Project
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AUDITIONS: The Botany of Desire
Auditions for actors will be held Tuesday, April 7th, 2009.
Auditions for singers are by arrangement.
Student actors and singers, download the Audition Flyer (pdf) for more information.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire:
Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences
Monday, April 13th, 2009, 4pm
Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor
Free and open to the public
This discussion of the interdisciplinary influence of The Botany of Desire will
feature the author Michael Pollan, artist-in-residence Alex Harvey, and
UC Berkeley professors Ignacio Chapela (Environmental Science, Policy,
and Management), Anne-Lise François (English), and Garrison Sposito,
(Soil Science, Ecosystem Science. and Environmental Engineering).
READING & DISCUSSION: A Theatrical Adaptation of The Botany of Desire
Friday, April 24th, 2009, 5:30pm
Wheeler Auditorium
Free admission. Tickets required.
The first public work-in-progress reading of a section of Alex Harvey and
John Gromada's theatrical adaptation of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire.
The reading will introduced by remarks from Harvey and Gromada and followed
by comments by Michael Pollan and a question and answer session with the audience.
Tickets available online at tickets.berkeley.edu, by phone at 510.642.9988,
at the Zellerbach Hall Ticket Office (Tues-Fri 10am-5:30pm, Sat-Sun 1-5pm),
and at Wheeler Auditorium one hour prior to event.
Alex Harvey's recent directing credits include the Houston premiere of I Am My Own Wife,
a five-person staging of Macbeth in New York and an adaptation of The Mock-Tempest for
Shakespeare Santa Cruz. In Chicago, he directed the world premiere of The Bird and Mr. Banks,
Swifty DuPont, and an adaptation of The Knight of the Burning Pestle. In 2004 he staged the
world premiere of General Desdemona at the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival. He is a recent
recipient of the Drama League's New Directors/New Works fellowship, was a Directing Resident
at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and has worked in new play development at New York
Theatre Workshop and Steppenwolf Theatre. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.
John Gromada is a prolific composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores
for theatrical productions in New York, on and off-Broadway, and in regional theatres. Broadway
plays he has scored include Chazz Palminteri's A Bronx Tale, David Auburn's Proof, Lisa Kron's
Well, Rabbit Hole, and A Few Good Men; and revivals of Prelude to a Kiss, Summer and Smoke,
Twelve Angry Men and A Streetcar Named Desire. His work has been recognized with numerous
awards, including an Obie, and with grants from the NEA and other agencies. A graduate of Duke
University, he has taught at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and elsewhere.
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. His
previous books include the award-winning The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals,
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, A Place of My Own, and Second Nature.
A contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, Pollan served for many years as executive
editor of Harper's Magazine and is now the Knight Professor of Science and Environmental
Journalism at UC Berkeley.
The Arts Research Center is grateful for assistance with this residency
from
BareStage Productions and UC Choral Ensembles.
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Friday, April 10th, 2009, 4:30pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Free admission
Video artist Anri Sala will discuss his recent work—shot in locales
ranging from Albania to Germany to Senegal—with media theorist
Kaja Silverman. One focus of their conversation will be the important
role that installation design plays in his work, and the series of
decisions media artists must make when screening video works in
galleries and museums as opposed to theaters. They will also discuss
the important role that sound plays in Sala’s work.
Anri Sala is an award-winning video artist who was born in Albania in 1974
and now lives in Berlin. His work, which has been called “beautiful, haunting,
and absurd in equal measure,” has been exhibited at galleries and museums
throughout the United States and internationally. The first major American
museum survey of his work opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
North Miami in 2008.
Kaja Silverman is the Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at UC Berkeley,
and the author of seven books, including The Subject of Semiotics (1983),
The Threshold of the Visible World (1995) and World Spectators (2000).
Forthcoming this year is Flesh of My Flesh. She has written extensively on
photography and time-based art over the past eight years.
This program is being presented by the Arts Research Center at
UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive.
Image shown: Anri Sala, Suspended (Sky Blue), 2008, mixed media, 7-7/8 x 31-1/2 x 31-1/2 in.
Courtesy Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris / New York.
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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Joan Jeanrenaud
Throughout 2008-2009, world-renowned composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud
(perhaps best known for her role as a founding member of the Kronos Quartet)
is participating in a residency organized by Assistant Professor Lisa Wymore as
part of "Equal Footing," a project that aims to explore and expand the traditional
working relationship between composers and choreographers. Jeanrenaud is
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
presented by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
PERFORMANCE: Berkeley Dance Project 2009 Equal Footing
Friday, April 17th, Saturday, April 18th, Friday, April 24th & Saturday, April 25th, 8pm
Sunday, April 19th & Sunday, April 26th, 2pm
Zellerbach Playhouse
Admission: $15/$10
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Friday, April 17th, 2009, 4:30pm
Pacific Film Archive, 2575 Bancroft Way
Free admission
Isaac Julien is best known to American audiences for his documentary
and feature films and their poetic explorations of race, gender, sexuality,
and the history of cinema itself. In recent years, however, he has also been
creating multi-channel video installations that are exhibited in museums
and galleries. In conversation with media theorist Kaja Silverman, he will
discuss this powerful new work and how it relates to his “traditional”
filmmaking practice, his early training in painting, and his interest in breaking
down barriers between artistic disciplines.
Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. After
graduating from St Martin’s School of Art in 1984, Julien founded Sankofa Film and
Video Collective (1983–1992). He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his
films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), made in collaboration with Javier de Frutos,
and Vagabondia (2000). Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
(1996), Young Soul Rebels (1991), and Looking for Langston (1989). He is the recipient
of numerous awards, including the Frameline Lifetime Achievement Award (2002). Most
recently, he has had solo shows at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2005), MoCA Miami (2005)
and the Kerstner Gesellschaft, Hanover (2006). Julien is represented in the Tate Modern,
Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim and Hirshhorn collections.
Kaja Silverman is the Class of 1940 Professor of Rhetoric and Film at UC Berkeley,
and the author of seven books, including The Subject of Semiotics (1983),
The Threshold of the Visible World (1995) and World Spectators (2000).
Forthcoming this year is Flesh of My Flesh. She has written extensively on
photography and time-based art over the past eight years.
This program is being presented by the Arts Research Center at
UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive,
Berkeley Center for New Media, and Berkeley Film Seminar.
Image shown: Still from Western Union Series No. 2 (Flight Towards Other Destinies I, 2007.
Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery, London and Metro Pictures, New York.
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SENSE AND SENSATION: |
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This year, the Arts Research Center launched a new program to advance
interdisciplinary research in the arts by awarding fellowships to six UC Berkeley
graduate students whose research practice substantially engages more than
one academic discipline in the practice, history, theory, and/or criticism of the
arts. At this culminating symposium, the inaugural class of ARC Fellows will
present their work, with responses from Berkeley faculty and invited guests.
Panel One:
The Play of Nervous Activity: Audiovisual Textures,
Multiplanar Narrativity, and Victorian Psychophysics
Michael Craig (East Asian Languages & Cultures)
Benjamin Morgan (Rhetoric)
Paul Roquet (East Asian Languages & Cultures/Film Studies)
moderated by Prof. Whitney Davis (History of Art)
Panel Two:
Textual Noise: Aesthesis, Sense and Senselessness
Bonnie Begusch (Art Practice)
Jasper Bernes (English)
Shane Boyle (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies)
moderated by Prof. Jeffrey Skoller (Film Studies)
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ARC Faculty-Affiliated EventsLECTURE: Where the Girls Are: Women Artists, Science, and Technology
Marcia Tanner, San Francisco-based Curator
Monday, March 30th, 2009, 7:30pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Free admission
Presented as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (ATC) organized
by ARC faculty member Ken Goldberg. Full ATC schedule: http://atc.berkeley.edu/. CONCERT: Frank Gratkowski, Chris Brown, Willi Winant, David Wessel
Friday, April 3rd, 2009, 8pm
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch St, Berkeley
$12/$6
ARC faculty member David Wessel, on live electronics, will perform with Frank Gratkowski
on alto saxophone and clarinets, Chris Brown on piano and live electronics, and Willi Winant
on percussion. CNMAT website: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/LECTURE: Rita Gonzalez, Los Angeles-based Artist
Monday, April 6th, 2009, 7:30pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Free admission
Rita Gonzalez is a media artist, independent curator and writer who lives and works in Los Angeles.
She has produced several short videos that express her interests in the constructions and elaborations
of biography and myth. Her videos portray the manufactured transformations of everyday people into
cultural icons--Margarita Cansino into Rita Hayworth, Michael Jackson into Peter Pan, and Lupe Velez
into Hollywood Babylon celebrity. Gonzalez' videos have been screened internationally at festivals such
as MIX NY/Mexico City, Cine Festival in San Antonio, Women in the Director's Chair, and L.A. Freewaves.
This lecture was organized by
ARC faculty member Anne Walsh, Department of Art Practice.LECTURE: I'll Replace You: Outsourcing Everyday Life
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, New York-based Artists
Monday, April 13th, 2009, 7:30pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Free admission
Presented as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (ATC) organized
by ARC faculty member Ken Goldberg. Full ATC schedule: http://atc.berkeley.edu/.CONCERT: Roberto Morales, David Wessel, Nils Bultmann
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009, 8pm
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, 1750 Arch St, Berkeley
$12/$6
ARC faculty member David Wessel, on live electronics, will perform with
Roberto Morales on flutes, piano, and live electronics, and Nils Bultmann on viola.
CNMAT website: http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/LECTURE: Carter, Artist
Monday, April 20th, 2009, 7:30pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Free admission
In his drawings, photographs, sculptural installations, and videos, Carter collages and
overlaps clipped images of body parts and facial features— noses, eyes, ears, hands,
clumps of hair— to create what he calls "anonymous portraits." Although these images
derive from photographs taken of the artist himself, they are combined in a way that
obscures the identity of the figure. His works have been exhibited internationally, including
the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the USA Today and Abstract America
exhibitions, at the Saatchi Gallery of contemporary artworks in London, England.
This lecture was organized by
ARC faculty member Anne Walsh, Department of Art Practice.LECTURE: 1/4 Watt of Pure Power: Experiments in the Dark Transmission Arts
Presentation by Neighborhood Public Radio of Oakland, Chicago, and San Diego
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 7:30pm
160 Kroeber Hall
Free admission
Presented as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (ATC) organized
by ARC faculty member Ken Goldberg. Full ATC schedule: http://atc.berkeley.edu/.LECTURE: Paul Chan's Unfederated Theatre: Waiting in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Shannon Jackson, Professor of Rhetoric and Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Monday, April 27th, 2009, 6-7:30pm
106 Wurster Hall
Free admission
Reception to follow
Paul Chan is a visual artist and a political activist noted for his statements about the necessity of separating
rather than integrating aesthetics and politics, particularly the need to avoid the instrumentalization of the
former by latter. In this talk, Shannon Jackson will focus on Chan's decision to site a production of Waiting
for Godot in Post-Katrina New Orleans, framing this project both as a conversation across the domain of
visual and theatrical arts and as an opportunity to reflect on what it means to take an aesthetic stance on
community engagement.
Discussants:
Joshua Simon, Northern California Community Loan Fund
Marcia McNally, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.
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