[SDCPJ] Today! Public Culture in the Visual Sphere: Steve Graham - 6:30PM, VAF Performance Space

Public Culture in the Visual Sphere

January 7 through May 25, 2010 (Thursdays @ 6:30 pm)

February 4: "Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism"
UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility Performance Space
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093

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 gradate committee (Edward Sterrett, Orianna Cacchione, Cara Baldwin, Katrin Pesch, Sara Mameni, Tara Zepel), and Jordan Crandall.

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 or 858-822-7755

For more information please contact Suzanne T. Wright, VALS Coordinator, at stwright@ucsd.edu

Supported by the Visual Arts Department, UCSD; Dean of Arts and Humanities, UCSD; SoCCAS [Southern California Consortium of Art Schools]
Collaborations with Art in the Public Sphere, USC Roski School of Fine Arts; English and Comparative Literature, UCLA; the graduate MFA program at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; and the Athenaeum, La Jolla.

All events are at 6.30 on Thursdays in the Performance Space of the Visual Art Facility building (VAF), unless otherwise noted.

 

For more information about the Public Culture Lectures please contact Sheena Ghanbari: sghanbari@ucsd.edu.

 

 

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Sheena Ghanbari

Program Promotion Manager, Visual Arts Department

University of California, San Diego

Mandeville 228

sghanbari@ucsd.edu

858.822.7755 (phone)

858.534.8651 (fax)

http://visarts.ucsd.edu

 

 

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