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Wattis Institute: John Baldessari: Class Assignments, (Optional)
January 19–March 31, 2012
Wattis Institute, San Francisco campus
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Reception: Thur., Jan. 19, 6-8 p.m.
Hours: Tues.-Fri., noon–8 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Info: 415.551.9210 or wattis.org
Students from CCA's Graduate Program in Fine Arts will exhibit works that they created based on Baldessari's teaching notes from his time as a professor at California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). The original course was titled Cal Arts Post Studio Art: Class Assignments (optional), 1970. Based on his class notes, students will, for instance, be instructed to "imitate Baldessari in actions and speech. Video," "Disguise an object to look like another object," or "Develop a visual code. Give it to another student to crack."
This exhibition pursues two of Baldessari's own concerns. The first is art making -- specifically his predilection for language's structure and arbitrary games, which have been a key element in his conceptual works of the 1970s, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) from 1973. The second is pedagogical. For many decades Baldessari has been directly engaged with the education of artists. He has continued working with students for nearly three decades, most notably between 1970 and 1986 when he taught at Cal Arts. Many of the strategies Baldessari deploys in his own work -- experimentation, rule-based systems, and the defiance of arbitrarily imposed limits -- are akin to contemporary pedagogical methods.
The participating MFA students are:
Fatema Abdoolcarim
Zafer A. Aksit
Andrea Bacigalupo
Simone Bailey
Teresa Baker
Kate Bonner & Rebekah Goldstein
Maureen Burdock
Caroline Charuk
Ji Eun Chun
James Coquia
Kimberlee Cordova
Kimberlee Cordova & Elizabeth Moran
Melissa Dickenson
Jeremy Ehling
Elizabeth Eicher and Helene Schlumberger
Katelyn Eichwald
Jamie Emerick
Will Emmert
Arash Fayez
Rachel Granofsky
Larissa Greer
Seth Gutierrez
Sadie Harmon
Jaimie Healy
Helga Hizer
Megan Lavelle
Cara Levine
Heidi Lubin
Leora Lutz
Lindsey Lyons
Phillip Maisel
Marc Manning
Yan Yan Mao
Nicole Markoff
Bruna Massadas
Senalka McDonald
Zoe McCloskey
Em Meine
Elizabeth Moran
Christie Yuri Noh
Alison Padgett
Alison Padgett and Andrea Gonzalez
Christine Pan
Maya Pasternak
Byron Peters
Christine M. Peterson
Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed
Joshua Reinstein
Neil Rivas
Michael Rothfeld
Ann Schnake
Diana Stapleton
Lauren M. Taylor
Maria Torres
Meghan Urback
Ben Vilmain
Alex Wang
Heather Watson
Heather Watson and Katelyn Eichwald
Heather Watson and Janey Smith
Tali Weinberg
Ansley West
Jacob Wick
Calder Yates & Helga Hizer
Jake Ziemann
Founding support for CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts programs has been provided by Phyllis C. Wattis and Judy and Bill Timken. General support for the Wattis Institute provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Grants for the Arts / San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Ann Hatch and Paul Discoe, and the CCA Curator's Forum.
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Female Trouble Film Screening
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesThursday, February 9, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Female Trouble: A Genderfuck Program
QCCA (Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts) in collaboration with Dirty Looks presents an evening of genderqueer shorts:
Conrad Ventur, Mario Montez Screen, 2010
Patti Podesta, Stepping, 1980,
Steven Arnold, Messages, Messages, 1968
Narcissister, Every Woman, 2010
Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008
Vaginal Davis, Barbi Twins, 1993
Film series impresario Bradford Nordeen and curator Margaret Tedesco will lead a discussion about queer perspectives in contemporary cinema following the screening.
Categories: Film Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Blind Field Shuttle walking tour
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, February 17, 2012, 4–5 pm
San Francisco campus
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Info: 510.356.8001 or acachia@cca.edu
Preceding the What Can a Body Do? Investigating Disability in Contemporary Art Symposium (taking place at 7 p.m. in the Helzel Boardroom on CCA's San Francisco campus) is this Blind Field Shuttle walking tour, a nonvisual shuttle service in which the Portland-based artist Carmen Papalia transports groups of people to and from given locations: tourist spots, art galleries, restaurants and so on, from his vantage point as one with a visual impairment. Participants will form a line behind Papalia and keep their eyes closed for the duration of the walking tour, an element that requires an exchange of trust. The trip culminates in a group discussion regarding the experience. As participants traverse familiar landscapes nonvisually, they become aware of their sensory perceptions and the many ways in which one can experience and explore space.
Support provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program, the CCA President's Diversity Steering Group, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies.
(image: Carmen Papalia, "Blind Field Shuttle, Oakland," 2011, photo by Heather Zinger)
Categories: Diversity Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Friday Readings
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, February 17, 2012, 5:30–7:30 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Refreshments at 5:30; readings begin at 6 p.m.
Free and open to the public
More info: Teresa Walsh: twalsh@cca.edu
Friday Readings unite first and second-year MFA Program in Writing students in a casual and supportive setting where they read their works to a public audience. Check with program manager Teresa Walsh for a complete list of readers throughout the spring term.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Student Life Writing Writing and Literature
What Can a Body Do? Investigating Disability in Contemporary Art Roundtable Discussion
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, February 17, 2012, 7–9 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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Speakers are Georgina Kleege, Carmen Papalia, Ann Millett-Gallant, Katherine Sherwood, Tobin Siebers, Laura Swanson, Sunaura Taylor and Rosemarie Garland Thomson, moderated by Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies student Amanda Cachia.
The intent is to explore the dominant paradigms at the intersection of disability and contemporary art. How can reductive representations of the disabled body, ranging from the freak, cripple, deformed, grotesque and the monster, as seen in Western artistic and curatorial discourses, be destabilized? How can the contemporary art world begin to shift these negative perceptions and meanings of the disabled body in order to make room for its more nuanced, complex representation across diverse artistic fields? What are some new methodologies and strategies being employed by disabled artists today in conveying a new visual and textual language around the association between visual representation and identity?
Preceding the roundtable from 4-5 p.m. will be the Blind Field Shuttle walking tour, a nonvisual shuttle service in which the Portland-based artist Carmen Papalia transports groups of persons to and from given locations. The tour culminates in a group discussion regarding the experience.
Support provided by Southern Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant Program, the CCA President's Diversity Steering Group, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies.
(artwork: Sunaura Taylor, No Arms! (Self-Portrait), 2010)
Categories: Diversity Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Lecture by Stephen Shore
Presented as part of the Larry Sultan Visiting Artist ProgramThursday, February 23, 2012, 7–9 pm
Phillis Wattis Theater | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) | 151 Third Street | San Francisco CA
Free and open to the public
Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis
More info: cbradley@cca.edu
Stephen Shore's work has been widely published and exhibited for the past forty years. He was the second living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has also had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
His series of exhibitions at Light Gallery in New York in the early 1970s sparked new interest in color photography and in the use of the view camera for documentary work. Books of his photographs include Uncommon Places; Stephen Shore: Photographs 1973 - 1993; The Velvet Years, Andy Warhol's Factory, 1965 – 1967; Essex County; American Surfaces; Stephen Shore, a career survey in Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists Series; A Road Trip Journal; and, most recently, The Hudson Valley. Finally there is The Nature of Photographs, a book in which he explores how photographs function visually.
Shore's work is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin and London. Since 1982 he has been the director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York State, where he is the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
This lecture series is presented in part by Pier 24 Photography and SFMOMA
Categories: Fine Arts Graduate Studies Lecture Series Photography Photography Lecture Series Public Calendar
Friday Readings
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFebruary 24, 2012–24, 5:30–7:30 pm
Writers’ Studio, San Francisco campus
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Refreshments at 5:30; readings begin at 6 p.m.
Free and open to the public
More info: Teresa Walsh: twalsh@cca.edu
Friday Readings unite first and second-year MFA Program in Writing students in a casual and supportive setting where they read their works to a public audience. Check with program manager Teresa Walsh for a complete list of readers throughout the spring term.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Student Life Writing Writing and Literature
Ecopoesis: Spring Graduate Studies Symposium
March 7–9, 2012
San Francisco campus
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Info: ecopoesis@cca.edu
Artists, filmmakers, writers, and scientists come together to explore frontline concerns around climate, biodiversity, and spatial expressions through film screenings, lectures, performances, and an expo of speculative + practical designs + art. The collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship with ideas of nature and to offer fresh understandings of the places we live + research + create around + in. This symposium is a collaborative effort of the graduate programs in Design and Fine Arts, with a sponsored reading in Graduate Writing.
More info will be posted as it becomes available!
Categories: Architecture Curatorial Practice Design Design MBA Fine Arts Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies Writing
Reports from the Field: Works in Progress in Visual Criticism
Visual and Critical Studies Special Forum Lecture SeriesFriday, March 30, 2012, 7–9 pm
Florence and Leo B. Helzel Boardroom, San Francisco campus
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Two Visual and Critical Studies alumni -- Adrienne Skye Roberts (MA 2009) and Duane Deterville (MA 2009) -- together with core faculty members Jeanette Roan and Tina Takemoto present new and evolving work in the field of Visual and Critical Studies. Adrienne Skye Roberts's work combines the vocations of curator, critic, community organizer, social practitioner, and poet. Duane Deterville's visual art practice focuses on drawings that address the intersection between symbols and ritual in African diasporic religions; his criticism and scholarship surveys diasporic practices from Brazil to Oakland. Jeanette Roan's research concerns cultural transactions in and through popular genres; her book Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism (2010) investigates films as a form of virtual travel and a source of knowledge about cultural difference. Tina Takemoto is an interdisciplinary scholar, theorist, and performance artist. Her film Looking for Jiro Onuma, which explores the hidden dimensions of queer sexuality during the incarceration of Japanese Americans in World War II, premiered at MIX 24: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival in fall 2011.
Categories: Graduate Studies Public Calendar Visual and Critical Studies
Word. World. 2012
Presented by the MFA Program in WritingFriday, March 30, 2012, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Info: 415.551.9237 or twalsh@cca.edu
Poetry, prose, and writings in between by graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing. Celebrating 10 years of literary excellence!
Each reading is followed by a reception.
Categories: Graduate Studies Lecture Series Public Calendar Writing