The University of British Columbia
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
400 – 6333 Memorial Road
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia is pleased to announce a series of free public lectures in spring 2017.
Wednesday, January 11, 5:30pm
Sam Lewitt: “Grid and Gradient”
Sam Lewitt is a New York-based artist whose recent solo exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Basel (2016) and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015). With Richard Birkett, he curated the exhibition and Materials and Money and Crisis at MUMOK, Vienna (2013). Lewitt’s lecture is presented by the Rennie Collection Distinguished Visiting Art Program.
Wednesday, February 1, 5:30pm
Dave Beech: “Producing without Profit: Art, Labour and Postcapitalism”
Dave Beech is an artist in the collective Free (with Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan), as well as a writer and curator. He has written widely on the politics of art, including The Philistine Controversy (Verso, 2002, co-authored with John Roberts) and on the legacy of the avant-garde and conceptualism. Beech’s lecture is presented by the Rennie Collection Distinguished Visiting Art Program.
Wednesday, February 8, 5:30pm
Hannah Feldman
Hannah Feldman is Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where she researches and teaches late modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Her first book, From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France (Duke, 2014) considers the theorization of art, violence, spectacle, and the writing of history in France during the decolonial wars of the 1960s. Feldman’s lecture is presented through the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series.
Wednesday, March 1, 5:30pm
Constanze Ruhm: “Re: Rehearsals”
Constanze Ruhm is a Vienna-based artist and filmmaker who teaches in the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, in the Department of Digital Media. Ruhm’s lecture is presented by the Rennie Collection Distinguished Visiting Art Program.
March 9–10, (time TBC)
Wafaa Bilal: Keynote address, Under Super Vision (40th Annual Graduate Symposium)
Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal is known internationally for his online performative and interactive works that provoke dialogue about international politics. Bilal’s work is constantly informed by the experience of fleeing his homeland and existing simultaneously in two worlds—his home in the “comfort zone” of the United States and his consciousness of the “conflict zone” in Iraq.
