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Saturday April 10, 3:00 – 8:00pm, Visual Arts Facility
Permanent Transition,
PhD Symposium:
Saturday April 10, 9:00am – 5:00pm, Visual Arts Facility Seminar Room 366
UC San Diego Campus,
Visual Arts Facility,
corner of Russell Drive and Lyman Avenue, La Jolla CA 92093
Whether constructing a massive decomposing stalactite from iron and fiberglass, recording a pirated copy of Avatar onto a virtual rotating sphere, or painting vibrant portals leading to the past’s sexy future, the visual artists of UCSD’s highly praised MFA program have practices spanning a wide range of disciplines that evoke a dialogue of remarkable currency. The artists’ works range from technological investigations and information visualizations to social interventions, and material practices, all the while questioning and creating relationships with art history, critical theory, visual studies, art activism and public culture.
Permanent Transition, the third annual UCSD Visual Arts PhD Symposium, is running in conjunction with Open Studios. “Art,” as an idea, a product, and a condition, is increasingly defined through properties of oscillation – movement, fluidity, transition, and circulation. The art world, particularly during the last few decades, had generated new and proximate forms of creation and discourse, which have arguably emerged from the ideas and relations of past modernities. Unfixed boundaries between exhibition and collection, mobile collections and evolving archives, these are the marks of art in “permanent transition.” This conference seeks to further explore and question concepts of stability, permanence and dominance in contemporary art.
Open Studios and Permanent Transition has been organized by the visual arts graduate students at UC San Diego and generously supported by the Visual Arts Department, UCSD Humanities Center, and the Graduate Student Association.
Participating Artists:
Participating Artists:
Cara Baldwin
Katrin Pesch
Permanent Transition Speakers:
Keynote Talk: Okwui Enwezor, “Locus Agonistes: Art and the Civic Imagination in Societies in Transition”
Graduate Presentations:
Matthew Rana, “Social Work: Politics, Police and the Legalistic in Art,” California College of the Arts
Eric Morrill, “Allan Kaprow: ‘Experimental Art,’” University of California, Irvine
Elyse Mallouk, “The Generous Object: The Relational and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Art,” California College of the Arts
Rochelle LeGrandsawyer, “Unstable Treasure: Historical Mass and Cultural Alchemy in El Anatsui’s Peak Project,” University of California, Los Angeles
Holiday Powers, “Modernism and Decolonization: Abdallah Laroui and Post-Colonial Morocco,” Cornell University
Courtney Thompson, “Questioning the Current Biennial Model,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Andrew Weiner, “Dialectical Image or Polaroid Effect?” University of California, Berkeley
For more information about Open Studios or Permanent Transition please contact [email protected]