Curating People is the first in a series of convenings organized by the Arts Research Center's Art + Time research group that will bring together artists, scholars, and curators to discuss the blurring boundary between performance and visual art, and how this interpenetration impacts the creation, presentation, and reception of new work. This first iteration will ask: What does it mean to produce visual artists whose work incorporates live performance, or theater/dance artists who are presenting their work in galleries and museums? What are the headaches, the new skill sets needed, the unforeseen consequences?
All events are free and open to the public.
Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics
Judith Butler in conversation with Shannon Jackson
Thursday, April 28, 5 p.m.
Performance Art Institute, 575 Sutter Street, San Francisco
Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley) and Shannon Jackson (Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley) will discuss issues raised by Jackson's new book Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics (Routledge, 2011).
A reception will follow; the book will be available for purchase and all sales will benefit the Performance Art Institute.
Curating People
Friday, April 29
11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley
Program
11:00 a.m. Welcome
11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m. When Presenters Become Curators/When Curators Become Presenters
Betti-Sue Hertz, Director of Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Angela Mattox, Performing Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Erin Doughton, Performing Arts Program Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Kristan Kennedy, Visual Arts Curator, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
David Henry, Director of Programs, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Moderated by Leigh Markopoulos, Professor, Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts
12:45–1:45 p.m. Lunch Break
1:45–3 p.m. Curating Screens/Screening Time
Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor, Gender & Women's Studies and Rhetoric, UC Berkeley with responses from
Erika Balsom, Townsend Fellow, Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley
and Anne Walsh, Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley
3–3:10 p.m. Break
3:10–4:40 p.m. Bay Area Arts Ecologies
Tony Labat, Professor, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute
Stephen Tourell, Cofounder, Performance Art Institute
Constance Lewallen, Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum
Susan Miller, Associate Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley and independent curator and producer
Moderated by Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
4:40–4:50 p.m. Break
4:50–5:50 p.m. Dancing in Time: Lucinda Childs in Conversation
Lucinda Childs in conversation with
Lisa Wymore, Professor, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
and Shannon Jackson, Professor, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies and Rhetoric, and Director, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley
6–7 p.m. Closing Reception at Townsend Center
Curating People is part of the Art + Time series organized by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley with support from the Departments of Art Practice, History of Art, Rhetoric, and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, the Critical Theory Program, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Cal Performances, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
