November 2009 Archives

Lacan In The Americas: A Roundtable

By Studio Art on November 11, 2009 8:30 AM
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Wednesday, November 18
5:00PM
University Art Gallery

Roberto Jacoby is an Argentine artist whose artwork in the 1960s defined a branch of "new media" conceptual art, one informed by the writings of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, a full decade before such aesthetic experiments were made in the Northern Hemisphere.  During Jacoby's hiatus from the art world in the 1980s, he was the lyricist for the Argentine new wave band "Virus."  In 1968: el culo te abrocho Jacoby superimposes those lyrics upon digital reprints of archival documents related to his activities at the Instituto Di Tella.  Taken together, the political posters and lyrical texts provoke us to reflect upon the utopian, poetic hopes that characterized the global cultural revolution of the 1960s and to ask what that legacy might mean to us now.

Featured speakers are:
Catherine Benamou (Director, Film and Video Center)
Julia Bryan-Wilson (Director, Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies)
Juli Carson (Director, University Art Gallery)
Catherine Liu (Director, Humanities Center)

A reception will follow the conversation.

University Art Gallery
Blg. 712
Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm      
tel 949-824-9854

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Ken Gonzales-Day | Pushing the Lens | Visiting Artist Lecture

By Jackson on November 3, 2009 10:11 PM
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
2:00PM
Studio Four, Building 725
Room 101


Ken Gonzales-Day is known for his acclaimed series of photographs, Hang
Trees and Erased Lynching, both of which address historical erasure and its
relationship to photography.  In both sets of photographs the body is
implied through its absence. Gonzales-Day's work additionally demonstrates a
continued interest in the nature of western landscape photography.

Fellowships include the Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP and the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles.  He has had solo exhibitions at Palais de
Tokyo, Paris and LAXART, Los Angeles and has participated in group
exhibitions at LACMA, the Generali Foundation in Vienna and FotoLatina,
Museo de las Artes, in Mexico City;

Ken Gonzales-Day received his MFA from UC Irvine.  He lives in Los Angeles
and is a Professor at Scripps College.

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