Launch of “Amateurism” By: Lindsey Pannor, January 27, 2020 On November 12 of this past year, ARC celebrated the completion of the upcoming issue of Third Text, a journal of critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture, guest edited in part by our director Julia Bryan-Wilson. We hosted a small get-together at the Beta Lounge […]
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power By: Lindsey Pannor, January 8, 2020 Thursday, November 7th of 2019 was marked by a conversation between Mark Godfrey and Kenyatta Hinkle, hosted by ARC at the David Brower Center. The two—Godfrey of the Tate Modern and Hinkle of UC Berkeley’s Art Practice Department—came […]
Julie Mehretu in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Lindsey Pannor on Julie Mehretu on October 22, 2019 Julie Mehretu has already entered the canon as a contemporary painter and artist, despite having just begun curating her mid-career exhibition. She took a brief hiatus from this work in Los Angeles to fly to Berkeley and engage in […]
Arts Research Center Partners with Engaging the Senses Foundation to Fund Poetry Program at UC Berkeley [BERKELEY, CA October 7, 2019 ––] UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center (ARC) will spend the next two years exploring Poetry and the Senses, thanks to a generous grant from Engaging the Senses Foundation. The $335,000 gift is the largest […]
Trinh T. Minh-Ha / A Series of Public Events and Conversations by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts Posted by: Lindsey Pannor Through July of 2020, the California College of the Arts’ Wattis Institute will have Trinh T. Minh-Ha on their minds. And, through a series of public events throughout the Bay, they will […]
Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality: Rizvana Bradley Lindsey Pannor on Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality: Rizvana Bradley on September 12, 2019 “Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.” Frantz Fanon On September 12, 2019, […]
“Arts of Critique” 2018-2019 Event Podcasts ARC’s 2018-19 programs had a special focus on the critical potential of arts from the Global South. During the past year we asked questions about the relationship between art and critique from the standpoint of social and political exigencies of our times, by thinking with contemporary artists, writers, scholars […]
ARC Fellows: And What’s More, a Performative Audiobook Submitted by our 2019 ARC Fellow Team: Anne Walsh and Leena Joshi (Art Practice) AW: Claudia La Rocco’s And What’s More is the third installment of her science-fiction Olivia Trilogy, a literary, performance, art, and sound project that plays with traditional audience/maker/doer relationships. I was one of […]
ARC Fellows: Sound Reproduction as Biological Reproduction Submitted by our 2019 ARC Fellow Team: Delia Casadei & Kim Sauberlich (Music) When we talk of the reproduction of sound, or of music, we usually mean either a musical score–perhaps in the Western script of five-line staffs, clefs and bars–or a sound recording, whether analogue (on an external […]
ARC Fellows: The Archaeologist and the Replica: 3D printing at Aidonia (Greece) Submitted by our 2019 ARC Fellow Team: Kim Shelton (Classics/Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology) and David Wheeler (Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology) In April of 1993, a unique collection of Mycenaean sealstones and gold jewelry went up for auction at the Michael Ward […]
