Art in City: The City in the Art July 17, 2015 Friday, July 17 6:00-8:30 pm Wilsey Court, de Young Museum In an exhibition particularly relevant to the Bay Area, Janet Delaney: South of Market relates the complex history of a changing San Francisco neighborhood through a selection of more than 40 photographs from the […]
This symposium is the culmination of “South Africa in the West,” a semester-long events series at UC Berkeley. It reflects on legacies of reconciliation, accountability, and impunity in South Africa and elsewhere in the world, and benefits from the participation of Ubu and the Truth Commission co-creators and theatermakers Handspring Puppet Company, William Kentridge, and Jane Taylor.
Peter Glazer’s Heart of Spain Monday, March 30, 2015, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00pm) $16 adv / $18 door Purchase tickets online Please join us for a concert performance of Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, co-written by Peter Glazer, the creator of Woody Guthrie’s American Song, and Eric Bain […]
April 13, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA
Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
April 6, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA
March 13, 2015
308A Doe Library, UC Berkeley
In conjunction with the launching of the second, fully revised and expanded six volume edition of the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (July 2014), the Arts Research Center will co-host a full day symposium on March 13, 2015, looking at aesthetics as both the subject and object of critique, and as a way to explore and expand new forms of aesthetics research in many disciplines.
Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts is proud to announce the return of Number Zero (a space opera) Version 2.0, a highly physical, semi-improvised, evening-length dance theater performance about a small band of humans who live in a future world controlled by a sentient computer leader.
The premise of this talk is that knowledge is not something that we can discover but rather only something that we can produce. As such, each new instance of knowledge emerges transactionally through the interaction of configurations of materiality, discourse, and ideology—realities that are themselves the product of complex transactions.
Between Campesino and State: Photography, Rurality, and Citizenship in Post-Revolutionary Mexico History of Art Department March 12, 2015 308A Doe Library, UC Berkeley 5:30 pm Robin Greeley, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History, Berkeley PhD 1996, will return to the Department to give a public lecture on her current book project, […]
A symposium and gathering that responds to the recent book of that title, bringing together the editors and other scholars, students, activists, and community members to map the intersections of policing, imprisonment, and the disabled body. The event seeks to step into the conspicuous void within critiques of the “prison industrial complex” – namely the absence of discussion of disability oppression, despite the disproportionate representation of people with disabilities within prisons and gated institutions. Free and open to the public.
