Polo Horses I’ve started to think making art is like owning a polo horse, or buying a Lamborghini in the midst of a recession. I’ll be editing a video and have this moment where I’m staring at Premiere Pro, and think: Christ, this is so stupid. Am I really editing and re-editing this same 30 […]
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Mirrors a binding of various journal entries on the power of generational knowledge, healing, and coping Vethea Cerna Cole When attempting to write delicate words on emergency, all I have been able to think aboutinstead is what it means to emerge into, alongside what it means to merge together as one (afterbeing apart, especially). The […]
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Poetry reading with Safia Elhillo, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and Craig Santos Perez By: Menat Allah El Attma, April 12, 2021 “You are getting dressed. You stand in front of a mirror. And your peers are that mirror telling you: You’re not wearing pants.Why aren’t you wearing pants?” Hieu Minh Nguyen depicts the first draft, au […]
Poetry and the Senses Application FAQs
Help! I finished the application but forgot where to send my CV and work sample! No problem! Please email your CV/resume (saved in one file) and creative writing sample (up to 5 poems/prose poems/etc, 7 pgs max, saved in one file) by November 20, 2022 to ARC Associate Director Laurie Macfee at: arcpoetry@berkeley.edu. CV and […]
Advisory Board Natalia Brizuela received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2003. She is a professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media. Her research focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. (more here) Anthony Cascardi, Dean of Arts and Humanities at UC […]
Poetry & the Senses Fellows
Let us poem a place where you cannot erase us into white space. – TANAYA WINDER Should I cry out and see what happens? – Frank O’Hara Fall 2023 Fellows UC Berkeley, Arizona State University, and luk’upsíimey Spring 2023 Fellows Undergraduate Student Fellows: Graduate Student Fellows: Faculty Fellows: Community Fellows: Undergraduate Student Fellows: Graduate Student […]
Students Respond: Michael Rakowitz
Students Respond: Michael Rakowitz in conversation with Anneka Lenssen, Associate Professor of History of Art, and graduate students Alejandro Múnera, Tausif Noor, and Anna Riley By: Olivia Bischofberger, Rahul Keyal, Hannah Klakeg, Sajdah Nasir and Olivia Pole, November 3, 2020 This semester, our director Julia Bryan-Wilson is teaching a class intertwined with our Visual Activism […]
Poetry and the Senses Fellowship Application
what did i know about waters rushing back what did i know about drowning or being drowned -–Lucille Clifton, the lost baby poem UC Berkeley’s Arts Research Center (ARC) is spending two years exploring Poetry and the Senses, thanks to a generous grant from Engaging the Senses Foundation. The program is grounded in the relevance […]
Students Respond: Alfredo Jaar’s “When the Music Stops”
Students Respond: Alfredo Jaar’s “When the Music Stops” By: Tess Futterman, Ninel Melkonyan, Fannie Osran and Ruby Shapiro, October 8, 2020 This semester, our director Julia Bryan-Wilson is teaching a class intertwined with our Visual Activism series, also called “Visual Activism.” Instead of generating our own account of Alfredo Jaar’s recent ARC talk “When the […]
Favianna Rodriguez on Visual Activism
Favianna Rodriguez on Visual Activism By: Lindsey Pannor, October 5, 2020 All of us at the Arts Research Center were fortunate enough to kick off our Fall 2020 programming with a virtual visit from Favianna Rodriguez, a local Bay area visual artist whose work is inextricable from her aims as an activist. Her talk was […]