Thank you for a delightful and energizing conference; the positive effects of considering common difficulties in community should not be underestimated, and I wonder how to translate some of the exercises into accessible, ongoing form. Where could I find a dozen practitioners to reflect together on professional dilemmas? How often, in a year, in a career, would such a gathering be useful? Who are my ideal respondents?
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April 19, 2014
I attended Lise Soskolne’s session on “Defining Value, Labor and the Arts”. W.A.G.E. was founded 2008 in New York to research artists fees, or lack thereof, and to create a minimum fee schedule for artistic services provided to non-profit organizations. The whole area is so complex that I found the restricted scope very useful.
What is a fee in this context and what is it not a fee?
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The fee is a price or the remuneration for services to a non-profit organization.
Well, it is a sunny May Day today and I sit here at my computer and I am filled with thoughts and excitement for the possibilities for the future of labor and the arts. It is especially appropriate to think of these issues today, as May 1st…is the international day for Labor Awareness. I have always considered the delicate dance between Art and Commerce to be a fine art in itself.
I appreciated that this conference had plenty of artists leading the workshops….and I trust that they were all paid, well. I know how much work it is to prepare for these workshops. I appreciated and enjoyed that Cassie Thornton used her persona for parts of our workshop, Big Soft (BS) Contract, and I think it gave people some space to get in touch with their feelings about debt.
I wanted to send along some information about a group, an allied project, I am a part of that is in line with conversations, content, initiatives, movements, and questions related to the weekends events.
www.bayareaartworkersalliance.org
We are also participating as an organization in this summers Bay Area Now 7 at YBCA, in July.
When is it okay to work for free? Is it acceptable as long as you’re working with—or for—another artist? What is an artistic service?
These are just a few of the hundreds of questions circulating for artists working in the 21st-century economy, and the central theme of the special two-part issue of Art Practical curated by the Arts Research Center in the spring of 2014.
March 26, 2014
Nordic Time Zones
Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
(Closed roundtable, by invitation only)
March 5, 2014
London-based performance scholars and overall rainmakers Adrian Heathfield, Gavin Butt, and Lois Keidan of the Live Art Agency received a generous grant from the U.K.’s arts and humanities research council to fund a wide-ranging three-year research project. It was inspiring to be a part of their first symposium on why PerformanceMatters, though it was also poignant to be with a wide network of U.K.
February 20, 2014
The point of departure are a few problems – conditions and terms, as well – that surface in the accounts of the experimental praxis in performance and visual arts in former Yugoslavia.
Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’
February 20 and 21, 2014
On February 20 and 21, the Arts Research Center was delighted to welcome over 200 attendees to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Gund Theater as our ARC community debated and discussed the connections surrounding and between the boundaries separating “art” and “life.” We were equally delighted to host 15 celebrated international, national and Bay Area artists, curators, and scholars from a variety of art fields who presented on historical and contemporary, visual and performance based iterations of the distinctly 20th century cultural phenomenon of ‘art-into-life
My aim is to investigate how the works and writings of Hélio Oiticia and Lygia Clark re-articulate the problem of temporality and the problem of “life.” I am proposing that there is both a rigor and a novelty in their definitions of both terms, one that bypasses accepted notions that the privileged temporality of performance and dance is the ephemeral, and that the life element in performance and dance is the living presence of bodies in participation.
“Art and Violence in Latin America Today”
I would argue that the most interesting artistic practices coming out of Latin America today dealing with the interplay of art and life address harsh aspects of reality by reenacting and even exaggerating them. The artistic outcomes can reasonably be labeled perverse, as they, in many instances, cross the line between what is acceptable and what is intolerable. These artists overstress the violence embedded in everyday life in major cities in Latin America, creating a kind of hyperrealism.
At Living Time, I want to contemplate recent questions raised by museum theorists about permanency and the perils of musealization by considering the use of a particular and rather mundane substance: ice. How does this transient material function in the form of sculpture? Can institutional walls regulate the fickleness of Ice Art? Can Ice Art be placed somewhere between museumphobia and museumania?
Arctic Conditions for the Arts: Landscapes of Non-Orientable Surfaces – Ecology and Gender
January 17, 2014
Impact in the Arts Think Tank
January 17, 2014
On January 17, the Arts Research Center brought together Bay Area leaders in the arts and culture and UC Berkeley arts, humanities, and social science professors to address social and economic ‘impact’ in different artistic models. This daylong think tank discussion kicked off a series of related but differentiated activities we are plotting this term to explore a variety of research and art practices that address social and economic questions in the arts.
January 1, 2014
Read ARC Director Shannon Jackson’s summary of the 2012-14 academic years, highlighting ARC’s many accomplishments (Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space, Impact in the Arts Think Tank, Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’, Bruce Beasley: The Rondo Series in Context, Nordic Time Zones: Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape, and Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum) and plans for the coming year. To download the full report, click
November 21, 2013
Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson
November 21, 2013
November 1, 2013
World-renowned filmmaker, artist, and critical theorist and ARC Affiliate Trịnh Thị Minh Hà (Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Rhetoric) will read from her new book D-Passage in San Francisco on November 14 and Berkeley on December 4. “D-Passage is a nuanced and original intervention in new media and digital arts.
October 25, 2013
In this list of terms, I’m particularly interested in dislocation. Unlike “art” and “place,” which I think of as solid nouns and things in the world, “dislocation” invokes the action of dislocating. I wonder about the obscured verb’s subject, object, and their relation. Is what I experience as urban flux, mobility and vibrancy always also the cause of dislocation for someone else? Can there be movement without displacement?
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