Making Time: Video, Afterwords, and Images

April 19, 2012
In April 2012, the Arts Research Center presented Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen, and Stage, a three-day symposium that featured keynotes by curators Sabine Breitwieser (MOMA) and Jens Hoffmann (CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art) and choreographer Ralph Lemon, and conversations with the artists Daniel Joseph Martinez and Allan de Souza. Many other distinguished artists, curators, and scholars spoke on Performance and the Art World; Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on Stages, and in Galleries; Dancing in the Museum; and Curators Re-skilling/Critics Re-thinking.  Thanks to generous support for documentation from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, all sessions of Making Time are now available to be viewed online.  ARC is pleased to share this valuable resource, which we hope will support continued research and reflection on time-based and hybrid art practices and the infrastructures that support them.

Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen, and Stage

“Such an engaging conference”… “A really rich event”…“Thank you for inviting me to be part of your extraordinary ‘Making Time’ symposium. It was a real pleasure to hear from all those brilliant thinkers….”

These are the just some of the gratifying comments we received following the “Making Time” symposium. From zombies to Huckleberry Finn….from dancing with architecture to collecting live performances….a dizzying array of topics were covered over three days in April.  Several hundred audience members gathered at the Berkeley Art Museum to hear keynotes by curators Sabine Breitwieser (MOMA) and Jens Hoffmann (CCA) and choreographer Ralph Lemon, as well as conversations with artists Daniel Joseph Martinez and Allan de Souza,and panels of artists, curators, and scholars from across the country discussing “Performance and the Art World,” “Screening Time,” “Dancing in the Museum,” and “Curators Re-Skilling/Critics Re-Thinking.”  The category of “time-based art” was explored, expanded, and challenged from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives.  Photos from all three days can be seen on the ARC Facebook page.
A collage of various scenes from a conference, including panel discussions, individual speakers at podiums, an audience in an auditorium, and a crowd gathering in an open area.