Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Drew WoodsonPlaywright-in-ResidenceApril 14 – 18, 2024
Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, in partnership with Alternative Theater Ensemble, and with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, the Native American Studies Program, the Puffin Foundation, and the California Arts Council...
Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversationModerated by ARC Director and Professor Shannon Jackson Tuesday, February 24, 2015 Alumni House, UC Berkeley 4:30-5:00 Light Reception 5:00-6:30 Public Dialogue and Q&A
Temporal ShiftsTime Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices Friday, Feb 1, 2013 | 3:00 pm Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Free and open to the public.
Temporal Shifts, in February 2013, was organized in conjunction with a residency at the Arts Research Center by renowned Taiwanese playwright/director/filmmaker Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-Chuan), who was on campus for two weeks as an Avenali Resident Fellow in January and February of this same year. This daylong symposium brought together scholars such...
The Creative Time Summit Re-Broadcast Friday, November 14: California College of the Arts Monday, November 17: UC Berkeley Co-hosted with CCA Graduate Fine Arts Department and ART SCHOOL X
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, March 15th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall Watch the recording here!(link is external)
Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory
Dario Robleto is an artist, researcher, writer, and...
Marianne Weems is the 2007-2008 ARC Artist-in-Residence.
Marianne Weems is a theater and opera director and founder of the award-winning New York-based theater company The Builders Association, an influential ensemble that has created a significant body of work at the forefront of integrating media with live performance. With the company, she has created and directed 17 original large-scale productions and worked with unexpected collaborators including the architects Diller + Scofidio, The National Center for Super Computing Applications, and the South Asian arts...
Reggie Wilson was the 2005-2006 ARC Artist-in-Residence.
Reggie Wilson (Executive and Artistic Director, Choreographer, Performer) founded Fist & Heel Performance Group, in 1989. Wilson draws from the cultures of Africans in the Americas and combines them with post-modern elements and his own personal movement style to create what he often calls “post-African/Neo-HooDoo Modern dances.”
His work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Live Arts, and Summerstage (NYC), Jacob's Pillow Dance...
Fred Wilson was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence.
Fred Wilson is renowned for his interdisciplinary practice that challenges assumptions of history, culture, race, and conventions of display. By reframing objects and cultural symbols, he alters traditional interpretations, encouraging viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives.
Wilson’s early work was directed at marginalized histories, exploring how models of categorization, collecting, and display exemplify fraught ideologies and power relations inscribed into the fabric of institutions. His...
Henry Threadgill was the 2002-2003 ARC Artist-in-Residence.
Since the 1960s, Henry Threadgill has been on the leading edge of avant-garde jazz with his original compositions. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016, one of only three jazz artists to win the prestigious award.
Threadgill grew up on the South Side of Chicago and first played percussion, then clarinet in the Englewood High School band before switching to saxophone at age 15. At 19, he joined Muhal Richard(link is external)...
