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 groundbreaking and historically significant exhibition...
Photography, Video, Writing, and Installation Artist Duo
Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) work with photography, video, writing, and installation to examine our changing notions of nature, culture, and ecology. Their work is often place-based and focused on historical research. They were jointly awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.
Their work has been exhibited broadly in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Belvedere Museum, the Museum of Capitalism and the Southeast Center for...
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!
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...
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...
Note: Symposium participants are welcome to attend the Museum’s L@TE event, though a paid admission is required.
Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice is co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and UC-...
The Aerial View in Motion with Bull.Miletic Monday, December 4, at 6:30pmat BAMPFAArtist Talk with Art + Science Artists-in-Residence Bull.Miletic as part of Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA
The Arts Research Center 2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick LoweNovember 17-November 24, 2014
The Arts Research Center is delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist, community organizer, and 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Rick Lowe.
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial with Rick Lowe Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium November 17, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA
