Curatorial

Conference – The Archive and Its Forms in the Americas

January 23, 2025
El archivo y sus formas en las Américas 23 y 24 de enero, 2025 Locacion: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center

La conferencia será en español, ingles, y portugues. No habrá traducción.
The conference will be in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will not be interpretation.

Copatrocinadores

Organizado por Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley) y Adriana Amante (...

Jess Dorrance

ARC Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Jess Dorrance was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Jess Dorrance is a writer, curator, activist, and and doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She writes about the intersections between art, performance, and queer, feminist, and anti-racist politics. She holds an MA in Art History (2014) from McGill University (thesis on queer visibility, representation, and trauma), and has been working with the Institute for Queer Theory since 2008.

While living in Berlin (2008-2012) Jess has...

ARC Salon: Conversation and Performance with Myra Melford

January 30, 2015
ARC Salon Series presents Myra Melford Performance and Conversation January 30, 2015 6pm: Cocktails, Food, and Meet & Greet 7pm: Performance from Life Carries Me This Way 8pm: Salon conversation with Myra Melford and T. Carlis Roberts

Questioning Aesthetics Symposium

March 13, 2015
Questioning Aesthetics Symposium March 13, 2015 9:30am-5:30pm
308A Doe Library
History of Art Department, UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public

Watch Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here!

Curation as Research

September 19, 2017
Curation as Research: Contemporary Art in Central America Miguel A. López and Emiliano Valdés
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art) Tuesday, September 19 at 5:30 pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities (map)

Watch the recording...

Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’

February 20, 2014
Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’ February 20 and 21, 2014

In February 2014, and hosted to coincide with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s spring exhibition, “The Possible,” this gathering brought together artists, curators, and scholars from a variety of art fields and regions of the world to think about the connections between and boundaries separating “art” and “life.” While past gatherings focused on particular regions of the world, Living Time worked “across time zones.” It considered how we have come to terms with the promise of and the...

Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

March 15, 2013
Spiraling Time Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts March 15 and 16, 2013

Watch Leda Martins's talk here!

Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!

On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial...

Creative Time Live Stream

Creative Time Live Stream

In October of 2012 and 2013, the Arts Research Center and the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts partnered with Creative Time to host a live-streaming of their annual Creative Time Summit. The live-streaming event provided a collective viewing experience for Bay Area artists, curators, scholars, and activists who are concerned with arts and social change. In addition to seeing the talks and panels from New York, participants had access to local responses and face-to-face small-group discussions.

In 2012, the focus...

Location/Translation: Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global

September 19, 2012
Location/Translation Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global September 19, 2012

Watch the recording here!

Timed to coincide with SFMOMA’s transnational exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” a panel of curators, artists, and scholars discussed how regional circumstances affect curatorial practice in international art contexts–and how “global” conversations can redefine what we think of as “local” production. The roster included curators from local...

Creative Time Summit: Stockholm Rebroadcast

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