Past Events

Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

This past April, ARC presented Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum. This event hosted eight artist-led workshops in the UC Berkeley Museum of Art that developed exercises, prompts, or actions to engage questions of art, labor, and economics; the program also included a series of commissioned writings by critics and researchers whose work focuses on artistic labor and cultural economies in a special two-part issue of Art Practical, a leading Bay Area online platform. Both the publication and practicum asked: What kinds of tactics allow...

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...

Temporal Shifts: Time Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices

February 1, 2013
Temporal Shifts Time 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...

Studio Time: Process/Production

October 25, 2012
Studio Time: Process/Production with Glenn Adamson October 25, 2012

Watch the recording here!

Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, visited campus in October 2012 and gave a talk titled “Goodbye to Craft.” Adamson is the author of Thinking through Craft, editor of The Craft Reader, co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, and one of the leading thinkers on the concept of craft in our contemporary world. The packed auditorium also listened to...

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

Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space

Reimagining the Urban Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space September 30, 2013

Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.

Mediations & Collaborations with Susan Meiselas

September 10, 2018
Mediations & Collaborations: A Conversation with Susan Meiselas Monday, September 10, 2018
12:00-1:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Listen to the recording here!

Read the news post here!