Past Events

Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder

April 16, 2020
Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder with Cannupa Hanska Luger Thursday, April 16, 2020 | 12:00-2:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Ethnic Studies Department, the Native American Studies Program, and Berkeley Arts + Design

This event was part of the Arts + Design Thursdays series.

Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures

March 5, 2020
Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures with Tourmaline + Chris Vargas In conversation with Eric Stanley Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 5:30-7:00pm
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture

February 27, 2020
Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
With Horace Ballard In conversation with Justin Underhill Thursday, February 27 | 5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A | Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Berkeley Center for New Media

A photograph is many things. It is a relationship, an index, a text, a betrayal. It is a contract. It is a sustainable fragility. It is a political act of community-making. It is a matrix of entangled signs and...

Day With(out) Art

December 3, 2019
STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art Visual AIDS Screening Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Screening starts at 7:15pm
Nahl Hall | California College of the Arts, Oakland campus

Watch the videos here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the California College of the Arts

Launch of “Amateurism”

November 12, 2019
Launch of “Amateurism” | Third Text Special Issue With remarks by Abigail De Kosnik and Anneka Lenssen Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Beta Lounge (rsvp to lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu)

Curating Dirty Looks

April 25, 2019
“Curating Dirty Looks and Presenting the Queer Cinematic Avant-Garde” curator talk and screening by Bradford Nordeen Thursday, April 25, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142/Nestrick Room, UC Berkeley

Listen here!

Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!

Feminist Curatorial Practices

April 11, 2018
Feminist Curatorial Practices: A roundtable convening Wednesday, April 11 at 5:30pm
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state of feminism, and one...

Berkeley/Stanford Symposium

April 7, 2018
Berkeley/Stanford Symposium A Line in the Sand: Art, Ecology, & Precarity Saturday, April 7 from 10am-5pm
White Box Gallery, 4th Floor, SFMOMA, San Francisco

Join the Arts Research Center and Apsara DiQuinzio, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis Matrix Curator at BAMPFA for a roundtable conversation about Feminist Curatorial Practices. The evening will consist of participants responding to one image that they consider to be urgent and relevant to the current state...

Amateurism Across the Arts

March 9, 2018
Amateurism Across the Arts Conference Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30am-6:15pm Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Amateurism Across the Arts is an exploration of vernacular, popular, fannish, kitsch, informal, self-taught, user-generated, and DIY production in music, architecture, literature, the visual arts, dance, and new media– especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered notions of value. How do the implicitly skilled “arts” rupture and reorganize themselves around hierarchies of taste? And how can critical...