Past Events

Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson

November 21, 2013
Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson November 21, 2013

For the last three years, ARC has explored a variety of time-based art practices from different disciplinary and regional perspectives. We have considered time-based practice in relation to the formal legacies of visual, performance, and cinematic forms. We have focused on places where experimental artists and curators learn from and revise each other, as well as the blindspots that still exist amongst contemporary circles of sculptural, choreographic, theatrical, musical, photographic,...

Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies

May 5, 2014
Reimagining Progress: Production, Consumption and Alternative Economies May 5, 2014 David Brower Center We are living as if we have an extra planet at our disposal.

–Jim Leape, Director General, World Wildlife Fund International

We face an urgent problem: our current consumption patterns outstrip our planet’s available resources, and yet our society continues to produce massive amounts of cheap, disposable goods. With its complex history as a center of international commerce, radical politics, technological innovation, and cultural experimentation, the Bay...

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...

Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice

November 21, 2014
Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice

Open to the public, RSVP requested

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

December 4, 2017
The Aerial View in Motion with Bull.Miletic Monday, December 4, at 6:30pm at BAMPFA Artist Talk with Art + Science Artists-in-Residence Bull.Miletic
as part of Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Watch the recording here!

Claire Hong Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

March 2, 2023
Claire Hong Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

Fall 2021 Flash Reading Series

Poetry & the Senses Flash Reading Series Fall 2021 Weekly Releases

In spring 2021, ARC piloted a new Flash Reading Series featuring two dozen Bay Area community poets. We are thrilled to continue this series this fall, adding a dozen more Bay Area poets to our growing archive, with more to be added in spring. In addition to larger monthly readings (here) this series extends the number of voices we want to hear from, and carry with us, in these...

Poetry & the Senses Spring 2021 Fellows Reading

May 10, 2021
Poetry & the Senses Spring 2021 Fellows Reading Monday, May 10th 2021 4:30-6:00pm PDT

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The Arts Research Center celebrated the 2021 Spring Poetry Fellows with a reading featuring: reelaviolette botts-ward, Vethea Cole, Elizabeth Feng, Sara Mumolo, Ramona Naddaff, Ken Ueno, Noah Warren, and Maw Shein Win. This event was a part of ARC’s Poetry and the Senses initiative generously sponsored by Engaging the Senses Foundation.

Flash Reading Series

In spring 2021, ARC piloted a new Flash Reading Series featuring two dozen Bay Area poets. reading one of their poems in relation to the theme “emerge/ncy”. In addition to ARC’s larger monthly readings, this series extended the number of voices we wanted to hear from, and carry with us, in these changing times – from emerging to established poets. Ongoing, we will add new Bay Area poets each April during National Poetry Month.

Over time, the series has turned into a growing online archive of Bay Area poets. These 52 short recorded readings are...

Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading

December 9, 2020
Poetry & the Senses Fellows’ Reading Wednesday December 9, 2020 5:00-6:30 PST

Watch the recording here!