Performance

Conjoined Histories Symposium

March 9, 2011
Conjoined Histories Symposium March 9, 2011

An extraordinary group of scholars and artists at a symposium that responded to the themes and histories addressed in Philip Kan Gotanda’s new play, "I Dream of Chang and Eng".

Featuring: Eric Hayot, Sam Otter, Amma Ghartey-Targoe, Shannon Steen, director Peter Glazer, and Philip Kan Gotanda

Caring for Our Ancestors: Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing

April 30, 2025
Caring for Our Ancestors:
Weaving ~ Listening ~ Writing Co-organized by Dr. Tanya Lukin Linklater & Dr. Beth Piatote April 28 - May 2, 2025
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

This gathering is part of a five-year project titled “Xóxelhmetset te Syewá:l | Caring for Our Ancestors: Reconnecting Indigenous Songs with Community and Kin” led by co-investigators Dr. Dylan Robinson (University of British Columbia)...

Drew Woodson, Playwright-in-Residence

April 14, 2025
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Drew Woodson Playwright-in-Residence April 14 – 18, 2025 Location/map to the Arts Research Center here

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, in partnership with Alternative Theater Ensemble, and with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities, the Department of...

Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation

February 24, 2015
Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation Moderated 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

Watch the recording here!

Movement as Research

October 18, 2017
Movement as Research: Undoing Bodies Moved by Language Artist Talk with Will Rawls
Response by Tonika Sealy-Thompson (Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies) Wednesday, October 18 at 5:30 pm
308A Doe Library (map)

Watch the recording here!

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...

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...