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Super Futures Haunt Qollective

Artist Collective
Super Futures Haunt Qollective gave a Performance and Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on March 18, 2025.

Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) is an art and research based collaboration between three avatars.

In their terrestrial forms, SFHQ members F. Sam Jung (MCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a sky person and urban planner in New York. C. Ree (MFA University of California, Irvine) is an artist and film programmer based in San Diego, California. Angie Morrill (Klamath Tribes...

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)...

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 (...

Laura Belik

Ph.D. Student at UC Berkeley in Architecture

Laura Belik is a doctoral candidate in architecture at UC Berkeley. She holds an MA in design studies from Parsons- The New School (New York) and a BArch in architecture and urban planning from Escola da Cidade (São Paulo- Brazil). Her current doctoral work delves into the histories and memories of early 20th-century migrant labor camps established for retirantes das secas(drought refugees) in Northeast Brazil, investigating the role of the built environment in shaping the modern Brazilian state. Laura has curated and co-curated exhibitions in Brazil and the U.S...

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...

Charles Altieri

Fellow and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley
Charles Altieri is a primary co-founder of the Arts Research Center and was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011– he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Charles Altieri has been primarily interested in the varieties of Twentieth Century American poetry, especially in relation to philosophy and to the visual arts. He also recently wrote a book on the affects and that shapes his thinking on most topics. But he is in transition. Altieri has been teaching Shakespeare and Hegel and will teach the epic because he wants a grand stage on which to figure out what he can...

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!

Art of Cultural Criticism Lecture Series Fall 2016

The Art of Cultural Criticism Fall 2016 Lecture Series

The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing are pleased to present The Art of Cultural Criticism. This yearlong series of conversations features some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms—including visual art, film, old...

Translation as Research

February 13, 2018
Translation as Research with Ahmad Diab, Anneka Lenssen, and Kathy Zarur Tuesday, February 13 at 6:00 pm
126 Dwinelle Annex, UC Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

To celebrate the upcoming publication of the anthology Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2018), co-editor Anneka Lenssen (Assistant Professor, Global Modern Art, UC Berkeley) joins Ahmad Diab(Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature, UC...

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...