Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Claire Fontaine

Conceptual Artist

Claire Fontaine is a collective feminist conceptual artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Since 2017 she lives and works in Palermo. Her name is inspired by Duchamp’s iconic ready-made, the urinal entitled Fontaine, and a famous brand of French notebooks (Clairefontaine); it defines a space where the biographies of the artist is not directly connected to their artworks allowing their research to become a space of freedom and desubjectivisation. The use of appropriation and hijacking in her work stems from the same intention: not...

Lori Fogarty

Director & CEO of the Oakland Museum of California

Lori Fogarty is the Director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California, a multidisciplinary museum that brings together collections of art, history and natural sciences to tell the extraordinary stories of California and its people. Since 2006, Lori has worked to oversee and guide all Museum programmatic and administrative operations and has transitioned OMCA from a public/private cultural institution supported by the City of Oakland and the Oakland Museum of California Foundation to an independent non-profit organization with an innovative new organizational structure....

Robert Fink

Professor of Musicology and Humanities at UCLA

Robert Fink is Professor of Musicology and Chair of Music Industry Programs at UCLA, and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Alpert School of Music. Trained as a music theorist and musicologist, his primary areas of interest include musical analysis, avant-garde and minimal music, popular music studies, timbre and rhythm in music, and the history of electronic dance music. He has published widely on contemporary and popular music in academic journals, and is the author of Repeating Ourselves, a 2005 study of American minimal...

Courtney Fink

Former Executive Director of Southern Exposure, Organizer, Arts Advocate, Curator, Writer
Courtney Fink (she/her) works in the expanded field of nonprofit leadership as a steadfast champion of visual artists and the organizations that center and support them. Her hybrid practice merges creative process with strategic implementation and is informed by responsive open source frameworks as models for exchange, connection, collaboration, and shared experience. Fink’s mission is to establish equitable access to ideas and projects in which artists and experimental platforms are positioned to manifest social change.

For 30 years Courtney has employed a...

Lars Mørch Finborud

Art Historian, Former Curator at Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Record Label Owner

Lars Mørch Finborud (1980, Oslo) is an art historian and worked as a curator at Henie-Onstad Art Centre from 2008-2018. Finborud runs the record labels Plastic Strip Press and O. Gudmundsen Minde, which specialize in releasing archive releases side by side with new recordings within the genres noise, jazz, electronic music, soul and hip-...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poet, Painter, Social Activist, Co-Founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers

Poet, playwright, publisher, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His father, an Italian immigrant, had shortened the family name upon arrival in America. When Ferlinghetti discovered the lengthier name as an adult, he took it as his own. He had a tumultuous youth, parts of which were spent in France, an orphanage in Chappaqua, New York, and in the mansion of the wealthy Bisland family in Bronxville, New York. He attended Riverdale Country Day School, Mount Hermon, a preparatory academy in...

Reading by Deborah Miranda

January 29, 2024
Reading by Deborah Miranda in conversation with Estelle Tarica Monday, January 29, 2024 2:00 – 3:15pm Maude Fife Room 315, Wheeler Hall

The Arts Research Center welcomes writer Deborah Miranda to Berkeley for a reading and conversation, free and open to the public. Her reading will be followed by a short conversation with Estelle Tarica, Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and Chair of the Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.

Deborah A. Miranda...

Sue-Ellen Case

Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at UCLA

Professor Sue-Ellen Case, a past editor of Theatre Journal, has published widely in the fields of German theater, feminism and theater, performance theory and lesbian critical theory. She has published more than 40 articles in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Differences and Theatre Research International, as well as in many anthologies of critical works.

Her books include Feminism and Theatre (1994; revised 2008 and translated into Korean, Turkish and Arabic), The Domain-Matrix: Performing...

Jeffrey Gibson 1st Indigenous Artist to Represent US at Venice Biennale

January 1, 2024
Laurie Macfee

Artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2024, the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S Pavilion at the international art event, with an exhibit titled "the space in which to place me."

"The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event....

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/29/1190952604/jeffrey-gibson-indigenous-artist-venic…

Víctor Albarracín Llanos

Writer, Curator, Visual Artist

Víctor Albarracín Llanos is a writer, curator and visual artist, with an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. He is currently Artistic Director of Lugar A Dudas. He advanced film and television studies that he has never put into practice. To survive he has been a bookseller (Exopotamia, in Bogotá), an artist without work, a university teacher (Tadeo, Javeriana, Nacional, Distrital, in Bogotá), a bad singer in rock bands (Cerón, Chikas Aguila, Los Polvos, Don/Nadie), columnist (Arcadia), translator, proofreader and designer. In order not to...