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SOMETHING is HAPPENING - Nov 24 '09 - VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 2:51pm. EventsSOMETHING is HAPPENING
November 24, 2009
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Fred Lonidier/E Navas/Alumni N Waisman and F Zúñiga/Undergraduate Alum C Ontiveros-TJ/SD: Cooperation & ...-Oct5-Nov25'09-Cali
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 12:57pm. Alumni_Event | Announcement | Events | Faculty Show
Fred Lonidier/PhD Candidate Eduardo Navas/MFA Alumni Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga/Undergraduate Alum Camilo Ontiveros
Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface
Exhibition runs Monday, October 5 through November 25, 2009
Calit2 Theater / Atkinson Hall, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093
The gallery@calit2 presents "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface" moderated by Eduardo Navas. The show brings together works by seven artists who draw upon the cultural landscape of the border region linking Tijuana and San Diego. While most of the artists are based in Tijuana, two of them - Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier - are UC San Diego faculty members. The works in "Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface" range from digital prints to interactive multimedia. José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón's interactive spatialized sound installation, 24 Speakers and 24 Sound Sources, deployed in the interior of the gallery@calit2, enacts the concept of the democratization of knowledge and 'reversed migration' in the use of technology. In the main hallway, Media Womb creates an interactive sound cocoon made of recycled egg cartons - visitors' movements inside the womb modulate sounds connected to the media's mis/representations of Tijuana and transborder drug cartels. Media Womb is a collaboration from the artists of the CUBO Project: Giacomo Castagnola, Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga, with programming by Marius Schebella. Other works on display include former UCSD School of Engineering dean Lea Rudee's photographs documenting the Tijuana River's path across the border, revealing its many roles as drainage creek, city water supply, border crossing obstacle, and preserved salt marsh. UCSD Visual Arts Professor Fred Lonidier's N.A.F.T.A. #15 "Rio Tijuana Bridge: A Tale of Two Globes or Two Tales of a Globe/Puente del Rio Tijuana: Un Cuento de Dos Mundos o Cuentos de Un Mundo" provides a representation of the problematics of "globalization" from the perspective of the organized efforts by workers to make gains in labor rights and conditions of employment.
Alex Rivera Speaks about his work and recent film, 'Sleep Dealer' - UCSD VAF Performance Space, Nov 20 '09, 1-3PM
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 8:24am. Events
Artist Alex Rivera will be speaking about his work and his recent film
Sleep Dealer
Panel discussion after his presentation with artist/film maker professor Cauleen Smith, UCSD Visual Arts Deparment, and associate professor Curtiz Marez, editor of American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association, and a new member of the UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies.
Friday, November 20th, 2009, 1-3PM
UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
“SLEEP DEALER,” is a film by Alex Rivera, set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor, and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology. The program also includes a selection of short films by director Alex Rivera that address border issues. [2008, Mexico/USA, 90 min.]
UCSD/MCASD Russell Lecture Featuring Matthew Ritchie - Nov 19 '09, 7PM - MCASD La Jolla
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 11:05am. Events
UCSD/MCASD Russell Lecture Featuring Matthew Ritchie
Thursday, November 19 , 7 PM
Members: Free / General: $7; Free to UCSD Students, Faculty, and Staff
MCASD La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla, CA 92037-4291
For many years, MCASD and the University of California, San Diego have partnered to bring contemporary artists to San Diego through the annual Russell Lecture program. The Russell Foundation was established in the will of Betty Russell, one of MCASD’s founding docents and a long-time supporter of UCSD. She specified that funds from the foundation should help “foster the appreciation and study of the modern visual arts and creativity of young artists” through support to the Museum and the University.
This year’s Russell Lecturer is renowned and influential artist Matthew Ritchie, who engages vast bodies of knowledge with a multiplicity of media and approaches. Cosmologies, myths of origin, the Big Bang, the role of dark matter, and other unknowable conditions extrapolated from trusted evidence are but a few of the sources that Ritchie explores through his multi-layered installations that include painting, drawing, sound, projected images, and sculptural environments. In addition to this public lecture, Ritchie will have a chance to meet and interact with students in UCSD’s Visual Arts Department, as part of the Russell Foundation program.
VALS Presents Mungo Thomson - Nov 17 '09, 6:30PM - VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:02am. Events | Student Project
Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:
Mungo Thomson
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 @ 6:30pm
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
VALS is pleased to present Mungo Thomson. In the words of artist Margaret Morgan, Mungo Thomson is a “polymorphous, bastard conceptualist”—a designation hard to improve on, given the artist’s promiscuously wideranging art. By turns deadpan and caustically sly—he has manufactured Styrofoam antenna balls emblazoned with John Baldessari’s bearded visage and bumper stickers bearing Bruce Nauman’s doxa “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths”—Thomson’s inherently conversational practice both gamely Pop-i_es is often antiaesthetic historical precedents and resituates that generation’s thought experiments in the social realm. In the white cube, Thomson’s interventions pressure their containers by rendering them visible in the absence of other work. Wind Chime (1999) a handmade chorus of wood and copper that responds to movement, _its the space with only the possibility of sound when the air is still. Building on this for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Coat Check Chimes (2008) involves replacing the Museum’s coat-check hangers with custom-fabricated “tuned” metal hangers that - although peripheral to the galleries—bracket the viewer’s experience of the show.
Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu
VALS Presents Abraham Cruz Villegas - Nov 3 '09, 6:30PM - VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 8:32am. Events | Student Project
Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:
Abraham Cruz Villegas
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 6:30pm
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
VALS is pleased to present Abraham Cruz Villegas.
For the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennial, Cruz Villegas wrote “However art makes itself evident, it shall remain, above all, raw source material in all its natural, unstable, physical, chaotic and crystalline states: solid, liquid, colloidal and gaseous. It is the joy of energy.” This would explain the use of materials in his work. Feathers, banana leaves, balloons and seashells are just a few of the materials used to make his conceptual sculptures. Cruz Villegas has an interesting attitude towards subject and materials. The sculptures are “there”, in the space. By virtue of them being “there”, they become relevant, interesting and worth a second look.
Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu
VALS Presents William Cordova - Oct 28 '09, 7PM - VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 9:49am. Events | Student Project
Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:
William Cordova
October 28th at 7PM
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
VALS is pleased to present William Cordova. Cordova’s work is tied to an urban ecology of obsolescence, disparity, and displacement. Busted cars, trashed tires, discarded shoes, machetes, speakers, and books yellowed with age provide the material support and iconographic program for his drawings, collages, and installations. For the artist, these material choices reference the reality of lived experience, as opposed to the spectacle of culture, mass-produced for constant consumption. The fluency with which Cordova traverses media and remixes cultural signifiers confirms his visual multilinguism, as barbed as it is lived-in.
“Cordova has been preoccupied with issues of transformation and interpretation since his youth, owing partly to his own transitions between countries, economies, and languages. Having recently moved from Lima to Miami, the six-year-old found comfort in the sight of what he thought were familiar Peruvian cajón drums scattered on the streets, but which were in fact discarded speaker boxes...Much of Cordova’s work induces similarly uncanny interpretive spirals, abetted not by arbitrary Surrealist juxtapositions but the all-too-common strangeness of our own detritus and the too-often repressed histories they conceal” - SUZANNE HUDSON
Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu
Univ Art Gallery Presents 'Off The Beaten Path' - Oct 23-Dec '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 10:24am. Announcement | Events
Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art
Exhibition runs October 23 through December 12, 2009
University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Artists Talk: Violence and Politics
November 21, 2009, 1pm
Pepper Canyon Hall, room 106
For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery, UC San Diego presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. The exhibition brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty-one artists from nineteen countries. “Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb,” explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg. “The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us.” Premised on the visionary potential in art, the exhibition avoids tabloid and sensational imagery. The invited artists were asked, “To help us create new representations through their artworks and, in doing so, help us feel and understand the essence of the problem of violence against women,” says Rosenberg.
Artists: Amnesty International, Laylah Ali, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Mona Hatoum, Icelandic Love Corporation, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung Jungyeob, Amal Kenawy, Lisa Bjørne Linert, Hung Liu, Gabriela Morawetz, Miri Nishri, Yoko Ono, Cecilia Paredes, Susan Plum, Cima Rahmankhah, Joyce J. Scott, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Masami Teroka, Hank Willis Thomas
For more information please visit the University Art Gallery website at: http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/2009/09_offthebeatenpath.shtml#
Contact: Isabelle Lutterodt, UAG Coordinator | 858.534.0419 | uag@ucsd.edu
VALS Presents Mike Plante's ''Lunchfilms'' on Oct 20 at 6:30pm - UCSD VAF Performance Space
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 9:38am. Announcement | Events | Student ProjectVisual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:
Mike Plante
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 @ 6:30pm
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
VALS is pleased to present Mike Plante a Filmmaker and film programmer for Sundance and CineVegas, and writer for Filmmaker Magazine and Cinemad. Plante is the first artist of a really great line up of visiting artist's this Fall at UC San Diego Visual Arts Department. Plante will be showing ''Lunchfilms,'' a series he commissioned from filmmakers.
For more information on Lunchfilm, please visit:
http://lunchfilm.blogspot.com/
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu
Inside and Outside The French Eighteenth Century Conference on Saturday at Pepper Canyon Rm 109 - 10am-5pm - UC San Diego VisArt
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 05/26/2009 - 1:32pm. Events | PHD_Project | Lecture
Visual Arts Department presents
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