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"The Wonder Parlor," A Collaboration between Clare Parry and Julia Westerbeke at The New Children's Museum

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:59:13 -0800

December 5th, 2008-January 16th, 2009 Opening Reception: Friday December 5th, 5pm-8:30pm Artists Clare Parry and Julia Westerbeke have teamed up to create “The Wonder Parlor,” an interactive installation in the Teen Studio of The New Children’s Museum. A seemingly ordinary collection of thrift-store furniture has become the site of sprawling black-and-white collages that pour out of cabinets and hide inside drawers. A flock of birds soar out of an antique side table. A collection of bats absconds under a tattered chair near sumptuous drips of jewelry and coiling snakes. Fantastical and absurd creatures abound, among them human-animal hybrids and light bulbs with legs. Throughout this installation, the visual puns of surrealism are given a contemporary spin with collages that mind the gap between the strange and the beautiful.

Documentary Films and Discussion

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:30:51 -0700

C I N E M A N I A A N T H R O P O I D E A presents A Series of Documentary Films and Discussion BABOON TALES (1998) Thursday, 10 April, 7 – 9 pm, Center Hall 216 Baboon Tales is the story from birth through the first year of life in the almost decade-long journey to baboon adulthood. Olive baboons are intensely social animals, weaving a shifting web of relationships with family, friends, and enemies. Based on the real life experiences of five infants, the film follows these characters through their triumphs and tragedies amidst East Africa’s worst drought in over a decade. Narrated by Glenn Close, this film is based on the long-term research of UCSD Primatologist Shirley Strum, who will be present to discuss the documentary. This evening's event also includes the screening of a 6-minute experimental two-track video installation based on documentary footage of olive baboon sexual negotiations and a human enactment of the same materials filmed in black-and-white film noir style, a project by Rachel Mayeri (Media Studies Professor at Harvey Mudd College) and Deborah Forster (Primatologist and Doctoral Candidate in Cognitive Science at UCSD).

J Paul Getty Museum | Graciela Iturbide, "The Goat's Dance"

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:54:32 -0800

This exhibition loosely surveys more than 30 years of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide's international career by highlighting major series produced in Mexico and the United States. The breadth and depth of the selection has been made possible through the generosity of the artist, who opened her personal archive, and the magnanimity of Brentwood collectors Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser. They have followed Iturbide's work for more than 10 years and assembled a wide-ranging collection of her images, including many of the pictures created in the remote southern Mexican city of Juchitán, Oaxaca during the 1980s. Reflecting the extensive and discriminating Greenberg-Steinhauser collection, this important series, central to Iturbide's body of work, is a primary component of this exhibition. Link: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/iturbide

THINKING GENDER 2008

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:32:05 -0700

Call for Papers UCLA Center for the Study of Women in conjunction with USC Center for Feminist Research announce THINKING GENDER 2008 18th Annual Graduate Student Research Conference Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality, and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels. We especially welcome feminist research on women of color, the pre-modern, queerness, and the sciences. For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 words), a CV (2 pages maximum), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions.

Clockshop | Table Talk | Trevor Paglen

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:33:50 -0700

Table Talk #1 "The Heavens Above" with Trevor Paglen Friday October 26th, 8 pm Clearwater Studios, 2806 Clearwater Street, LA, CA 9003 http://www.clockshop.org/tabletalk.php Table talk is a semi-regular program involving food and conversation with cultural practioners—artists, writers, and civic leaders—who present projects, research, and ideas both finished and in incubation. Table Talk is hosted by Clockshop, a non-profit organization in Los Angeles. RSVP here: http://www.clockshop.org/tabletalk.php A $15 donation is suggested Trevor Paglen will present work from his most current project, "The Heavens Above", a series of meditations on the night sky, the sublime, classical empiricism, and democracy. Paglen explores these questions through narratives, photographs, and observations of 187 American reconnaissance satellites that he has been tracking using observational data from a global network of amateur "satellite observers." For this Table Talk event, Paglen will tell the story of AFP-731, a "stealth" satellite deployed from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1990.

COLA 07 Individual Artist Fellowhsips Exhibition

Fri, 04 May 2007 10:38:35 -0700

Cuba Today | Carlos A. Aguilera

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:26:31 -0800

Cuba Today | Diaspora and Literature
When: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:00PM
Where: Performance Space | UCSD Visual Arts Facility | Sixth College (on Russell Lane, next to Pepper Canyon Hall)

Poet, prose stylist, and cultural critic Carlos A. Aguilera (Havana, Cuba, 1970) will visit UCSD, engaging in conversation and offering a reading of his work, as sponsored by CILAS, Communication and Visual Arts.

The alternative magazine of culture and the arts that Carlos Alberto Aguilera co-edited in Havana from 1997 to 2002, Diáspora(s), was during its lifespan the premier space for critical debate and alternative culture until it was officially discontinued by the state cultural administrators. This led to Aguilera's departure from Cuba under the auspices of the international Pen Club. The writer lives his exile in Dresden, Germany, and has been denied re-entry into his native country. He has forged intensive dialogue and exchanges with writers from the former Soviet Bloc, particularly from the German Democratic Republic. Influenced by the works of philosopher Hannah Arendt, Aguilera's writings reflect on life under totalitarianism, not only in Cuba but in a re-created China (home to his maternal ancestors). Aguilera is also part of a growing intellectual public sphere outside of Cuba that has fashioned new critical forms of engagement and diasporic citizenship. Even as artists and writers envision a democratic process for the country, this generation of young Cuban intellectuals consider themselves to be on the left of the political spectrum, and they reject the totalitarian aims of any government, regardless of its ideology.

El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Binational Arts and Culture District Design Competition

Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:56:06 -0800

Sergio S. Guerrero Jr. of the Creative Cities Leadership Project has submitted the following guidelines for the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Binational Arts and Culture District Design Competition. Further information will soon be available at www (dot) newtexico (dot) org.

10.20-21.06 | CalArts | REDCAT | Impunities: Experimental Writing Conference

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:14:07 -0700

10.09.06 | California Cultures in Comparative Perspective | Screening | Aishah Shahidah Simmons

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:08:59 -0700

Shantytowns as a New Suburban Ideal and Teddy Cruz - New York Times

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:40:21 -0800

Shantytowns as a New Suburban Ideal

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By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: March 12, 2006

TIJUANA, Mexico — Teddy Cruz has been shuttling between suburban San Diego and the shantytowns of Tijuana for more than a decade now. From anthropologists to urban planners eager for an insider's view, visitors pepper him endlessly with requests for tours.

"It's become part of my weekly routine," said Mr. Cruz, a 43-year-old architect, as we raced along a fenced freeway toward the Mexican border. "Most people here haven't even seen the border wall. I want to show people that it's not so ugly."