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Permanent Transition
Saturday April 10, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, UC San Diego Visual Arts Facility Seminar Room #366
Permanent Transition, the third annual UC San Diego Visual Arts PhD Symposium, will be held on April 10, to coincide with Open Studios. "Art," as an idea, a product, and a condition, is increasingly defined through properties of oscillation - movement, fluidity, transition, and circulation. The art world, particularly during the last few decades, had generated new and proximate forms of creation and discourse, which have arguably emerged from the ideas and relations of past modernities. Unfixed boundaries between exhibition and collection, mobile collections and evolving archives, these are the marks of art in "permanent transition." This conference seeks to further explore and question concepts of stability, permanence and dominance in contemporary art.
Schedule of Events:
9:30 am Registration and Breakfast
10:00 am - Panel 1: Flux
"Social Work: Politics, Police and the Legalistic in Art"
Matthew Rana, California College of the Arts
Eric Morrill, University of California, Irvine
11:15 am Coffee Break
11:30 am - Panel 2: Reception
"The Generous Object: The Relational and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Art"
Elyse Mallouk, California College of the Arts
"The Unstable Treasure of Contemporary African Art"
Rochelle LeGrandsawyer, University of California, Los Angeles
1:00 pm Lunch (provided by the conference)
2:00 pm Panel 3: Postcolonial Modernities
"Modernism and Decolonization: Abdallah Laroui and Post-Colonial Morocco"
Holiday Powers, Cornell University
"Questioning the Current Biennial Model"
Courtney Thompson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"Dialectical Image or Polaroid Effect?"
Andrew Weiner, University of California, Berkeley
3:45 pm Keynote Address: Okwui Enwezor
5:00 pm Closing and Reception
Permanent Transition is organized by the PhD Department in Art History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego and generously supported by the UCSD Humanities Center and the Graduate Student Association.
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