SCREENING OF STRANGE CULTURE at CAA 2008 in Dallas, the film about the Critical Art Ensemble court case.
Feb.21-23 2008 12:30-2:30.
Strange Culture is directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. With Thomas Jay Ryan, Tilda Swinton, Peter Coyote and Steve Kurtz.
Info on the film here.
Info about the CAE court case here.
Info about Critical Art Ensemble here.
The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife, Hope, died in her sleep of heart failure. Medics arrived, became suspicious of Kurtz's art, and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected "bioterrorist", as dozens of agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, cat, and even his wife's body. Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, former Chair of the Genetics Department at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, await a trial date.
CAA 2009 PANEL
Migratory Aesthetics and Migration Struggles
Kirsten Forkert and
Karen Kurczynski, co-chairs
This panel addresses the art, activism, and theory of migration,
focusing on U.S. immigration within a global theoretical framework.
How do aesthetics and visual representations influence our perceptions
and response to migration struggles, or vice versa? How do formal
strategies such as cutting and distortion called "migratory
aesthetics" (Mieke Bal), illuminate the complexities of a lived
experience of migration? How does the institutionalization of these
tactics mediate their political effectiveness? We seek papers that
discuss tactical approaches and theoretical implications together.
Papers might address the militarization of the US/Mexico border; the
role of anti-immigration groups, immigration rights protests;
connections between immigration rights and anti-racist activism, the
role of organizations attempting to create cross-border networks; the
impact of specific artworks, artists, and collectives dealing with
these issues; or other recent legislative or activist developments.
Radical Art Caucus Sessions for the College Art Association Annual Conference, Boston MA, February 2006:
Session 1
ART HISTORY AS A CLASS ACT:
Session Chair: Blake Stimson,
University of California Davis
Department of Art History
Session 2
TEACHING ART WITH A SOCIALLY ENGAGED PERSPECTIVE:
Session Chair: Beverly Naidus,
Univesity of Washington,
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department
SUPPORT WAFAA BILAL
His work is being censored at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
For more info on the situation, links and suggestions on how to take action, see here.
SCREENING OF STRANGE CULTURE at CAA 2008, the film about the CAE court case.
Friday, Feb.21 2008 12:30-2:30.
More information here.
CAA 2009 session: Migration Struggles and Migratory Aesthetics. More information here.
New text by Gene Ray
see Reading Room.
As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st century is now available at this link.
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