Guest Speakers Archive
Critical Conversations features talks by visiting artists, curators, theorists, art historians, writers, organizers, activists, architects and other types of cultural producers, who engage in critical, open, rigorous conversations with the graduate students, and other attending members of the public. Notions/realities of public space, and the cultural politics of the public sphere, are explored from various disciplinary and ideological perspectives, so that the classroom becomes a potential locus of authentic public domain experience: a place wherein multiple discursive positions are brought into contact, even into moments of productive friction, and new knowledge is generated.
Download the Spring 2011 Critical Conversations poster.Guest Speakers: 2007–2011
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Doug Aitken Edgar Arceneaux Ute Meta Bauer Sabine Breitwieser Teddy Cruz Steve Dietz Mark Dion Sam Durant Andrea Fraser Rudolf Frieling |
Thelma Golden Hou Hanru Jens Hoffmann Alfredo Jaar Paul Ramírez Jonas Grant Kester Norman Klein Michael Krichman Miwon Kwon Rick Lowe |
Daniel Joseph Martinez Allan McCollum Kyong Park Anne Pasternak Marko Peljhan Patricia Phillips Marjetica Potrč Allan Sekula Gregory Sholette Rochelle Steiner |
Gloria Sutton Nato Thompson Rirkrit Tiravanija Anton Vidokle Beatrice von Bismarck Krzysztof Wodiczko Peter Zellner Tirdad Zolghadr |
Critical Conversations
Kyong Park: Feb. 1, 2011
Kyong Park is an associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego
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Sam Durant: Jan. 25, 2011
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues.
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Marko Peljhan: Jan. 18, 2011
A native of Slovenia and a theatre and radio director by profession...
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Edgar Arceneaux: Jan. 11, 2011
Edgar Arceneaux is a Los Angeles-based artist, and Director of the Watts House Project.
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Gregg Bordowitz: Jan. 19, 2010
Gregg Bordowitz (Born August 14, 1964, Brooklyn, N.Y.) is a writer, film and video maker, and teacher.
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Dan Cameron Lecture: Feb. 2, 2010
Dan Cameron is Founder and Artistic Director of U.S. Biennial, Inc, a not-for-profit organization.
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John Welchman: Feb. 9, 2010
John C. Welchman is Professor of art history in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego.
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Boris Groys Lecture: Feb. 16, 2010
Boris Groys is a philosopher, essayist, critic, media theorist, and an internationally acclaimed expert on late-Soviet postmodern art.
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Vito Acconci Lecture: Feb. 23, 2010
Vito Acconci is a New York-based artist and writer.
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Mark Bradford and Rick Lowe Lecture: March 2, 2010
Mark Bradford is a Los Angeles based artist. Rick Lowe is an artist, architect, urban designer, developer, businessman.
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Harrell Fletcher: March 3, 2010
Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects.
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Maria Lind: March 9, 2010
Maria Lind is the Director of the Graduate Program at Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies.
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Rudolf Frieling Lecture: March 23, 2009
Rudolf Frieling studied humanities at the Free University of Berlin and received a Ph.D. from the University of Hildesheim.
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Julia Bryan-Wilson: March 30, 2010
Julia Bryan-Wilson is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies at UC Irvine.
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Renee Green: April 6, 2010
Renée Green is an artist, filmmaker, and writer who lives and works in San Francisco and New York.
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Antonio Muntadas Lecture: April 20, 2010
Antonio Muntadas's work addresses social, political and communications issues.
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Felicity Scott: April 27, 2010
Felicity D. Scott is Director of Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices at the Graduate School of Architecture at Columbia University.
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Norman Klein Lecture: Feb. 9, 2009
Norman Klein is a Los Angeles-based cultural critic and historian of mass culture.
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Visions & Voices
Architecture, Design, Art: Strategies for Survival: April 6, 2009
This event was a conversation among Teddy Cruz, Marjetica Potrc, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, organized and moderated by Joshua Decter.
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Art and Architecture in the Public Sphere of Cities: Feb. 2, 2009
This event explored art and architecture in the public sphere, and unorthodox ways of engaging the public.
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» For an archive of events from 2009's MPAS Lecture Forum, please click here.