| Contemporary Art Workshop

Spring Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held from 6-8PM in Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room 156

Wednesday, April 10
7PM in the Logan Center for the Arts, Room 901
Guy Ben-Ner, Artist

Monday, April 22
Emily Capper, Departments of Art History and Cinema and Media Studies
“Allan Kaprow’s Furniture Comedy for Hans Hofmann

Monday, April 29
Daniel Phillips, Department of Art History
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Monday, May 6
Danielle Rosen, Department of Visual Art
“This is the description of an animal remarkable for its coat of spines.
(The mottled colors on her body tend to take on the color or pattern of the sand or gravel on which she lives).
It is important to note that only in recent years have patterns of escape behavior been studied in detail.”

Monday, May 13
Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska, Visiting Assistant Professor in the College
“A curious materialist history:
Władysław Strzemiński’s Theory of Vision and the forming of the senses”
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Monday, May 20
Michael Tymkiw, Department of Art History
“The Fragments of Modernism:
Egon Eiermann and National Socialist Exhibition Design c. 1937″
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Thursday, May 30, 10:00AM
Marin Sarvé-Tarr, Department of Art History
From Cannes to Saint-Germain: Guy Debord and the Limits of Cinema, 1951-52″
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Monday, June 3
Marco Ferrari, Department of Visual Art

Winter Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held from 6-8PM in Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room 156

Monday, January 14
Rachel Jans, Department of Art History
“Blockade 69″
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Wednesday, January 23, 4:30PM
Nisi Daly, Department of Visual Art
“The Voices of Time, an American Screenplay”
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Thursday, February 7, 4:30PM
Jennifer Smoose, Department of Visual Art

Tuesday, February 12, 5:00PM
co-sponsored with the African Studies Workshop
Delinda Collier, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Monday, February 18
Paul Somers, Department of Visual Art
“Terms and Conditions”

Monday, February 25
Katherine Harvath, Department of Visual Art

Monday, March 4
Jill Shaw, Department of Art History
“Jean Dubuffet in 1944: Tradition without a Past”
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Fall Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held from 6-8PM in Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room 156

Monday, October 15
Matt Metzger
“Painting Abstraction and its Other: Searching for the Figure in an Otherwise Linear Arena”
DoVA ’09 / Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, UIC

Monday, November 5
Leslie Wilson, Department of Art History
“Beyond Committed, Past Concerned: Documentary Photography in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
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Wednesday, November 7
5:30-7:00PM, CWAC 156
Dayara Bernal Roque, Curator of Cuban Art
“Puzzle: A Glimpse at Recent Audiovisual Creation”

Tuesday, November 13
4:30-6PM, Rosenwald 405
co-sponsored with New Media Workshop
Patrick Lemieux, Department of Art History/Visual Studies, Duke University
“Metagaming: Alternative Histories of Play”

Monday, November 26
Maggie Crowley, Department of Visual Art
“Pineapple Sadness”

Monday, December 10
Adrian Anagnost, Department of Art History
“São Paulo from Hallucination to Efficacy:
Flávio de Carvalho’s Experiência n. 2 and the Performance of Mass Politics”
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