ART TALK ART : 1980-PRESENT

Re-launch of Art Talk Art, Spring 2003

"The Impossible"
How do our conceptions of the possible, plausible and pragmatic shape our understanding and creative responses to "the impossible"? Join us to explore these questions with distinguished contemporary thinkers and artists.

Kick off Event and Lecture
April 3, 2003
Sande Cohen
at the Japanese American National Museum
7:30 pm

Additional dates at the Japanese American National Museum:
April 17, 2003
May 1, 2003

Lectures at the re-opening of the Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park will take place in May and June, 2003.

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Past Art Talk Art Lectures

June 28, 1997
Emily Hartzel and Nina Sobell
"Anarchy, Art and the Web"
www.cat.nyu.edu/~parkbench
Side Street Projects, Santa Monica

June 10, 1997
Constance Penley
"From Getting his Goat (1923) to John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut (1994),
Pornography as Male Popular Culture"
Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica

May 22, 1997
Suvan Geer
"Keepers of the Waters"
The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

August 15, 1996
Hip Hop Visual Artists
Kaos Network, Los Angeles Aceyalone of Project Blowed
Bob Byran (Videomaker), Brian Cross (Photo Editor), Joseph Montalvo (Nuke)
of Earth Crew, (Artist), Cynthia Wiggins (Artist)

April 11, 1996 Resonant Structures, Spaces & Subjectivities
@ the MTA Gateway Transit Center
Aaron Betsky (Architecture and Design Curator, SFMOMA), Gustavo Leclerc
(Adobe L.A.), Stephen Lott (RAW Associates), Richard Wyatt (Public Artist),
Kim Yasuda (Public Artist)

October 8, 1995
moderator: Alan Parachini
Cathy Curtis (Writer, L.A. Times)
Noni Olabisi (Mural Artist)
Patrick Scott (President, NCFE)
"Censorship and Funding for the Arts" at the Huntington Beach Art Center;
co-presented by the Huntington Beach Art Center

September 15, 1995
moderator: Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Ron Athey (Performance Artist)
Hanh Thi Pham (Photographer)
Stuart Swezey (Co-owner Amok Bookstore)
"Exotica" at the RE:SOLUTION gallery; co-sponsored by Beyond Baroque

August 8, 1995
moderator: Connie Samaras
Nancy Buchanan (Artist, Educator)
Robbert Flick (Artist, Educator)
Glenn Kaino (Artist)
Victoria Vesna (Artist, Educator)
"Art on Computers: New Tools, New Territories" at the Craft and Folk Art
Museum; co-sponsored by A.R.T. Press

May 11, 1995
moderator: Joan Hugo
Joe Lewis (Artist, Educator, Administrator)
Max Benavides (Writer, Educator)
Fatimah Tobing Rony (Videomaker, Writer)
"How Cultural Identity Informs Criticism" at Occidental College;
co-sponsored by New Art Examiner

December 8, 1994
Cory Roberts Auli (Painter)
Al Winn (Photographer)
"Day Without Art" reading and talk at Self-Help Graphics

November 8, 1994
moderator: Michael Carr ('Zine Editor)
Kelly Martin (Artist, 'Zine Editor)
Paula Hess (Writer, 'Zine Editor)
Mat Gleason (Art Reviewer, 'Zine Editor)
"Critical Absorption" at RE:SOLUTION gallery/LACPS

January 25, 1994
moderator: Karin Higa (Curator)
Yong Soon Min (Installation Artist)
Kim Yasuda (Installation Artist)
"Beyond Identity" at Barnsdall Art Park

October 21, 1993
Ruben Martinez (Writer, Performance Artist)

June 10, 1993
Stephen Nowlin (Gallery Director, Art Center)
Kit-Bacon Gressitt (Writer)
James Griffith (Artist)
Dianne Malley (Artist, Art Director, Exceptional Children's Foundation Art Center)
Mary Martz (Art Administrator)
Tim Taylor (Artist, Disability Consultant)
"Exploring context: The ÎDisabled ArtistÕ"

December 8, 1992
Lyle Ashton Harris (Artist, Los Angeles, New York)
"Radical Black Subjectivity"

November 17, 1992 Amelia Jones (Art Historian, Critic, Writer)
Maria De La Luz Blair (Youth Advocate)
Cecil Ferguson (Community Art and History Curator)
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Artist and Critical Writer)
Sandra Tsing Loh (Performance Artist)
Al Nodal (Director of L.A. Cultural Affairs)
?. Whos is your targeted audience?*)
*Question number 10 from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Individual Grant Application

June 30, 1992
Douglas Blau (Art Critic and Curator, Los Angeles)
"Pictures"

June 16, 1992
Pat Ward Williams (Photographer, Philadelphia)
"Photo Assemblages-Installations"

April 28, 1992
Amelia Jones ( Art Historian, Los Angeles)
"Postfeminist Politics: American Culture Wages War Against Women"

March 10, 1992
Millie Wilson ( Artist, Educator, Los Angeles)
"The Museum of Lesbian Dreams"

February 11, 1992
Esther Yau (Film Historian, Los Angeles)
"Woman Demon Human"

December 17, 1991
Jeanne Willette (Art Historian, Los Angeles)
"The Inscription of the Profane in the Description of the Sacred"

November 12, 1991
Thomas McEvilley (Writer, Editor, New York)
"The Dark side of The Moon"

October 22, 1991
Michael Tang (Artist, Educator, Los Angeles)
"Spiritual Diversities"

April 16, 1991
Thomas Lawson (artist, writer, Los Angeles)
"Painting:More or Less"

March 30, 1991
Nan Goldin (Photographer; New York)
"The Balad of Sexual Dependency"

March 5, 1991
Sylvere Lotringer (writer, critic, editor- Semiotext[e]) "The Third Wave: Art the Commodification of Theory"

February 12, 1991
Max Benavidez (writer, critic, poet, Los Angeles) "Mexican Gothic: A Post-Chicano Aesthetic"

December 5, 1990
Dennis Cooper (poet, writer, critic; Los Angeles)

October 17, 1990
Jill Kroesen (artist, New York)

September 16, 1990
Jan Hout (Director of the Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Citadaltark, Gent, Belgium)

September 12, 1990
Victor Burgin (artist, writer, Santa Cruz, CA)" Theory in Practice"

May 21, 1990
Rick Berg (performance, professor, Los Angeles)
"Individual Myths and the Postmodern Self(s)"

May 8, 1990
Yve-Alain Bois (writer, editor, Baltimore, ML)
"Resisting Blackmail: Reflections of the Current State of Discourse about Art"

April 26, 1990
Martin Jay (writer, Berkeley, CA)
"Photounrealism: The Contribution of the Camera to the Chrisis of Ocularcentrism"

March 14, 1990
Felix Gonzales-Torres (artist, New York) "A Talk"

February 22, 1990
Annette Michaelson (writer, editor, New York)
"The Kinetic Icon in the Work of Mourning"

February 6, 1990
Mary Ann Caws (writer, New York)
"Interference and Stresses Reading: Between Art and Text"

December 5, 1989
Harry Gamboa, Jr. (artist, playwright and writer, Los Angeles)

November 1, 1989
Matt Mulican (artist, New York)

October 10,1989
Trinh T. Minh-ha (Filmmaker, writer, composer, New York)
"Surname Viet Given Name Nam"

May 23, 1989
Peter Wollen (writer, film and video artist, critic, Los Angeles)
"the Situationist International, 1957-72: On the passage of a view people through a rather brief period of time."

May 3, 1989
Haim Steinbach (artist, New York)
"Side Order of Facts"

April 21,1989
Gregg Bordowitz (ACT/UP, video artist, New York)
Margie Eduardo (ACT/UP, video artist, Los Angeles)
Tom Kalin (Gran Fury, ACT /UP, AIDSFILMS, New York)
"AIDS and Cultural Analysis"

Mach 6, 1989
Andrea Fraser (artist and writer; New York)
"The Museum's Ethics: Notes for a Gallery Talk"

February 23,1989
John Welchman (writer, historian, critic,Professor UC San Diego)
"News for no-place: 'Ideology, Facility, Photography' "

February 6, 1989
Richard Wollheim (writer, historian, Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley)
"On Writing Painting as an Art"

December 6,1988
Hamid Naficy (Professor, writer, film and video maker, Los Angeles)
"Television Fetishization in Exile"

November 7, 1988
Marina La Palma (poet, critic, New York)
"Mafia, Macho and Movies"

October 4, 1988
Simone Wade (Professor, nurse, writer, Los Angeles)
"The Artist in the Post-Apocalypse"

May 18,1988
Yve-Alain Bois (Writer, John Hopkins University)
"Current Millenarianism: 'The Use and Abuse of History' "

April 20,1988
Mary Kelly (artist, Professor, Cal Arts)
"Interim"

March 10, 1988
Michael Renov (Cinema-TV; USC)
"Autobiography and/as History: ' The essayist in Film and Video' "

February 16. 1988
Tania Modeleski (film theorist)
"A Father is Being Beaten:'Male Feminism and the War Film' "

January 25, 1988
Yvonne Rainer (filmmaker, New York)
"Kristina Talking Pictures"

December 10, 1987
V. Vale and Andrea Juno (editors Re/Search; San Francisco)
"Pranks"

November 23, 1987
Jim Fleming (editor Semiotext[e]
"Semiotext[e] USA"

October 21, 1987
Joseph Kosuth (artist, New York)
"An Evening with Joseph Kosuth"

September 14, 1987
Richard Price (artist, New York)
"Gangs, Jokes, and John Dogg"

May 6, 1987
Anne Friedberg (film, UC Irvine)
"Mutual Indifference:'Feminism and Post-Modernism' "

April 20, 1987
Karl Beveridge and Carole Conde (artist/photographers; Ontario)
"Art and Working Life"

April 6, 1987
Douglas Crimp (Editor October, New York)
"The Postmodern Museum"

February 23, 1987
Peter Halley (artist, theorist, New York)
"Geometry and the Social"

February 2, 1987
Thom Anderson (filmmaker, historian, Ohio)
"Red Hollywood"

January 28, 1987
Krysztof Wodiczko (artist, New York)
"Counter Monuments"

December 8, 1986
David James (writer)
"Cultural Resistance in the Mass Media:Vietnam and Popular Music"

November 21, 1986
Teresa De Laurentis (Professor, UC Santa Cruz)
"Strategies of Coherence: Narrative Cinema, Feminist Poetics and Yvonne Rainer"

October 27, 1986
Sally Stein (historian, UCSD)
"The Rhetoric of the Colorful and the Colorless in Photographic Culture of the Thirties"

May 28, 1986
Carlo Gizburg (historian)
"The Enigma of Piero: An Informal Presentation"

May 5, 1986
Paul Arthur (historian, filmmaker)
"Image and /as / versus Language in Recent Avant -Garde Film"

April 28, 1986
Louise Lawler (artist, New York)
"A Presentation'

March 24, 1986
Judith Williamson (writer, filmmaker)
"Woman as an Island: Femininity and Popular Culture"

February 10, 1986
Warren Montag (Professor, Otis)
"What is the Stake in the Debate on Post-Modernism: A Marxist Interpretation"

January 27, 1986
Allen Sekula( photo historian, photographer, Cal Arts)
"Machine Art and Working Bodies: Photographic Modernism and Representation of Labor"

December 10, 1985
Sande Cohen (critic,historian, Professor UCLA, Cal Arts)
'Some Perplexities of Historical Thinking"

November 11, 1985
Marie Florine Bruneau (Professor French Literature, USC)
"In the Name of the Father: Abomination and Patriarchy in Phsychoanalisis"

October 14, 1985
Alexis Smith (artist ,Los Angeles)

September 3, 1985
Judy Bowman, SPARC
Annetta Kapon, FAR
Ben Marks, LAICA
Joy Silverman, LACE
Howard Spector, LACPS
Dennis Phillips, Beyond Baroque
Elaine Wintman, The Woman's Building
Al Nodel, Otis Parsons Exhibition Center
"Alternative Organizations/ Alternative Ideas?"

May 7, 1985
Jay Belloli (Baxter Art Gallery)
"The John Altoon Painting Show: Failure and Successes"

April 29, 1985
Coosje Van Bruggen (curator)
"Concerning Curating: The Alternative of Independence"

April 24, 1985
Julia Brown (curator MOCA)
"The Exhibition Program at MOCA"

April 22,1985
Howard Fox (curator, LACMA)
"Voodoo and Good Faith: Curating Today's Art"

February 20, 1985
Abigail Solomon-Godau (critic)
"The Time of (In)Difference: Feminist Art in the Mid -80"s"

February 11, 1985
Jeff Kelly (writer Artforum, Artweek)
"Site Works:Some Recent Issues"

January 31,1985
Kathi Norchlun, Spectacle
Linda Berham, High Performance
Barbara Goldstein,Arts+Architecture
Joan Hugo, Artweek
Cristopher Knight, Herald Examiner
Lane Relyea, LAICA Journal
"La Art Dialog"

April 19, 1984
Lyn Blumenthal (artist, New York)
"The Pleasure of his Company"

March 15, 1984
Leon Golub and Nacy Spero (artists,New York)
"1950-1983: Protagonists, Victims and Sexual Difference"

March 15, 1984
Peter Frank (L.A. Weekly, Village Voice)
"Poems, Proposals, Paralogues: It Might Be Art But It Might Be Verse"

March 5, 1984
Adrian Piper
"Critical Hegemony and the Division of Labor"

February 14, 1984
Ned Rifkin
"Signs of our Time"

February 7, 1984
Connie Hatch (artist, Los Angeles)
"Addressing Discontent: Provocation and Photo Montage"

December 1, 1983
Howard Singerman (critic, art historian, writer)
"Rothko's Ghost in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

November 28. 1983
Charles Garbedian and John Sonsoni (artist, Los Angeles)
"Creative Thought and Personal Myths"

November 21, 1983
Roger Herman (Artist, Professor UCLA)
" A History of German Painting"

November 2, 1983
Italio Scanga (Artist)
"Contemporary Sculpture: New Trends"

May 14, 1982
Susan Larson (art historian, Professor, USC)
"Art Criticism and Academia: Vices and Virtues for Critics and Art Historians"

April 30, 1982
Ingrid Sischy (ne editor)
"The f Stops Here: Visual Territory"

April 12, 1982
Benjamin Buchlot (art historian)
"Parody of Appropriation"

March 25, 1982
Christopher Knight (critic: Herald Examiner)
"From Public Art to Public Nuisance"

March 9, 1982
Thomas McEvilley (Professor Rice University, Houston Tx)
"Yves Klein and the Art of the 60's and 70's"

February 26, 1982
Judith Barry (artist, writer, UC Berkeley)
"Casual Imagination: Department Stores as Theater"

April 29, 1981
Anne Rorimer (curator 20th century art; Art Institute of Chicago)
"Europe/U.S.A.: Relationships in Contemporary Art"

April 22, 1981
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (Painter, critic, writer)
"The Art of Style/The Style of Art"
(in Immanence and Contradiction, Out of London Press)

April 9, 1981
Richard Armstrong (writer,curator; Los Angeles)
"25 Years Hybridization of Painting and Sculpture in American Art"

March 12, 1981
Howard Singerman (MOCA, Ohio)
"The Artist as Teenager as Infant Terrible"

February 25, 1981
Douglas Crimp (editor: October)
"The End of Painting"

January 20, 1981
Thomas Lawson (artist, writer, New York)
"Spectacle as Art/Art as Spectacle"

December 10, 1980
Michael Oblowitz (filmmaker, writer, staff Semiotext[e], New York)
"Movies, Machines, and Machoism, or Raiders of the Lost Art"

December 3, 1980
John Brumfield,Barbara Kruger,Sherrie Levine, Douglas Crimp, Jeremy Gilber-Rolfe
"Mass-Culture and Contemporary Art: Acquiescence or Intervention?"

November 24, 1980
Rober Winter (architect, author: A Guide to Southern California Architecture)
"Post -Modern Architecture: Trick or Treat"

November 1980
Carol Squiers (critic, photo curator: P.S.1, New York)
"Looking at LIFE: Modern American Culture as Created by LIFE Magazine"

October 31, 1980
Michel Foucault (historian, theorist, France)
"Knowledge, Power, History: The Humanities as Means and Object of Criticism"

October 7, 1980
Craig Owens (Art in America, October)
"The Politics of Post-Modernism: The Role of Artists in the 80's)

April 10, 1980
Joan Hugo, (Art Week)
David James, (Occidental College, English)
Mark Johnstone (photographer, critic)
Beverly O'Neill (Otis Parsons, critic)
"Artspeak: Critical Language for a Post-Literate Audience")

February 17, 1980 Alan Sondheim (filmmaker, writer) "Film / Event / Discussion"