1980

JANUARY

Super-8 New Cinema
Three-part program of films
Part of Encounter Cinema Series
Sponsored by: FAR, UCLA


JANUARY-MARCH

Encounter Cinema Series
Sponsored by: FAR, UCLA


FEBRUARY

Pleasure/Function
Group show/participatory event
Artists: Colen Fitzgibbon, Peter Fend, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince, Robin Winters.


FEBRUARY-MARCH

N/A Vision
A circulating video screening series
Artists: Nancy Buchanan, Bruce & Norman Yonemoto, Lawrence Weiner, Ante Bozanich, Pier Marton


FEBRUARY 17

ATA: Film/Event/Discussion
Alan Sondheim (filmmaker, writer)


MARCH

Lawrence Weiner
Films & Video
Sponsored by: FAR, UCLA


MARCH 20-21

Three Valleys
Live Pieces
Artist: Mike Kelley


APRIL 7-19

Clinic for a Suburban Site
Exhibition
Artist: Dan Graham
Sponsored by: FAR, L.A. Central Library


APRIL 10

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


MAY 4-JUNE 1

A Natural Extension
Installation in Elysian Park
Artist: Vivian Flynn


MAY 30

Anne Bean & Paul Burwell
Performance


SEPTEMBER 13

The Devil's Cleavage
Artist: George Kuchar
Estatic Stigmatic
Artist: Gordon Stevenson
Films


SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 12

Partial Views
Film Installation Artist: Susan Rosenfeld
OCTOBER 7

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


OCTOBER 31

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


NOVEMBER

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


NOVEMBER 24

ATA: Post -Modern Architecture: Trick or Treat
Robert Winter (architect; author, A Guide to Southern California Architecture)


DECEMBER 3

ATA: Mass-Culture and Contemporary Art: Acquiescence or Intervention?
John Brumfield, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Douglas Crimp, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe


DECEMBER 4

Glenn Branca
Music performance
Sponsored by: FAR, CalArts, LACE

DECEMBER 10

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