UC San Diego’s Visual Arts Department presents Open Studios and Permanent Transition

Open Studios, UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility, Saturday April 10, 3:00 – 8:00pm
Permanent Transition, (PhD Symposium) UC San Diego, Visual Arts Facility, Seminar Room #366, Saturday April 10, 9:00am – 5:00pm

Both events are free and open to the public, with free parking available on Saturday’s at the Gilman Parking Structure

 

The UCSD graduate student body invites visitors to view approximately 50 open studios, a group exhibit, film and a video screenings, live performances throughout the day, and a symposium organized by the department’s PhD candidates.

 

Whether constructing a massive decomposing stalactite from iron and fiberglass, recording a pirated copy of Avatar onto a virtual rotating sphere, or painting vibrant portals leading to the past’s sexy future, the visual artists of UCSD’s highly praised MFA program have practices spanning a wide range of disciplines that evoke a dialogue of remarkable currency. The artists’ works range from technological investigations and information visualizations to social interventions, and material practices, all the while questioning and creating relationships with art history, critical theory, visual studies, art activism and public culture.

 

Permanent Transition, the third annual UCSD Visual Arts PhD Symposium, is running in conjunction with Open Studios. ”Art,” as an idea, a product, and a condition, is increasingly defined through properties of oscillation – movement, fluidity, transition, and circulation. The art world, particularly during the last few decades, had generated new and proximate forms of creation and discourse, which have arguably emerged from the ideas and relations of past modernities. Unfixed boundaries between exhibition and collection, mobile collections and evolving archives, these are the marks of art in “permanent transition.” This conference seeks to further explore and question concepts of stability, permanence and dominance in contemporary art.

 

Open Studios and Permanent Transition has been organized by the visual arts graduate students at UC San Diego and generously supported by the Visual Arts Department, UCSD Humanities Center, and the Graduate Student Association.

 

Participating Artists:

 

Josh Aaron
Cara Baldwin
Sadie Barnette
Rich Bott
Mike Calway-Fagen
Crystal Z. Campbell
Alida Cervantes
Elizabeth Chaney
Mauricio Chernovetzky
Lili Chin
Ted Chung
Leigh Cole
Micki Davis
Noah Doely
Rob Duarte
Monica Duncan
Chris Head
Christopher Kardambikis
Ross Karre
Merve Kayan
Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli
Stephanie Lie
Scott Lyne
Vincent Manganello
Dolissa Medina
Elle Mehrmand
Charles Miller
Jesse Mockrin
Zac Monday
Zac Montanaro
Sheryl Oring
Katrin Pesch
Daniel Rehn
Brianna Rigg
Lesha Rodriguez
Vanessa Roveto
Vabianna Santos
Louis Schmidt
Tim Schwartz
Jessica Sledge
Ash Eliza Smith
Rayyane Tabet
Rachel Thompson
Mike Toillion
Jerry Truong
Artie Vierkant
David White
Suzanne Wright
Joe Yorty
Claire Zitzow

 

Permanent Transition Speakers:

Keynote Talk: Okwui Enwezor

Graduate Presentations:

Matthew Rana, “Social Work: Politics, Police and the Legalistic in Art,” California College of the Arts

Eric Morrill, University of California, Irvine

Elyse Mallouk, “The Generous Object: The Relational and the Aesthetic in Contemporary Art,” California College of the Arts

Rochelle LeGrandsawyer, “Unstable Treasure: Historical Mass and Cultural Alchemy in El Anatsui’s Peak Project.”  University of California, Los Angeles

Holiday Powers, “Modernism and Decolonization: Abdallah Laroui and Post-Colonial Morocco,” Cornell University

Courtney Thompson, “Questioning the Current Biennial Model,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Andrew Weiner, “Dialectical Image or Polaroid Effect?” University of California, Berkeley

 

For more information about Open Studios please visit: ucsdopenstudios.com/2010

For more information about Permanent Transition please visit: http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/1401

 

Contact: Sheena Ghanbari
                 sghanbari@ucsd.edu
                 858-822-7755