Talks About Acts Symposium FREE January 13, 2007

Must Be 21+



Curated by Malik Gaines and Alex Segade

11:00am keynote: Performing the Self, Eleanor Antin, artist 12:00pm panel 1: Communists and Clowns Who is the performer? How do various political and aesthetic projects become embodied in the performing artist? Are we still playing out the 20th century avant-garde? Mass-media? Folk practices? Identity-politics? How does the performer situate herself among these? What is the difference between a performed self and a lived one? Ron Athey, artist Coco Fusco, artist; professor, Columbia University Martiniano Lopez Crozet, artist, Los Super Elegantes José Muñoz, professor, NYU, Performance Studies moderator: Malik Gaines, artist, My Barbarian; adjunct curator, LA><'ART 1:30pm – 2:30pm break 2:30pm panel 2: Castles and Caves Where is the performer? What are the current contexts for performance? How does the performer negotiate public and private, underground and institutional, or various formulations of community? What are these spaces’ economic and psychological constraints? How does the performer move among these spaces? Lia Gangitano, curator and director, Participant, Inc. Andrea Fraser, artist; professor, UCLA, Art Ann Magnuson, artist and actor Mario Ybarra Jr., artist moderator: Alexandro Segade, artist, My Barbarian 4:00pm video program & reception 5:00pm performance: Scoli Acosta

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