Fall 2021 Schedule
Arts + Design Mondays: Perseverance, Renewal, and Reflection in a Changing World
Monday, September 13, 6:30pm
Lisa Reihana: How can a Maori girl recolonise the screen using mighty pixels
Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media. Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program.
Lisa Reihana (Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand)
View the video here.
Monday, September 20, 6:30pm
Judith Butler and Mel Y. Chen on Gender Politics and Pandemic Time in conjunction with the BAMPFA exhibition New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor Emer., Department of Comparative Literature, Program of Critical Theory, UC Berkeley), Mel Y. Chen (Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Director, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, UC Berkeley).
View the video here.
Monday, September 27, 6:30PM
Karen Nakamura and Sunaura Taylor: Thinking Through CripStudies 2.0 - Beyond the Corporeal, Disabled Body
Karen Nakamura (Cultural and Visual Anthropologist, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley), Sunaura Taylor (Artist and Writer, Assistant Professor in the Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley)
View the video here.
Monday, October 11, 6:30pm
Non-Binary Waters: Approaching the work of Sebastián Calfuqueo
Presented by the Center for Latin American Studies.
Sebastián Calfuqueo (Artist, Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü, Yene magazine), Natalia Bruzeula (Class of 1930 Chair, Center for Latin American Studies, Professor, Film & Media, Spanish & Portuguese, Program in Critical Theory and Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley)
View the video here.
Monday, October 18, 6:30pm
Shimon Attie: Looking Back at Night Watch
Shimon Attie (Multimedia Artist, Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award Winner)
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Monday, October 25, 6:30pm
A New Vocabulary: Labor, Narrative, and Radical Possibility in the Work of Black Feminist Artists
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Courtney Desiree Morris (Visual/Performance Artist, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Social Anthropologist, UC Berkeley), Jacqueline Francis (Associate Professor, Chair of the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies, California College of the Arts), Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Multidisciplinary Visual Artist, Writer, Performer, Assistant Professor of Painting, Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley)
View the video here.
Monday, November 1, 6:30pm
Asa Benally: Designing for the Indigenous Theater
Presented by UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media.
Asa Benally (Costume Designer, Drama Desk Nominee)
View the video here.
Monday, November 15, 6:30pm
Second Nature: Embodying our Technological Systems
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Daiane Lopes da Silva (Dancer, Choreographer, Educator, Artistic Director, Kinetech Arts, SFSU), Weidong Yang (Dancer, Co-Founder and Director, Kinetech Arts, UC Berkeley), Lisa Wymore (Faculty Director, Arts + Design, Professor, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance, UC Berkeley), Sheldon Smith (Adjunct Professor, Dance Department, Mills College)
View the video here.
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Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Office of Berkeley Arts + Design. The series is co-curated by the American Indian Graduate Program; Arts Research Center; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Berkeley Center for New Media as part of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium and the Indigenous Technologies Initiative; BOXBLUR; Catharine Clark Gallery; Center for Latin American Studies; Center for Race and Gender; College of Environmental Design; Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies; Department of Spanish & Portuguese; and the Immersive Arts Alliance. In-kind technical support and presentation offered by BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays.