Tuesday January 26, 2010

threewallsSALON: The Doctoral Artist: Research & Practice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image: Patrick Bobilin, I know no time when we were not as now...2008, Mixed media, Variable dimensions. Image courtesy of the artist.

 

Tuesday January 26, 7:00 p.m.

 

Research-based artistic practice seems to have greater currency today than perhaps ever before. Art projects begin to feel like dissertations; loaded with multivalent cultural, political, and historical references, this type of practice often doesn’t result in a traditional art object, but instead exists in performance, in conversations, in recreations of office spaces or archives within a gallery. Contemporary strains of this type of practice have had high visibility in Chicago recently, with exhibitions by Liam Gillick and Jeremy Diller at the MCA in the fall, and the knowledge-questioning investigation by Aspen Mays about to open at the Hyde Park Art Center; these examples will be touchstones for the conversation.

Guest respondents: Frances Whitehead, Patrick Bobilin, Allison Peters & Aspen Mays

 

2010 SALONS were coordinated by Ania Szremski, a graduate dual degree candidate in Arts Administration and Art History, Theory and Criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This program was made possible by The Presidential Urban Engagement Grant from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.