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Touch Praxis: Workshop led by Nina Sarnelle & Selwa Sweidan

November 11, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Collaborators Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan lead this workshop exploring touch as a time-based medium and a system of co-creating knowledge. Participants will be led through somatic exercises, and have the option to engage in solo or small-group touch experiments. No previous experience required.

Professor Amy Adler Audition

Reception: November 11, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 22, 2023

Night Gallery West, Los Angeles CA

The works in Audition expand Adler’s universe while simultaneously revealing their roots in her previous lines of inquiry: vulnerability, subject versus authorial agency, and queer desire. On each monumental canvas, Adler drew a different still frame from a single scene she’d cut from one of her short films.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama I Get to Have My Own Private Hope

Reception: November 11, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 16, 2023

Best Practice, San Diego CA

In I Get to Have My Own Private Hope, Fish and Pigeon go on a quest in search of the meaning of “work” prompted by the news of the extinction of bananas, and rent that’s passed due. This new video piece further questions today’s work conditions and societal structure through the precarity of Fish’s life and disappearing bananas.

Profs. Anya Gallaccio, Monique van Genderen, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel in Welcome

November 8 - December 23, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Adam Belt, Kelsey Brookes, Kenneth Capps, Ethan Chan, Einar & Jamex De La Torre, Anya Gallaccio, Monique van Genderen, Thomas Glassford, Robert Irwin, Gary Lang, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Lee Materazzi, Allan McCollum, John McCracken, Roy McMakin, John Millei, Chris Puzio, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Roman de Salvo, Jason Sherry, Eric Snell* (Performance on 11/16 at 7722 Girard), Chris Thorson, and Helena Westra.

Professor Lisa Cartwright in NY LASER Talk

November 12, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

LevyArts, New York NY

The NY LASER program is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science, and technology-related projects and an affiliate of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (ISAST). This event will focus on recent projects, feminism, and reframing narratives and feminist Interventions in media art festivals. Feature speakers include Judith Brodsky, Lisa Cartwright, Anna Frants, and Natalia Kolodzei.

Former Prof. & MFA Jean Lowe Artist Talk

November 14, 6:00

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Lowe will unpack some of the humor, social critique, and rage that is threaded through her work regardless of form—with an emphasis on new video pieces made in collaboration with Lile Kvantaliani. These short skits borrow from reality shows such as Selling Sunset, Love is Blind, and cooking shows. 

My Barbarian performance The Mother and Other Plays

November 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

This live adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother includes original musical numbers and improvised content, and also maintains the Brechtian concept of the Lehrstück, or learning-play, by inviting audience members to participate in select scenes. A play about the revolutionary potential of motherhood, My Barbarian's  The Mother and Other Plays offers audiences a theatrical, and critical, performance experience.

Ceres Madoo Open Studio: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence

November 17, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon, like her art work, Ceres’ personal identity defies categorization. With a BA from UC San Diego ('89) and an MFA from Rutgers University, her conceptual, fluxus, critical educational roots happily collide with her inherent interests in non-western art, folk and craft methodologies.

Pussy Riot’s Diana Burkot & Alina Petrova Artist Talk & Panel Discussion @ UCSD

November 17, 2023

Artist Talk: 5:00 - 6:45 p.m. SME 149

Womxn in Synth Panel: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. The Loft

The Department of Visual Arts and Department of Music invite you to 2 public events with the two members of Pussy Riot collective. Pussy Riot is one of the most influential modern feminist punk art and music groups in Russia and beyond. Besides developing a universally recognizable brand, the collective keeps its alignment with radical ideas of freedom.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold American People

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series—such as her experimental story quilts, renowned painting series American People and Black Light, soft sculptures, performance objects, and ephemera related to her activist work—the exhibition examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change.

Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 3.0, MexiCali Biennial Reviewed

Calexico Chronicle

"The San Diego-based artists’ collective Electronic Disturbance Theater provided the weekend’s culminating performance, which took place alongside both sides of the border fence. Performed in a hypnotic call-and-response oration, this solemn trans-border opera described the history and horrors of transnational technological surveillance while thickets of razor wire loomed overhead, and a squadron of drones buzzed back and forth." 

Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Conversation with Ryan McNamara

Document Journal

While sometimes explicit, they’re also curiously withholding pictures for an era of shifting mores and growing awareness of the constructed nature of images. They show us sides of photography that, historically, the medium hasn’t let us see.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim awarded OKSHF Research Grant


Thanks to generous support from the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation (OKSHF), the Korean Heritage Library (KHL) at the University of Southern California (USC) offers research grants to assist scholars with onsite research on Korea. Jae Hwan Lim will research American peace activists' role in reestablishing South Korean society after the Korean War in the 1960s-80s. 

MFA alum Taylor Chapin mural on UCSD campus


The Campus Art Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAAC) plays a key role in ensuring that new campus art installations create opportunities for diverse artistic expressions that reflect campus priorities and allow all to feel included in the campus ethos.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Se Busca

August 5 - November 12, 2023

Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA

SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. Memory as in generational trauma, indigeneity, Purépecha ancestry, and how these memories from blood and dirt are transported through migration. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.

MFA alum Kara Joslyn Bigmouth Strikes Again

October 14 - November 18, 2023

M+B, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition consists of airbrushed polymer painted canvas panels featuring a range of transposed paper forms: ambiguously paired people; a flock of birds mid-flight, B-52 combat planes, and more. InJoslyn’s visual language, nostalgia is negated and is more indexical than sentimental.

MFA alum Joelle Dietrick Chasing the Sun

September 22 - November 18, 2023

Shirley Project Space, Brooklyn NY

Chasing the Sun is a series of prints, wallpaper, and animations that stretch across three screens. Inspired by travels to Germany, Chile and China and her five-year-old daughter’s wish to travel at the same pace as the sun to never sleep, Dietrick began work on the series during the COVID pandemic when natural systems felt out of control.

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