SPRING 2012 • A + D Lecture Series

Shona Kitchen

Who: Shona Kitchen 
http://www.shonakitchen.com 
When: Tuesday, January 31, 2012. 6:30 pm
Location: Hokin Auditorium, 623 S. Wabash Ave., 1st Floor

A reception with the artist will take place immediately following the lecture in the A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash Ave.

Shona Kitchen is an internationally-renowned multidisciplinary artist/designer with a passion for technological advancement. Her work investigates, tests, tampers with, and celebrates the intersection of the physical and virtual, the mechanical beauty within natural environments, and the natural beauty within the synthetic.

Her approach is heavily collaborative, typically site-specific, and research-driven; research which fits both inside and outside traditional academic spheres. Her work has manifested itself through a wide range of forms - visual narrative, written, animation, interactive public art/design, and physical prototyping in the form of products. The results of these interventions are constructions of alternative spatial experiences designed to enhance and enrich rather than distract from the cultural statements and aesthetics of their surroundings.

Examples of recent and current work include:

• HIGH/LOW – A public art work for Deptford Creekside Art in Regeneration, London
• Dreaming FIDS – A public art piece for the San Jose International Airport, California
• Commissioned Artist team for Bridge Improvement Program, Public Art Division, City of Los Angeles
• Artist-in-residence – Design Department of Mechanical Engineering - Funded by SiCa. Running a Winter quarter project with 4 students (Anisha Jain, Eric Grossman, James Thompson, Laura Martini) speculating through art/design how robotics could change and be part of our every day life.

Guerilla Girls

Who: Guerilla Girls
http://www.guerrillagirls.com 
When: Thursday, March 1, 2012. 6:00 pm
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash Ave., 1st Floor

Partners:  Institute for Women + Gender, DEPS, Book and Paper

In 1985, a group of women artists founded the Guerrilla Girls. They assumed the names of dead women artists and wore gorilla masks in public, concealing their identities and focusing on the issues rather than their personalities. Between 1985 and 2000, close to 100 women, working collectively and anonymously, produced posters, billboards, public actions, books and other projects to make feminism funny and fashionable. At the turn of the millennium, three separate and independent incorporated groups formed to bring fake fur and feminism to new frontiers:

Guerrilla Girls, Inc., www.guerrillagirls.com, was established by two founding Guerrilla Girls and other members to continue the use of provocative text, visuals and humor in the service of feminism and social change. They have written several books and create projects about the art world, film, politics and pop culture. They travel the world, talking about the issues and their experiences as feminist masked avengers, reinventing the “f” word into the 21st century. 

Guerrilla Girls On Tour, Inc., www.guerrillagirlsontour.com, is a touring theatre collective founded by three former members of the Guerrilla Girls. GGOT develops original plays, performances and workshops, street theatre actions and residency programs that dramatize women’s history and address the lack of opportunities for women and artists of color in the performing arts.

In addition to a lecture and major retrospective exhibition in the spring of 2012, The Guerrilla Girls will have two workshop engagements with A + D students, directing and generating a body of work that will be part of a student arts activist exhibition that will also open in the spring of 2012.

Lorraine O'Grady

Who: Lorraine O'Grady
http://www.lorraineogrady.com 
When: Thursday, March 15, 2012. 6:00 pm
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

The event is free to Columbia faculty, students, and staff with ID. A reception will follow.  

Since her 1980 performance of Madame Bourgeoisie Noire, O'Grady has challenged institutional myopia and racism. Her critical writings on Diaspora and black female subjectivity are at the corner stone of most Feminist art history courses.  As per the recent WACK! exhibition, she is the radical canon.  

Lorraine O’Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues of Diaspora, hybridity, and black female subjectivity. The New York Times in 2006 called her “one of the most interesting American conceptual artists around.” Born in Boston in 1934 to West Indian parents, O’Grady came to art late, not making her first works until 1980. After majoring in economics and literature, she’d had several careers... as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, a successful literary and commercial translator, even a rock critic. Ultimately, her broad background contributed to a distanced and critical view of the art world when she entered it and to an unusually eclectic attitude toward art making. In O’Grady’s work, the idea tends to come first, and then a medium is employed to best execute it. Although its intellectual content is rigorous and political, the work is generally marked by unapologetic beauty and elegance.

Luba Lukova

Who: Luba Lukova
http://www.lukova.net 
When: Wednesday, April 4, 2012. 6:30 pm
Location: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd

Social consciousness has long been part of the vocabulary of New York designer Luba Lukova. Through student workshops and a public lecture, Lukova will discuss the influences and process that inspired 12 poster series Social Justice 2008. Her career-long focus on issues such as peace, censorship, immigration, ecology, hunger and corruption is merged with the history of visual communication.  As Lukova states  “This project is my cry for action. We have to change things for the good of the entire world, not only for America,” says Lukova. “I was inspired by the desire for change in our society, by the enormous activity of the people and their will to make a difference.”

FALL 2011 • A + D Lecture Series

David Shrigley

Who: David Shrigley  
http://www.davidshrigley.com/ 
When: Wednesday, September 21, 2011. 6:30 pm
Location: Stage Two, 618 S. Michigan Ave., 2nd Floor

Tuesday, September 20, 2011: David Shrigley book signing at Quimby's
http://www.quimbys.com/

David Shrigley graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1991. His works on paper, photographs and sculptures have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world.His illustrations have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Esquire (Japan), Donna (Italy), Frieze (UK), The Guardian (UK),Maisonneuve (Canada) and Du (Switzerland). He has produced animated pop promos for artists such as Blur and Bonnie Prince Billy and is also the author of more than 20 books of drawings. He now lives and works in Glasgow and is represented by the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. In 2006 he produced a spoken word albumShrigley Forced To Speak With Others and in 2007 released a compilation album Worried Noodles featuring 39 artists invited to create songs based on his lyrics originally published in a book of the same name. The project included contributions from David Byrne and Franz Ferdinand amongst others. 

Enrique Chagoya

Who: Enrique Chagoya
http://art.stanford.edu/profile/Enrique+Chagoya
 
Café Society:
When: Wednesday, October 19 ,2011. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Anchor Graphics, 623 S. Wabash, Rm. 201

Throughout 2011-12, Critical Encounters will sponsor Café Society meetings as an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to come together and consider the impact of rights, radicals, and revolutions. Enrique Chagoya's work speaks to the issues of rights of undocumented immigrants, using radical graphics to question current political realities, and promote revolutionary changes. We will gather to talk with Mr. Chagoya about the power of graphic agitation and the lasting impression of print revolutions. This event is sponsored in collaboration with Anchor Graphics and Latino Cultural Affairs

LECTURE: 
When: Thursday, October 20, 2011. 6:30 pm
Location: Film Row Cinema, 1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor

Drawing from his experiences living on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border in the late 70’s, and also in Europe in the late 90’s, Enrique Chagoya juxtaposes secular, popular, and religious symbols in order to address the ongoing cultural clash between the United States, Latin America and the world as well. He uses familiar pop icons to create deceptively friendly points of entry for the discussion of complex issues. Through these seemingly harmless characters, Chagoya examines the recurring subject of colonialism and oppression that continues to riddle contemporary American foreign policy. Chagoya is currently a Full Professor at Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His work can be found in many public collections including the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; SF Museum of Modern Art, among others. He has been the recipient of numerous awards such as two NEA artists fellowships; a Tiffany Fellowship; an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; to mention a few. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA; George Adams Gallery in New York, NY; and Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. His prints are published by several presses including Columbia College’s own Anchor Graphics, as well as Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Co; Segura Publishing in Pueblo, AZ; Trillium Press in Brisbaine, CA; and ULAE in New York, NY. Academy of Arts and Letters; to mention a few. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, CA; George Adams Gallery in New York, NY; and Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. His prints are published by several presses including Columbia College’s own Anchor Graphics, as well as Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Co; Segura Publishing in Pueblo, AZ; Trillium Press in Brisbaine, CA; and ULAE in New York, NY. 

This lecture is co-sponsored with Anchor Graphics and Northwestern University.  

motiroti

Who: motiroti
http://www.motiroti.com
 
When: Wednesday, November 16   6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor

The Potluck: Chicago  
How can art-making harness Chicago’s diversity for the common good?

Leading a yearlong inquiry into the role that the performing arts play in fomenting social changes, motiroti will convene a series of community meetings at historic sites of radical intervention including Columbia College, Dorchester Project, Hull House, and En Las Tablas. Additionally, in the fall, they will host a discussion on the efficacy of their actions and share strategies on running not–for–profit arts agencies. In the spring, they will return to run a series of workshops in which participants will address pressing community concerns and challenge the segregation of our neighborhoods. 

A ‘potluck’ is a meal to which different visitors each contributes a dish. Lifting each lid releases aromas and tastes that trace the journeys of those who prepared it. Conceived by motiroti as a menu of creative adventures – food exchanges, art workshops and public gatherings – that aim to do the radical work of bridging cultural divides, building a toolkit for increasing social connections, and fostering new communities.

Motiroti is an award-winning arts organization based in London, UK. Its content is migration; its form is art. motiroti works across art forms and boundaries, online and in live spaces, putting participation at the heart of its practice.  Please see more at www.motiroti.com.

Find out more about Potluck: Chicago at www.motiroti.com/potluckchicago.  

Follow The Potluck at @plchicago on Twitter

Apply for workshops at www.colum.edu/criticalencounters/Artist_in_Residence.php
Community Workshop I: November 16-18th  
Community Workshop II: February 15th-17th  

This lecture is co-sponsored with Art + Design, Critical Encounters, The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media and Multi-Cultural Student Affairs.