Omss Art: SAIC Visiting Artists Program Fall 2011

VAP Fall Series

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program (VAP) is pleased to announce the fall 2011 lecture schedule. Join us for one of the city's leading public forums on the presentation and contemplation of contemporary art.

All lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and lectures begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. All seating is first come, first served. Reservations may be accepted for groups of 10 or more made at least two weeks prior to the event. Please contact VAP at events@saic.edu or 312.899.5185 regarding your request.

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Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.

This program is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM FALL 2011 SCHEDULE

Photo by Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard University		HOMI K. BHABHA: Culture and Security Thursday, September 8, 6:00 p.m. Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Free with museum admission Free for SAIC students, faculty, and staff with a valid ID Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, Director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and senior advisor on the humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes, including Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture. more info
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Type A on location for Trigger. Courtesy of the artists.		TYPE A Monday, September 26, 6:00 p.m. SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Type A is a collaboration between Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin. Working together since 1998, their videos, video installations, photography, sculptures, and drawings deal with issues of masculinity, territory, competition, and collaboration in contemporary society. more info
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Bill Fontana, 2011, photo by Stuart Davidson		BILL FONTANA William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor Wednesday, October 5, 6:00 p.m. The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Bill Fontana is a world-renowned pioneer of sound art who has created monumental, site-specific, and experiential aural installations around the globe. His works engage the human and natural environment as a living source of musical information, interacting with and transforming our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. more info
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Installation Without Place—Without Time—Without Body, 2008, Musée de Grenoble. Photo by Carolyn Laib		WOLFGANG LAIB In Conversation with Mary Jane Jacob and Nora Taylor Monday, October 17, 6:00 p.m. The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave. Wolfgang Laib's installation for the Sullivan Galleries, Unlimited Ocean, comprises more than 20,000 piles of rice and pollen. He will discuss this work and his practice with Mary Jane Jacob, Executive Director of SAIC's Department of Exhibitions, and Nora Taylor, SAIC's Alsdorf Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art. more info
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Photo by George Weinberg		JENNI SORKIN: Ancient Modernisms Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 p.m. SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Jenni Sorkin (BFA 1999) is Assistant Professor of Critical Theory, Media, and Design at the University of Houston. She is currently completing her book Live Form: Craft as Participation, which examines the confluence of gender, artistic labor, and craft pedagogy from 1950 to 1975. more info
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Video still from The Smile, 2007. Single Channel color video, silent and a photograph, 31 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York		AMAR KANWAR Wednesday, November 16, 6:00 p.m. SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Screening, Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street Thursday, November 17, 2011, 6:00 p.m. $10 general admission, $7 students, $5 Film Center members, $4 SAIC faculty and staff, Free for SAIC students Amar Kanwar's films explore the politics of power, violence, sexuality, and justice. His multilayered installations originate in narratives often drawn from zones of conflict and are characterized by a distinctly poetic approach to the social and political. more info
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BioDenim Jacket © BioCouture 2011. Photographer: Gary Wallis		SUZANNE LEE Tuesday, December 6, 6:00 p.m. SAIC Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Dr. Suzanne Lee is the Director of the BioCouture Research Project and Senior Research Fellow in Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London). BioCouture is a research project harnessing nature to propose a radical vision for future fashion. more info
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