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24/9/2000

Visiting Artists Program

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Curators and Critics Lecture Series.

This Visiting Artists Program series investigates the processes inherent in framing contemporary art from the perspectives of presentation/interpretation of work and that of critical analysis. Presentations by curators and critics in the field are featured throughout this series. The series will include lectures by Diedrich Diederichsen, Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, Eddie Chambers, Grant Kester, Franklin Sirmans, Valerie Steele, and Jeffrey Kipnis among others.


Monday, September 25th 6 p.m.

Grant Kester is a critic. He is also an assistant professor of art history at the University of California in San Diego. He is editor of Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage (Duke University Press, 1998) and is currently completing a book entitled, Words that Hear: Dialogical Encounters in Modern Art scheduled for publication in 2001. His current research is concerned with developing an alternative critical framework for politically-engaged and community-based art practices. Kester earned his Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester and an undergraduate degree in photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore. Between 1990 and 1996, he was editor and senior editor of the visual and media arts journal Afterimage. Prior to that he worked as an editor at the New Art Examiner. Kester's essays have appeared in numerous art journals including Social Text, Exposure, Mix, the Nation, and Third Text. He has taught at Arizona State University, Washington State University, the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester New York.


Monday, October 2nd 6 p.m.

Franklin Sirmans is an internationally recognized critic, curator, and writer. He is the editor for the Arts Division of Mamisi.com, a cultureÃœbased website founded by Wesley Snipes. Sirmans has published extensively in Time Out/New York, Flash Art, and ArtNet Magazine. He has also written catalogues and periodicals, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Mass Appeal:The Life and Work of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Sirmans has curated several international shows, including Video Art: Past and Present (1999) in Seoul, Korea; Acting Out: European Photo Project (1998); New York, New York : Big City of Dreams (1999); and The Painted Word: Classic Works of Urban Art (2000). He Serves on the Board of Directors for Art/Omni International Artists Residency and he is a critic-in-residence at Begane-Grond in the Netherlands. He currently lives and works in New York.


Monday, October 9th 6 p.m.

Jefferey Kipnis is an urban designer as well as a curator and critic of architecture. He is the curator of Architecture and Design at the Wexner Center for the Arts, and professor of architecture at Ohio State University. Kipnis was the founder and first director of the Graduate Design Program of the Architectural Association of London. He has been a prolific voice and critic of architecture and has written extensively for design periodicals such as Assemblage and El Croquis. His own publications include In the Manor of Nietzsche; Philip Johnson's Glass House; and Choral Works: The Eisenman/Derrida Collaboration. Kipnis is developing four exhibitions including Imaginary Forces: Motion Picture Credits (motion graphics); architectural drawings from the 80's; Scott Burton furniture; as well as a collaboration between the painter Fabian Marcaccio and the architect Greg Lynn. He will soon publish a study of Frank Gehry's Peter Lewis House project.


Wednesday, October 18th 6 p.m.

Marjorie Perloff is a critic and writer. She is a professor of English at Stanford University in California. Since the 1970's, Perloff's writings have sought to bridge the worlds of music, creative writing, and the visual arts. Her publications have included Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters, (1979); The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, (1981); Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, (1994); Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, (1996); and Poetry on and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions, (1998). In addition to her own publications, Perloff has written extensively for journals and periodicals, often with a focus on experimental music, new literature, as well as the poetics of cyberspace.


Wednesday, October 25th 6 p.m.

Valerie Steele is a critic of fashion design. She is also chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is founder and editor of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body, & Culture. Her publications include Fetish: Fashion, Sex, and Power (1996); 50 Years of Fashion: New Look to Now (1997); Shoes: A Lexicon of Style (1999); China Chic: East Meets West (1999); and most recently, Handbags: A Lexicon of Style (2000). She has written extensively for catalogues and periodicals including Artforum International; L'Uomo Vogue; W, aRUDE Magazine, Design Quarterly, and the Yale Journal of Criticism, among others. As a curator, Steele has developed significant exhibitions including her most recent, The Corset: Fashioning the Body, 2000; China Chic: East Meets West (1999); Shoes: A Lexicon of Style (1999); Claire McCardell and the American Look (1999); and Art, Design and Barbie: The Making of a Cultural Icon (1996). Steele has served as a consultant, editor and writer for the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institute); and consultant to the American Museum of Natural History for the exhibition, Body Art: Marks of Identity.

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