Artist, writer, and filmmaker Eleanor Antin will read from her memoir entitled Conversations with Stalin. Antin’s work has been the subject of a major restrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and she is an emeritus Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California at San Diego. Click here to listen to the reading.
"Through Biography", a panel discussion organized by Ad Hoc Vox, will examine the question of what happens when an artist's personal history becomes a part of their work, whether through biography or autobiography. The exhibition Unica Zürn: Dark Spring will serve as stage to a discussion of the various ways an artist's life is presented alongside their work and how that context can influence our relationship to their art. The panel's participants include Jenifer P. Borum, Patricia Cronin, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Gail Levin. Colleen Asper will moderate the panel, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
In conjunction with the FAX exhibition, Tauba Auerbach will discuss the possibilities of semiotics, dissecting language as a code of symbols and conduit for ideas. Auerbach’s work has recently been on view in group exhibitions at SFMoMA and The New Museum and in exhibitions at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Commission.
Panel Discussion
The Power of Art
Saturday, July 11, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Power of Art will center its discussions on the relationship between art and power, as well as a wider conception of the current ‘value’ of art. Internationally renowned philosophers, art historians, architects, poets, cultural critics and artist will assemble for this one-day event to address the power (or in many cases powerlessness) that art has to produce individual, social and cultural change, and will also investigate art’s influence on cultural aesthetics and the global economy.
Participants will include: Meena Alexander, Keller Easterling, Jonatan Habib Engqvist , Boris Groys, David Joselit, Alexis Knowlton, Warren Neidich, Susanne Neubauer, John Welchman, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler & Laura Wexler.
