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DESCRIPTION:When people talk about socially-engaged art, they often frame it as a 
 trade-off: as social engagement increases, the artfulness and conceptual 
 rigor decreases. Are there ways to get out of this impasse?  \n\nIn this 
 lecture Shannon Jackson, Chancellor's Professor in Rhetoric and Theater, 
 Dance, Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, explores recent experiments in 
 socially-engaged art and performance, focusing particularly upon artists 
 who conceive social problems as formal puzzles.  Surveying key questions 
 and issues in aesthetics and media history, the talk lingers on artists and 
 art groups such as Rimini Protokoll, Joanna Haigood, and others who use 
 cross-media forms to explore social issues. What does it mean to 
 incorporate the support systems and infrastructures of the social into the 
 interior of the artwork?  What new provocations come forward when we take 
 an aesthetic stance on the support systems of labor, global communication, 
 and human welfare?  Why are we more likely  to find cross-media artists 
 working on questions of social engagement?\n\nShannon Jackson is currently 
 the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director 
 of the Arts Research Center.  Her most recent book is "Social Works: 
 Performing Art, Supporting Publics" (2011).  Previous work has explored the 
 relation between performance and Progressive Era social reform (Lines of 
 Activity, 2000) and between performance and the disciplines of higher 
 education (Professing Performance, 2004).  She is working on a book about 
 the relation between new media and theatre in the work of the The Builders 
 Association to be published by M.I.T. Press. She serves on assorted boards, 
 has published in assorted journals, collections, and catalogues, and is 
 currently working on a number of community art projects in the Bay Area.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/01/18689255.php
SUMMARY:ATC Lecture: Shannon Jackson - Social Art Works
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\nSutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley\nBerkeley, CA 94720\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/01/18689255.php
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