Disappeared in America, a traveling exhibition that premiered at the Queens Museum of Art in New York, begins its west coast tour here at UCI. Created by Naeem Mohaiem, Director of VISIBLE, a Collective of Muslim and Other Artists, Disappeared is a walk-through installation that uses film, soundscape, images, installations and lectures to humanize the faces of post 9/11 "disappeared" Muslims.
The centerpiece of FALLAYAVADA: Bahc Yiso Project and Tribute exhibition is the world premier of Fallayavada, a project that the artist had conceptualized with detailed notes but never realized. Fallayavada is a mixed media installation composed of an oval-shaped coliseum-like structure upon which viewers sit and view a video projection on the floor. The projection consists of images of what Bahc called “vertical landscapes-vertical flow of time and space” captured from a video camera dropped from a plane.
Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism re-thinks the legacy of Conceptualism vis-á-vis the philosophical operation of paradox. Specifically, the notion of "site," as it exists between art and architecture, is reconsidered. Thinking about paradox and conceptualism is no formal exercise; it is a political imperative. Take, for example, last year's infamous Torture Memo, drafted by Alberto Gonzalez, in which any paradoxical notion of a "state of statelessness" was denied.
The Look of Law exhibition addresses the direct and residual effects that state power has on the psyche and how this, in turn, is manifest in the force of Law. More specifically, art works featured in the exhibition confront the subjects of surveillance; the police; the prison; the military; the border; the public sphere; the relationship between nations, corporations, and the media; the constant state of war.
The University Art Gallery at UC Irvine launches its Major Work of Art Series with the California premiere of Mary Kelly's famed Circa 1968, originally shown in the Whitney Biennial of 2004. Circa 1968 employs appropriated imagery from the May 68 demonstrations in Paris to question memory and history and the related concept of truth.
Steven Criqui (1964-2007), lecturer in the Studio Arts department from 1995-2006, will be remembered in a survey exhibition at the University Art Gallery from January 10th thru February 9th, 2008. The exhibition will span over 20 years of Criqui's practice from early whimsical biomorphic abstractions through his innovative fusion of digital media and painting. His final body of work, which realizes his vision in its most seamless form, will be exhibited here for the first time.
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix introduces a dynamic mix of sixteen critically acclaimed artists from Korea, Vietnam, and the United States, signaling an unprecedented engagement with the rich historic and contemporary linkages between Korea and Vietnam. The featured artworks variously engage interconnections between the two countries, including the intersections of history, trauma, and contemporary popular culture. The interactions between Vietnam and Korea span centuries but the exhibition focus lies in their shared history of a highly accelerated modernization pro
UAG continues its Major Work of Art Series with Steve Fagin’s The Surfing Memory Syndrome. This multi-media installation features Fagin’s 2003 film Oliver Kahn, named after the famous soccer player from Bayern Munich.
For three decades, South Korean society has experienced a dramatic political paradigm shift from an authoritarian regime to a democratic polity.