Conversations in Contemporary Art
Lecture series
Conversations in Contemporary Art (CiCA) is a visiting artist lecture series and graduate-level course where artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. CiCA talks are free and open to the general public.
Our next event
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Conversations in Contemporary Art has wrapped for the 2023-24 season. We will return in Fall of 2024 with more fascinating guests. In the meantime, we invite you to delve into our archive, which spans a decade of past events, offering a wealth of insights and discussions.
2023-24 Schedule
September 29, 2023: Swapnaa Tamhane, Santiago Tavera and Laura Acosta with Aaron McIntosh
November 3, 2023: Anders Herwald Ruhwald
November 10, 2023: Surabhi Ghosh, kg, Amélie Bélanger, Juan Ortiz-Apuy with Mark Lanctôt
November 17, 2023: Diyar Mayil with Abbas Akhavan
February 16, 2024: Eddy Firmin in conversation with Vanessa-Flore Firmin
March 8, 2024: Margaret Dragu
March 22, 2024: Lorna Bauer and Mia Donovan
April 5, 2024: Ingrid Bachmann
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Questions?
Please contact maya rae oppenheimer, CiCA convenor and Assistant Professor, Department of Studio Arts + Interdisciplinary Studies in Fine Arts.
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Grants and projects
During the pandemic, we invited students to think about "radical hospitality". What is hospitality in a period of emergencies, and how can such a frame be explored by an art school tied to a university? Placing the adjective ‘radical’ before ‘hospitality’ introduced what seemed to be the right amount of emotional and intellectual tension to structure a critical series of engagements between cultural workers and their community.
The result was our CiCA in Your Studio series on Instagram, a video collection where MFA students shared their workspaces and pandemic lives.