Liska Chan Discusses Her Work

As part of the 2008 Architecture and Allied Arts Faculty Lecture Series, University of Oregon Landscape Architecture Professor Liska Chan discussed her Amazon Creek project.  According to Chan the project incorporates subjective responses and new methods-walking/photographing/mapping - to reveal a "dynamic element in the landscape" in a way that "shows its many invisible properties." The talk, titled Traverse, is part of an ongoing project on Amazon creek that seeks to uncover the ways in which the creek is related to the surrounding landscape and its inhabitants. Click here to listen.

Jacques Ranciere at PNCA

On Friday, February 29th, French philosopher Jacques Ranciere delivered a lecture on "What Makes Images Unacceptable" at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. Ranciere has received increased attention from the art world over the past few years partly resulting from his 2004 book The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible. In March 2007 ArtForum devoted an entire issue to the discussion of his work. Click here to listen.

Miwon Kwon Seminar

On Friday, February 29th, Miwon Kwon, the 2008 University of Oregon Fowler Lecturer, sat down with graduate students to answer questions about her research. Topics include her work on site specificity, her current writing on Cai Guo-Qiang as well as a variety of other topics related to the contemporary art world. Click here to listen.

UO Fowler Lecture: Miwon Kwon

The 2008 Fowler Lecture at the University of Oregon featured Art Historian Miwon Kwon of UCLA. Her lecture was entitled "The Art of Expenditure" and featured an in-depth discussion of the explosion works of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. His work has reached new prominence with the recent opening of a mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Click here to hear it.