Visiting Artists Program

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures begin at 6:00 p.m. at the SAIC auditorium, 280 South Columbus Drive. Admission is $5 for the general public, $3 for SAIC alumni, students and seniors, and free for current students, faculty, and staff of the Art Institute of Chicago. For more information call 312.433-3711 or email at: events@artic.edu.

Fall 2003 Schedule

Call and Response: Art in the Age of Hip-Hop Culture

This lecture series explores the influence of hip-hop music and culture on global art making and art discourse. In keeping with the "call and response" nature of hip-hop music, many of the events will be in the form of discussions or dialogues which examine the impact that hip-hop culture has had on contemporary art making as well as art historical scholarship, including:

photo courtesy of the artist.

Lydia Yee is Senior Curator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, where she has organized numerous exhibitions including Commodification of Buddhism (2003), One Planet under a Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art (2001, with Franklin Sirmans), Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s (1999, with Betti-Sue Hertz), and Division of Labor: Women’s Work and Contemporary Art (1995). She also curated Music/Video, a video program presented in Vidéo Topiques (2002) at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain in Strasbourg. She is currently a Joanne Cassullo Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Photo courtesy of Marcyliena Morgan.

Marcyliena Morgan is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University where she is also the founding director of The Hip-Hop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. She is the author of Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture (2002), and editor of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations (1994). She is currently completing a book on hip-hop culture entitled The Real Hiphop - Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in LA’s Underground.

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Adrian Piper Funk Lessons (11/83 Performance, UCAL Berkeley) photo courtesy of the artist.

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is a conceptual artist whose work, in a variety of media, has focused on racism, racial stereotyping and xenophobia for over three decades. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Gallery of New South Wales, the Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, the Fukyui Fine Arts Museum in Kyoto, the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan, Voges und Deisen in Frankfurt, and most recently The Paula Cooper and Thomas Erben Galleries in New York.

Piper received her B.A. in Philosophy from the City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She spent a year at the University of Heidelberg studying Kant and Hegel. The recipient of NEH, Andrew Mellon and Woodrow Wilson Research Fellowships, her principal publications are in metaethics, Kant and the history of ethics. Two book projects, the four-volume Rationality and the Structure of the Self, and Recognition and Responsibility: Legacies of Xenophobia in Germany, Australia and the United States are nearing completion. Her two-volume collection, OUT OF ORDER, OUT OF SIGHT: Selected Writings in Meta-Art and Art Criticism 1967-1992 (MIT Press, 1996), is now available in paperback.

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Greg Tate is the author of Flyboy in the Buttermilk, (Simon and Shuster, 1992) Everything But the Burden, What White People Are Taking From Black Culture (Roadway/Random House, 2003) and Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience (Lawrence Hill, 2003). He has been a staff writer at the Village Voice since 1986. Widely published, he has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Downbeat, The Washington Post, and Artforum. He has also contributed to exhibition catalogues for the ICA Boston, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem and Gagosian Gallery. Tate, a co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition, is musical director for the 14-member (and counting) 21st century big band conducted-improvisation ensemble Burnt Sugar, The Arkestra Chamber, who have released seven recordings on their own TruGroid label since 2000. Tate is currently working on a collection of short science fiction, Altered Spades, Fables of Harlem, and a book length essay on African American rock music, There's A Spectre Haunting Elvis, Further Invocations for the Dark Gods of Rock and Roll.

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Fab 5 Freddy photo courtesy of the artist.

Fab 5 Freddy was among the first graffiti artists to exhibit internationally. With filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, Fab conceived of Wild Style, the first film on hip-hop culture and now a cult classic, which he also produced, starred in and for which he composed the original music. Fab went on to direct over 75 music videos for artists such as KRS-ONE, Queen Latifah, Nas and Snoop Doggy Dog. He was the host of YO! MTV Raps, the head of Pallas Records, and he authored a book on hip-hop slang entitled Fresh Fly Flavor.

Charlie Ahearn photo courtesy of the artist.

Charlie Ahearn is the director of the super 8 kung fu feature, The Deadly Art of Survival, (1979), the hip-hop classic Wild Style (1982, with Fred Braithewaite and Lee Quinones), Doin' Time In Times Square (1992), and Fear of Fiction, (2000). He produced a series of Artist Portrait Videos on Kiki Smith, Tom Otterness, John Ahearn, Martin Wong, Jane Dickson and Leon Golub. Yes Yes Y'all, recently published by Da Capo Press and co-authored with Jim Fricke is a 375-page oral history of the first decade of hip-hop with over a 100 photos, many of them by Ahearn. Ahearn's photos have been exhibited this past year in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo and London.

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Renée Green is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Her exhibitions, videos and films have been seen throughout the world in museums, biennales and festivals, most recently in Documenta XI and in *Sonic Process* at the Centre Georges Pompidou. She has contributed writings to Texte zur Kunst, Spex, October,Transition, Frieze, Flash Art and many other publications. Formerly a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna she is now a Distinguished Artist/professor in the Studio Art department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Featuring Miguel Aguilar, President of Defiance Gallery, and artists Max King Cap and Dzine.

Miguel Aguilar

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Miguel Aguilar is President of Defiance Gallery in Chicago and since 1989 he has made is statement as and artist in graffiti. With a degree in fine art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his participation in annual graffiti events, his work in commercial printing and his management of DC5 – a top three graffiti crew in Chicago with members nationwide – Miguel has proclaimed graffiti an undeniable art form. Miguel’s work can be viewed all over the country on mediums that range from t-shirts to signs to CTA trains.

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Max King Cap

Max King Cap, We Own the Night, 2001, plastic, vinyl, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Through installation, text, performance, and video Max King Cap's politically charged and socially aware work has defined a aggressive but fatalist propaganda, acknowledging and commenting upon the role of art world Janus, the conflicted position of a political artist. His work has been shown widely in the U.S. and abroad, and is currently at Munich's Museum Villa Stuck in One Planet Under a Groove.

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Dzine

Dzine, sampler installation in progress, Museum Contemporary Art Chicago, 2002. Photo courtesy of moniquemelochegallery.

Carlos Dzine Rolon’s work became a favorite of Chicago's early hip-hop scene in the late eighties and early nineties, when his painting and installation work appeared on walls, galleries and cultural institutions in the US, Europe and Africa. Last year his paintings were part of Bossa Tres... Jazz, when Japan meets Europe, a collection of electronic music and painting that contains a collaboration of DJ’s, producers and musicians from Japan, England, Germany, Brazil, the U.S and France released by renowned French record label Yellow Productions. The musicians and paintings were toured in Europe and Asia to critical acclaim. Other recent collaborations include work with rock legend Eric Clapton and Search for Love, a one night, site-specific work with French producer DJ Cam and artist Judy Ledgewood. Dzine is currently working with Japanese designer Hirofumi Kiyonaga on a line of clothing for his SCPH label, available in Japan for the 2004 spring/summer season. A full-color book about the project will accompany the collection.

Represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago, Dzine’s work has also been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art -- Chicago, University of Brimingham at Alabama, Institute of Visual Art – Milwaukee.

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Relative Reality : Korean New Media Art Today – Panel Discussion
December 4, 4:30 p.m.
SAIC auditorium, 280 South Columbus Drive

Hyesung Park, Goloconda, single channel video, 3 minutes 45 seconds, 2001. Photo courtesy of Walsh Gallery.

Featuring curators WonGi Sul and ByungHee Lee and artists Jia Chang, Yunseong Chang, Jungbum Choi, Yangah Ham, Sejin Kim, Joon Kim and Changkyum Park whose work is on view in Relative Reality: Korean New Media Art Today at Walsh Gallery, 118 N. Peoria Street, 2nd Floor, Chicago, December 5 – January 10.

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VAP: FROM THE ARCHIVES

Video Screenings of Previous VAP Lectures and Interviews that are now part of the Visiting Artists Program Digital Archive Resource Center.

• September 15 Alex Katz Lecture
• October 13 Carolee Schneemann Lecture and Interview
• November 10 Kodwo Eshun Interview
• December 8 Cai Guo Qiang Interview

All screenings begin at 4:30 p.m. and take place in the SAIC Auditorium, 280 South Columbus Drive. FREE for ALL!

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For more information and a schedule of events call (312) 443-3711.