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October 3 - October 3, 2011

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In Mind and Memory: Symposium on Artistic Research Annica Karlsson Rixon & Anna Viola Hallberg, "State of Mind," 2009
Artistic Research Panel with Visiting Artists and Scholars from UC Berkeley and University of Gothenburg Monday, October 3, 6-8 PM 102 Wurster Hall "In Mind and Memory" presents two research-based artistic collaborations. Using multiple-channel video and still photographs, these two pairs of artists respond in their works to experiences of being marginalized in a globally-connected world. Autobiographical inquiry takes on abstracted, poetic form in Baghdadi Mem/Wars (2010) by Dena al-Adeeb and Sama Alshaibi, which references the artists’ personal and family histories of war and migration from Iraq to the United States. State of Mind (2008) by Annica Karlsson Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg, is a documentary-based body of work about LGBTQ communities in St. Petersburg, Russia, in which first-person narratives are presented simultaneously in an installation alongside family portrait photos of their subjects. In both bodies of work, identity is complicated by other realities, necessitating a camouflage approach to social constructs. In this condition, the self retains autonomy only within the mind’s interior. Accompanying the exhibition will be a symposium (October 3) that will address the relationship between academic research and contemporary art practice, as manifested in the emerging field of Artistic Research. This is a developing field at research universities around the world, but one as yet minimally represented within American institutions. The invited artists apply research methodologies in their creative processes, gathering data through investigative means to inform their artistic output. Annica Karlsson-Rixon and Anna Viola Hallberg apply ethnographic methods such as participant interviews and impartial observation to their intercultural work. Dena Al-Adeeb and Sama Alshaibi bring research backgrounds in Anthropology, Ethnography, and Sociology to their self-analysis, exploring personal experiences with the critical eyes of social scientists. Participants include the artists as well as Gothenburg University faculty members Lena Martinsson and Johan Öberg, Art Practice faculty Greg Niemeyer, Beatrice Bain Research Group scholar Dr. Laura Fantone, and graduate students from the Working Group on Socialisms and Sexualities. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice with Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Institute for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies; Scandinavian Department; Center for Race and Gender; Beatrice Bain Research Group; and Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures at UC Berkeley. Support for the exhibition also provided by IASPIS, The Swedish Art Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists; Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg; Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg; Pro Suecia Barbro Osher Foundation; The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; and The Painter’s Place, San Francisco.
In Mind and Memory: Symposium on Artistic Research Dena al-Adeeb & Sama Alshaibi, "Still/Chaos" from "Baghdadi Mem/Wars," 2010