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December 6 - December 6, 2011

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Hari Kunzru and Iain Boal In Conversation Hari Kunzru and Iain Boal In Conversation at CCA
CCA GRAD FINE ARTS PROGRAMS Social Practice Workshop Presents Hari Kunzru and Iain Boal In Conversation Tuesday, December 6 7pm Timken Hall California College of the Arts 1111 8th Street, SF CA Join Hari Kunzru, writer, journalist, activist, and author of the recent novel Gods Without Men (2011) in conversation with Iain Boal, social historian, activist, and co-founder of the Retort collective. Kunzru and Boal are mutually concerned with the field of cultural production and power relations, and politically engaged with the possibilities and politics of public speech. Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007) and Gods Without Men (2011), as well as a short story collection, Noise (2006). His work has been translated into twenty-one languages and won him prizes including the Somerset Maugham award, the Betty Trask prize of the Society of Authors, a Pushcart prize and a British Book Award. In 2003 Granta named him one of its twenty best young British novelists. Lire magazine named him one of its 50 "écrivains pour demain". He is Deputy President of English PEN, a patron of the Refugee Council and a member of the editorial board of Mute magazine. His short stories and journalism have appeared in diverse publications including The New York Times, Guardian, New Yorker, Financial Times, Times of India, Wired and New Statesman. He lives in New York City. Iain Boal is particularly interested in the relations between art, science, and representation. He is a social historian and co-founder of the Retort collective, an association of radical writers, artisans, and artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author, with T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts, of Retort’s Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (Verso). He is co-editor of West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California (PM Press, 2012), and his brief history of the bicycle, The Green Machine, is forthcoming from Notting Hill Editions. He is presently Research Fellow of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London. CCA's MFA Social Practice Workshop focuses on questions of aesthetics, ethics, collaboration, persona, media strategies, and activism—the intersection of art and actual social situations.