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New Langton Arts

October 1 - October 1, 2008

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1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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Contemporary Art & Historical Reenactment
Panel Discussion: Julio Cesar Morales – artist Brian Conely – artist and educator Kuniko Vroman – independent curator Taking Julio Cesar Morales’ new video work "Interrupted Passage "as its point of departure, this panel will be a lively, timely discussion of the relationship between contemporary art and historical reenactment. Morales will present ideas and images from his new work – currently on display at New Langton Arts – a work which explores the complex early history of California, followed by remarks from artist, educator, and editor Brian Conely, independent curator Kuniko Vroman, and panel moderator and Associate Curator at New Langton Arts, Maria del Carmen Carrion. Panel Bios Brian Conley is an artist from New York currently living in San Francisco. From radio performance to sculptural and sound-based installations, Conley's artistic practice operates across the divide of science, art, and politics. Appearing as anatomical models or artifacts from some future time, Conley uses scientific research and political inquiry to construct new morphologies that humorously challenge our perceptions of humanity, nature, technology, and consciousness. He has had projects in Bitstreams at the Whitney Museum, Statements at ArtBasel, and a commission from the ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art. He exhibited at MassMoca in a show called Becoming Animal and Insight/Out:Eight Americans at the Wanas Foundation in Sweden. This year he did exhibitions in Leipzig and at YBCA. He is founding co-editor with Sina Najafi of Cabinet Magazine, an international art and culture quarterly. For the last three years he was Chair of the Graduate Fine Art Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, and is now happily a professor at CCA and back to making art. Julio Cesar Morales Growing up on both sides of the San Diego-Tijuana border, Julio Cesar Morales looks at ways that consciousness shifts as it moves between languages, cultures, and political systems. In sound and video installations, public projects, photography, drawings and collage, Morales illuminates the complex economies of work, memory, and desire. Combining analytical insight with a humanist’s appreciation for the travails of everyday existence, Morales attempts to expose the multitude of small yet charged gestures, attitudes, and expressions that characterize trans-cultural life. Morales has been exploring issues of labor, memory, and identity in works such as Migrant Dubs, in collaboration with Eamon Ore-Giron, which was part of the exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement at the Los Angeles County Museum and Informal Economy Venders; re-mixing history and music in works such as El Son Room and Que Rico El Mambo!. Kuniko Vroman is an independent curator and the coordinator for FUSE: cadre/montalvo artist research residency initiative. She holds a BA in Art History from San José State University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from The California College of the Arts. Recently she curated bulbo, San Jose: DIY Media Strategies from the Border, The Climate Clock Concept Designs Exhibition and Memotronic ZERO1's 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in 2008. She was the Coordinator for the ISEA2006 Symposium that was held in conjunction with the ZERO1 festival in 2006. In 2004, she curated a statewide survey of recent MFAs called New California Masters.