November 13: 4-6PM / KH200
Aparna Sharma | Documentary in India - Some Reflections and Problematics
An independent filmmaker and journalist, Aparna Sharma's film practice primarily derives from the intersection between theory and practice, in particular the conversations between experimental and doucmentary filmmaking, art and ethnography. Her scholarly research interests span the interface of culture and media, small and marginal communities, intercultural aesthetics, integrating digital media in live performance, world cinema, early cinema, modernism in the Indian subcontinent and subaltern studies.
November 20: 4-6PM / KH200
Suzanne Lacy & Pilar Riano | Skin of Memory [La Piel de la Memoria]
The project La Piel del Memoria/The Skin of Memory took place in 1998-1999 in the Colombia city of Medellin, in a barrio called Antioquia, a neighborhood with a distinct history marked by exclusion, social tensions, and multiple forms of drug-related,territorial, political and everyday violence. The public art project re-created a lost sense of community through art, celebration, and fostering interaction.
November 27: 4-6PM / KH200
Richard Schechner | Roots/Possibilities of Performance Studies
Performance studies is an "interdiscipline," emerging from several other disciplines and exisiting in between them. PS is also, of course, an emergent discipline of tis own - with a growing number of performance studies departments and programs in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Where did PS "come from"? What are its instiutional and intellectual roots? Where is it going? What is PS's relationship and scholarship on the one hand and artworks on the other? Is there a PS practice to go along with the PS scholarship and pedagogy? Schechner will elcture, show a few examples, and most importantly, interact in dialogue with what he hopes will be participants rather than an audience.
November 30: Campus-Wide Events
World AIDS Day
Continuing a tradition started in 2004, thousands of students will celebrate World AIDS Day at UCLA on Friday, November 30, 2007. We rally to acknowledge the discovery of AIDS right here at UCLA 26 years ago, and to actively support AIDS research. We gather in solidarity with organizations on campus and in the community that work towards the eradication of this rapidly spreading syndrome, including the following supporting organizations: UCLA AIDS Institute, Department of World Arts and Cultures, Art|Global Health Center, UCLA Film and Television Archive, Young Research Library, Instructional Media Lab, and over a dozen student groups, including Student Welfare Commission AIDS Awareness Committee, AIDS Ambassadors, Dance Marathon, Student Alumni Association, Activist Puppetry, Make Art/Stop AIDS, and Undergraduate Students Association Council. The day is filled with events that reaffirm a campus-wide commitment to intervene in the global AIDS pandemic.
The theme this year, “Unite to Fight: Face HIV/AIDS,” encourages the UCLA community to come together in a united effort to support AIDS awareness and research, and also to fight stigma in the face of HIV/AIDS. The UCLA campus unites to become a site for: free, rapid, anonymous HIV testing; information dissemination from community AIDS service organizations on prevention methods and ways to get involved; student groups to show their support; and inspirational art-based projects which showcase the growing efforts of activists worldwide. Become a part of UCLA’s own art-based effort by committing to Face HIV/AIDS through Polaroid photographs, which will be linked in the image of red ribbons in Bruin Plaza. As a visual embodiment of this year’s theme, the faces of UCLA will join the faces living with HIV/AIDS to show how together we can make a difference. UNITE TO FIGHT in the face of HIV/AIDS.
**World AIDS Day is officially on December 1st annually but this year, UCLA will be observing it on Friday, November 30, 2007.
48 Hours to Action
After a sold-out show in 2006, 48 Hours to Action returns as UCLA's culminating event for World AIDS Day, bringing together artists from all over campus in a showcase of music, visual art, spoken word, video, dance and fashion. Through these artistic endeavors, 48 Hours to Action affirms healthy sexuality, encourages open communication, and underscores the importance of HIV status awareness for our campus community. Working with a theme provided just 48 hours prior to showtime, these artist-activists create works of art aimed to educate and inspire. |
