Look + Listen
A picture is worth a thousand words. How about a video or audio snippet?
Look + Listen offers multimedia documentation of VAC exhibitions and programs that provides a new dimension for experiencing the Visual Arts Center. Here you'll find media that illustrate our commitment to creative growth and exploration within the contemporary arts.
Queer States Symposium
October 22, 2011
This is the first of four audio recordings from the symposium. Listen to the other three at utvac.podomatic.com.
This symposium brought together scholars and critics to discuss a variety of themes connected to the exhibition Queer State(s). Participants from the UT community included Lisa Moore, Associate Professor of English; Ixchel Rosal, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center; Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art; and Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers, both PhD candidates in Art History. In addition, other participants included Nathan Lee, an independent curator and critic from New York; Leah Devun, a Faculty Fellow at Stanford University and an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University; and Jonathan D. Katz, director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo and co-founder of the activist group Queer Nation, San Francisco and the Queer Caucus of the College Art Association.
Sound + Vision: Disco Desert by Austin Video Bee
October 7, 2011
Sound + Vision aims to promote experiments in sound, video and performance. Each program is designed to complement and enrich the contemporary art experience fostered by the Visual Arts Center.
Setting out to capture the surreality, mutability, and possibility found in West Texas, Austin Video Bee traveled to Presidio, Texas and the adjacent area to collect footage and construct a temporary shelter that doubles as a projection structure for this edition of Sound + Vision. The five-person collective gathered a multitude of desert images and sounds, translated and reassembled the footage, augmenting it in post-production to draw out the fantastic elements of the landscape. The installation features projections and sound enveloping the viewers in an immersive sensory experience.
Mika Tajima in conversation with Richard Linklater
September 13, 2011
In conjunction with Mika Tajima's exhibition The Architect's Garden at the Visual Arts Center, this conversation pairs Tajima and filmmaker Richard Linklater as they discuss slackers, flaneurs, and the history of refusal, an element in Tajima's exhibition and Linklater's 1991 film Slacker.
Art in Practice panel discussion
April 19, 2011
Art in Practice provides guidance and insight into the professional world to students preparing for careers in the arts. Varying topics of conversation range from a nuts-and-bolts approach to gaining valuable job skills, to broad issues relevant to creative culture as a whole.
Panelists of this edition included Andy Campbell (art historian), Mike Chesser (collector), Arturo Palacios (gallerist), Devon Dikeou (artist), Wendy Vogel (critic), and Elizabeth Dunbar (curator). Moderated by Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Blanton Musuem of Art
Sound + Vision: The End of Cities by Travis Weller, performed by Line Upon Line percussion ensemble
March 11, 2011
Sound + Vision aims to promote experiments in sound, video and performance. Each program is designed to complement and enrich the contemporary art experience fostered by the Visual Arts Center.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. — Italo Calvino
Travis Weller of Austin's New Music Co-op presented a very special composition utilizing the architecture of the Visual Arts Center. The End of Cities is a piece for percussion trio composed specifically for the steel awning over the Kayem Arbor at the VAC, using only resonant sounds inherent within the structure. It was commissioned by the UT Visual Arts Center.
Panel discussion: The Working Homeless
February 25, 2011
This panel discussion was related to the exhibition The Working Homeless, an installation by MFA candidate in Studio Art Daniel Rudin that addressed issues of homelessness. Panelists included Rudin, members of the UT community whose research deals with homelessness, and partcipants in a film made by Rudin who have had personal experiences with homelessness. The discussion was moderated by Noah Simblist, the 2010-11 VAC Curatorial Fellow.
Gallery Talk with Amanda Ross-Ho
February 11, 2011
This gallery talk was with the VAC's spring 2011 artist-in-residence Amanda Ross-Ho. The conversation came at the end of her one-month residence and included insight into her transformation of the Vaulted Gallery into a public, interactive work site.
Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument
Natasha Bowdoin was in residence at the Visual Arts Center in January 2011. This time-lapse video documents the creation of her site-specific work over the span of three weeks.