Saturday | March 10, 2007 | 12 - 7:30 pm | Main Gallery

California Institute of the Arts 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA 91355 [directions] Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations required.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS | BIOGRAPHIES

	ANDREA BOWERS has an MFA from CalArts and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo shows include The Weight of Relevance at The Vienna Secession, Vows at Halle für Kunst in Germany, Nothing Is Neutral at REDCAT, Los Angeles and Eulogies to One and Another at Galerie Praz-Delavallade in France. Recent group shows include Tanzen, Sehen at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Germany, Personal Affairs at the Morsbroich Museum in Germany, Particulate Matter at the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland and the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in Los Angeles, California, Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York, New York, Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin, Germany, Galerie Praz-Delavallade in Paris, France and Van Horn in Düsseldorf, Germany. Bowers is currently a Visiting Artist at CalArts. images | Ms. Magazine
	CONNIE BUTLER is the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, a position she has held since February of 2006. From 1996-2006, she was Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is currently organizing "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution," an international survey of feminist art which will open at MOCA in Los Angeles in March 2007, and will travel to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY and The Vancouver Art Gallery.  She completed graduate work in art history at Berkeley in 1987 and, in 1996, did further graduate studies in the PhD program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Butler has taught and lectured extensively and contributed to publications including Art + Text, Parkett and Art Journal. WACK! exhibition catalogue
	MARIA CRUZ is a young Queer Latina media artist based in Los Angeles. Her arts and activism include producing two video poems “Queer Mexicana” and “Cruzando La Frontera” through REACH LA which have screened nationally in various film festivals including OUTFEST 2005 & 2006, Fusion – Los Angeles Film Festival for Queer People of Color 2006, the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2006. Maria has presented her videos to Queer youth audiences at the Models of Pride Conference at Occidental College, The LOVE Conference - Manual Arts High School, Pitzer College and LA Freewaves. Her video poem "Queer Mexicana" is featured on REACH LA's Qycrashpad.com website. In addition to her video work, Maria has been writing and producing poetic documentary radio pieces and acting as a radio journalist with Youth Radio. Her radio documentaries have been podcast through the Youth Radio website and have aired on public radio stations nationally. Currently Maria is working with the Queer youth activist organization Q-Team to develop an LGBT youth media justice workshop. Maria's media artwork focuses on issues of immigration, feminism and Latina Queerness. qycrashpad.com | reachla.com
	“Aesthetics, the philosophy of form, is like a swinging door for fools and wise alike. In its pure mission, aesthetics is vulnerable to consumption and co-option. An engagement with ethics is necessary to filter aesthetics through portals of criticality, fluidity, flexibility, and responsibility – to locate aesthetics in life.” DORIT CYPIS is an artist (MFA, Cal Arts, 1977) and a mediator (Masters of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University, 2005). Her work mines aesthetics and ethics, exploring relationships between the psycho-mythological, the corporeal, and the political. Cypis’ museum exhibitions, since the late 1970’s, are immersive laboratories abstracting forms, positions, gestures, and meanings to shed light on the paradoxes of identity, while her public works/actions are social/political extensions, mediating aesthetic abstractions into living life. Here form truly meets function and ideology shifts back to experience. Through Foreign Exchanges, Cypis offers training, consultation and experimentation on engaging identity and social relations to leaders in culture, education, business and philanthropy. doritcypis.com
	ANDREA FRASER’s work has been identified with performance, video, context art and institutional critique. Major projects include installations for the Berkeley Art Museum (1992); the Kunstverein Munich (1993); the Venice Biennale (Austrian Pavilion, 1993); the Whitney Biennial (1993); the Generali Foundation, Vienna (1995); the Kunsthalle Bern (1998); the Sprengel Museum Hannover(1998); and the Bienal de São Paulo (1998). She has created performances for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1986); the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1989); the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (1991); inSITE, San Diego/Tijuana (1997); and the MICA Foundation, New York (2001). She has also performed solo work at the Whitechapel, London; the Dia Art Foundation, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among other venues. A survey of her video work was presented by the Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, in 2002. In 2003, the Kunstverein in Hamburg organized the retrospective AndreaFraser: Works 1984-2003. Her essays and performance scripts have appeared in Art in America, Afterimage, October, Texte zur Kunst, Social Text, Critical Quarterly, Documents, Artforum and Grey Room. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, was released by MIT Press in 2005. Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group, The V-Girls (1986-1996); the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998); and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-present). She was also co-organizer of Services, a “working-group exhibition” that toured to seven venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001. Fraser has received grants from Art Matters, Inc., the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of California, Los Angeles.
	CHITRA GANESH was born and raised in New York City, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work explores how memories, dreams, and their repression shape personal and social crises. Recovering buried histories circulating them into a public and contemporary context are critical to her drawing, installation, and text-based collaborations, A graduate of Brown University (1996), and MFA from Columbia University in 2002, she received awards from the College Art Association, Astraea Foundation, and NYFA. From 1998-2003, Chitra was a Board Member of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective (SAWCC), and has taught middle and high school for the past ten years. Her work has been shown locally and internationly, including The Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, White Columns, Apex Art, Exit Art, Asia Society, Fondazione Sandretto in Turin, Nature Morte in New Delhi, and the Gwangju Contemporary Arts Centre in South Korea. images
	MARY KELLY studied at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. Currently, Professor of Art, UCLA. Recent exhibitions of her work include the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and, forthcoming, Documenta XII, Kassel.  She is the author of Post-Partum Document, Generali Foundation, Vienna and University of California Press, 1998 and  Imaging Desire, MIT Press, Boston, 1996.  A survey of her work, Mary Kelly, was published by Phaidon Press, London, 1997. images
	SUZANNE LACY is an artist and writer whose work includes large-scale public performances and installations, photographs and text on issues of social justice and equity. She is Chair of the new Master’s in Fine Arts: Public Practices at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Lacy is a proponent of audience engagement and artists' roles in shaping the public agenda.  She lectures widely, has published over 60 articles, exhibited internationally, and been reviewed in the L.A. Times, the New York Times, Art in America, and numerous books.  Her fellowships include the Guggenheim Foundation, The Surdna Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.   Her book, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art (1995), was responsible for coining the term and articulating the practice. Most recently Lacy completed a 5 year community development art project in a small town in rural Appalachia, a performance with teens in Taipei, and is working on three new projects for Los Angeles in Spring 2007.  Recent awards include the Henry Moore Fellowship in Great Britain. She is working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press and a book describing her ten-year projects with youth and civic sectors in Oakland, California with the On the Edge research programme at Gray’s College of Art in Aberdeen, Scotland. suzannelacy.com
	CATHERINE LORD, Professor of Studio Art and affiliated faculty, Department of Women’s Studies and Department of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She is the author of the text/image experimental narrative, The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (University of Texas Press), recently translated into French as L’Ete de Sa Calvitie. Her critical essays and her fiction have been published in Afterimage, Art & Text, Artcoast, New Art Examiner, Whitewalls, Framework, Documents, Art Journal, GLQ, X-tra and Art Paper, as well as the collections The Contest of Meaning, Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present, Reframings: New American Feminisms in Photography, The Passionate Camera, Hers 3, Space, Site and Intervention: Issues in Installation and Site-Specific Art, and Decomposing. Her curated exhibitions include "Pervert," "Trash," “Gender, fucked,” and "Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art." Her work as a visual artist was included in the 1995 inaugural biennal of Site Santa Fe, and has been shown at the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Post Gallery I(Los Angeles), the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, among other venues. She is currently working on a text/image project titled, The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men. She has worked as associate editor of Afterimage and Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of the Arts. She served as chair of the Department of Studio Art, UC Irvine from 1990-1995 and as Director of the UCI Gallery from 1991-1996.
	MARTHA ROSLER is an artist working in video, photo-text, installation, and performance. She also writes criticism and lectures nationally and internationally. Her work on the public sphere ranges from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially housing. Her work often centers on women’s experience. Rosler has long produced works on war and the “national security climate” that predisposes to war. Her photomontage series joining images of war and domesticity, first made in relation to the war in Vietnam, has been reprised in relation to Iraq and Afghanistan. Her works on systems of travel and their associated environments, including air travel, automobile travel and urban undergrounds, further consider the landscapes of everyday life. Rosler’s work has been seen in Documenta; several Whitney Biennials; at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and many other venues. A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York in 1999-2001. In 2005, Rosler received the Spectrum International Prize in Photography and a partial retrospective was held at the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, in conjunction with this award. In 2006, Rosler received the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria’s highest fine arts award. In 2007, Rosler received an Anonymous Was a Woman award. Rosler will participate in the forthcoming Documenta and Skulptur Projekte Münster exhibitions. Rosler has published fourteen books, in several languages, and numerous other publications of art and essays. Her book of essays, Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001, was published in 2004. She lives and works in New York City. website
	EMILY ROYSDON is a Los Angeles and New York-based interdisciplinary artist whose projects engage language, gesture and memory. Imaging collectivity and communicability as metonymic structures, the works tries to simultaneously exhibit ecstatic resistance and structural collapse. She is also an editor and co-founder of LTTR, a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. Roysdon's work has been shown at Participant, Inc, NY; MIT List Visual Art Centre, Cambridge; The Kitchen, NY; Art in General, NY; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Roysdon completed the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 2001 and an Interdisciplinary MFA at UCLA in 2006. emilyroysdon.com
click to enlarge	FAITH WILDING is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator with a BA (Comparative Literature), University of Iowa, and an MFA (Performance/Installation/ Feminist Art), California Institute of the Arts, 1973. Wilding is Chair and Associate Professor of Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (2002-present). Wilding was a co-founder of the feminist art movement in Southern California, chronicled in her book By Our Own Hands (Los Angeles,1976). Wilding has exhibited in solo and group shows for thirty years in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and Southeast Asia. Her work addresses the recombinant and distributed bio-tech body in various media including 2-D, video, digital media, installations, and performances. Wilding founded and collaborates with subRosa, a reproducible cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers using BioArt and tactical performance in the public sphere to explore and critique the intersections of information and biotechnologies in women’s bodies, lives, and work. subRosa  produces  artworks, performances, workshops, contestational campaigns, publications, media interventions, and public forums. Wilding lectures and publishes widely both nationally and internationally.  Publications include:Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices. Autonomedia, 2003; and numerous essays, including in The Power of Feminist Art, Abrams,1995. cyberfeminism.net