2008 GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, April 26
7pm-10pm
Discipline Problems
Curated by Joseph Grigley
Opening Reception
8:30pm
Joey Orr Performance, Absence (Research and Desire)
Event runs from April 26-May 3
Alogon Gallery
1049 N Paulina, 3R (entrance on Cortez)

Wednesday, April 30th
5pm Doors Open
6pm-9pm Dinner is Served
Communal Dinner: Feeding Our Bodies of Knowledge
Hosted by Sarah Alford, Ben Madeska and Karen Ware
Three-course meal with wine paired with three delicious conversations
$10 admission- event requires reservations
Please contact kware@saic.edu
Dining Hall, Jane Addams Hull House Museum

Thursday, May 1
12pm-3pm
Art-based Research Methodologies in Action Workshop
Facilitated by Andrew Lochhead and Andrea Slavik, with a special presentation by
Graeme Sullivan, author of Art Practice as Research: Inquiry in the Visual Arts
and Associate Professor of Art Education, Columbia University
Admission As Space Allows
MC 701-Graduate Lounge

Friday, May 2
9am-11am
Third Annual Master's Symposium-VCS Graduate Thesis Presentations
Joey Orr, Heidi Neubauer-Winterburn, Sarah Alford, Ethan White
Gene Siskel Film Center
5pm
Irit Rogoff Keynote: Taking Part
Dr. Rogoff's keynote address explores the question of how we can participate in culture beyond the roles it allots for us. What are the emergent languages that allow us to actualize the practices of art as formative sites?
Columbus Auditorium

Saturday, May 3
7pm
Discipline Problems
Curated by Joseph Grigley
Closing Reception
8:30pm
Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits
Curated by Ethan White & Latham Zearfoss
Alogon Gallery

MASTERPIECE BALL
Sunday May 4th 2008
2pm - 11pm
Ballroom, Maclean Center, 112 S. Michigan Ave.
Events include fashion show, dance/drag performances, and runway competitions. DJ'd by DJ Jaz of Chicago and MC'd by Jack Mizrahi of New York City and Neiman Marcus Escada of Chicago.
Tickets available at http://www.masterpieceball.com
For more info contact Zephyr Pfotenhauer at 773.896.7523
Sponsored by: The Department of Visual and Critical Studies and the Office of Multicultural Affairs at SAIC in collaboration with Chicago's Legendary House of Infiniti present The Masterpiece Ball (closing event of the VCS 2008 graduate symposium)

JOIN US!
Web-based Document
Invented Archives and Historical Creativity
Edited by Divya Menon, Heidi Neubauer-Winterburn and Joey Orr
Multi-media project focusing on history as cultural production
www.saic.edu/webspaces/inventedarchives