Wednesday,
November
19
, 2008
10
:05
pm
President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
What is the relationship between gesture and time, mediality and performativity, and appropriation and activism? How has the role of performance art in society changed over the last three decades? In this panel, art historians discuss their research on performance from the 1960s to the 1980s and the place of performance art in the contemporary cultural landscape.
A pioneer in the field of painting and multimedia, Rauschenberg passed away Monday night at age 82. Beyond his work, he was a primary member of the arts revolution …