 UAG / Room Gallery Presents
LACAN IN THE AMERICAS: a RoundtableRoundtable discussion on Robert Jacoby's 1968: el culo te abrocho
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
University Art Gallery; Free admission Roberto Jacoby is an Argentine artist whose artwork in the 1960s defined a branch of "new media" conceptual art, one informed by the writings of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan -- a full decade before such aesthetic experiments were made in the Northern Hemisphere.
During Jacoby's hiatus from the art work in the 1980s, he was the lyricist for the Argentine new wave band "Virus." In 1968: el culo te abrocho, Jacoby superimposes those lyrics upon digital reprints of archival documents related to his activities at the Instituto Di Tella. Taken together, the political posters and lyrical texts provoke us to reflect upon the utopian, poetic hopes that characterized the global cultural revolution of the 1960s and to ask what that legacy might mean to us now.
Featured speakers are Catherine Benamou (Director of Film and Video Center), Julia Bryan-Wilson (Director, Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies), Juli Carson (Director, University Art Gallery), and Catherine Liu (Director, Humanities Center).
A reception follows the conversation.
Univeristy Art Gallery, UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, 712 Arts Plaza. For more information or driving directions, call 949 824-9854 or visit www.ucigallery.com |
