Professional Practice Speaker Series, Nov. 9 - 12
Stamps presents a series of lunchtime talks by visiting artists and designers from Mon., Nov 9 — Thurs., Nov. 12. The Professional Practice Speaker Series is free and open to the public, and is organized and supported by Stamps IP faculty.
Marissa Perel
Artist & Writer
Monday, November 9
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2030, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Beili Liu
Artist & Professor
Tuesday, November 10
12:30 — 1:30 pm
Art & Architecture Auditoriem, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Allen Samuels
Industrial Designer & Professor
Wednesday, November 11
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2023, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Martha Wilson
Artist & Founder of Franklin Furnace (NYC)
Thursday, November 12
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2023, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Marissa Perel
Artist & Writer
Monday, November 9
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2030, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Marissa Perel is an artist and writer based in New York. Her interdisciplinary work includes performance, installation, criticism and curatorial projects. She often uses collaboration as a platform for the exchange of disciplines, working methods and discourses with choreographers, composers and visual artists. She is interested in drawing from the polemics of identity and representation to create compositional models for performance and installation. She orchestrates an immersive world where text, objects, dance and video transmit experiences of personal and societal conflicts. Her materials are cathected objects, cues that connect an immediate physical and psychic state to past events. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries, theaters and performance spaces in the U.S. and abroad.
Perel asks, “How do we move across space and time with respect to our collected histories?” Her essays, reviews, experimental prose and interviews engage this question at the convergence of the fields of contemporary art and performance. She originated the column, “Gimme Shelter: Performance Now” for Art21 Magazine and edited Critical Correspondence, the on-line dance and performance journal of Movement Research. She also pursues this question in her curatorial work, seeking to bring visibility to a multitude of forms and discourses. She has curated performances, panels and talks at such venues as the New Museum, New York Live Arts and at the Aux Performance Space at Vox Populi where she recently served as Curatorial Fellow.
Beili Liu
Artist & Professor
Tuesday, November 10
12:30 — 1:30 pm
Art & Architecture Auditoriem, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Beili Liu (Stamps MFA 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist whose time and process based installations explore subjects of cultural specificity and overlaps, transient or persistent energy, and conflicting and confluent forces. She uses simple materials and compounds such as thread, paper, incense, wood, salt, water to craft microcosms of fragility and poignancy.
Beili Liu has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, Hua Gallery, London, UK, Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway, the Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, and Buffalo Arts Studio. Liu has been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, the Austin Museum of Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland, the Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania, From Lausanne to Beijing, the 7th International Textile Biennale, China, and Hamburg Art Week, Germany.
Liu’s work has received critical reviews from Art in America, Sacchi Review, UK, Helsinki Sanomat News, Finland, Stavanger News, Norway, China Daily, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, China ArtNow, Fiber Quarterly, Canada, Handelsblatt, Germany, Hamburg Abendblatt, Artillery Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Slant Los Angeles, Buffalo News, Detroit Metro Times, and Austin Chronicle, among many others.
Liu received the San Francisco Mayor’s Award for her contribution to cultural exchange in 2008, and was named twice “Artist of the Year”, by Austin Visual Art Association and the Austin Critics Table Awards. In 2011, Liu received a Distinction award at the Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania.
Born in Jilin, China, Liu now lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.
Allen Samuels
Industrial Designer & Professor
Wednesday, November 11
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2023, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Allen Samuels is an industrial designer and Stamps Emeritus Professor and Dean.
He has worked as an industrial designer on staff and consultant to over 30 corporations, including Corning Glass Works, Bausch and Lomb, Black and Decker, Westinghouse, 3M, Owens Illinois, FTD, King Sealy Thermos, Honeywell, Wieland, Duofast, and Herman Miller-Milcare.
His current research interests include the design of mobile, living and work environments for aging individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and other physical and cognitive impairments, and the design of disposable emergency shelters, infant carriers and in-field toilets. Other work includes the design of conceptual products beyond current manufacturing capabilities.
He was a 2015 TedxUM speaker.
Martha Wilson
Artist & Founder of Franklin Furnace (NYC)
Thursday, November 12
12:15 — 1:15 pm
Room 2023, Art & Architecture Building, 2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Under Martha Wilson’s visionary direction, Franklin Furnace has remained a vital force in the New York art world since 1976, holding fast to its mission of “keeping the world safe for avant-garde art.” For 20 years, its TriBeCa location at 112 Franklin Street was the fulcrum for much performance art history as well as a prime target for conservative ire during the Culture Wars. In the late ’90s Franklin Furnace sold its loft and “went virtual,” shifting its attention to “live art online”; to the Franklin Furnace Fund, its performance art granting program; and to the maintenance of its vast archives. The exhibition Martha Wilson: Staging the Self/30 Projects from 30 Years of Franklin Furnace Archive, curated by Peter Dykhuis, consists of Wilson’s personal work from 1971 onward as well as one project from each of Franklin Furnace’s first 30 years. It has been traveling North America for the past few years under the aegis of Independent Curators International and will reach its New York City finale as Performing Franklin Furnace in February 2015. She met with Jarrett Earnest to discuss recent news regarding the future of Franklin Furnace, dressing like Michelle Obama, and diagramming Henry James.