Thursday, January 24, 6:30pm in the Mediatheque

Co-Presented with the MFA in Visual Studies Program

Author, publisher, and critic Chris Kraus joins the MA in Critical Studies program to talk about her new collection, Social Practices, which is described as “essays on and around art and art practices” published by Semiotext(e), the legendary radical imprint where Chris has been a driving force since the 1990s.

Chris Kraus (b. 1955) is a Los Angeles–based writer, art critic, and editor whose novels include I Love Dick (1997), Torpor (2006), and Summer of Hate (2012). Her writing navigates and mediates seamlessly between autobiography, fiction, philosophy, and art criticism. She teaches creative writing and art writing at The European Graduate School / EGS and has been a visiting professor at the Art Center College of Design, the University of California at San Diego, New York University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Los Angeles Contemporary Archives. Along with Sylvère Lotringer and Hedi El Kholti, Kraus is co-editor of the influential publishing house Semiotext(e), which has introduced much of contemporary French theory to an American audience, and published writers such as: Abdellah Taia, Veronica Gonzalez Pena, Mark Von Schlegell, Robert Gluck, Natasha Stagg, and Dodie Bellamy.

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Critical Studies Open Studios on November 17, from 5-8pm in room 413.

The second year Critical Studies cohort visits Caldera in Sisters, Oregon.

Mohanad Elshieky, Where is the joke in that? Lecture/Stand Up Comedy Workshop

Mediatheque, Date: October 10, Start Time: 6:30-8:00 pm

In this workshop will be exploring the art of looking within yourself for comedy. You might not think your life is interesting, but if you dig deep enough, the joke is somewhere there. We will be discussing joke structure, punchlines, but more importantly, how to have fun and be you.

Join PNCA's Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies October 12th and 13th for the 2018 Graduate Symposium, "Pedagogy: Engage, Critique, Inspire."

Z. Nicolazzo holds a workshop sponsored by Critical Studies

Saturday, October 13, 11:45am-1:15pm, Mediatheque

C. Riley Snorton PNCA MA in Critical Studies Lecture

Friday, September 7, 4pm

PNCA Critical Studies students have the opportunity to join scholars and artists from throughout the institution each summer in creative inquiry by participating in Global Studios, Berlin.

Assistant Professor in PNCA's Critical Studies and Visual Studies Graduate programs, Taylor Eggån publishes new research in English Studies.

Q+A Projects is a collaborative endeavor launched in 2018 by Critical Studies MA candidate Alex Andreotti and dual MA/MFA candidate Qamuuqin Maxwell. The group curated a show featuring work by eight PNCA graduate students exhibited at the 2018 Oregon Fringe Festival in Ashland, OR.

Julian Adoff presented his paper, "A Common Language of Cultural Provocation: Problematizing the Categorical Taxonomies of Art and Design Research" at the 2018 Popular Culture Conference in March.

Allan deSouza, Associate Professor and Chair of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley, has been announced as the keynote speaker of PNCA's 2018 Graduate Symposium taking place October 12th and 13th.

PNCA's MA in Critical Studies program is a proud sponsor of The English Institute 77th Annual Conference, Truth Telling: Seven talks, one conversation, taking place September 21-23, 2018 at Yale University.

See video of Sarah Schulman's talk Conflict is not Abuse.

Consultant and author Beth Pickens will be speaking on Monday April 30 11AM -12:30PM