Coffee, Art and Conversation with Charles Massey Jr.

Come in from the Cold, Grab a cup of coffee and join us for Tomorrow's Topics Table:

Coffee, Art and Conversation with Professor Charles Massey, Jr and undergraduate and graduate students!

Hopkins Hall Gallery 128 North Oval Mall 614 292 5072

Pheoris West: Speed Portraits

Connection Flights: Carolyn Baginski and Brittney Denham

Women and Portraiture: Gender, Identity and Representation

Currently in Hopkins Hall Gallery: Image-Self

Last Fall at Topics Table:

In the Past

Here is a recap of some past Topics Table discussions:

Thursday April 22 - Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Presented by Rick Livingston

Table Topics // Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer // March 4 11:30-12:30


Join us on Thursday March 4, 11:30-12:30 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery for a Table Topics discussion with artists Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer as they discuss 9 Scripts from a Nation at War and the larger context of their individual work.

Ashley Hunt and Andrea Geyer will be on campus this week participating in the Human Rights Conference: Confronting Images and Testimonies, March 4-5, 2010 at the Wexner Center Film and Video Theater and Thompson Library. On Friday, March 5 from 4-8 pm, their collaborative work, Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading will be performed in the West Reading Room of the Thompson Library.

Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064 is a four-hour public reading of unedited transcripts from 18 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and march 2005. Originally conceived as a part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War -- a collaboration between David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer--which is a mulit-channel video installation that responds to the conditions and questions that have arisen during the military conflicts in Iraq and Afganistan, considering how war determines and "scripts" the roles we are asked to play.

Ashley Hunt is an artist, activist and writer who engages the ideas of social movements, modes of learning and public discourse. His works include the ongoing Corrections Documentary Project (www.correctionsproject.com); 9 Scripts From a Nation at War (www.9scripts.info); and a collaboration with dance artist Taisha Paggett, investigating individual agency through movement, thought and politics, which was the subject of their recent work at BAK in the Netherlands. Hunt lives in Los Angeles. You can find further information about his work by visiting www.ashleyhuntwork.net

Andrea Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works. She investigates the influences of national, gender and class specific implications in the context of a permanent re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories in history and current politics. She is a 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Since 2005 she has been a professor at Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. You can find further information about her work by visiting www.andreageyer.info

Greg Murr

Gesture

I'm Sorry! - Tekeshi Moro

Vinyl as a Way of Life

January 21st - When Font is a Fountian

NOVEMBER 19th

—Prosody—

Patterns of Rhythm and Sound

in Poetry

–or–

Everything I Know About

Life seems to be Gathering

on My i-Pod

Richard Harned, professor in glass, will trace connections between the cadence of language as aesthetic experience and its ability to still time, among other narratives of life.

NOVEMBER 5th - Worm Compostin

Amy Youngs, associate professor in art & technology, leads an engaging discussion on Worm Composting—an aspect of her passionate involvement in environmental issues through arts and science. To see Amy’s featured instruction on worm composting, please visit:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Worm_bin_bag_for_indoor_vermicomposting_and_easy_s/

Thursday, November 12th

The Mambo Club and Other Disasters: Writing as Artmaking

Tony Mendoza, professor of photography and author of numerous acclaimed photo-narrative books will read excerpts from a recently completed autobiographical novel, The Mambo Club and Other Disasters, a coming-of-age story set in Cuba during summer of 1954. Open discussion on writing as artmaking to follow. Excerpts from The Mambo Club... have received two Ohio Arts Council creative writing fellowships.