CORRECTION Artist & Writer Judith Barry Gives Public Lecture

Spheres of Interest: Experiments in Thinking and Action Spring 2007
5:00pm, free and open to the public

Spheres of Interest, the Graduate Lecture Series provides an opportunity for students to engage with the thoughts and productions of an international array of guest participants from a variety of fields. One of the goals of the series is to provoke students to imagine unfamiliar forms of perceiving and creating through exposure to challenging ideas concerning how different forms of contemporary and historical creative production can be conceived in the present. The guest participants will not invite smooth or easy receptions to the aural, visual, textual, and spatial operations, with which they are engaged, but in contrast, will raise questions from the perspective of producers and analysts about present and past forms of being and production.

January 26
Judith Barry
“Sites Taken for Wonder”

Judith Barry is an artist and writer whose work crosses a number of disciplines: performance, installation, sculpture, architecture, photography, and new media. She has exhibited internationally at the Berlin Biennial (2003), several Venice Biennales of both Art and Architecture (1988, 2000, 2001), Bienal de São Paulo (1994), Nagoya Biennial (1993), Carnegie International (2001), Whitney Biennial (1987), Sydney Biennial (1982), and two InSites (San Diego/Tijuana) (1997, 2000), among others. In 2000, she was awarded the Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts and in 2001 her piece, “Voice Off,” received “Best Pavilion” and “Audience Award” at the 8th Cairo Biennial. Recent exhibitions include Queens International, Queens Museum (2006); Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (2006); SHOP 1V, Whitechapel Gallery (2006); Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2006); Wall to be Destroyed, Frac Lorraine, Metz (2005); Baroque/Neo Baroque, DA2, Salamanca (2005); Phonorama, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2004); East Village USA, New Museum, NY (2004). In Spring 2007 a traveling survey of her work will open in Domus Atrium 2, Salamanca, Spain. Barry is currently Director of the MFA Program at the Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University.