What Can Art Do?
A panel discussion exploring what contemporary art can do to push acceptance along culture & gender spectrums.
12 June ’16, 1-2pm PDT / 20:00-21:00 GMT
*Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA)*
117 N. Sycamore
Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-667-1517
- Sapira Cheuk, Painter
- Jane Chin Davidson, Art History, CSU San Bernardino
- Kurt Weston, Photographer
- Jonathan Alexander, English, Gender & Sexuality, UC Irvine
- Natalie Mik, (Moderator) Curator & Sociologist
#whatcanartdo
1pm PDT Live Tweet: @SapiraCheuk, Jane Chin Davidson, Kurt Weston, Jonathan Alexander & @mik_natalie #whatcanartdo pic.twitter.com/yNsrPXoEMA
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Broadening the horizon at the #whatcanartdo panel at @Occcart
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#whatcanartdo #panneldiscussion #art #community #learnsomethingnew #HappeningNow pic.twitter.com/Nytb93RHvx
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#WhatCanArtDo? @Occcart w @mik_natalie @SapiraCheuk Jane Chin Davidson, Kurt Weston, Johanthan Alexander pic.twitter.com/fiub2IBOKg
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Kurt Weston: contemporary art is very successful at taking us out of our comfort zone & perceiving in a different way #whatcanartdo
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Kurt Weston: HIV let me see how quickly society can stigmatize people #whatcanartdo #theOtherInSociety @Occcart
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Kurt Weston: 60's -70's counter culture was progressive… Regan Era… pendulum swung the other way… prejudice… otherness #whatcaartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Kurt Weston: representations of diversity, of otherness, can be so powerful… reframe context of how we look at #otherness #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Kurt Weston: I try to do that as much as I can in my own work #whatcanartdo #otherness
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jane Chin Davidson: it's kind of godsend that Donald Trump came along… clearly we are not in postidentity! #whatcanartdo #postidentity
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jane Chin Davidson: artists today are the voice, the means to transforming the world, no one else is doing that #whatcanartdo #postidentity
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: art is material for living, material for world building, for cultural and embodied forms of existence #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: homophobic South: tried 2 gain access 2 forms of art that allowed me to see that U could live differently #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: Art saves lives. #whatcanartdo #artsaveslives
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Kurt Weston & panelists #whatcanartdo pic.twitter.com/Ao5FFBZzoU
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Audience at "What Can Art Do" @Occcart #whatcanartdo pic.twitter.com/eiIZGRZNXH
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jane Chin Davidson: what @SapiraCheuk does in her work is to bring the body back #whatcanartdo #thebody #realbodies
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: these are artists who give us real bodies #whatcanartdo #realbodies #resistingNormalization
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: We live in a world where norms of behavior are destroying our planet. #whatcanartdo #resistingNormalization
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
What Can Art Do? Moderator @mik_natalie @Occcart #whatcanartdo pic.twitter.com/nefhd9zBZK
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: What does it mean to be a queer subject right now in an age of increasing digital saturation #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jonathan Alexander: grew up in a home that didn't give U a lot of information on what it was like to be queer #whatcanartdo #growingupqueer
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
#whatcanartdo @SapiraCheuk @Occcart pic.twitter.com/gARq3wPdDu
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jane Chin Davidson: Trying to understand what globalization does to art and to art history #whatcanartdo #globalization
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
What Can Art Do? panel discussion @Occcart #whatcanartdo @mik_natalie @SapiraCheuk pic.twitter.com/5ZDzzjR4WD
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Jane Chin Davidson: We can look at identity in so many fantastic, innovative ways now #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Jane Chin Davidson: We can look at identity in so many fantastic, innovative ways now #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Q&A: how do you go about exploring the female in isolation from the male? #whatcanartdo #gender
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Q&A: the ability of art is to transcend… the ability to know a female… to not stigmatize as different… #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Q&A w audience @Occcart #whatcanartdo @mik_natalie @SapiraCheuk pic.twitter.com/ohWivnOcT5
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Q&A: the power of art is in bridging that otherness. Sometimes people don't take the risk to truly know themselves #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
Q&A: Art is about dialog. Art is a conversation. As artists we create these works of art, and we're creating culture. #whatcanartdo
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 12, 2016
#whatcanartdo @mik_natalie brought the water! 🙂 @Occcart pic.twitter.com/fNZNH9Cvst
— Glenn Zucman (@Glenn_IRS) June 13, 2016
Sapira Cheuk, Chiasmus, Leaf Cuts, 2016, 42×39″
