Exhibit Opening & Symposium...

Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change pairs the exhibition of Disobedience Archive, an ongoing, internationally focused video library tracing the relationship between artistic practice and civil and social disobedience, with a collection of documentary photos of the civil war in Argentina titled En Negro Y Blanco (In Black & White). Disobedience Archive presents itself as a comprehensive map of social conflict and as a network of contemporary activism. These exhibitions examine the role of the artist as political activist and explore the historic and
contemporary functions art can play in political discourse.

December 14, 2009 - January 27, 2010
Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery

Join us on January 15, 2010 for a Symposium exploring these issues from 1pm – 5pm at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

Speakers include:
Marco Scotini, Independent curator, Director of BA & MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies,
NABA, Milan, curator of the Disobedience Archives;
Fernando Reati, Director of the Center for Human Rights at GSU;
Kara Walker, Contemporary artists and MacAurthur fellowship recipient;
Tami Randahl Morris, expert in Peruvian arpilleras (political quilts);
Moderator: Sylvie Fortin, Independent curator, art historian, critic and editor of Art Papers

Also a Gallery reception will follow from 5pm – 7pm in the gallery lobby.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visit our websites for more details.
www.gsu.edu/artgallery
www.arts.gsu.edu/7506.html