Fall 2003 Schedule

		Tom Sachs October 28 New York based artist, Tom Sachs merges high and low aesthetic values and subject matter, constructing objects and large scale installations out of paper, glue, and other store-bought materials. Borrowing a term from Claude Levi-Strauss' The Savage Mind, Sachs is a self-described bricoleur, a do-it-yourself handy-man who embraces craftsmanship and makeshift stylistics. In recent work, he has explored issues regarding consumer culture-appropriation, recycling, globalization, and entertainment-and its relationship to contemporary art. For more information on Tom Sachs please go to his web-site: www.tomsachs.org.
		Rirkrit Tiravanija November 4 Rirkrit Tiravanija's artistic practice may be characterized as an attempt to reshape our expectations of art. In his wide-ranging body of work-from performances, road trips, seminars, and site specific installations-Tiravanija disrupts the traditional exhibition space to allow for innovative exchanges between art, artist, and spectator. The artist's hybrid style stems from his own itinerant biography. Born in Argentina, he was raised in Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada and educated in Chicago and New York. Having been exposed to so many belief systems and cultures, Tiravanija now merges these experiences to create a diversity of exhibition formats that reflect a resistance to fixed sites and methodologies.
		Andrea Zittel December 2 Having studied design in addition to visual art, Zittel uses both applied and fine arts to create modern tools for living. In the early 1990s she founded A-Z Administrative Services, which sells prototypes and designs that help individuals organize their domestic spaces. The company produces a range of items, from furniture to clothing to portable vehicles that reflect a fascination for the aesthetics of early utopian notions of mass production. With these customized products, Zittel has generated a mini-revolution in the way we tend to thing about systems of value, originality, authorship, and most importantly, in the way we define the practice of art making.

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