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The Public Art Studies Program at the Roski School of Fine Arts,
University of Southern California in Los Angeles, has begun a process of
self-examination, and curricular and structural transformation, under the
leadership of the newly appointed Director of the Program Joshua Decter.

The PAS program has extended its application deadline for the 2008-2009
academic year to June 2, 2008, to seek students from a range of academic,
disciplinary, and professional backgrounds.

This 2-year graduate masters program currently confers a Master of Art
Studies (MPAS) degree, and offers a unique context for the study of key
issues regarding the history, current manifestations, and the future of
art practices in the public sphere. We examine the complexities of
community engagement, modes of collaborative and participatory art
production, the historical and contemporary conditions of
site/location-specificity, and the debates around relational aesthetics,
among other topics. Issues are rigorously investigated through a cluster
of seminars, directed research opportunities, practicums, and guest
lectures. The program functions as a hub for critical thinking regarding
the role of art in the public sphere, and the analysis of cultural
interventions in spatial territories.

The PAS program considers urban, suburban, and disurban environments as
porous zones in which real and imaginary borders are continuously under
construction and erasure in terms of ethnicity, immigration/migration,
labor, and class. Public space encompasses a complex flow of bodies,
capital, cultural representations and social desires, as well as
frictional contact with the private domain. If artistic, architectural and
other cultural interventions within city-spaces constitute a kind of urban
acupuncture, is there a crisis in the experience of today’s public sphere
that requires treatment?

We offer a cross-disciplinary curriculum structure, incorporating
discourses/methods from art history, art criticism, urbanism,
architectural history and theory, social science, and urban planning.
Students interrogate the ways in which artists, architects, theorists, and
curators seek to critically re-script lived environments; they are
encouraged to consider new forms of cultural-political citizenship in
relation to the democratic potential of the public sphere. Currently, the
PAS program is one of the institutions partnered with the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for their “Allan Kaprow—Art as Life”
exhibition; students are collaborating with the Tijuana/Los Angeles-based
art collective, Bulbo, to reactivate a 1970 Kaprow Happening in the public
space of Los Angeles.

The Program currently features a dual-degree program with Planning in the
USC School of Planning and Development, as well as a dual degree with
Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. Discussions are underway to develop
cross-disciplinary affiliations with USC graduate programs in
Architecture, Art History and the Masters of Fine Arts degree. Fellowships
and scholarships are available on a competitive basis.

Joshua Decter is a critic, curator, art historian and theorist. He is a
contributor to Artforum, Afterall, and other periodicals, and has
organized exhibitions at PS1 in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago, Apex Art in New York, The Kunsthalle Vienna, The Santa Monica
Museum of Art, and was a curatorial interlocutor for the inSite_05 San
Diego/Tijuana “Interventions” exhibition project. Decter organized the
conference, “The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere
Engagement,” in collaboration with inSite San Diego/Tijuana and Creative
Time, New York, presented at The Cooper Union, NY, in May 2007.

The current PAS faculty includes:
Lauri Firstenberg, Carol Stakenas, Anne Bray, Karen Moss, Donna Conwell,
Janet Owen Driggs, Susan Gray. Guest speakers and seminar leaders in the
2007-2008 academic year include: Bulbo, Sam Durant, Michael Krichman, Rick
Lowe, Rochelle Steiner, Allan McCollum, Teddy Cruz, Miwon Kwon, Nato
Thompson, Hou Hanru, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Grant Kester, Tirdad
Zolghadr.

For more information on the Public Art Studies Program at USC, please
contact Elizabeth Lovins at lovins la usc.edu

The Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California
provides a well-balanced education in the creative, interpretive, and
critical processes essential to the practice of art. In lectures,
seminars, and studio crits, students and faculty energetically challenge
fixed notions of art and culture. The Roski School offers BFA, BA, Master
of Fine Arts (MFA), and Master of Public Art Studies (MPAS) degrees, as
well as Fine Arts Minor for undergraduates. Studio areas include Painting
and Drawing, Photography and Intermedia, Graphic Design, Sculpture, New
Genres, and Ceramics.

University of Southern California
Roski School of Fine Arts
Watt Hall 104
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292
Telephone: 213 740 2787 | Fax: 213 740 8938
http://roski.usc.edu

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