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LECTURE ART + ACTIVISM > VICTORIA MARKS

29 APRIL 2008 22 MAY 2008
ONLINE STREAMING EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER

Richard Kriesche has been working Victoria Marks creates dances for
intensively in electronic media from the stage, for film, and in community
the early 1970’s, video, computer- settings. Marks’ recent work has
multimedia, and net art. He has considered the politics of citizenship,
published in the context of art and as well as the representation of both
science, and has been collaborating virtuosity an disability. These themes
with engineering, publishing, energy, are part of her ongoing commitment
electronic and media industries. At the to locating dance-making within the
time of the talk, he was preparing a sphere of political meaning. Marks is
large-scale one-man show on “aesthetics a Professor of Choreography in the
of capital.” Kriesche has participated Department of World Arts and Cultures at
in more than 380 exhibitions world UCLA, here she has been teaching since
wide, including Ars Electronica and 1995. She is a 2005 Buggenheim Fellow
MIR_RUSSIAN SPACESTATION (first art and has received numerous grants and
project on the Russian spacestation fellowships, including from the Irvine
MIR). Foundation, National Endowment for the
Arts, Los Angeles City Department of
Cultural Affairs, New York State Council
on the Arts, New York Foundation for the
Arts, and the London Arts Board, among
others.

The performance was followed by a
discussion by Ronald L. Kovic.
Ronald L. Kovic, born July 4, 1940, is
an anti-war activist veteran and writer
who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War.
He is best known as the author of the
memoir “Born on the Fourth of July,”
which was made into an Academy Award-
winning movie directed by Oliver Stone,
with Tom Cruise playing Kovic. Kovic
received the Golden Globe Award for Best
Screenplay on January 20, 1990, exactly
22 years to the day that he was shot and
paralyzed in the Vietnam War.

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