Critical Issues in Contemporary Art Practice: Dora Budor

Dora Budor’s work repurposes the hidden materiality of films and architecture to explore what happens to our bodies and minds in the grip of these powerful forms, which she conceptualizes as living systems. Her sculptures have incorporated screen-used cinema props, bringing together the material, affective, and ideological dimensions of Hollywood special effects. In recent site-specific works, she has composed nondeterministic systems out of sound, dust, and light, dramatizing the lived history of specific works of architecture. She was born in Croatia in 1984 and currently lives in New York. Her work has recently been exhibited at: the 16th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Kunstalle Basel, Switzerland; 80WSE, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; and Baltic Triennial 13, Vilnius, Lithuania.

The 2020 Critical Issues Lecture Series takes place on Thursday evenings during winter quarter. It is organized by the School of Art + Art History + Design in collaboration with the Henry Art Gallery. The general public is invited to sit alongside degree-seeking individuals studying fine art in order to share ideas and raise questions about contemporary art. In addition to the public lectures, undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in ART 361/561 interface with the speakers in the classroom and studio.

Computer Aided Real-Time Transcription (CART) is provided.

See the full lineup of 2020 Critical Issues Lectures here.