#doritcypis

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The Personal is Political, Revisited – Dorit Cypis

Artist and mediator Dorit Cypis described a course she taught at CalArts, in which her students learned about the justice system first-hand at a courthouse through observation, interviews, and art projects that were presented on-site. She suggested that art schools currently feed into predominant models of success by fostering self-promotion and competition over collaboration and social engagement. She addressed the problematic nature of art pedagogy as the site where artists transmit values from one generation to the next, asking: Are artists better off learning in school or on the street?

Dorit Cypis spoke on the panel "The Personal is Political, Revisited" at Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium, a student-organized project that took place at CalArts on March 10, 2007.

Excerpted from East of Borneo.

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Dorit Cypis – Experimental Impulse interview (2011)

In this wide-ranging interview Dorit Cypis talks about the separate, but similar art educations offered by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and CalArts, the Downtown Los Angeles art scene of the mid to late 70s, and her inheritance of, and subsequent decision to develop Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) in the late 70s and into the 80s. She describes projects with artists like Jack Goldstein, Matt Mullican, and Louise Lawler, while talking about the importance of dialogue in her conception of what an artist-run art space can best offer. She ends the interview describing a protest she organized against The New Art Space conference staged by Robert Smith of LAICA in April 1978. This interview was conducted by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi in the artist’s Los Angeles studio on August 24, 2011. Camera and sound by Larissa Brantner James.

Excerpted from East of Borneo.

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The Personal is Political, Revisited – Dorit Cypis

Artist and mediator Dorit Cypis described a course she taught at CalArts, in which her students learned about the justice system first-hand at a courthouse through observation, interviews, and art projects that were presented on-site. She suggested that art schools currently feed into predominant models of success by fostering self-promotion and competition over collaboration and social engagement. She addressed the problematic nature of art pedagogy as the site where artists transmit values from one generation to the next, asking: Are artists better off learning in school or on the street?

Dorit Cypis spoke on the panel "The Personal is Political, Revisited" at Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium, a student-organized project that took place at CalArts on March 10, 2007.

Excerpted from East of Borneo.

[calartsarchive]

Dorit Cypis – Experimental Impulse interview (2011)

In this wide-ranging interview Dorit Cypis talks about the separate, but similar art educations offered by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) and CalArts, the Downtown Los Angeles art scene of the mid to late 70s, and her inheritance of, and subsequent decision to develop Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) in the late 70s and into the 80s. She describes projects with artists like Jack Goldstein, Matt Mullican, and Louise Lawler, while talking about the importance of dialogue in her conception of what an artist-run art space can best offer. She ends the interview describing a protest she organized against The New Art Space conference staged by Robert Smith of LAICA in April 1978. This interview was conducted by Thomas Lawson and Aram Moshayedi in the artist’s Los Angeles studio on August 24, 2011. Camera and sound by Larissa Brantner James.

Excerpted from East of Borneo.