WHAP!(West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics) screens CalArts alumna Yelena Zhelezov's essay film, "Signs of Arrival," followed by a roundtable discussion with scholars and artists about parallel worlds and the immigrant experience. Zhelezov's film revolves around the Russian immigrant community in West Hollywood. Admission free.
The first 2014 event of the West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series features a workshop by philosopher Santiago Zabala on critical theory and Eurocentrism from 3 to 6 p.m. followed by an 8 p.m. lecture by Zabala about “Emergency Aesthetics,” with Ashley Hunt as respondent. Both take place in the library's Common Room. Admission […]
The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series features sociologist Pascal Gielen disussing “the ethics of art” from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the library's Common Room, followed by a lecture by Gielen about “Creativity and Other Fundamentalisms”, with Matias Viegener as respondent. Gielen is professor of sociology of the arts at the University […]
