How can artists, activists, and citizens in general engage the increasing complexity of the global system, and the veritable explosion of a new type of capitalism with its production of data, control, and rampant inequities. Patricia Reed analyzes this emergent configuration from a perspective of ‘optimist realism,’ proposing the dynamics of a perspectival shift utilizing the forces of alienation to construct innovative models of collective agency generated by the interface of the concretely situated and the abstractly conceptual. The CalArts WHAP! Lecture series is organized by the CalArts MA Aesthetics and Politics program and supported in part by the City of West Hollywood's WeHo Arts program (www.weho.org/arts).

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Contact:  Seth Blake | sblake@calarts.edu