The Contemporary Project (TCP) is a multi-year endeavor to create new dialogues and forms of collaboration between the academic community and the contemporary art world. Jointly sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and the Roski School of Fine Arts, TCP aims to bring the best of academic culture (e.g. respect for ideas, historical consciousness, student energy and open-mindedness) into conversation with contemporary art, curatorial practice, and criticism. We plan to partner, as appropriate, with museums, alternative art spaces, publications, research institutes, fellow universities, and art schools.

Director, Richard Meyer
Department of Art History

Graduate Assistant, Katherine Kerrigan
Department of Art History

Contact: tcp@college.usc.edu

Richard Meyer
Director, The Contemporary Project
351 Von Kleinsmid Center
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0047

Coming Soon

Paved Paradise
John Kelly as Joni Mitchell

 

CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS:
A Public Forum on Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Curating

Kelly will present his Obie Award-winning performance, Paved Paradise, in which he interprets the Joni Mitchell songbook and invokes progressive socal movements of the 1960s and '70s. See the flyer for more information.

Friday, April 17, 2009, 7pm
Ground Zero Performance Café

Four leading figures in contemporary art come together for a wide-ranging discussion of the making, meaning, and display of art in our times. See the flyer for more information.

Lynne Cooke
Curator, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Chief Curator, Centro Reina Sophia, Madrid

Douglas Crimp
Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History, University of Rochester

Michael Govan
CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Barbara Kruger
contemporary artist and writer
Professor of Art, UCLA

Saturday, March 28, 2009
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Harris Hall 101
University of Southern California