Queer Art and Censorship
Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Culture
Friday, March 12 & Saturday, March 13, 2004
The UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
3 Units of CLE credit available
This innovative symposium will explore the history and current manifestations
of censorship of LGBT art and artists. Three hours of continuing legal education
credit are available for practicing lawyers.
This event is co-sponsored by the Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law
and Public Policy and the UCLA Hammer Museum.
Friday, March 12, 7p.m. - 9 p.m.
Performance
Preaching to the Perverted by Holly Hughes
The UCLA Hammer Museum
Known for her humor, sarcasm, and social critique, artist Holly Hughes
performs a personal tale of censorship. Preaching to the Perverted depicts the
legal action Hughes, along with three fellow performance artists, initiated when
the National Endowment of the Arts deemed their work indecent and denied grants
to the artists.
Saturday, March 13, 1:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Symposium
Queer Art and Censorship: Freedom of Expression and Contemporary Culture
The UCLA Hammer Museum
1 p.m.: Contested Visibility: A conversation on the history
of queer art
Professors Judith Halberstam and Richard Meyer.
Judith Halberstam is a Professor of Literature at UC San Diego and will be
moving to USC in fall 2004. Halberstam teaches classes in gender studies, queer
theory and visual culture. She is the author of Female Masculinity (Duke UP,
1998), Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995),
and The Drag King Book. Halberstam just finished a book entitled In a Queer Time
and Place about temporality, space and queer bodies and subcultures.
Richard
Meyer, an associate professor of art history at University of Southern
California, is the author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality
in Twentieth-Century American Art (Oxford University Press, 2002). Professor
Meyer studies modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on twentieth-century
American art, cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies, censorship and the
public sphere, and the history of photography.
2:15 p.m.: Censorship in the Real World: Artists and Public
Reception of Art
This panel explores LGBT artists’ experiences of censorship within artistic
mediums. Performance artist Holly Hughes, painters Alex Donis and
Glenn Ligon,
and visual and public artist Alma Lopez join moderators Judith Halberstam and
Richard Meyer to discuss censorship in their respective creative realms.
3:45 p.m.: Regulating Queer Art and Artists: Law, Public
Policy, and the Market
A panel discussion exploring business, policy, and the social politics of
queer art with Stuart Biegel (moderator), Professor of Law at the UCLA School of
Law and faculty member of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies; Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney of the American Civil
Liberties Union of Southern California; Patrick Moore, writer, activist,
and Founding Director of The Estate Project for Artists With AIDS (1991 – 2001);
Svetlana Mintcheva,
Director of Arts Advocacy Project at the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC);
and Jonathan D. Katz, director of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian
and Gay Studies at Yale.
REGISTRATION
This event is free and open to the public. However, space is limited. We
therefore request that you register in advance. Please RSVP to the UCLA Office
of Events at (310) 825-0971 or via e-mail at
events@law.ucla.edu. Please also
specify whether you are registering for CLE credit or not.
CLE CREDIT
Practitioners who attend the conference will be able to earn 3 units of
general continuing legal education (CLE) credit. The registration fee for CLE
Credit will be $75.00. To pre-register for CLE credit, use the webform below, or contact the UCLA Office
of Events at (310) 825-0971 or via e-mail to events@law.ucla.edu and provide the
following information: your name, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail
address, and state bar number. The $75.00 registration fee for CLE credit can be
paid at the door. Make your check payable to the UC Regents. The UCLA School of
Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider.
INFORMATION AND DIRECTIONS
For more information or directions, see
UCLA Hammer Museum website
ADDRESS: 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90024. Phone: 310.443.7000
REGISTRATION
This event is free and open to the public. However,
space is limited. We therefore request that you register
in advance. Please RSVP via
the webform below or RSVP to the UCLA Office of Events at (310) 825-0971 or via
e-mail at events@law.ucla.edu.
Please specify whether you are registering for CLE credit or not.
REGISTRATION FORM: Queer Art and Censorship
THE CHARLES R. WILLIAMS PROJECT ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAW
The Charles R. Williams Project on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy is a
national think tank dedicated to the field of sexual orientation law and public
policy. It advances law and public policy through rigorous, independent research
and scholarship. The Williams Project was founded in the fall of 2001, through a
gift of philanthropist, educator, and businessman, Charles R. Williams. For more
information about the Williams Project contact:
The Williams Project
UCLA School of Law
Box 951476
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476
www.law.ucla.edu/williamsinstitute
Phone (310) 267-4382
Fax : (310) 825-6023
E-mail: williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu
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