Since the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel has used the arena of her day-to-day life to develop and test prototypes for living structures and situations to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg will give a joint talk with Chelsea Manning, the collaborator for her most recent work, Probably Chelsea (2017).

Francis Stark’s deeply autobiographical practice centers on the mediation of self and the intimate spaces of communication. Her work spans many media including drawing, photography, video, collage, and mixed media painting, often combining text and imagery.

Robb Hernández's forthcoming book, "Finding AIDS: Archival Body/Archival Space and the Chicano Avant-garde," examines the role of gender and sexual transgression in the formation of Chicano art.