The University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, 2009–2010
KAY LAWRENCE
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
TAM VAN TRAN
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
OKWUI ENWEZOR
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
LIN + LAM
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
JAIMEY HAMILTON
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
PANEL DISCUSSION
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
BRUCE YONEMOTO
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
LIZ COHEN
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
DIPTI DESAI
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 5:30pm
Center for Creative Photography 108
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 5:30pm | Center for Creative Photography 108
Lecture with the Artist
Digital Photograph from North South- East West series, 2007
Liz Cohen’s projects create parameters for experiences in which she negotiates her relationships within groups where she does not have the defining characteristic for membership. As her work changes she remains interested in groups of men, radical transformation, and in-between-ness.
Cohen spent four years performing her investigations for CANAL, a series of photographs and performances about a group of transgender sex workers along the fringe of the Panama Canal. The transgender sex worker’s bodies become metaphors for Panama's geography and history. She learned to transform her appearance and took on the personas of different sex workers she had met for a series of performances.
With BODYWORK, she shifted her focus toward the flexibilities of group membership in the lowrider world and became a member of a group of men who do the customizing work on these cars. Bodywork is the attempt to transform an East German car into an American car by means of hydraulic technology. Simultaneously, Cohen converted her own body into one worthy of a car-show bikini model.
Liz Cohen’s work has been shown internationally including exhibitions at Färgfabriken (Stockholm), the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Rubin Center (El Paso).
Cohen is the Artist-in-Residence/Head of Photography at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
She is represented by Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris).
Background image: This is Not Me, Lin + Lam, site-specific installation and public intervention, Aarhus, Denmark, 2005. Site Design by Studio A. © 2009 Arizona Board of Regents.