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Artist Talk: No Wasted Moves or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Academy

Thursday, November 3, 2022
5:50 pm
Art Building 100

Chicago artist Jorge Lucero talks about his longtime work of testing the pliability of schooling as an artistic material. Through the permissions of conceptual art, Lucero examines how teaching (and school, more broadly) is opened up as a robust art practice that takes on some of the more cosmic questions emerging from today's art and academic discourses, including the impossibility of documentation, the affordances of time, relationality, and duration, and an attempt to make "no wasted moves" within a fully integrated art and social practice.

Jorge Lucero is an artist born, raised, and educated in Chicago. Some of Lucero's books include Mere and Easy: Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy, Teacher as Artist-in-Residence: The Most Radical Form of Expression to Ever Exist, and the forthcoming edited volumes What Happens at the Intersection of Conceptual Art and Teaching? and Alongside Teacher: Conversations about What, Where, and Who Artists learn with. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books and is co-editor of the international journal Visual Arts Research. Lucero has exhibited, performed, and taught all over the U.S. and abroad. He received his degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Penn State University. Before being recruited into higher education, Lucero happily taught at the Chicago Public School, Northside College Prep.  

Jorge Lucero
Jorge Lucero
Chair and Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign