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Words in Public Spaces: An Evening with Jenny Holzer, A Visions and Voices Signature Event

Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Wednesday, August 24, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=179
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=179

Reception to follow.

For more than 30 years, Jenny Holzer has presented her work in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Incorporating text on T-shirts, posters, plaques, LED signs, the landscape and architecture, her work challenges ignorance and violence with humor, kindness and moral courage. In 1999, Holzer created Blacklist, a treasure located in its own landscaped garden in front of the USC Fisher Museum. The installation encourages discussion of the First Amendment and the blacklist era while promoting vigilance and personal responsibility in exercising and defending the civil liberties granted under the Constitution. Join us as one of the country’s most celebrated contemporary artists returns to USC to reflect on her work and the importance of language in public spaces. Following her presentation, Holzer will participate in a conversation with Elizabeth Garrett, law professor and USC Provost, and Alice Echols, English professor and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at USC, about public art and American democracy.

Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - USC Fisher Museum of Art

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski