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Faculty » Liz Kotz
"BITS & PIECES PUT TOGETHER TO PRESENT A SEMBLANCE OF A WHOLE"
Lawrence Weiner, 1991
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Assistant Professor
Office: 227 Arts Building
Phone: (951) 827-5921
E-mail: ewkotz@ucr.edu
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of specialization: Modern and contemporary art history; experimental film, video and performance; psychoanalysis and critical theory, media theories and media technologies.
Liz Kotz comes to UCR from the University of Minnesota, where she taught from 2001-2007. Her research examines different aspects of the cross-disciplinary and inter-media art practices that emerged in the post WWII era. She is also active as a critic and a curator.
Her first book, Words to Be Looked At, is a critical study of uses of language in 1960s American art. It starts with the scores and compositions of the experimental American composer John Cage, and traces Cage’s impact on 1960s artists and poets, including works by La Monte Young, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Carl Andre, Vito Acconci, Lawrence Weiner and Andy Warhol. Her second book, Six Sound Problems, will address projects by Cage, David Tudor, La Monte Young, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus and James Tenney.