School of Critical Studies

Since 2005, Erik Mondrian (MFA 19), a CalArts Interschool student from the Creative Writing and VoiceArts programs with a concentration in Integrated Media, has been an active resident of the online virtual world Second Life (SL). With anywhere from 700,000-800,000 active monthly users, SL is...

This week, Sublevel Magazine celebrates the release of its third issue, Stamina. Based out of the CalArts School of Critical Studies, Sublevel was founded in 2016 by Maggie Nelson and Janice Lee. It describes itself as a publication “devoted to the nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism,...

This weekend, Los Angeles will be home to two major literary events: Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair opens on Thursday evening and runs through Sunday at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo. Based in New...

Civil is a black feminist performance artist, writer and current faculty in the CalArts School of Critical Studies.

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On Friday, March 1, CalArts 2019 REEF Residents brd (Art MFA 18) and Hannah Kim Varamini (Critical Studies MFA 18) are launching Augmented Reality: Performance in Real Life, an experimental series of collaborative events, featuring various artists whose, “acts of labor, play or sabotage are read...

In the after-hours of Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3, a group of CalArts students gathered at El Cid in the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A. for several hours of poetry and prose readings. Organized by Steph Smith (Critical Studies MFA 20) with the help of Jess Wolford (Critical Studies MFA 19), the...