January & February 2019 College News

College of Fine Arts and Communication | 3 celebrating Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center’s Art for Advocacy event, at NorthPark center in Dallas, October 12th through November 7th. Te piece sold at the auction. STUDENT ACCOLADES Art History/ Photography major, Austen Villacis has been awarded the Fall 2018 Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award in the amount of $1000.00 to support his research project titled Testing Te Limits (TTL) and Damned Interfering Video Activists (DIVA) Television: Revivals of the Lost AIDS Generation. SCHOOL ACCOLADES Texas State Galleries Shared_Studios featured on KTSW 89.9 online: Rikki Yanez, “Te Golden Portal” (November 18, 2018), with video by Jay Stanley, “KTSW Presents: Jay’s Gold Box Special.” MY BARBARIAN: DOUBLE AGENCY JANUARY 22 – FEBRUARY 20 Texas State Galleries My Barbarian’s Double Agency is a hybrid of theater, art, and video. Originally commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as an online video series and one-time performance event, the project used tropes from TV shows like Mission: Impossible to explore questions of cultural appropriation and boundaries between artistic felds—connecting esoteric performance art to its popular opposites, television and the internet. At this Cold War-like moment when ideological tensions between world powers intensifes without military action, My Barbarian returns to its project about spies by re-imagining Double Agency for the frst time as an exhibition. In the white cube space of the Texas State Galleries, an installation of forged masks from the LACMA collection became the site for a new live performance. Documentation from this performance as well as new footage flmed on Texas State campus in collaboration with Texas State actors, is edited into the next episode of the Double Agency series, and was premiered at the end of the exhibition’s run.