Mark Dion

As part of California College of the Arts' fall graduate studies lecture series Mark Dion is speaking tonight from 7-9pm. I must admit I'd never heard of Mark Dion until I saw him on the schedule, but I am intrigued to see what he has to say. 

CCA's website artist profile on Mark Dion reads:
The job of the artist, Mark Dion says, is to go against the grain, to challenge perception and convention. Dion’s large-scale projects examine the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. He questions the roles of all sorts of specialists—archaeologists, historians, curators, and beyond—appropriating their methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects in order to question the usual distinctions between objective/rational and subjective/irrational.

Images: pbs.org