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Insert Press, paperback
Publication Date: May 16, 2022
Publisher Marketing: “The security staff thinks they own this place! They rip down the kids’ work. Last year, one of them took a piece off the wall because he said it was a fire hazardsaid we couldn’t hang anything unless it was approved One of them goes around asking people to pick up their crap in the studios. And that weird little creep who sees everything as a fire hazard! I told him, ‘Didn’t it ever occur to you that this is an art school?’ He just said, ‘It’s a fire hazard!’ A lot of changes had to be made because of this little creep with the fires.” Anonymous CalArts Community Member, Artists in Offices: An Ethnography of an Academic Art Scene, p. 118, Adler, Judith E., New Jersey: Transaction, 1979.Born in Paterson, NJ in 1978, John Patrick Hogan is a visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Art and Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2006 and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2000. Hogan is the singer for the art-rock band Ponce de Leon, and has exhibited and performed at venues including Human Resources, REDCAT, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Automata, MAK Center and Machine Project. He has written about art and culture for Art:21, The Comics Journal and X-TRA. Hogan has taught drawing, performance and exhibition strategies at CalArts, and has been the Studio and Gallery Manager there since 2006. In 2021, he served as a member of the Bargaining Committee for the CalArts Technical Artist Support Staff Union (TASS Union, CWA Local 9003) as they negotiated their first contract.
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