FALL SERIES
Friday night video screenings
$10 Admission, $5 Students/Members
Three different cultural practitioners will each organize a video response in relation to the fall exhibitions.
FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2006 ⁄ 7:30pm
Pi Li, Director, Universal Studios, Beijing, China; Dialog host: Natalie Bookchin
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Pi Li's program, In Public by Jia Zhang-ke and Living Elsewhere by Wang Jian Wei, examines Chinese
daily life as set against the background of globalization, as well as the background of globalization itself.
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Jia Zhang-ke attended the Beijing Film Academy in 1993, where he founded the Youth Experimental Film Group two years later. Upon graduation in 1997, he made his first feature, Pick Pocket and has won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his film ,i>Still Life.
Wang Jian Wei is a video artist who lives and works in Beijing. His work most often focuses on the cultural changes in China in the face of globalization. He has been included in Documenta and the Sao Paulo Biennale as well as having won the La Cinquieme Video Cube Prize at FIAC in 2001.
Natalie Bookchin is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her work has been shown widely in international venues including PS1 and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is currently working on a series using found online security cameras.
FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2006 ⁄ 7:30pm
Ashley Hunt, Artist and Activist, Los Angeles
A screening and discussion of architecture in moving images with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Ashley Hunt
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"What does it mean to say one place looks like another?" Ruth Gilmore asked Ashley Hunt when they were planning this event. Gilmore and Hunt are interested in a repeating image across U.S. cities: the boarding up of tattered homes which causes New Orleans to look like Chicago's South Side which looks like East Baltimore which looks like so much of L.A. They wonder if there is an aesthetics of abandonment which cynically mirrors the architectural homogeneity brought on by globalization, with its big box architectures and silvery-slick exhibition halls. |
In response to the current LACE exhibition Alexander Apóstol: Selected Works, Gilmore and Hunt will explore these matters by screening scenes from films and videos that establish architecture and space as social, producing a social gaze which links one place with another and spatial effects to events, struggles and conflict.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Chair of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she is also associate professor of ASE and geography. The author of many articles, her new book on California prison expansion, Golden Gulag, is now available. She has published extensively on race, gender, social movements, and incarceration. Ruth is co-founder of the California Prison Moratorium Project and of Critical Resistance. Her long (and somewhat checkered) past includes an NEA/LACE grant in 1986 for a collaborative performance art "opera" called "Shrimps: the mind/body problem". Other honors include the Ralph Santiago Abascal Award for Environmental and Economic Justice, and the James M. Blaut Award for activist scholarship.
Ashley Hunt is a visual artist and reluctant documentarian, whose work centers on issues at the heart of the contemporary American prison industrial complex. Often in dialogue with community organizers and activists, Hunt has produced videos, maps, photos, and sculptures that address the legacies of class and racial inequality, the commercialization of imprisonment, and lately, the violent antagonisms within U.S. society that erupted during the Katrina catastrophe.
FRIDAY 1 DECEMBER 2006 ⁄ 7:30pm
Rita Gonzalez, Curator, LACMA, Los Angeles
ALARMA - Artists in Los Angeles Reconceptualizing Media Arts (Rita Gonzalez, Ramon Garcia, C. Ondine Chavoya) Present:
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"Soy Artista" An evening of manifestos, film clips, and antics inspired by the work of Alexander Apóstol presented by the interdisciplinary collective ALARMA. ALARMA will present clips ranging from public access rumors to the silent image of Mario Montez eating a banana to the unfilmed opening shot of Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950). About the Participants ALARMA is a Los Angeles performance collective that focuses on street performances and films that reject and recast our expectations and certainties about identity. In its work, ALARMA proclaims that it has tried "to rescue camp from the property and fetish of white queer sensibility" and that they "reclaim this land as Aztlán, Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Land of the Lost." ALARMA consists of Rita Gonzalez, Ramon Garcia and C. Ondine Chavoya. |
Rita Gonzalez is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. Currently, Gonzalez is assistant curator in the American Art department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she is working on the upcoming exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement. Gonzalez is a co-curator of the Orange County Museum of Art's 2006 California Biennial. She is finalizing her doctoral dissertation at UCLA and is the 2005/06 recipient of the American Center Foundation Fund for Arts Research.
Ramon Garcia's poetry has appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including The Americas Review; Best American Poetry 1996; PoesaĞda: Aids Poetry from Latin America, the United States and Spain; The Paterson Literary Review; Quarry West and The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S.Hispanic Literature; Margie: The American Journal of Poetry; 88: The Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Ambit (UK). Ramon Garcia is an associate professor at California State University at Northridge.
C. Ondine Chavoya is an art historian, writer, and sometime curator who lives and works in New England but calls Los Angeles "home." Ondine teaches courses on contemporary art at Williams College, and has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, UCLA, and University of New Mexico.
Book reading & performance
Outpost presents Darren O'Donnell, Author of "Social Acupuncture: the art of civic engagement, a proposal and a demonstration"
Author Darren O'Donnell presents his book "Social Acupuncture," an extended essay outlining the possibility for a civilly engaged artistic practice, and stages "Q&A," a simple performance game that introduces the concept of entreveillance--observation from between.
For more information, please visit: www.outpost-art.org
Lecture
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, "Out There Doing It" lecture series
PadLab and Alexandra Loew: from the desk of lola
$10 admission, free for members of LACE and LA Forum
The Los Angeles Forum's annual Out There Doing It lecture series provides a forum for alternative, young, emerging, experimental, research-based, and conceptual design practices to speak about their work before their peers. Listen to and join in dialogue with the speakers about their work, how they are developing it, the practices they are building around the work, and the diverse routes the design profession is taking.
For more information, please visit: www.laforum.org
Artist Talk
Dustin Shuler, Artist, The Rainforest: A Landscape in the Shower with artist Daniel Marlos
Opening Reception
The Woman of the Crowd
A special collaboration with renowned designer and artist Susan Cianciolo and Cone Denim.
Exhibition takes place at Woodbury University's CCRD storefront galleries, 6518 Hollywood Boulevard, through 3 November 2006. Coinciding with this exhibit will be the release of the book, The Woman of the Crowd, telling the story of this unique collaboration.
Grant Information Sessions for Filmmakers & Visual Artists!
Presented by Kemi Ilesanmi, Program Coordinator of Grants & Services, Creative Capital Foundation.
Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields. In 2007, Creative Capital will be considering proposals in the visual arts and film/video.
Far from a traditional funder, Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership with the bold and ground-breaking artists that we fund by making a multi-year financial commitment as well as providing advisory services and professional development assistance. We have a special interest in projects that transcend discipline boundaries and reveal something new about the moment in which we live. For more information, please visit www.creative-capital.org.
Live Performances
Michael Vorfeld
Lecture immediately following the performance on 9 November
Tickets $10 gen, $5 students and LACE members
Discussion, Screening and Reception
Freewaves
A Discussion, screening, reception and book signing with Robert Atkins, editor of Censoring Culture, Contemporary Threats to
Free Expression (2006) as part of Freewaves "Too Much Freedom" series.
For more information visit www.freewaves.org