June 2017
Se Habla Español
(English version below) Se habla español es la nueva iniciativa de LACE para conectar con audiencias que se relacionan culturalmente con el español, idioma muy común en Los Ángeles. Se habla español es un esfuerzo para crear espacios temporales multilingüísticos a través de acciones específicas como visitas guiadas, talleres, textos de exposiciones traducidos y prácticas artísticas que exploran cuestiones sobre el lenguaje. Con este proyecto LACE cuestiona el sistema monolingüístico que la mayoría de las instituciones de arte usan en sus…
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El Teatro Campesino: Talk with Diane Rodriguez
ES / EN El Teatro Campesino: Talk with Diane Rodriguez, early member of the collective, accompanied by Professor María Elena Fernández and Professor David Román. Sunday July 30th, 2017 1-3PM Director and playwright, Diane Rodriguez, will talk about her experience as an early member of El Teatro Campesino. Additionally, she will discuss her provocative project Latins Anonymous that examines Latinx stereotypes in Hollywood productions, as well as her meaningful contributions to theater arts. She will be joined by Professor María…
Find out more »November 2017
Cold War/Cold World Book Launch with CalArts
Cold War/Cold World Book Launch November 16, 2017 7:30 PM The School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts is pleased to announce the inauguration of its new Center for Discursive Inquiry, CDI, and the launch of the book produced from its Cold War Cold World Research Group, Cold War/Cold World: Knowledge, Representation and the Outside in the Cold War and Contemporary Art, published by Urbanomic Press. If the term 'Cold World' describes a world of infinite…
Find out more »Arttextum with Frida Cano and Maite Muñoz
(ver en español más abajo) Arttextum with artist/curator Frida Cano Featuring a conversation with curator/archivist Maite Muñoz Wednesday November 29, 2017, 7PM Arttextum, a transdisciplinary research-based art project, was born as a response to the growing and constant crisis that we see in different layers of daily life. Its purpose is to expose changes of global paradigms following the lines of argumentation from Critical Cartography that proposes that maps produce reality instead of just representing it. Through Arttextum’s database, the project employs algorithmic metaphors to…
Find out more »January 2018
Memory + Erasure
Memory + Erasure Saturday, January 6, 2018 1-3 PM Join curator of Names Printed in Black Emily Butts for a panel with artists Carmen Argote, Adriana Corral, Lisa C Soto, and Samira Yamin. The panel will address themes explored in the exhibition, specifically how notions of memory and erasure can express formal and sociopolitical concerns reflected throughout artworks presented in the exhibition. Image: Samira Yamin, (Geometries) Fire V, 2017. TIME Magazine, 15 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches. SUPPORT Support for the Emerging Curators Program…
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