Artist Leslie Garcia performance and talk at Fulcrum Arts x LACE
March 19, 2023 | 1 – 3 pm
Cinelounge Sunset, 6464 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
Fulcrum Arts and LACE present an afternoon performance and conversation with artist Leslie Garcia.
Leslie Garcia is a current artist-in-residence for Fulcrum Arts’ Incubator and a researcher for LACE’s 2024 Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics. During this special event Garcia will perform Medium, a compositional piece based on her work with transient hypofrontality tools, which investigates the effects of sound on the material state of consciousness and the ability of psychoacoustic processes to trigger alternate states of perception and temporality.
After the performance, Garcia will be joined by curator Daniela Lieja Quintanar to discuss their work together for Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics. This project revisits the collaborative artistic practice of the late Beatriz da Costa (1974-2012) as an investigation into technoscientific experimentation, politics, activism, and art-making, contextualized for our contemporary moment. Da Costa’s unique models of inter- and un-disciplinary public interventions, workshops, and critical writing foreground and amplify the ongoing social struggles for sustaining life. Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics explores how da Costa’s deep reflections on life and extinction, health and wellness, environmental issues, cancer and chronic illness, socio-political autonomy, and interspecies cohabitation remain relevant to our societal issues at hand today. For more information, visit: https://welcometolace.org/lace/undisciplinary-tactics-beatriz-da-costa/
About the Artist
Leslie García is a Mexican sound artist who develops electronic art and digital media projects that explore the fusion process between art and technology. She is a co-founder of the bioart collective Interspecifics (Mexico City, 2013-present), the electronic media collective DreamAddictive (Tijuana, 2003-2010), and Astrovandalistas (Mexico City, 2011-2017). From 2012 to 2015 she was an associate researcher at the Nucleo Laboratorial Nano of the Escola de Belas Artes – UFRJ, in Rio de Janeiro. From 2015 to 2016, she was an associate researcher in the media department of the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Additionally, she is a member of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA) in the specialty of new technologies. She produces electronic music under the aliases Microhm and LogarDecay.
Garcia’s work has been included in festivals and shows at spaces such as Medialab Prado, Museo de Arte Reina Sofia, O1SJ, Museum of Latin American Arts, Piksel Festival, Ars Electrónica, Public Art Lab in Berlin, NOMAD Center for media research, Museum of Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Museum of Latin American Art, Transitio_mx, LabSurLab2, Hip3rorganicos, Nuvem art and technology station, ISEA, Mutek_MX, Mutek Montreal, transmediale, CTM, NIME 2014 (London), Sight & Sound (Montreal), ICAD International Conference for Auditory Display (Graz), European Congress on Artificial Intelligence (York), Heroins of Sound, and others.
About Fulcrum Arts
Fulcrum Arts champions creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change and contribute to a more vibrant and inclusive community. Fulcrum Incubator residencies provide mid-career visual artists with opportunities to develop new ideas and methods by forging deep connections to the region’s remarkable array of scientific, research, technological, design, and cultural assets.
