civic engagement – Art Spiel

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*Nancy Baker Cahill, Substrate Part #1: Universum*, video still, project artists Shereen Moustafa, Mark Sosa, Casper Torres, and Miguel Zavala-Lopez, Central Library Video Wall, Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles. On view through December 2024. Video still selected by the author.

Three Downtown Lost Angeles exhibitions use data, disaster, and a shared history to explore community connections. They tap into the past, present, and imagined future to speak about class, labor, and inequity through the use of storage systems, pride of place, and what happens when things fall apart. At Gallery Luisotti’s El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage Chicano/a artists use themselves as subject to connect through a shared history, at the Los Angeles Central Library Nancy Baker Cahill: Substrate Part #1: Universum uses civic institutions, cultural resources, and data storage systems to forge a connection of community driven by data and at The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Grand exhibition Josh Kline: Climate Change community members connect to survive the aftermath of the climate crisis.

In Conversation

A. E Chapman with Magdalena Dukiewicz, Bang Geul Han, and Georgia Lale

Install image: (left to right) Bang Geul Han’s, Warp and Weft #02 – Toilet, Warp and Weft #02 – Reading, and Warp and Weft #03 – Sleeping, all from 2022, Georgia Lale’s 404,770 on Inauguration Day, 2021, Stand4 Gallery

UNCOMMITTED at Stand4 focuses on civic literacy, engagement, and social matters which affect and reflect the daily lives of folks within Bay Ridge. This local lens also overlaps with national issues surrounding the 2024 presidential election. In particular, these artists examine concerns related to health care, migration, conflict, tensions between state and federal voting rights, the role of technology, surveillance, and advocacy. Art Spiel invited the curator of the show, A.E. Chapman, to elaborate on these concerns and their relevance within each of their works in the exhibition.

Tag: civic engagement

Art Spiel Picks: Downtown Los Angeles in September 2024

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UNCOMMITTED at Stand4 Gallery

In Conversation