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PANEL DISCUSSION followed by VIDEO SCREENING
Panel Discussion at TAM: Taking Stock of the MFA
What are the true benefits of an art school education? What is the impact—personal ,creative, and social—of student debt? What relationship do art schools bear to the market? What affect has the professionalization of young artists had on the nature and quality of art production? What role has the discursive nature of the academic environment played in the type of work being made today? What are the advantages and hazards for an artist of a teaching career? Is the teaching market oversaturated? At what point will there simply be too many artists? Is there a way to reform the system as from within? Are there viable alternatives?
Panelists:
Eileen Cowin
Deborah Aschheim
Joseph Biel
Cammie Staros
Ruben Ochoa
Moderator:
Holly Myers
Colloquy is a bi-monthly series of panel discussions aimed at addressing big picture questions facing the art world in Los Angeles today. The inaugural project of then/and, an independent curatorial initiative launched in 2012 by writer, critic, and curator Holly Myers, Colloquy seeks to provide a platform for intelligent debate concerning issues affecting artists, art professionals, and the nature of art production in southern California—one contingent not on any individual exhibition or institution, but on the participation of the community at large. To these ends, Colloquy welcomes recommendations. If there is a topic you would like to see explored, please email it to: info@thenand.org
Video Screening at TAM: A Curious Sense of Calm
Manipulated Image's first Los Angeles screening, A Curious Sense of Calm, at TAM will feature: Gerald Guthrie (Illinois, USA), Kika Nicolela (São Paulo, Brazil), and Yuko Takemura (London, UK). Guthrie's digital animations are philosophical enquiries into a man-made world of artificiality and alienation. Kika Nicolela uses the natural expressions of body and movement to explore the connection between the self and society. Yuko Takemura creates sensuous settings that draw the viewer into her mysterious world of perceptions.
Manipulated Image is a series of experimental video screenings created and curated by cross-disciplinary artist, Alysse Stepanian. For the first time In 2012, this multi-venue series will screen dozens of Los Angeles premieres from the MI archives along with videos by LA-based artists who will introduce and discuss their work.
Read his blog here
BAR ONE is now the exclusive bartender for all of the exhibition openings at the museum. Their cash bar provides a wide selection of wine and beer.
Juan Bastardo
El Adversario / The Adversary
2008
fiberglass, enamel, framed photographs, manuals
Dimensions variable
To Live and Paint in LA
Curated by Max Presneill and Jason Ramos
Opening reception Saturday, January 21st, 6-9 pm
A broad survey of current and emerging painting trends and talent from Los Angeles
Jonathan Apgar, Rebecca Campbell, Daniela Campins, Alika Cooper, Noah Davis, Tomory Dodge, Asad Faulwell, Jon Flack, Yvette Gellis, Iva Gueorguieva, Mary Addison Hackett, Carlson Hatton, Thomas Whittaker Kidd, Andy Kolar, Constance Mallinson, Allison Miller, John Mills, Aaron Noble, Antonio Puleo, Alison Rash, Nano Rubio, Conrad Ruiz, John Seal, Ryan Sluggett, Comora Tolliver, Chris Trueman, Miller Updegraff, Grant Vetter, Ben White
RE:CUT
RE:CUT features video artists that play with appropriation, cinema, and the imagined space created within video and film. By deconstruction and re-imagining footage that has already had a life in the world, these artists expand the familiar into new, multi-faceted installations and single-channel videos.
3 Installations by Mclean Fahnestock, Michael Kelly, Fil Rüting
3 curated selections of video including work by: Chris Coy, Valerie Green, Masood Kamandy, William Kaminski, Zach Kleyn, Owen Kydd, Lisa Madonna, Jesse McLean, John Pearson, Nicole Sloan, Joe Sola
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