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How can we share resources, create networks and develop
opportunities for the exchange of ideas and projects internationally?
Instigated by Japanese curator Mizuki Endo,
who is researching ways that alternative projects and spaces
in LA can connect with similar ventures in Asia, this event
is intended to open up a discussion that will form the basis
of a publication on people and organizations wanting to
create independent international networks.
Endo will present two alternative spaces he established
in Fukuoka, Japan and Manila in the Philippines that highlight
the different situations of the art system in Asia. He will
be joined by Mauricio Marcin, an independent
curator based in Mexico City, who will additionally talk
about a range of projects that are currently operating in
the metropolis. A discussion will follow, coordinated by
Danny Orendorff, curator-in-residence at
ART2102.
Beyond Sunshine Quoi?: Connecting Parallel Universes
is the first event in the new season of ART2102 exhibitions
and projects. Throughout the summer, fall and spring, artists,
writers and curators from Israel, Lithuania, Japan, Mexico
and the U.S will be presenting projects that place research
and inquiry at the heart of art practice.
Previous Sunshine Quoi? Events
Part
1: Sunshine Quoi?: Temporary Contemporaries
Part
2: Sunshine Quoi?: Common Sense
Part
3:
Mapping
Sunshine Quoi?
Special Thanks to LA-based artists Reanne
Estrada & Lucy Burns of the Galleon Trade project for
also participating in the event.
Galleon Trade
is a series of international arts exchange projects, focusing
on the Philippines, Mexico, and California. Taking the historical
Acapulco-Manila galleon route as its metaphor of origin,
these exhibitions seek to create new routes of cultural
exchange along old routes of commerce and trade.
Also Thanks to LA-based sound artist &
filmmaker Rhan Small of I-40
Soundworks for providing audio support.
Mizuki Endo is a curator, art critic and
organizer based in Fukuoka, Japan. Through long-term research
on cultural systems in the city, he has organized various
projects such as exhibitions, concerts, film screenings,
symposiums, and magazines, which raise awareness of the
Do-It-Youself culture that underpins the cultural life of
the city. He established two alternative art spaces in Asia;
Art Space Tetra
(Fukuoka, 2004) and Future Prospects Art Space (Manila,
2005.) He is also the director of rhythm,
a publishing and exhibition organization in Japan. He was
awarded the 3rd Lorenzo Bonaldi Art Prize (2005), has been
the networking curator of ‘Singapore Biennale 2006,’
and is currently the recipient of the Japan-US Arts Program
fellowship, with the Asian Cultural Council (2007.) He recently
became the director of ARCUS,
an international artist-in-residence program in Ibaraki,
Japan.
Mauricio Marcin is an independent curator
and writer based in Mexico City. From 2006-07 he was the
Director of Celda Contemporanea, where he initiated a program
of exhibitions that placed emphasis on the reinterpretation
and reevaluation of artists' practices during the 1960s
and 1970s, focusing on artists who were pioneering in performance
art, video art, and non-objective art in Mexico. Marcin's
last exhibition for this series was a retrospective of Juan
José Gurrola, one of the most influential Mexican
artists in the past four decades. From 2004-6 Marcin was
visual arts journalist for the newspaper La Crónica
de Hoy. He has also published articles and essays in magazines
such as Curare, Fahrenheit, Generación and others.
Currently he is developing Virus, a project which involves
commissioning 40 artists, musicians, composers and writers
to make a sound work, which will be broadcast as interventions
into the regular programming of Ibero 90.9FM, a major radio
station in Mexico City.
Danny Orendorff is an independent curator,
researcher and writer currently living in San Francisco,
California, pursuing a M.A. in Curatorial Practice at the
California College of the Arts. He has assisted on projects
and exhibitions occurring at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art in Phoenix, Arizona; SFCamerawork in San Francisco,
California; and at the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley,
California, where he will be co-teaching a course on ‘Digital
Culture’ this Fall. Orendorff is also Project Manager
for a traveling exhibition of artist source materials, the
backroom. His research interests revolve around crowds,
behavior and the introduction of live-elements into exhibition,
including Performance, dance, experimental music and architecture,
as well as digital, net-based or New Media artistic practices.
Monte Vista Projects is a new artist-run
space in Highland Park that will stage regular exhibitions,
conversations, events and performances. Their inaugural
show First Kiss will open on Saturday, July 14
from 7pm-10pm. Visit www.montevistaprojects.com
for more information.
This event is made possible in part by the generous
support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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