Friday, April 8, 2011

I have a video piece up at 18th Street Arts Center

http://18thstreet.org/subject/gallery

18th Street is a community which values art making as an essential component of a vibrant, just and healthy society.  "Terrarium" a performance documentation will be showcased there.

Project Room Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, off of Olympic Boulevard.

BACKGROUND

The 18th Street Arts Center came into existence in 1988 as a complex of artist live-work spaces and the headquarters of High Performance magazine. Artist Susanna Bixby Dakin, writer Linda Frye Burnham and artist Steven Durland had
been working together for years, documenting the alternative art world through the magazine and Astro Artz publications. In the late ’80s, they decided artists needed more: affordable studio space. Dakin found an acre of land in Santa Monica’s Pico neighborhood, recently zoned specifically for manufacturing and the arts, and asked Burnham to help her develop it as affordable arts studios. The hodge-podge complex of five buildings, they discovered, had once incubated Judy Chicago’s groundbreaking feminist “Dinner Party” installation.
Burnham and Dakin conceived of the 18th Street Arts Complex as an intergenerational, intercultural, multidisciplinary beehive, as diverse as possible. Within a year it had become a creative cluster of studios, galleries, offices
and public spaces, housing some 30 tenants — artists ages 20-60 from many different ethnic and national backgrounds, working in the visual, performance and media arts. Some 30 tenants. alone and together, were making and exhibiting paintings and sculpture, operating arts-service organizations, creating film documentaries, presenting performances, publishing magazines and celebrating annually with a neighborhood festival. In residence in those early years
were The Empowerment Project, Highways Performance Space (founded by Burnham and artist Tim Miller), Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s Electronic Café International, Community Arts Resources
(CARS), Joan Hotchkis’ Tearsheets Productions, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Keith Antar Mason, Dan Kwong, Jill Burnham, Francisco Letelier and Michael Barnard. Soon to join them were Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, Phranc, Denise
Uehara and Side Street Projects.

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