You See LA: Winter 2019
5 Things to See & Do In LA, Handpicked by Assistant Professor Rodrigo Valenzuela
Department of Art Assistant Professor Rodrigo Valenzuela is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography, video, painting, and installation. Using autobiographical threads to inform larger universal fields of experience, his work constructs narratives, scenes, and stories that point to the tensions found between the individual and communities. Much of Valenzuela’s work deals with the experience of undocumented immigrants and laborers. This winter, Valenzuela has a solo exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History titled, Lay of the Land: Rodrigo Valenzuela, on view through Feb. 17. Below, he offers five things to see and do in Los Angeles this winter.
Tamborine at Commonwealth and Council
Kenneth Tam’s work of the past several years has been consistently fueled by encounters with strangers, especially those facilitated by online message boards and forums such as Craigslist and Reddit. Stemming from an interest in how people navigate physical interaction and intimacy in shared spaces, Tam’s process often involves the solicitation of individuals whose participation in a given project is at times collaborative yet always serves to undermine the social conventions that are intricately linked to daily life.
January 19–March 2, 2019
Commonwealth and Council
3006 West 7th Street Suite 220
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Trouvelot Hallway at the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Credit: Museum of Jurassic Technology
On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of "life in the Jurassic"...
Museum of Jurassic Technology
9341 Venice Boulevard
Culver City, California 90232
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art at MOCA
Installation view of One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, October 14, 2018–March 11, 2019 at MOCA Grand Avenue, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Zak Kelley
MOCA presents an ambitious exhibition inspired by American painter and film critic Manny Farber and his legendary underground essay White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art (1962). One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art features approximately thirty artists and more than 100 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and sound dating from the 1950s to the present.
Through Mar. 11
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Christiane Jatahy: What if they went to Moscow?
Caique Bouzas/Lab Photo, 2014
Brazilian director Christiane Jatahy brilliantly merges live performance and filmmaking in what she describes as a "mirror game between theater and cinema." Her wildly acclaimed take on Anton Chekov's Three Sisters imagines the siblings hosting a house party in modern day Brazil
February 21–24
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Los Angeles Poverty Department (L.A.P.D.): I Fly! or How to Keep the Devil Down in the Hole
Photo: Reva Santo
The other L.A.P.D. collaborates with residents of Skid Row to create provocative performances that confront vital issues and ask urgent questions. Their new piece addresses the meaning of “Public Safety.” What’s a low-income neighborhood of color to do, targeted by the police, with lethal outcomes? What to do beyond despair, beyond protest? A neighborhood de-colonizes public safety.
April 4–6
REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
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