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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.
    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics.
     
    Participating artists and hours of availability:
     
    Fiona Connor
     
    Fiona Connor’s installations typically present collections of objects or structures quoted, at one-to-one scale, from pre- existing architectural systems. Recent projects have documented vernacular structures from outside the gallery, while others explore the architecture and display mechanisms of the museum itself. Connor’s work explores, within a sustained dialogue between location and representation, how specific environments condition our perception of objects. 

    Fiona Connor completed her BFA/BA at University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2004. She has studied at University of California in San Diego and University of Barcelona, and most recently completed her MFA at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles, where she is currently based. Recent solo exhibitions include: Bare Use, 1301PE, Los Angeles (2012); Mount Gabriel, Ruby and Ash, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2011); Untitled (Mural Design), Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (2012); Murals and Print, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles (2012); Reading the map while driving, CalArts, Los Angeles (2011); Something Transparent (please go round the back), Michael Lett, Auckland (2009); and Notes on half the page, Gambia Castle, Auckland (2008). Connor’s work has been shown in group exhibitions including: Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Prospect: New Zealand Art Now, City Gallery, Wellington (2011); De-Building, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch (2011); On Forgery: is one thing better than another?, LAXART, Los Angeles (2011); NEW10, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne (2010).

    In 2011 Connor received an Award for Patronage donation from Chartwell Trust and the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, and in 2010 she was a finalist in the Walters Prize.

    Available appointments with Fiona Connor:

    3pm – 3:50pm, 4pm – 4:50pm, 5pm – 5:50pm 
     
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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.
    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics.
     
    Participating artists and hours of availability:
     
    Phil Chang
     
    Phil Chang received his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has had solo exhibitions at LAXART and Pepin Moore. His work has been exhibited in group shows at Marlborough Chelsea, Renwick Gallery, and The Swiss Institute. His work has been written about in ArtforumThe New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum.com, and has appeared in Aperture and Blind Spot. In 2010, Chang completed Four Over One, an artist’s publication that is published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Textfield, Inc. Chang’s curatorial projects have included Affective Turns?, a group exhibition that he organized in March 2012. He is currently visiting faculty in the Department of Art at UCLA and a lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design. Phil Chang lives and works in Los Angeles.

    Available appointments with Phil Chang:

    Saturday, July 27, 2013
    12pm – 12:50pm, 1pm – 1:50pm, 2pm – 2:50pm

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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.
    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics.
     
    Participating artists and hours of availability:
     
    Jennifer Pastor
     
    Jennifer Pastor’s practice has consistently explored a dialogue with surroundings that implicate and entangle the observer and observed, as well as structure where the built and enacted environment confound notions of bodies in space.
     
    Her exhibition of a new sculpture, Endless Arena (2009-2012), at Regen Projects this past April and May of 2013, was a large-scale work made of electroless nickel-plated steel and painted fiberglass. The sculpture emerged from elements of blind gesture drawings that Pastor made over a two-year period while attending unregulated “no-holds-barred” fighting event circuits. During this two-year period, Pastor was also engaged in a series of conversations with veteran combat artists, viewing and photographing acute observational drawings found in their personal collections and working sketchbooks, as well as in the National Military Archives. Endless Arena developed out of a drawn exploration of the complex situational and temporal space of the fights, which include synchronized movements and shifting dominances of bodies and structures, the spectacle of crowds, and the mediation by cameras projecting multiple viewpoints on surrounding screens. Through Pastor’s research, a pattern of relationships evolved from observing the environment of extreme spectacle at the fights, and the intimate observation of drawings by combat artists. The artist sought to synthesize and distill fragments of these observations, spaces, and experiences in to a sculptural work. Pastor considers Endless Arena an extruded drawing, an inside-out agitated hybrid, constructed from the peculiar situations and distortions of those events.          
     
    Jennifer Pastor has exhibited in major museums in the US and internationally including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelback, Denmarck; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; and FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Pastor participated in the 1996 Sao Paulo Biennial, the 1997 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her tripartite sculpture The Perfect Ride (2003) is currently on view at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam through September 22nd. 
     
    Available appointments with Jennifer Pastor
    Friday, July 26, 2013
    3pm – 3:50pm, 4pm – 4:50pm, 5pm – 5:50pm
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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:

    A.L. Steiner

    Available appointments:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 

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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:

    Tania Bruguera

    Available appointments:
    Tuesday, April 2, 2013
    3pm – 3:50pm
    4pm – 4:50pm
    5pm – 5:50pm
     
    Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, installation and video. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating public forums to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, while also challenging notions of spectatorship and participation by transforming conditions for “viewing” into those for “citizenry.” Recent exhibitions include Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2012; The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, 2012, and Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2012. Bruguera participated in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal. Her works have also been exhibited at the New Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Helsinki Art Museum; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Museum Bojimans van Beuningen, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her performances have been presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela. In 2011, Bruguera spent a year operating a community space in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York as part of Immigrant Movement International, a long-term project presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art. From 2003 to 2009, Bruguera was the founding director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana, the first performance and time-based art studies program in Cuba.

    Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours is coordinated with USC Roski's Chelle Barbour, a 2013 Master's candidate in the MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program. The program emphasizes the practice and history of art, curating and critical theory. In addition to realizing an individual work of advanced research in a thesis, Master's candidates produce a curatorial practicum and related programs as a means of raising social questions about art and art's publics. Barbour's work with Bruguera precedes the artist's free open public evening lecture at USC Roski on April 3rd (7pm), at the University Park Campus, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089. 

    Special acknowledgement is extended to Connie Butler, Visiting Professor in the M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC and Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for her efforts in making Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours possible.

    Other Office Hours artists and appointment dates include:

    A.L. Steiner
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Available appointments with A.L. Steiner:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 
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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:


    Edgar Arceneaux

    Available appointments:

    Saturday, March 16, 2013

    12pm – 12:50pm

    1pm – 1:50pm

    2pm – 2:50pm


    Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations and video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. From 1999 to 2012 Arceneaux served as Director of the Watts House Project, an artist driven neighborhood redevelopment project centered around the historic Watts Towers. He co-founded the WHP as a non-profit organization in 2009 with writer and arts organizer Sue Bell Yank. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Kitchen, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. His work was included in Marking Time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia; Mutatis Mutandis, at Secession, Vienna, Austria, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. Arceneaux is currently developing a collaborative project with the US State Department and the country of São Tomé e Príncipe, as well as a solo exhibition opening in May of 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, a forum created by Theaster Gates as part of the University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris.


    Other Office Hours artists and appointment dates include:


    Tania Bruguera
     
    Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, installation and video. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating public forums to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, while also challenging notions of spectatorship and participation by transforming conditions for “viewing” into those for “citizenry.” Recent exhibitions include Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2012; The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, 2012, and Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2012. Bruguera participated in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal. Her works have also been exhibited at the New Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Helsinki Art Museum; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her performances have been presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela. In 2011, Bruguera spent a year operating a community space in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York as part of Immigrant Movement International, a long-term project presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art. From 2003 to 2009, Bruguera was the founding director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana, the first performance and time-based art studies program in Cuba.

    Available appointments with Tania Bruguera:
    Tuesday, April 2, 2013
    3pm – 3:50pm
    4pm – 4:50pm
    5pm – 5:50pm


    A.L. Steiner
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Available appointments with A.L. Steiner:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 

    Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours is coordinated with USC Roski's Chelle Barbour, a 2013 Master's candidate in the MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program. The program emphasizes the practice and history of art, curating and critical theory. In addition to realizing an individual work of advanced research in a thesis, Master's candidates produce a curatorial practicum and related programs as a means of raising social questions about art and art's publics. Barbour's work with Bruguera precedes the artist's free open public evening lecture at USC Roski on April 3rd (7pm), at the University Park Campus, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089. 

    Special acknowledgement is extended to Connie Butler, Visiting Professor in the M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC and Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for her efforts in making Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours possible.