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10/1/2023 to 12/30/2023

break room

For Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living, LACA has created break room, an installation which serves as a public rest area remixed and reshuffled with archival collections. Break room explores how mandated rest time is not for our own recovery. Archival selections here demonstrate how we rupture, break, and temporarily refuse the oppressive conditions imposed on us.

The collection features artists’ live/work conditions, placemaking and collective actions through notes, costume apparel, police reports, nuisance complaints, playlists, group text messages, child care leave requests, love letters, maps to raves, and performance plan sketches. The collections show complicated artistic lives and the ways in which we dream up possibilities of living differently.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living at the Hammer Museum
Opening Celebration Saturday, September 30
October 1–December 31, 2023

Details about break room’s public programs over the biennial can be found here.

LACA's project at the Hammer is organized by Hailey Loman, Andrew Freire, Nicholas Gaby, Saiga Largaespada, and Keko Jackson.

Editors: Kate Rouhandeh and Hugo Cervantes.
Graphic Design: Hailey Loman, Caleb Miller and Troy Curtis Zaretsky-Kreiner.

10/1/2023 to 12/30/2023

the breaks

We are on-site at break room Wednesdays from 11-5 PM.

Listen to music, grab a cup of coffee, microwave leftovers, rest, and handle archival materials directly from shelves organized around ideas about work, break, and pleasure.

Drop-in or coordinate a time with us HERE.

Wednesday, October 18th at 4PM
MOCA Union collection with educator, artist, and MOCA Union President Olivia Leiter.

Saturday, November 18th at 2PM
Private Practices AAPI Sex Worker and Performance Art collection with artist and educator Kayla Tange.

Saturday, December 9th at 2PM
Scheduling Conflicts, by architect and writer Christina Moushoul of Office Party.

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Saturday, October 28th from 4–5PM
Saturday, December 2nd from 4–5PM

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Workshops/Support Groups are limited capacity, please RSVP in advance.
All events are FREE

Cake by artist and baker DaMon Golatt.
Coffee and tea by artist Mikey Muench of Senses Coffee Project.

LACA's project at the Hammer is organized by Hailey Loman, Andrew Freire, Nicholas Gaby, Saiga Largaespada, and Keko Jackson.

Editors: Kate Rouhandeh and Hugo Cervantes.
Graphic Design: Caleb Miller and Troy Curtis Zaretsky-Kreiner.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living at the Hammer Museum
October 1–December 31, 2023