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7/31/2021 to 9/10/2021

Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection

July 31-August 31st 6–9 p.m. PST

Extended September 10th

LACA has initiated Private Practices with curator Coco Ono, co-producer of Sacred Wounds, which highlights healing-focused celebrations of Asian perspectives through erotic ritual. The archive that LACA and Ono have established is a living collection, meaning that items—such as screenshots, paystubs, apparel, set pieces, police reports, text messages, and other ephemera pertinent to sexual labor—will be added on an ongoing basis. The contributors to this collection have actively described the materials in this archive by cataloguing and entering their own keywords; therefore, they play an active role in shaping the narrative of the holdings and the collection as a whole.

5/15/2021 to 6/12/2021

Call Card

Moyra Davey, veronique d’entremont, Miko Revereza

Organized by Hugo Cervantes and Kate Rouhandeh

Opening reception, May 14th 5pm-8pm
(Masks and social distancing required)

3/21/2021 to 5/29/2023

reCourse work
Spring 2021 | Organized with Gloria Galvez

reCourse work is an open call for artists, authors, and performers to share ephemera related to their process of creating course work, lessons and syllabi. These include prompts, notes, sources, paystubs, outline drafts, or correspondences that shaped an art course.

2/14/2021

21 Minute Mix

Unlike past holidays at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), this year we are unable to all be together. So, we’re considering different ways of being close.
21 Minute Mix brings together mixes by artists, musicians, archivists, and DJs, to assemble songs of love and longing to share with others.
The mix will go LIVE February 14th 8PM PST on LACA’s Vimeo and be available on LACA’s online database thereafter.

1/17/2021

Case Study: Artist Archive

Sunday 1pm PST, January 17, 2021

RSVP HERE

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and Commonwealth and Council invite you to an artist archive case study, a tour and conversation surrounding the exhibition, Box (a proposition for ten years). The presentation will feature artist Patricia Fernández, artist and archivist Hailey Loman, curator and archivist Maite Muñoz, and writer and art historian Doris Chon and be followed by a Q&A.

The participants will consider where the act of archiving overlaps with the authorship of artwork. How does someone archive a relationship—with a space, with a friend—through an exchange of objects, unanswered letters, and things left unspoken?

1/1/2021 to 2/6/2021

Box (a proposition for ten years)
Patricia Fernández and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) at Commonwealth and Council.

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is participating in an exhibition, Box (a proposition for ten years), with artist Patricia Fernández at Commonwealth and Council. In conjunction, Fernández Archive is available on LACA's database.

12/10/2020 to 2/6/2021

Box (a proposition for ten years)

Patricia Fernández and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) at Commonwealth and Council

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) is pleased to share a new collection, Box (a proposition for ten years), and exhibition with artist Patricia Fernández at Commonwealth and Council.

11/21/2020

Please join Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) November 21st, 12-4pm for Molly Surazhsky’s new book Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes.

LACA is pleased to release Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes. This Lookbook draws upon the Mashacare SS19 Collection and uses sci-fi narratives to construct an imaginary floating city named after Surazhsky’s Babushka, Masha. Surazhsky has created and fashioned clothing for Mashacare, a post-glacial future, as a way to envision the inhabitants of a matriarchal and post-capitalist reality.

8/16/2020

field works: an interview, a slur, a dam

A conversation with Carolina Caycedo, Yxta Murray, and Kathleen Kim
Friday, August 14, 2020
12:30-1:30 PM

7/1/2020 to 11/1/2020

Harris Bauer
Summer Residency 2020

This residency examines the ways in which a tangible exchange of objects and papers serves as physical representation of my grandmother’s form of preserving memory and legacy. With the accumulation of these materials, resulting in one archival facet of a multi-tiered exploration of story telling, contextualization and reception, I’m thinking and writing through the space that personal archives maintain between history and memory. The result is an amassing of information that speaks towards personal history in the form of a self-reflecting testimonial.

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