18th Street Arts Center

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By ajones, May 7, 2012 11:25 am

April 1-30, 2012

Francisca Caporali is one of the founders and the director of JA.CA (Jardim Canadá Centre for Art and Technology). She has exhibited her work in many international festivals and galleries, and has participated in numerous residencies as both artist and arts manager. For the past few years she has investigated varying methods of collaboration and interaction. Her projects are interdisciplinary and push the frontiers of art, social science and urbanism. The Urban Homestead Project, a collective that she created with Laura Chipley and Pilar Ortiz, explores the act of making temporary public living spaces out of found and recycled objects as a means for creating positive interactions within a community. Her latest project, JA.CA,  is a new initiative to stimulate the development of contemporary art in Brazil. Located in Jardim Canadá, in Nova Lima, a city that belongs to the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the project’s main objective is to encourage and promote art using various technologies and approaches. Projects consider Brazil’s local reality, either through educational stimuli, incentives or as an enabler of collaborative practices. JA.CA has hosted over 20 artists in residence and offers workshops in art, architecture, and urbanism.

During her time in residence, Caporali will investigate and research the structure of residency programs such as 18th Street’s, as well as other programs in Northern California. Caporali comes to 18th Street through generous support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles.

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By ajones, April 30, 2012 4:51 pm

April 1-30, 2012

Giuseppe De Bernardi is an artist and the founding director of Tupac Asociación Cultural, an artists’ residency program in Lima, Peru. Tupac, a center for contemporary art located in Barranco, Lima, is the first National artists’ residency program in Peru aimed at encouraging the development of projects by local and international professional artists. De Bernardi also has an active art practice including an ongoing  project ‘Cerveza Tupac‘, which involves literally and symbolically generating economic agency by creating a product and a brand (a local artist-made beer) that, in turn, generates revenue to fund artist projects. De Bernardi’s interdisciplinary practice spans the fields of cultural management, artistic research and creation and art direction in film projects, television and stage.

During his time in residence as an artist and arts administrator, De Bernardi will investigate and research the structure of residency programs such as 18th Street’s, as well as other programs in Northern California. De Bernardi comes to 18th Street through generous support from the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles.

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Urbi et Orbi Manifesto, 2006 Performance

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By ajones, March 2, 2008 5:19 pm

February-March 2008

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Aneta Szylak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdansk, Poland since 1985. Ms. Szylak is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In years 1998 Ms. Szylak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art – the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture – in the former Gdansk Shipyard premises.

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By ajones, July 25, 2007 3:09 pm

2007

Aneta Szylak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdansk, Poland since 1985. Ms. Szylak is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In years 1998 Ms. Szylak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art – the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture – in the former Gdansk Shipyard premises.

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By ajones, March 25, 2007 12:33 pm

2007

She is one of the founding members of an independent curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW (with Ivet Curlin, Natasa Ilic and Sabina Sabolovic and designer and publicist Dejan Krsic) based in Zagreb, Croatia. WHW’s activities are exploring the potentials of critical curatorial practice capable of generating innovative models of self-representation and self-organization within the realm of contemporary art. Since May 2003 WHW has been running the program of Gallery Nova – non-profit city owned gallery in the center of Zagreb.