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18@Home is a library of all of the virtual programs 18th Street Arts Center has produced from March of 2020 throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, that you can now watch online. We plan to continue to offer virtual programming and livestream events even as we slowly return to in-person, so we will continue to keep this page updated with fresh, dynamic content over time.
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18 @ Home - On-Demand Videos
Fall 2021
The Practice of Disguise - Behind the Scenes
Related to Ling-lin Ku’s exhibition The Practice of Disguise
Online premiere: Friday, December 3, 2021
An experimental video trailer by Taiwanese artist Ling-lin Ku, produced under the framework of her solo show entitled The Practice of Disguise, features a behind the scene look at her time as an AiR at 18th Street Arts Center. The video will present footage around her studio and process, interviews with staff members and artists, the exhibition, as a visual collage along with other researched images.
This exhibition features Ling-lin’s new work created during the residency at 18th Street Art Center, including a multi-channel video and sculptural installation that reflects on the revealing/hidden moments in the intersection of the virtual and tangible world, familiarity and the uncanny, otherness and selfness. In the current age of information, extreme self-exposure, and the constant mediation of fact, Ku explores the ways in which disguise has figured in contemporary art, and our relationship to representation in our modern era.
Learn more about the exhibition The Practice of Disguise here.
The Practice of Disguise: Artists in Conversation with Ling-lin Ku, Ara Oshagan, and Cynthia Madansky
Related to Ling-lin Ku’s exhibition The Practice of Disguise
Online premiere: Friday, November 19, 2021
An artist conversation shared among LA-based photographer and installation artist Ara Oshagan, New York artist and LA-born filmmaker Cynthia Madansky, and multimedia sculptor Ling-lin Ku exploring the seemingly binary yet in fact the blurry relationship of seeing and not seeing, revealing and concealing through creative approaches, personal experiences, and social-political lenses.
This exhibition features Ling-lin’s new work created during the residency at 18th Street Art Center, including a multi-channel video and sculptural installation that reflects on the revealing/hidden moments in the intersection of the virtual and tangible world, familiarity and the uncanny, otherness and selfness. In the current age of information, extreme self-exposure, and the constant mediation of fact, Ku explores the ways in which disguise has figured in contemporary art, and our relationship to representation in our modern era.
Learn more about the exhibition The Practice of Disguise here.
Repeat after me: An online screening and conversation
With artists Jennifer Chia-ling Ho, Tzu-Huan Lin, Dan S. Wang, and Siru Wen.
Related to Jennifer Chia-ling Ho’s exhibition How are you?
Online premiere: Friday, September 10, 2021
As part of Jennifer Chia-ling Ho’s exhibition How are you?, artists Jennifer Chia-ling Ho and Tzu-Huan Lin will share their production concepts and processes of their collaborative video work, A Dialogue Practice, using found footage that reflects their experiences on communication and language learning. Artist Dan S. Wang, who extensively uses language in his work, and Siru Wen, who intentionally avoids using language in her work, will also join the conversation. This screening and conversation will premiere online on September 10, 2021.
該中心將於9月10日推出藝術家對談《請跟我這樣說》(
Image caption: Still from A Dialogue Practice, 2021, Jennifer Chia-Ling Ho and Tzu-huan Lin, Single channel video, color, sound, 5 minutes 20 seconds.
Summer 2021
A Roundtable Discussion with Maria Rosario Jackson, Ruthann Lehrer, Maj Hasager, and Carolyne and Bill Edwards of the Quinn Research Center
Saturday, August 14, 2021 | 11 AM
As Norman Klein once observed, Los Angeles has a history of forgetting its places. Landmark status and historic designation has traditionally been one of the few ways to protect significant sites from demolition and redevelopment, but it has long been focused on architectural significance, and can be a costly, time-intensive, and restrictive process to pursue. It also is an inherently inequitable process, as evidenced by the fact that only 3% of landmarks in the City of LA are linked to Black history. In this panel, we delve into the historical significance of sites linked to Santa Monica’s Black history identified in Maj Hasager’s concurrent exhibition at 18th Street Arts Center entitled Three Structures Touching that emerged from her work with the Black history archive at the Quinn Research Center. We discuss landmarks and the inequities embedded in the process of designating them, imagine how these systems may shift, and explore alternative modes of remembering the histories of our neighborhood.With writer and researcher Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson, landmarks expert Ruthann Lehrer of the Santa Monica Conservancy, artist Maj Hasager, and the directors of the Quinn Research Center, Carolyne and Bill Edwards. Moderated by 18th Street Arts Center’s Deputy Director Sue Bell Yank.
The Art of Family in “La Veinte”: A Conversation about Hidden Santa Monica Histories
A launch event for “We Were All Here” by Dan Kwong and Paulina Sahagun
Saturday, June 26, 2021 | 5 PM
Artists and creators Dan Kwong and Paulina Sahagun were be joined by West Side historian Miguel Chavez and multi-generational Santa Monica resident Genna Casillas for a lively discussion based on the new Kwong/Sahagun video, “We Were All Here: The Story of La Veinte, la familia Casillas, and the Pico Neighborhood of Santa Monica.”
The conversation focused on the art of being a family, and delved into a series of topics that affected “La Veinte” throughout the 20th century; uncovering hidden histories of a community, migration and immigration policies, social/political movements of the 60s and 70s, and the price of assimilation.
We Were All Here
A collaborative art video produced by
Dan Kwong and Paulina Sahagun
18th Street Arts Center is pleased to present a new commission from artists Dan Kwong and Paulina Sahagun, a collaborative video project that delves into the local history of the Pico Neighborhood of Santa Monica.
Due to historical discriminatory housing policies combined with economic forces, the Pico Neighborhood -- bounded by Pico on the south, Colorado on the north, Stewart St. on the east and 14th St. on the west -- was the primary home base for Latino/a, Black, and Asian families in Santa Monica for many decades. Several factors, including the completion of the Santa Monica Freeway in 1966 that would displace 3,000 families and split the neighborhood in half, would change the area forever.
Beginning in 1918, the extended Casillas family that settled around Olympic and 20th Street (”La Veinte”) would be the largest family ever to emigrate to Santa Monica from Mexico. Their story reflects the 20th century immigrant experience, the evolution of the City of Santa Monica, and the making of citizenry. Through storytelling, oral histories, archival image collection, and a poetic interweaving of individual and collective experiences, Kwong and Sahagun create a tapestry of imagery and memory that evokes the history of this iconic Southern Californian neighborhood and its founding families with roots across the Americas.
This project is part of Culture Mapping 90404, a community oral history project of 18th Street Arts Center in partnership with the Santa Monica Public Library. This project is generously supported by the California Arts Council.
Learn more here.
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