Artist Talk, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

On June 4th I spoke with Allison de Fren at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery on the handmade bodies that populate my work in the COLA Fellowship Exhibition and my obsessions the (in)/animate.

(In)/Animate Objects

Doll J10 (detail), 2019, photo: Track 16

The artist talk was held in conjunction with my installation, (In)/Animate Objects, an installation that included over a thousand handmade distressed dolls.  The installation was the companion piece to the performance, Object of Her Affection, in which a woman, Andrea Lowe, an Object Sexual has mysteriously fallen from a building she loved. In (In)/Animate Objects, years have passed and her grandmother has amassed thousands of rag dolls that testify to the insatiable need for love at the heart of the obsessional life.

Mechanical Bride, Still courtesy of Alison de Fren
Still from de Fren’s documentary, “Mechanical Bride”

Allison de Fren

For the artist talk at LAMAG, I was in conversation with Allison de Fren, a media practitioner and scholar at Occidental College who investigates the relationship between the body and technology, especially about artificial bodies: dolls, puppets, automata, cyborgs, and robots.

 

Prior to our talk, I was also present at LAMAG to activate the installation.

PERFORMANCE

Saturday,
June 4th, 2016
1:00PM-2:00PM

(more performance times)

ARTIST TALK

Saturday,
June 4th, 2016
2:00PM
3:00PM

City of Los Angeles
Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition

Sunday, May 15th, 2016
through
Sunday, July 3rd, 2016

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
4800 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90027

Open
Thursdays through Sundays,
12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.
 Admission is free

General Information

Call 323.644.6269 

Visit lamag.org

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PRESS

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2019
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2017
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2017
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SUPPORT

(In)/Animate Objects was made possible with funding from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and through fabrication and assistance from numerous individuals.