X-TRA’s Artists and Rights is a conversation series exploring what art can do, and the intersection of artistic practice and Los Angeles's most urgent issues. Each session brings together a group of artists around a table. They share how they reach across the boundaries of their disciplines, build bridges, and develop strategies to collectively create supportive conditions and opportunities. We’ll hear from Nao Bustamante, Cog•nate Collective, Michelle Dizon, Zackary Drucker, Todd Gray, Arshia Haq, Vishal Jugdeo, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Ahree Lee, Sandra de la Loza, Elana Mann, Jennifer Moon, Jaklin Romine, Patrick Staff, and Mario Ybarra Jr.! They share strategies for reaching across the boundaries of their disciplines. Building bridges. Working collectively. Creating supportive conditions and opportunities.
Episodes
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
EPISODE 2:
SUPERPOWERS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES: DEFINING WHAT YOU WANT TO SUSTAIN
with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon.
Moderated by Mario Ontiveros
In this episode, the artists pick up their conversation from last week. They discuss strategies for protecting the time needed to make work. They get into the economic and pedagogical challenges of working with emerging artists in MFA programs. And assert the importance of defining what drives your goals and learning to sustain that.
This session was recorded back in December 2019. But you’ll hear how the pandemic, the protests, and the failures of the government have only shed more light on the intersection of inequity, racism, and injustice that compels the work of these artists.
Conceptually we all can understand how these systems of oppression work, but how it sits in the body—being unable to shake that feeling of unworthiness, or feeling fraudulent—is really difficult." —Jennifer Moon
Find more info about the artists and the podcast here.
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