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
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
EPISODE 3: Weaving Tight Enough: Forming Solidarities and “Fixing” the Situation
with Cog•nate Collective, Vishal Jugdeo, Patrick Staff, and Elana Mann.
Moderated by Mario Ontiveros.
One of the underlying concerns of this conversation is identified by Amy of Cog•nate Collective when she says, “How can we knit together our capacities? Can we stitch together, or weave tight enough so that we can catch the people who are falling through?”
When these artists came together for this conversation in February 2020, we knew about the virus and all felt something coming but the magnitude and roller coaster of the events of the past 5 months was unimaginable.
And yet, this conversation intersects with the present in so many ways. For one, the artists struggle with state definitions and institutions that limit humanity, that diminish and displace humans. They also talk about how the process of beginning to undo state violence and institutional racism, for example, requires not a speeding up but a slowing down, to assess points of alignment and to form solidarities. They shed light on the role that art and artists can play in these processes.
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