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2/17/2015

Wik-Ed Women 4

Wik-Ed Women is a monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing workshops/sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the arts to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding its content about women artists. Considering that 90% of Wikipedia’s editors (information-distributing-enthusiasts, really) are men, these evenings advocate against the systemic bias

2/11/2015

Book Release for FIND THE COYOTE, the Shelter Press residency at LACA

FIND THE COYOTE
a subjective displacement of archives by shelter press at LACA

FIND THE COYOTE is the resulting work from the Shelter Press (France) residency at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive.

1/30/2015 to 2/10/2015

Shelter Press Residency

January 30th
Shelter Press will be displaying at the archive several prints from their recent publication, Improvisation as a delayed fiction.

February 10th
LACA will be hosting a presentation with Shelter Press about some of their findings and studies while at the archive.

1/29/2015 to 2/1/2015

LACA at Los Angeles Art Book Fair

On the occasion of the 2015 Los Angeles Art Book Fair, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) proposes an intervention to the standard commerce and exchange environment of the fair by allowing their booth to become an inventory and display of selected archival materials by a group of artists, writers, a curator, and an arts organization. This group will hold individual office hours while their presentation is either selected from the LACA archives or from their own

1/20/2015

1/17/2015

Benjamin Lord - Oral Culture Book Release

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to host the release of Oral Culture, a new artist book by Benjamin Lord. Part prose and part verse, the book explores the relationship between the spoken and the written word. The text transforms and refigures a group of ancient Yurok myths onto and against the patois of modern hip hop. Colliding the dense, atomic style...

12/12/2014

Psychiana Magazine Release Party

ISSUE 3: HUMILIATION

Friday December 12, 8-11pm

Music! Drinks! Performances! Temporary Tattoos! Humiliating Tarot Readings!

11/1/2014

MATERIAL FALL BACK Live Auction Party

Please join MATERIAL for our FALL BACK Live Auction Party, taking place the night before daylight savings—Saturday, November 1, 2014—at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive in downtown LA. In the spirit of ‘falling back’ and in resonance with our location, we will be exhibiting and auctioning off our archive of seven years of MATERIAL Limited Editions...

10/10/2014

Scott Benzel - Programmatic Architecture Displacements 6 and 7

In 2010, Benzel presented Inversions I-IV at Kathryn Andrews’ artist-run space Apartment 2. Consisting of several videos, photographic ephemera, hand-lathed phonographic record lacquers, and live string quartet, the show examined Inversion as a musical form (Inversion in music occurs when a musical score is played upside-down) as well as an architectonic...

10/7/2014

Wik-Ed Women 2

Wik-Ed Women is a new monthly series of Wikipedia editing sessions /workshops for Los Angeles women-in-the arts to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding its content about women artists. Considering that 90% of Wikipedia’s editors (information-distributing-enthusiasts, really) are men, these evenings advocate against the systemic...

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