LACA

Silence is Information

Clémence de Montgolfier

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to present Silence is Information, a on-site research project by Clémence de Montgolfier. De Montgolfier (b.1987, lives and works in Paris) is a visual artist whose works investigates the politics of public speaking, representation, and the mediations of speech, also a Dr. in Media studies from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She has collaborated with Niki Korth in their Franco American project The Big Conversation Space for more than ten years. She has started to work on the multifaceted research entitled Les Médiation impossibles (Impossible Mediations) in 2020, a project which examines conflict resolution, the government of the self and others and the concepts of "truth" and "reconciliation". 

The Dividual 

April 21, 7-9

Emanuel Almborg, Frau Fiber, Chris Kraus, Sylvere Lotringer, Shana Lutker, Ohad Meromi, Ruth Patir, Ignacio Perez, Roee Rosen, Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sonnie Wooden and Barak Zemer. 

Curated by Joshua Simon

The Dividual explores an emergent subjectivity divided from itself and always-already a part of something. Since antiquity, the Individual (άτομο or átomo in Greek, individuum in Latin) has been defined philosophically, legally, and psychologically as an entity that is distinctively separate from the rest and indivisible from itself. In many societies, the individual is perceived as an objective subjectivity. As the relations and social institutions that constitute the individual and those that are formed around it change, there have been throughout history struggles around the gender, class, race, age, ethnicity, and species of those recognized as individuals.

Including materials by
Sergei Eisenstein, Platon Kerzhentsev, Paul Klee, Jacob Lawrence, El Lissitzky, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Octavia Butler, Drexciya, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, Luce Irigaray, Rigoberta Menchu, Andrei Platonov, Cedric Robinson. 
 

Design by Ella Gold.

This project is supported in part through a grant from the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.
Additional support is provided by Artis and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. 

The Cloud doesn’t love you
3/26/2022, 3-5 pm

The Cloud doesn’t love you looks at digital storage and how artists can use it to meet their needs. Led by Los Angeles-based artist, Christopher Richmond, the lab addresses strategies for artists in different disciplines, from painting to photography to video. Other topics will include the pros and cons of specific storage options, including the Cloud, external drives, optical disc, and tape. The lab will be in a conversational format, and attendees are encouraged to ask questions about their unique digital storage needs during the presentation.

Organized by Christopher Richmond

Bad Boy Art: Philanthropic Corruption, Tax Evasion and the Financialization of Art 

A talk by Shevaun Wright and Nizan Shaked

December 3, 7-9 PM