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11/3/2021

Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures book release | Parafictions 1: News Media, Television & Docu-Fiction research journal launch | panel discussion with Scott Benzel, Hande Sever, Misael Oquendo, and Holly Harrell, moderated by Jan Tumlir

November 3rd, 2021 7–9:00pm

Please join Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) November 3rd, 7-9pm for the book release of Scott Benzel: Mindless Pleasures with essays by Jan Tumlir, Lee Foley, Hande Sever, Scott Benzel and Alan S. Tofighi, and the digital release of Parafictions Research Journal 1 by Holly Harrell and Misael Oquendo. We will discuss both new publications in a conversation moderated by Jan Tumlir.

10/10/2021

Join us on Sunday, October 10th from 4–6pm to celebrate the book release for Call Card and the closing of Nic Gaby’s vitrine exhibition, inter; mode; module.

Call Card the exhibition, was on view at LACA from May 15–June 12, 2021. The exhibition catalogue, edited by Hugo Cervantes and Kate Rouhandeh and designed by Ted Gerike, collects contributions from Miko Revereza, Moyra Davey, veronique d’entremont, and Alison Strayer.

9/10/2021 to 10/10/2021

inter; mode; module

Nic Gaby

Opening September 10, 6-8pm
September 10 - October 10, 2021

8/15/2021

Advanced Googling It:
A workshop on digital research techniques

August, 15, 2021
7-8:30 PM
*This is an in person event

8/3/2021

If not home

If not home focuses on the idea of connecting to a place that no longer exists. Not physically, per se, but the consideration that a place changes over time; that environments change. Altered by the passage of time itself; by people, by politics, and other factors. No place is really as you left it.

This exhibition features a small fraction of the beads Shikwana has made over the course of his life, and pairs them with writing from Asshaq.

7/31/2021 to 9/10/2021

Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection

July 31-August 31st 6–9 p.m. PST

Extended September 10th

LACA has initiated Private Practices with curator Coco Ono, co-producer of Sacred Wounds, which highlights healing-focused celebrations of Asian perspectives through erotic ritual. The archive that LACA and Ono have established is a living collection, meaning that items—such as screenshots, paystubs, apparel, set pieces, police reports, text messages, and other ephemera pertinent to sexual labor—will be added on an ongoing basis. The contributors to this collection have actively described the materials in this archive by cataloguing and entering their own keywords; therefore, they play an active role in shaping the narrative of the holdings and the collection as a whole.

5/15/2021 to 6/12/2021

Call Card

Moyra Davey, veronique d’entremont, Miko Revereza

Organized by Hugo Cervantes and Kate Rouhandeh

Opening reception, May 14th 5pm-8pm
(Masks and social distancing required)

3/21/2021 to 5/29/2023

reCourse work
Spring 2021 | Organized with Gloria Galvez

reCourse work is an open call for artists, authors, and performers to share ephemera related to their process of creating course work, lessons and syllabi. These include prompts, notes, sources, paystubs, outline drafts, or correspondences that shaped an art course.

2/14/2021

21 Minute Mix

Unlike past holidays at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), this year we are unable to all be together. So, we’re considering different ways of being close.
21 Minute Mix brings together mixes by artists, musicians, archivists, and DJs, to assemble songs of love and longing to share with others.
The mix will go LIVE February 14th 8PM PST on LACA’s Vimeo and be available on LACA’s online database thereafter.

1/17/2021

Case Study: Artist Archive

Sunday 1pm PST, January 17, 2021

RSVP HERE

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and Commonwealth and Council invite you to an artist archive case study, a tour and conversation surrounding the exhibition, Box (a proposition for ten years). The presentation will feature artist Patricia Fernández, artist and archivist Hailey Loman, curator and archivist Maite Muñoz, and writer and art historian Doris Chon and be followed by a Q&A.

The participants will consider where the act of archiving overlaps with the authorship of artwork. How does someone archive a relationship—with a space, with a friend—through an exchange of objects, unanswered letters, and things left unspoken?

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