Case Study: Artist Archive
Sunday 1pm PST, January 17, 2021
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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?
Box (a proposition for 10 years) is a capsule of a ten-year work-in-progress and exchange between Patricia Fernández Carcedo and the recipient of the box's contents, Young Chung. The items include a variety of letters, found and created objects, and paintings. The digital archive can be viewed HERE.
Autonomous Oral History Group (AOHG) is a cooperative examining ethics operating in leadership roles. All interviews, recordings, transcriptions and ephemera collected during the process are assembled and made accessible as an oral history collection.
Patricia Fernández (b. 1980, Burgos, Spain; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from University of California, Los Angeles. Fernández has had solo exhibitions at California State University, Bakersfield Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain; 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica; and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Selected group exhibitions were held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana; Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Clifton Benevento, New York. Fernández is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant; the Speranza Foundation Lincoln City Fellowship, France-Los Angeles Exchange Grant.
Hailey Loman (b. 1988, Ventura, California; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute. She is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and performance. Loman is the Co-Founder and Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), an artist-run archive and non-circulating library in which contemporary creative processes are recorded and preserved. She founded Autonomous Oral History Group (AOHG) a cooperative that examines the ethics that operate in leadership roles. Interviews, recordings, transcriptions and ephemera are collected during the process, assembled and made accessible as an oral history collection.
Maite Muñoz is a curator and independent researcher specialized in archives and artist publications based in Los Angeles with a foot in Barcelona. Member of the collective Vista Oral. She works as an external advisor and independent curator for the Archive at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and YAXS (Guatemala). She is also member of Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA). She works as an editor for Terranova Editorial and teaches at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts by Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche with specialization in New Media. Master in Design and Communication, with specialization in studies on video games by Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. Master in Curating Art and New Media by Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Team member of the MACBA Study Center since 2008, where since 2012 to the end of 2015 worked as Head of Archive. She has curated the exhibition and seminar about artists’ publications Whole, In Part (MUSAC, 2013), the publication See you later (Sant Andreu Contemporani, 2015), the exhibition A.XMI. Xavier Miserachs Archive (MACBA, 2015) and the exhibitions Muestreo #1: The documents on stage (MACBA, 2017), Muestreo #2: This is mail art (MACBA, 2017), the seminar The Boundary Condition. About the Archive and its Limits (MACBA, 2018), the show and book Legible-Visible. Between the Film Frame and the Page (Arts Santa Mònica, 2017 and Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2018) and the program I’m Building a Geodesic Power Structure. Clinic/Encounter on Print and Sound Self-publishing (MACBA, 2019).
Doris Chon is a writer and art historian based in Los Angeles. She co-organized the traveling exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions (2018–19) at the Getty Research Institute. Her latest project addresses museum fictions in contemporary art.