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Episode No. 705 features curators Dalila Scruggs and Catherine Morris, and artist Beatriz Cortez. With Mary Lee Corlett, Scruggs and Morris are the co-curators of "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibition surveys Catlett's career across over 150 sculptures, prints, paintings, and drawings. The exhibition is on view through July 6. An exceptional exhibition catalogue, titled Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies was published by the The University of Chicago Press, the NGA and the Brooklyn Museum, which originated the exhibition. It is available from Amazon and Bookshop for $56-60. Catlett was a feminist, activist, and radical who helped join the Black Left in the US to influences from the Mexican Revolution. Her work continued the practice of earlier US artists such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and Carleton Watkins by using cultural production to advance ideas and ideologies. Cortez is featured in "Seeds: Containers of a World to Come" at the Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. The exhibition features work by ten artists whose research-driven practices are informed by inquiry into plant-human-land relations. "Seeds" was curated by Meredith Malone and Svea Braeunert, and remains on view through July 28. The exhibition brochure is available here. "Beatriz Cortez x rafa esparza: Earth and Cosmos" is at the Americas Society, New York through May 17. The show considers the idea of ancient objects traveling across space and time. Cortez's work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities, and imaginaries of the future. She has been featured in solo exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY,; the Williams College Museum of Art; Clockshop, Los Angeles; and more. Instagram: Catherine Janet Morris, Beatriz Cortez, Tyler Green.
A new, three-year collective history project from the nonprofit Clockshop is gathering stories and memories from rapidly changing communities along the LA River. The iconic Roxy Theatre turned 50 this month. Neil Young kicked off the anniversary celebrations, and Rickie Lee Jones will keep them going with a performance in October. Artist Jane Tsong's Underflow LA is a project is showcasing underground river sounds from across the city.
What if Los Angeles is the future? This episode Charlotte Burns visits the city for the first of two extra special episodes. We're at the Hammer museum with its Chief curator, Connie Butler, before heading over to meet Sue Bell Yank who's Executive director at Clockshop. Both are experimenting with how to do things differently and how to make LA a sustainable place to be and to create art. Nowhere encapsulates the need to imagine radical new possibilities more than Los Angeles. “LA is an amazing place to think about what our possible futures could look like,” says Sue Bell Yank. “It's a place that's at the bleeding edge of a lot of crises, from wildfires to floods. How cultural organizations fit into that is really interesting.” Join us for more.
Clockshop's series ‘Dreaming Land Back into Reality,' featured conversations with individuals shaping the LandBack Movement. Expanding on the first part of our series on Indigenous stewardship models, we move to unpack the synergistic alliances by Black advocates working to heal the generational historic harms of settler colonialism. This second installment will examine the dispossession of land from the Bruce family of Bruce's Beach and other Black Californians, from seizures through eminent domain to racist housing practices like redlining and racial covenants, and imagine the contemporary conditions that make reparations and land return attainable. This conversation features April Banks, artist and creative strategist; George Fatheree III, a real estate attorney with Sidley Austin LLP; and Kavon Ward, co-founder of Where Is My Land, the latter two having collaborated on the return of Bruce's Beach to the Bruce family. The program will be moderated by Theresa Hwang, a community-engaged architect and founder of the Department of Beloved Places. The speakers discussed how law, public policy, community organizing, and art can work together in envisioning and building toward the radicalizing work necessary to support the reality of reparations. Learn more here: https://clockshop.org/project/dreaming-land-back-into-reality/
Clockshop presents a new series 'Dreaming Land Back into Reality,' an exploration of the intersectional movements that work to pave pathways to the return and stewardship models of stolen land. Ahead of Indigenous Peoples' Day, the first conversation in the series featured Victor Bjelajac, District Superintendent in the North Coast Redwood District for California State Parks; Kimberly Morales Johnson, Tribal Secretary of the Gabrieleno / Tongva Tribe; and Rudy Ortega Jr., Tribal President of the Tataviam / Fernandeño Tribe. The program was moderated by Alina Bokde, Chief Deputy Director of the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation. The program speakers shared their experiences in navigating the co-stewardship of stolen land with Indigenous tribes and communities within and beyond colonial systems.
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The incomparable Sue Bell Yank has just started as the Executive Director of Clockshop, an arts and culture organization that seeks to generate social change through the transformation of public space. And while there is never a bad time to revisit this great convo, we couldn't think of a better one than now! Erika and Alexis speak with Sue Bell Yank, Deputy Director of 18th Street Arts, formerly of OWN and the Hammer, and an all around awesome smart lady with very soothing voice. We talk about the importance of arts education from a young age, funding, civil projects, community engagement and LARPing. She also has an incredible podcast, Paved Paradise, about the history of housing disparity in Los Angeles that we discuss, and it's a treat to hear about the behind the scenes! This is an exceptionally inspiring one! I mean look below and bask in the RANGE! SUE REFERENCED: Lefebvre Right To The City Hamburg Park Fiction Minneapolis - Feminist Strip Club/Sex Workers Organizing Project SUE RECOMMENDS: Podcast: Imaginary Worlds Podcast: Rude Tales of Magic LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Sue Bell Yank - SueBellYank.com, PavedParadisePodcast.com, @clockshopla Alexis Hyde - @hydeordie, alexishyde.com Dr. Erika Wong; - @topractiseapractice, www.practise-practice.com Slack channel: topractiseapractice.slack.com Email us: hydeorpractise@gmail.com Music by Cheap TV - @cheaptv_official, https://cheaptvmusic.com/
Artist Ignacio Perez Meruane in conversation with historian of the American West, William Deverell, about the cultural, environmental, and social history of the land connected to LASHP and how artworks can function within this historical context. Live event recording.
Delilah Beasley didn’t have much education or money, but when she saw that African Americans were being ignored by history books, she knew she had to do something. Beasley ended up spending nearly a decade interviewing elders and digging through crumbling archives to compile “The Negro Trailblazers of California,” a book that rescued dozens of notable Black figures from historical oblivion. However, Beasley didn’t just focus on the past. Her weekly Oakland Tribune column, “Activities among the Negroes,” documented the East Bay’s Black community at a time when positive portrayals of people of color in the media were almost nonexistent. This episode explores Beasley’s life as a historian and journalist through a conversation with the authors of “Trailblazer: Delilah Beasley’s California” (Published by Clockshop), a new work by Dana Johnson and Ana Cecilia Alvarez. We discuss Beasley’s motivation, her impact, and why her work still remains so valuable. To see more about this episode, visit: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/we-were-being-erased/ East Bay Yesterday can’t survive without your support. Please donate to keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday
What's next for the Bowtie? Sean Woods, Stephen Mejia and Kat Superfisky are all actively trying to answer that question. Listen in as they recount past and current battles, as well as ideas for the park's designed future.
In this episode, Rux and Bear share how they uncovered the story of Ryan Coreas, a local teenager whose life is memorialized at one of his favorite places to hang out: the Bowtie.
The Bowtie is a rare plot of wide open space in a city that's becoming more densely populated by the day. What will happen when the site becomes a park? Who will get to use it?
In this wide ranging conversation about the politics of open space, responsive design, and community engagement, Ruxandra Guidi discusses South of Fletcher: Stories from the Bowtie with Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles; Kat Superfisky, Urban Ecologist at Studio-MLA and Executive Director at Grown in LA; and Helen Leung, Co-Executive Director of LA-Más. In this discussion, the panelists will consider the Bowtie and its relationship to the rest of a rapidly-changing Los Angeles. Recorded live at Clockshop by Chris Votek on October 17, 2018.
There's only one way into and out of the Bowtie — through the Pocket. This little section of Atwater Village, sandwiched between Fletcher Drive the 2 freeway, is home to a diverse community with mixed feelings about the soon-to-be-park next door.
How do we thrive in less-than-ideal living conditions? In this episode Rux and Bear talk with CA State Parks certified interpretive specialist Luis Rincon, ecological historian Travis Longcore, and longtime Frogtown/Atwater resident Liz Vega about disturbance at the Bowtie and its surrounding communities.
Back in the '70s, the Bowtie Parcel was a bustling rail depot better known as Taylor Yard; a place where Southern Pacific diesel trains came from throughout Southern California for maintenance and repairs. In this episode, Bob Ramírez & Don Tortorice share what it was like to work at the site.
South of Fletcher: Stories from the Bowtie is a multi-platform storytelling project by Fonografia Collective that will launch this September. Follow along as we explore the rhythms of this unique site on the brink of major change.
An ex-corporate suit, ex-bartender, former United States Marine, road warrior, world traveler, image maker, educator, and storyteller, Matt Rose is changing perspectives by documenting and adding to the human narrative. He graduated cum laude from The Corcoran School of Art at George Washington University with a B.F.A. in Photojournalism and is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. program at Cal-State Northridge, with a focus on Photography/Photojournalism. He has worked on several video projects, including an ongoing investigation of Fetish, and was the DP for UNDER CONSTRUCTION, which premiered at Outfest in 2014. His photography has appeared in The Advocate, The Washington Post, ABC News, Colorado Wildlife Magazine, PUSH, Mascular Magazine, the Associated Press, and San Diego LGBT Weekly, among others. He volunteers as a photographer for many arts organizations, including WXPT, Outfest Outset, Outfest, ClockShop, and the Elden Street Players. He is a volunteer instructor with Hollywood Heart, an organization committed to arts outreach in Los Angeles public schools. His work has been shown as part of Empty Stretch Projection at FotoWeek DC, NEXT Exhibition, and was a selected artist for the Corcoran International Exhibition and (e)Merge 2011. He is the recipient of the Corcoran College of Art + Design Leadership Award and was a semifinalist for Innovation in Motion and Video in Education for the Adobe Design Achievement Awards. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .
In January 2017, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Clockshop launched Counter-Inaugural, a series of talks addressing local and national politics through a cultural lens. A year after the election, we are presenting our last talk in this series. ACLU Southern California legal director Ahilan Arulanantham, writer and PhD candidate Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and award-winning filmmaker Alex Rivera joined us for a discussion about immigration and deportation.
Since the 2016 election, artists, curators and arts organizations alike have responded to this presidency with work that seeks to understand (and possibly upend) our current political systems. See: Counter-Inaugural. What are the stakes of such engagement? What role can art play within politics? On May 30, 2017, Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale, curators of Made in L.A. 2018, and What, How & for Whom, curators of the 2009 Istanbul Biennial, joined us to discuss Curating Within a Heightened Political Moment. This conversation was part of WHW's Clockshop residency. Learn more here: https://clockshop.org/project/whw/
On May 9, 2017, Douglas Goodwin introduced specific threats to our electronic privacy, and outlined defensive and offensive actions we can take to mitigate them. For more information about this event or to view video documentation, visit https://clockshop.org/event/douglas-goodwin/.
On April 4, 2017, Rudy Espinoza, CEO of Leadership for Urban Renewal Network and Dan Flaming, President of the Economic Roundtable joined us to discuss their work and ideas on income inequality. For more information about this event, visit http://clockshop.org/event/rudy-espinoza-dan-flaming/
Ecologist and professional forager Nance Klehm led a walk at the Bowtie Project exploring the human uses and ecological functions of the native and spontaneous vegetation at the site. On this walk we will investigate how the vegetation relates to the ecology and vitality of the soil that supports it. Surface Walk is part of Nance Klehm’s Bowtie Project residency titled Double Pairing. Learn more about her residency here: clockshop.org/project/double-pairing/ Learn more about the Bowtie Project at clockshop.org/bowtie.
On March 21, 2017, Timothy Snyder joined us to discuss his new best-selling book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. In this book, Snyder offers readers a guide to identifying and understanding the frightening parallels that exist between our current reality and the realities faced by Europeans of the twentieth century during the Third Reich. For more information about this event visit http://clockshop.org/event/timothy-snyder-on-tyranny/
Lynda V. Mapes has been reporting on environmental issues for the Seattle Times since 1997 with a specific focus on river health and Native American communities. These points of focus merged in her 2016 coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock. On January 24, 2017, Mapes was joined in conversation by mark! Lopez, executive director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice. Much of Lopez’s organizing takes place in communities adjacent to the southern portion of the Los Angeles River. In this conversation, Mapes and Lopez spoke about what we’ve learned from Standing Rock, and how those lessons relate to LA River revitalization. This event was co-presented with California State Parks and Friends of the Los Angeles River. Suggested Reading & Listening Will the Los Angeles River Become a Playground for the Rich? Richard Kreitner, The Nation, March 10, 2016 Reporting on the Dakota Access Pipeline… ft. Lynda V. Mapes, The Overcast podcast, November 4, 2016 Exposing Injustice at the LA River Christian L. Guzman, Random Lengths News, September 2, 2016 This event was part of Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural, a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. It was recorded by Andrew Kim.
UK journalist Laurie Penny has been covering the 2016 presidential campaign through a feminist lens with dark wit and an eye toward her native country’s alarming Brexit vote last summer. On January 10, 2017, Penny was joined in conversation by Neelanjana Banerjee, managing editor at Kaya Press, to discuss misogyny, sexism and female flesh under capitalism. This event was co-presented with Women’s Center for Creative Work. Suggested reading: “Against Bargaining” Laurie Penny, The Baffler, November 18, 2016 “I’m With the Banned” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 21, 2016 “What Women Problem?” Laurie Penny, Medium, July 18, 2016 Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural is a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. This event was recorded by Rounak Maiti.
On January 31, 2017, Robin D.G. Kelley and Robin Coste Lewis reflected on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” This letter was written in response to a public statement of concern issued by eight white religious leaders of the American South about the civil rights movement’s tactics of nonviolent direct action. Kelley and Lewis reflected on this historic document, and discussed what we can learn now from the resistance strategies King championed. Suggested Reading & Viewing Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 16, 1963 Beyond Vietnam, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, screening January 30, 2017 at the Hammer Museum This event was part of Clockshop’s Counter-Inaugural, a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign. It was recorded by Tom Carroll.
Ayana A.H. Jamieson is the founder and director of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. In December 2016, she led a bus tour through Pasadena and Altadena, California, exploring Butler's hometown and the ways its landscapes and politics influenced her worldview. In this episode, Tom Carroll of Tom Explores Los Angeles talks with Jamieson about this tour.
Missed out on Next Up: The LA River, Archinect Sessions' podcasting event? Now you can listen to the whole thing, released in two parts on One-to-One. Last week, we released the first half of the interviews, and this week we've got the rest. This week's playlist of live recordings features interviews with: Lou Pesce (designer with Metabolic Studio) Julia Meltzer (director and founder of Clockshop, a non-profit arts organization) and Elizabeth Timme (co-director of LA-Más) Renee Dake Wilson (partner at Dake Wilson Architects and VP of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission) and Alexander Robinson (assistant professor of architecture at USC and principal at Office of Outdoor Research) Mia Lehrer (founder and president at Mia Lehrer + Associates)
In a city as big as Los Angeles with such a well-documented car culture, we often hear that you need a car in LA. But what can the experience of public transit offer a writer? What about an artist? In this episode, we take a ride from West Hollywood to Downtown with commissioned Radio Imagination artist and LA-native Lauren Halsey. Halsey’s work takes inspiration from her neighborhood in South LA and the visual culture of small businesses throughout Los Angeles. Like Butler, she gets around on public transit, but there was a time when she used to drive...
For this Mini-Session from our Next Up: The LA River event, Nicholas Korody spoke with Julia Meltzer, director and founder of non-profit arts organization, Clockshop, and Elizabeth Timme, co-director of the urban design and architecture non-profit LA-Más. Both Clockshop and LA-Más are located within Elysian Valley, aka Frogtown—a sliver of a neighborhood bordered by the LA River, the 5 and the 2 freeways. In recent years, Frogtown (predominantly a low-density neighborhood of single-family homes) has become a major focus in LA conversations about gentrification and development, and both Timme's and Meltzer's work is heavily invested in their context. Clockshop (in collaboration with California State Parks) has its HQ in Frogtown and hosts art events in the Bowtie, an undeveloped plot of land along the river. In 2015, LA-Más led a community "co-visioning process" (the 'Futuro de Frogtown') to determine the kind of development decisions residents were concerned about. Nicholas Korody spoke with both Timme and Meltzer about issues of equitable-design and place-making along the river, and the role of art within a master redevelopment plan.
'Kindred' is Octavia E. Butler’s most popular novel. It was published in 1979 and the seed for it was planted at Pasadena City College, where Butler was a student. This fall, over 2,500 Pasadena City College students will read Butler’s novel as part of their “One Book, One College” initiative. What is it about 'Kindred' - a novel that’s more fantasy than science fiction - that makes it so popular?
Amy Kind, professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, and Shelley Streeby, professor of ethnic studies and literature at the University of California, San Diego, explore futuristic notions of family and reproduction in the work of science fiction author Octavia Butler. Butler’s short story “Bloodchild” is a special focus of the discussion. This event is part of Radio Imagination, a series of programs and artist commissions exploring Butler’s legacy, organized by the arts group Clockshop. Recorded Nov. 3, 2016.
Nicole M. Mitchell is a creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. In 2008, she released Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia E. Butler, followed by her 2014 release of Intergalactic Beings (Xenogenesis II). Both albums are inspired by the writings of Octavia Butler. On October 27, 2016, Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble will perform songs from both albums at the Huntington Library, featuring new and old collaborators exploring updated interpretations of the themes explored in Butler's work. More info here: https://clockshop.org/event/xenogenesis-suite-a-musical-tribute-to-octavia-e-butler/
Radio Imagination artists Mendi + Keith Obadike and Connie Samaras dive into Octavia E. Butler's archive, gleaning inspiration from her notes to produce new work of their own. For more information about the Radio Imagination exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts, click here: https://clockshop.org/event/radio-imagination-the-exhibition/
Butler rode the bus for nearly an hour everyday to get to the Central Library downtown—reading, writing and researching. What does her dedication to public libraries tell us about who she was as a writer?
Octavia E. Butler died unexpectedly at 58. After her death, a group of curators and writers have sorted through her papers, working to reveal the writer and thinker we didn't come to know in her lifetime.
How a kitchy sci-fi film became a source of inspiration for Octavia E. Butler and the writers who came after her.
Merrilee Heifetz met Octavia E. Butler as a young agent looking for writers. What followed was 20 years of letters, conversations and insights into someone breaking the borders of fiction.
Writers Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten premiere new works of poetry and creative nonfiction under the stars in the Clockshop courtyard. For these commissions, each writer spent an extended period of time working in the Octavia E. Butler archive at The Huntington Library.
Join us as we use the archives of Octavia E. Butler to examine the work, influence and legacy of the world's most unique voices.
With DJ Lynnée Denise Co-presented with Clockshop Ten years after the passing of Los Angeles’ own Octavia E. Butler–one of America’s best science fiction writers and one of the few African-American women in the field— ALOUD celebrates Butler’s legacy. Navigating the dystopic L.A. that Butler often described in her short stories and novels, this panel will explore connections between Butler’s peers and colleagues, and the generation of writers and scholars who follow, and how Butler’s futuristic work resonates today. Part of Radio Imagination, artists and writers in the archive of Octavia E. Butler, a year-long program produced by Clockshop. Click here for photos from the program.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
Rosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
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