The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) is pleased to present ARCHIVE MACHINES, an online-only juried exhibition that brings together recent works by Southern California artists, that examine the archive as a conceptual vehicle to de-center singular narratives and encourage plural perspectives through the activities of revisioning, resisting, rewiring and relating. Following in line with LAMAG’s mission to respond to the diversity of human experience that shapes Los Angeles, as well as LAMAG’s historical precedent of fostering a space for local artists to address social critique and discourse with contemporary matters; Los Angeles artists were invited to activate archives by submitting works in response to themes of critical histories, peoples archives, memory, and institutional critique. Through this exhibition, LAMAG strives to engage with various modes of artistic production that explore the ways in which archival structures and materials are interpreted, appropriated, and interrogated.
☆Donation:
Guide
Cutting the Puppeteer´s Strings
For Data You Are, And To Data You Shall Return / 为数据所生，亦归数据而去
Disinformation - “Antithesis”
the end of work + USELESS Micro Commissions
Flowers in the Fire
THE UNFATHOMABLE UNDERSTANDING: MOSHGAN REZANIA & ROBERTA JEAN SMITH
exhausted and exuberant
Focus On Section: Jonas Höschl | Sensitive Content
Paik’s Video Study - Nam June Paik Art Center
Brea Weinreb - Between Men
Paik’s Video Study
MMCA Symposium : WHAT DO MUSEUMS CONNECT? MUSEUMS IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
Yayoi Kusama: I want tears to flow with the words I gave
Damien Hirst: Archaeology Now
Living as an Artist: Uncertain Life of Artists, Certain Artworks
JOHN AKOMFRAH_Vertigo Sea, Montréal
Dream Online
