THURSDAY, 15 NOVEMBER

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9 AM - 3 PM | L.A.’S UN/FREEWAYS: COLLECTIVIZED PRACTICES IN THE DISPERSED CITY
6:30 PM | IMPROPER TO PLACE: BIJARI + INTERNATIONAL ERRORIST +FRENTE 3 DE FEVEREIRO + THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND PROTEST

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UCLA DOWNTOWN LABOR CENTER
675 S. Park View St., 1st Floor
Los Angeles, California 90057-3306
T: 213.480.4155

9 AM-3 PM

L.A.’S UN/FREEWAYS: COLLECTIVIZED PRACTICES IN THE DISPERSED CITY

Join local and international artists and activists for a day of discussion and intergenerational dialogue about feminist and women-led collective practices.

9-10 AM Participate in one-hour-share by bringing materials from your own or others' activist / art projects to display and share. Bring images, texts, objects… records of you what you've done   (or hope to do) or of others' work that inspires you.

10-11 AM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN EAST L.A.

Mothers of East Los Angeles | MELA is an environmental justice public interest organization whose mission is “to protect the environment and public health, defend the interests of the East Los Angeles community, and achieve justice for communities of color and working-class communities.” With Mothers Mary Lou Trevis, Teri Griffin, and Lucy Delgado.

El Proyecto Jardín is a community garden in Boyle Heights that sponsors the monthly market Mercado Caracol. With Daisy Tonantzin, community activist artist and Program Developer and Organizer for Proyecto Jardín.

11 AM-12:30 PM CREATING AND DOCUMENTING FEMINIST CULTURES

Kirsten Dufour is a feminist artist, activist, and writer living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since the 1960s she has created and participated in numerous groups and socio-aesthetic projects that all attempt to unite artistic and political practice. In 2002 she began The Feminist Video Archive: Let Us Speak Now, a growing archive of video interviews with feminist artists and activists from different generations and different countries.

Make/shift + LOUDmouth are Los Angeles-based magazines made by and for feminists of all genders and that are committed to antiracist, transnational, and queer perspectives. With Jessica Hoffmann, a member of make/shift' s editorial collective and a contributing editor of LOUDmouth , & Irina Contreras, make/shift staff writer and editor of LOUDmouth .

1:30-3 PM CARVING SUBJECTIVITIES IN / OUT OF LOS ANGELES

Butchlalis de Panochtitlan | BdP is a multimedia performance ensemble of butch dykes / transgender butches / genderqueer speaking subjects that explore and make legible the liminal space of female biology and testosterone-taking transexuality and the identities, communities and neighborhoods these subjects claim and are claimed by. BdP is Mari Garcia, Raquel Gutierrez, and Claudia Rodriguez.

Gloria Alvarez is a Chicana poet, community based artist/activist, literary translator, curator, educator, and mentor to generations of Latina artists. Former member of Chicana art collectives Eastside Artistas (ESA) and L.A. Coyotas.

Yreina Cervantez is an artist, educator, and former member of Eastside Artistas.

Womyn Image Makers | WIM Four Xicana/Indigenous independent filmmakers and artists who base their collaborations on a collective creative process that respects the community element of filmmaking and challenges the hierarchies of conventional filmmaking. WIM is Maritza Alvarez, Aurora Guerrero, Dalila Mendez and Claudia Mercado.

This event will be held in English & Spanish with simultaneous English & Spanish translation provided.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Ahmanson Auditorium
MOCA Grand Avenue
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
T. 213.621.174

6:30 PM

IMPROPER TO PLACE

BijaRi (São Paulo, Brasil)
Bijari is a collective of artists and architects whose interventionist, video, and multimedia design projects explore contested urban spaces and highlight ephemeral and unofficial architectures created by city dwellers.
Rodrigo Araujo

“Architecture of Resistance” by BijaRi (English)

Internacional Errorista / Errorist International (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
The International Errorist is a re-evolutionary movement based on the practice of errorism: a philosophically erroneous position, a ritual of negation, a disorganized organization, error as the appropriate move. The Errorists investigate the construction of a (t)errorist threat in the “Global War on Terror” and its use as a mechanism of social control.
Ariel Devincenzo & Nancy Garín.

Frente 3 de Fevereiro (São Paulo, Brasil)
Frente 3 de Fevereiro is a research and interventionist art group concerned with racism in Brazilian society. They aim to create new forms of protest pertaining to racial issues and to re-contextualize the fragmented information the general population receives via mass media.
Daniel Lima & Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves

The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
The JOAP is an art and editorial collective that forwards political and cultural change by focusing on how art, media, activism, and rhetoric function in the neoliberal age.
Cara Baldwin, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, and Christina Ulke

This event will be held in English, Spanish, and Portuguese with simultaneous English and Spanish translation available.