oA one-month residency for Barcelona-based artist/curator Andrea Rodriguez Novoa at 18th Street Arts Center (18SAC) to develop new research creating exchange between Southern California and Barcelona. 18SAC’s mission is to provoke public dialog through contemporary art-making through a robust residency and presenting program including exhibitions, performances, artist talks and more. Since 1998, 18SAC has hosted over 450 artists and art workers from 54 countries.
The residency will take place between May 2-30, 2016. As part of the activities to be developed in during her time in Los Angeles, Andrea Rodriguez Novoa will present both her individual artistic practice and the work she develops for curator-run BAR Project. Studio visits and portfolio reviews with artists and fellow curators in residence at 18SAC are also part of her commitments with us, as well as a program of visits to other LA-based museums, independent and gallery spaces, and studio visits with other practitioners in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Drawing on the mission and vision of 18SAC, Rodriguez will organise a public program on the theme of “Itinerant Domesticity. Framing contemporary at-homeness” (see below for details). Rodriguez will gather local art workers to reflect on and discuss this topic, identified through research and invited to participate to a public event taking place at the end of the residency. She will also represent the contemporary Spanish art scene through video-conference based studio visits with some practitioners once per week, turning her studio into a public open online forum in which one Spanish/Spain-based artist or curator will explain his/her work to 18SAC staff, artist residents, and members of the public.
ITINERANT DOMESTICITY. FRAMING CONTEMPORARY AT-HOMENESS
The notions of home and homelessness have dramatically evolved through time, intimately related to those of domesticity and work. The project examines forms of contemporary at-homeness. Representations of homelessness in literature have expressed and shaped the social context that produced them. Realism and naturalism sees homelessness as a result of social and economic failures, while the romantic hero leaves for adventure and freedom. By contrast of the general image of the homeless, the self-imposed homelessness of the Beat Generation illuminates the dominant culture's valuation of the home. Epitomized by Jack Kerouac in "On the Road", the Beat lifestyle was not an economic necessity but an individual choice symbolizing social dissatisfaction, emphasizing the sense of freedom and adventure, and representing a rejection of domesticity and permanence.
This residency-exhibition project seeks to gather art practitioners to reflect on our actual way of living and relating to our environment.
The residency will take place between May 2-30, 2016. As part of the activities to be developed in during her time in Los Angeles, Andrea Rodriguez Novoa will present both her individual artistic practice and the work she develops for curator-run BAR Project. Studio visits and portfolio reviews with artists and fellow curators in residence at 18SAC are also part of her commitments with us, as well as a program of visits to other LA-based museums, independent and gallery spaces, and studio visits with other practitioners in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Drawing on the mission and vision of 18SAC, Rodriguez will organise a public program on the theme of “Itinerant Domesticity. Framing contemporary at-homeness” (see below for details). Rodriguez will gather local art workers to reflect on and discuss this topic, identified through research and invited to participate to a public event taking place at the end of the residency. She will also represent the contemporary Spanish art scene through video-conference based studio visits with some practitioners once per week, turning her studio into a public open online forum in which one Spanish/Spain-based artist or curator will explain his/her work to 18SAC staff, artist residents, and members of the public.
ITINERANT DOMESTICITY. FRAMING CONTEMPORARY AT-HOMENESS
The notions of home and homelessness have dramatically evolved through time, intimately related to those of domesticity and work. The project examines forms of contemporary at-homeness. Representations of homelessness in literature have expressed and shaped the social context that produced them. Realism and naturalism sees homelessness as a result of social and economic failures, while the romantic hero leaves for adventure and freedom. By contrast of the general image of the homeless, the self-imposed homelessness of the Beat Generation illuminates the dominant culture's valuation of the home. Epitomized by Jack Kerouac in "On the Road", the Beat lifestyle was not an economic necessity but an individual choice symbolizing social dissatisfaction, emphasizing the sense of freedom and adventure, and representing a rejection of domesticity and permanence.
This residency-exhibition project seeks to gather art practitioners to reflect on our actual way of living and relating to our environment.