Tours and Activities for CIMAM 2024 Annual Conference attendees
Day 2 - Saturday, December 7
4-6pm Tours of PST ART shows and other spaces
An initiative of the Getty Foundation, PST ART is a landmark arts event that takes place every five years in Southern California, uniting hundreds of artists around a unique theme. The current edition which launched in September 2024 focuses on the theme Art & Science Collide, exploring the intersections of art and science through diverse exhibitions and collaborations with museums and institutions across the region. This groundbreaking event aims to share groundbreaking research, spark lively debate, and provide thought-provoking lenses to explore our complex world. This edition also marks the inauguration of the PST Art Climate Impact Program. Over the course of three days, delegates will experience many of the PST ART exhibitions as part of the tour program.
4-6pm Tours of PST ART shows and other spaces
Group A. MOCA Grand, REDCAT, Broad
Group B. REDCAT, MOCA Grand, Broad
Group C: The Brick, ICA, VPAM
Group D: VPAM, ICA, The Brick
Group E: Eames House, Schindler House, Hollyhock House/LAMAG
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOURS A AND B [Downtown Grand Ave]
MOCA Grand: Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art Since 1968 is a large-scale retrospective of the postwar art movement of photorealism. Curated by Senior Curator Anna Katz with Curatorial Assistant Paula Kroll, the exhibition features over forty artists predominantly from North America and spans from the 1960s to the present day. It showcases paintings, drawings, sculptures, and archival materials, aiming to recover the social art history of photorealism and complicate its meaning as a realism. The exhibition also explores photo-realism’s significance as a painting of everyday life and its primacy in critically thinking through the 21st-century attention economy's glut of image production.
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles 90012
MOCA Grand: Josh Kline: Climate Change Josh Kline's Climate Change is a thought-provoking exhibition that presents a dystopian vision of a future shaped by the devastating impacts of climate change. The exhibition, curated by Associate Curator Rebecca Lowery with Curatorial Assistant Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, features immersive installations, sculpture, moving image work, photography, and ephemeral materials. Kline's project envisions a world ravaged by catastrophic sea-level rise, prompting viewers to contemplate the consequences of environmental degradation and societal collapse.
Location: MOCA Grand Avenue, 250 South Grand Ave, Los Angeles 90012
REDCAT: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace In 1967, poet Richard Brautigan imagined a coming future, “where mammals and computers / live together in mutually / programming harmony.” The resulting proliferation of these technologies has now radically altered every area of life. Borrowing its title from Brautigan’s poem, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time—the impact of artificial intelligence—by proposing alternative directions for its future and how it changes the relationship between the human and non-human. Presenting a broad range of art forms, including visual art and performance, this exploration offers alternatives rooted in indigenous belief systems, and feminist, queer, and decolonial imaginaries. Curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Programs, REDCAT.
Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
The Broad: Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature, curated by Sarah Loyer with Andrea Gyorody, features over 400 works by Beuys and it highlights his environmental activism. Paired with the Social Forest: OAKS OF TOVAANGAR reforestation project, these initiatives connect art, ecology, and historical healing in Los Angeles.
Location: The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOURS C AND D [kunsthalle, non-collecting spaces]
The BRICK:Life on Earth: Art and Ecofeminism is a group exhibition inspired by four decades of ecofeminist art, curated by The Brick’s Deputy Director and Curator Catherine Taft, with curatorial assistants Hannah Burstein and Kameron McDowell. Featuring approximately 35 international artists working in a variety of media, Life on Earth considers the origins and future of ecofeminist art, using it as both a lens and point of departure to explore themes of intersectional environmentalism, social ecologies, Indigenous rights, reproductive rights, and speculative futures, among other threads. Participating artists include Alliance of the Southern Triangle (A.S.T.), Alicia Barney Caldas, Meech Boakye, Carolina Caycedo, Francesca Gabbiani, Masumi Hayashi, Institute of Queer Ecology, Kite, Leslie Labowitz Starus, Maria Maea, Otobong Nkanga, yétúndé olagbaju, Alicia Piller, Aviva Rahmani, Tabita Rezaire, Yo-E Ryou, Emilija Škarnulytė, and A.L. Steiner.
Location: The Brick, 518 N. Western Ave. Los Angeles CA 90004
Institute of Contemporary Art: Scientia Sexualis challenges traditional scientific discourses on sex and gender, presenting diverse artistic perspectives that explore and reclaim scientific knowledge. It focuses on coalitional possibilities between Black, feminist, trans, and decolonial approaches to gender and sexuality, and aims to redefine what a body is and can be. Featured artists include Panteha Abareshi, Dotty Attie, Louise Bourgeois, Nao Bustamante, Andrea Carlson, Demian DinéYazhi’, Nicole Eisenman, El Palomar, Dean Erdmann, Jes Fan, Nicki Green, Oliver Husain & Kerstin Schroedinger, Xandra Ibarra, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Joseph Liatela, Candice Lin, Carlos Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Young Joon Kwak & Gala Porras-Kim, Cauleen Smith, P. Staff, Joey Terrill, Chris E. Vargas, Millie Wilson, and Geo Wyex. Organized by Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, University of California, Riverside) and Jeanne Vaccaro (Assistant Professor of Transgender Studies and Museum Studies, University of Kansas).
Location: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1717 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM): We Place Life at the Center / Situamos la vida en el centro Carolina Caycedo's exhibition sheds light on the impact of extractive development on nature and aims to foster discussions around environmental justice. The project, which draws from four years of research in frontline communities, features new and existing works by Caycedo and other artists and environmental movements such as Pavel Acevedo, ASPROCIG, Azita Banu, Coyotl + Macehualli, and many others.
Location: Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM), East Los Angeles College, 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, CA 91754
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOUR E [architecture-focused]
Eames House The Eames House, also known as Case Study House No. 8, is a landmark of mid-20th century modern architecture located in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was designed and constructed in 1949 by husband-and-wife Charles and Ray Eames to serve as their home and studio. One of the most iconic modernist buildings in Los Angeles, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
Location: 203 Chautauqua Boulevard, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Schindler House: MAK Center for Art & Architecture is a contemporary, experimental, multidisciplinary center for art and architecture headquartered in three significant architectural works by the Austrian-American architect R.M. Schindler. Offering a year-round schedule of exhibitions and events, the MAK Center presents programming that challenges conventional notions of architectural space and relationships between the creative arts. The Center is headquartered in the landmark Schindler House (R.M. Schindler, 1922) in West Hollywood; operates a residency program and exhibition space at the Mackey Apartments (R.M. Schindler, 1939) and runs more intimate programming at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House (R.M. Schindler, 1936) in Los Angeles. The MAK Center is the California satellite of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and works in cooperation with the FOSH.
Hollyhock House & LAMAG/LACE: Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics Built between 1918 and 1921, Hollyhock House was Frank Lloyd Wright’s first Los Angeles commission and an ode to California—its freedom and natural beauty. Designed for Aline Barnsdall, this house was intended to be the centerpiece of a 36-acre arts complex, which was only partially realized. Hollyhock House is a harbinger of California Modernism, inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List along with seven other Wright sites, and today is owned by the City of Los Angeles and operated by the Department of Cultural Affairs. Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics revisits the collaborative artistic practice of the late Beatriz da Costa (1974-2012) as an investigation into technoscientific experimentation, politics, activism, and art-making, contextualized for our contemporary moment. da Costa’s unique models of inter- and un-disciplinary public interventions, workshops, and critical writing foreground and amplify the ongoing social struggles for sustaining life. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with LACE, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Department of Cultural Affairs. It is curated by Daniela Leija Quintanar with Ana Briz. Hosted by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery on the grounds of the Hollyhock House, Beatriz da Costa: (un)disciplinary tactics.
Location: Hollyhock House & Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Day 3 - Sunday, December 8
4:30-7pm Tours of PST ART shows & LA spaces
Group A: David Horvitz’s Garden, Art + Practice, Crenshaw Dairy Mart (0 remaining)
Group B: Crenshaw Dairy Mart, David Horvitz’s Garden, Art + Practice (0 remaining)
Group C: CAAM, Autry, JPL/Brand.
Group D: JPL/Brand, CAAM, Autry.
Group E: MOLAA.
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOURS A AND B [South LA – Artist Initiatives]
Art + Practice:Koas Theory: The Afrokosmic Media Arts of Ben Caldwell Founded by artist Mark Bradford, social activist Allan DiCastro and philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton, Art + Practice (A+P) is a private operating 501(c)3 foundation based in Leimert Park in South Los Angeles. A+P supports the local needs of transition-age foster youth, and children experiencing displacement worldwide through its collaborations with nonprofit social service providers First Place for Youth and Nest Global. A+P also provides Angelenos with free access to museum-curated contemporary art, organized by the California African American Museum. Admission to all art programming is free and open to the public. A+P occupies a nearly 20,000 square foot campus, from which it organizes its art and foster youth-related programs and activities.
Art + Practice presents Koas Theory: The Afrokosmic Media Arts of Ben Caldwell, a retrospective highlighting the work of media arts innovator and community leader Ben Caldwell. Coming of age within the groundbreaking LA Rebellion film movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Caldwell worked closely with other Black filmmakers and educators to envision cinema as an instrument that could heal and anticipate. The multimedia exhibition explores Caldwell’s varied practice in photography, film, video, music, performance, community-based design and interactive cinema. This exhibition is co-presented by the California African American Museum (CAAM) and Art + Practice (A+P) as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.
Location: Art + Practice, 3401 W 43rd Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90008
David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden Occupying a 5,000-square foot vacant lot in Arlington Heights, artist David Horvitz teamed with landscape architects TERREMOTO to transform the derelict space into a garden, becoming a vibrant platform for poetry readings, music and other events. Horticultural interventions, urban gardens, collaborative practices are what interests Horvitz in this endeavor and ongoing project that blurs and lines between public and private, ownership and cultivation, care and ephemerality. As Kate Caruso writes: ‘Horvitz’ garden is collaborative in nature…Morphing his own work with the contributions of other artists, Horvitz shirks direct ownership and invites other artists to inhabit his garden, via the soil from their homes. The garden—to which the landlord could at any moment extinguish David’s rights—is a practice in cultivating the ephemeral. Throughout this project, and over the course of his practice, Horvitz explores the balance between private and public, relishing the tensions between the two. Participating in both public and private spheres, Horvitz straddles both sides and revels in their inextricability.’
Location: 1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles, 90018
Crenshaw Dairy Mart: Free the Land! Free the People! a study of the abolitionist pod Free the Land! Free the People! A study of the abolitionist pod is a groundbreaking exhibition showcases CDM’s innovative approach to addressing systemic issues through art, architecture, and science. In 2021, CDM began prototyping and building abolitionist pods - autonomously irrigated, solar-powered gardens within modular geodesic domes - with communities impacted by food insecurity, housing insecurity, and the prison industrial complex. The exhibition organized as a survey and studio of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart artist collective’s ongoing research for the abolitionist pod, with illustrations, archival documentation, architectural renderings, sketches, and drawings of the collective’s many configurations of the geodesic structure during its prototype phases as they engage with a history of collectives and cooperatives at the interstices of food justice, land sovereignty, and the Black Liberation Movement.
Location: 8629 Crenshaw Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOURS C AND D [Science Focused / Indigenous Futures]
California African American Museum (CAAM): World Without End: The George Washington Carver Project showcases the pioneering work of George Washington Carver, who was an advocate for sustainable agriculture and plant-based engineering in the early 1900s. The exhibition features contemporary artworks by thirty artists and artist collectives, as well as Carver's rarely seen paintings, drawings, laboratory equipment, and notebooks. Some of the artists included in the exhibition are Terry Adkins, Ash Arder, Kevin Beasley, Julie Beeler, and many others. The exhibition is co-curated by Cameron Shaw, Executive Director, and Yael Lipschutz, an independent curator.
Location: California African American Museum (CAAM), Exposition Park, 600 State Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Autry Museum of the American West: Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology explores the rise of Futurism in contemporary Indigenous art as a means of enduring colonial trauma, creating alternative futures and advocating for Indigenous technologies in a more inclusive present and sustainable future. Over 50 artworks are on display, some interspersed throughout the museum, creating unexpected encounters and dialogues between contemporary Indigenous creations and historic Autry works. Artists such as Andy Everson, Ryan Singer and Neal Ambrose Smith wittily upend pop-culture icons by Indigenizing sci-fi characters and storylines; Wendy Red Star places Indigenous people in surreal spacescapes wearing fantastical regalia; Virgil Ortiz brings his own space odyssey, ReVOlt 1680/2180, to life in a new, site-specific installation. By intermingling science fiction, self-determination, and Indigenous technologies across a diverse array of Native cultures, Future Imaginaries envisions sovereign futures while countering historical myths and the ongoing impact of colonization, including environmental degradation and toxic stereotypes.
Location: Autry Museum, 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Brand Library & Art Center: Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination features collaborative works by artists and scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The City of Glendale’s Library, Arts & Culture Department, in collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), an operating division of Caltech and a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for NASA, present an exhibition that aims to merge art and science to illuminate the universe. Through a series of art and science collaborations, Blended Worlds explores the landscape of human relationships with our ever-expanding environment. The exhibition includes artists collaborating with a team of JPL scientists and engineers to present a vision of the future that invites the viewer to consider the impact of greater connectedness with nature and its ability to foster a renewed sense of wonder and curiosity with our planet and the cosmos.
Location: Brand Library & Art Center, 1601 West Mountain Street, Glendale, CA 91201
VISITS INCLUDED IN GROUP TOUR E
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA): Arteônica: Art, Science and Technology in Latin America Today explores the little-known Latin American art movement based on the relationship between art, science and technology, from the 1960s up to the present. It takes as its starting point the unparalleled contribution of Brazilian electronic art pioneer Waldemar Cordeiro (Italy, 1925 – Brazil, 1973)— one of the first computer artists in South America — to explore and analyze the state of electronic and cybernetic arts in the last 60 years. Cordeiro's treatise on arteônica—a verbal synthesis of electronic art and the original title of the exhibition he held in Brazil in 1971—features the computer as an instrument for positive social change capable of democratizing art and culture. Arteônica creates a dialogue between a group of "pioneers" from the 1960s and 1970s and the contemporary artists whose work responds to their legacy. Project Director: MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga.
Location: MOLAA, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802