Slanguage (artist collective)
Slanguage is an exhibition space and artist collective in Wilmington, Los Angeles, California founded by Mario Ybarra, Juan Capistan and Karla Diaz in 2002.[1] Slanguage works with community artists, curators and historians on projects and workshops. Slanguage describes its art-making practice as a "three pronged approach" including "education, community-building, and interactive exhibitions."[2]
Slanguage divides its space between experiments with media and ideas, and public performances and exhibitions. The New York Times cited Slanguage as an example of an "ever more important" type of exhibition space that provides a forum for work "uncongenial to an increasingly conservative art establishment" and for the work of students graduating from art schools "in numbers the commercial gallery system cannot begin to absorb."[3]
From September through November, 2009, Slanguage was the resident artist group with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, as part of MOCA's Engagement Party program.[4][5] Other Slanguage projects include Sweeney Tate, a 2007 art installation at Tate Modern,[6] and The Peacock Doesn't See Its Own Ass/Let's Twitch Again: Operation Bird Watching in London, for the Serpentine Gallery's Uncertain States of America exhibition in 2007.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ Thompson, Nato (2012). Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011. MIT Press. p. 224. ISBN 9780262017343. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
- ^ "About » Slanguage Studio". slanguagestudio.com.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (June 7, 2018). "ART/ARCHITECTURE; Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together". The New York Times.
- ^ "Engagement Party: Social Practice at MOCA, 2008–2012 » Slanguage". sites.moca.org. Archived from the original on August 18, 2013. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
- ^ "SLANGUAGE at Engagement Party - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
- ^ "TateShots: Sweeney Tate - Tate". www.tate.org.uk.
- ^ "Uncertain States of America". Archived from the original on September 4, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2013.
- ^ "Projects Slanguage Studio". slanguagestudio.com.
Further reading[edit]
- Guzmán, Richard (August 28, 2009). "A Return Engagement". Los Angeles Downtown News.
- "Slanguage interview transcript". LatinArt.com. May 23, 2003.
External links[edit]
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