Artist Lab Residency | September 24 – December 16, 2016 18th Street Arts Center | Main Gallery Reception November 5, 2016 | 6-8pm (Free RSVP below) Los Angeles-based collective Lucky Dragons (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara)
Santa Monica’s 18th Street Arts Center is the largest, continuously running artist residency program in Southern California. Their mission is to provoke public dialogue through contemporary art-making. They believe the creative process is just as important as the outcome and we agree here at TribeLA Magazine. We love the vibrant colors of the buildings and Executive Director Jan Williams is one of our advisory board members.
Going on now through December 16, 2016 is Los Angeles-based collective Lucky Dragons (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara) presents User Agreement, the latest phase of an ongoing project which examines existing modalities of peace through performance.
The aim of User Agreement is to reverse-engineer the technologies of peace—treaties, protocols, symbols, and systems—in order to learn from what has already been invented, to repurpose and re-contextualize, to fix existing bugs and to create new possibilities for interaction.
The Artist Lab functions as an incubator or hub from which to collect ideas and share a layered, in-progress inquiry with the public. Sketches, research materials, and experimental prototypes will be put to use and on display. Working backwards from research into the ways peace has been put to use—-through images, actions, and language—the artists unpack and re-imagine techniques for resolving conflict. Translated, abstracted, dispersed.
The goal is to develop new peace technologies and make them available, as conditions for engagement that preserves difference and acknowledges unanswered questions.
Source: Lucky Dragons | User Agreement | 18th Street Arts Center