NEW WORK - Hailing from Puerto Rico, US America and beyond, Caborca makes sprawling, adventurous works in theatre and film. Combining epic auteurship with a tuned ensemble of actors and a flux of collaborators, we bridge language, background and media, inviting our audience, guest artists and members alike, to delve into the pleasure of seeing anew.
How do we give contours to an art history that remains unwritten, scattered across archives, and siloed in scholarship? How can we begin to reconnect the struggle for civil rights across all artists of color and their fight for inclusion in our cultural institutions? How can we being to reflect on the complexity of artists of color and their unique experience, political actions, and art production as part of the art history in American? In the exhibition, Documents of Resistance: Our Time, Mexican-American artist, Antonio Serna is hoping to take us down a visual path to consider these and many other questions in regards to the important but often overlook contributions of artist of color.
Featuring original works by Puerto Rican students, from public and private schools, the two-part New York presentation of ACCIONES will be available at The Loisaida Center, September 20 through October 19; followed by the second part of the collection, which will be presented at the Queens College Arts Center, starting on October 4.
Since the 1960s, students of color have fought to decolonize campuses across the Americas. One of their goals was to introduce studies related to their own experiences and include their history outside of the dominant Eurocentric lens. We will discuss some of the original demands and achievements, and compare them to the current wave of decolonizing academia.
A book talk by author Nandini Bagchee will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Gregory Sholette. Nandini Bagchee is an Associate Professor of Architecture and History at City College New York and a Principal at Bagchee Architects. Greg Sholette is an artist, activist and author of Delirium and Resistance: Art, Activism & the Crisis of Capitalism (Pluto Press 2017) and Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture (Pluto Press, 2011). At this event we will also launch a call for participation for an exhibition planned at the Loisaida Center titled, “Activist Estates: An Alternate History of Real Estate in Loisaida”.
Join us on Tuesday, January 29 at 6:00 pm for the first engagement of our 2019 artists in residence; Project LAZO by Alva Mooses & Claudia Cortinez. LAZO's inaugural event will present an exhibition of small works by 15 interdisciplinary artists. The selected works and their artists are align with LAZO's mission to create dialogue among artists working in NYC and Latin America as well as local artists that have been actively working, teaching, or living in the Lower East Side.
ANALEMMA - March 2nd through March 12th
Exhibition curated by LAZO & Javier Bosques
Javier Bosques/ Mauricio Cortes/ Alva Mooses/ Sofía Reeser del Río/ Ana Vaz
CROSSROADS - March 19th through March 30th
Exhibition curated by Silvia Benedetti in collaboration with project LAZO
Isabella Cruz-Chong / Jose Joaquín Figueroa / Catalina Schliebener / Pedro Wainer
Simultaneous events at Loisaida Center and Pública will explore the tension between the traditional and the 21st century as it relates to all things FOOD. Themes and topics will include: growing ingredients, recipes, colonization and agriculture, farming and imported food, where traditional cuisine comes from, where and how Puerto Rican food can be found and prepared locally – both on LES and in Santurce/on the island.
L.A.B. & Loisaida Inc. Center present:
THE LOISIADA SMORGASBORD CABARET: A night of visual art and performance not to be missed!
Friday, May 10, 2019
6:30 pm Doors Open - Performances begin at 8:00 pm
at the Loisaida Center, 710 E 9th St
Plus:
Opening reception of: Rolando's Winter Flowers & Bimbo Rivas' post-mortem prints: part of the Loisaida Restoration Projects & The Production of Nabe program