GROUP EFFORT: Collaboration as Process & Form
September 25 - October 9, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 25 at 5:00-8:00pm
UCLA New Wight Gallery
1100 Broad Art Center
Los Angeles, CA 90095
| Featuring co-authored objects, public interventions and art collectives, Group Effort explores collaborative practices in the global art school. Fostering community and debate in a transnational context, the biennial addresses contemporary forms of collaboration in visual art schools with 18 projects by more than 30 artists. |
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 Mayen Alcantara and Yuka Otani, Multipurpose Shelter—Personal Waterfall, metal, glass, water, pump, 24" x 24" x 48", 2008 |
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 Mariechen Danz and Alvaro Guillen, Un-Mapping the Americas, 9'x12', mixed media installation and performance, 2008 |
 Mayen Alcantara and Yuka Otani, Video Project Demo: Utilizing the Multipurpose Shelter—Personal Waterfall, single-channel video, 2008 |
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 Jennifer Bastian, Please Come Sit at Our Table, installation view, 2007 |
Artists
| Mayen Alcantara + Yuka Otani Rhode Island School of Design Providence |
Ian Arenas + Justin Long California Institute of the Arts Valencia |
Jennifer Bastian University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Michael Bizon + Rosalind Murray Rhode Island School of Design Providence |
Maya Lujan University of Southern California Los Angeles |
A.K. Burns Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| Leidy Churchman Columbia University New York |
Mariechen Danz + Alvaro Guillen California Institute of the Arts Valencia |
Dept of Ecological Authoring Tactics University of Bologna Italy |
| The Parallel Action Leander Djønne + Anders Dahl Monsen Malmö Art Academy, Lund University Sweden |
Isil Egrikavuk School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Fine Art Union directed by Synnøve G. Wetten and Annette Stav Johanssen Malmö Art Academy, Lund University Sweden |
| Kate Hers University of California Irvine |
Szu-Han Ho + Steffani Jemison School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Arendse Krabbe + Nina Wengel Goldsmiths College, London / The Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen |
| Daniel Lavitt + Becky Snodgrass School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
Chuck Miller University of California San Diego |
Raphael Taylor + Austin Willis Hunter College New York |
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Admission is free
All day parking permits ($9) or short-term parking (payable at pay stations) available in Lot 3.
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About the Wight Biennial
Founded in 1997 by professor and artist Mary Kelly, then chair of the UCLA Department of Art, the Wight Biennial is curated and produced by a committee of graduate students in the art department, often in collaboration with students from other departments. The objective of the show is to exhibit this specific group of emerging artists as well as foster an investigative exchange between graduate programs at UCLA and other institutions.
Wight Biennial 2008 Curatorial Committee:
Jennifer Gradecki, Matthias Merkel Hess, Alexandro Segade, Wu Ingrid Tsang.
This exhibition was made possible with generous support from Dallas Price-Van Breda and the UCLA Art Council.
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