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by N&R
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2002 at 10:30 AM
LA Artist Nicole Cousino has been active around attempting to reform california three strikes laws. The show and discussion should be good.
errorN+R_LA hosts an evening of discussion on:
PRISONS AND PUBLIC WORKS
with ASHLEY HUNT (NYC) & NICOLE COUSINO (LA)
Thursday, January 24, 7pm
At: At C-Level in Chinatown [DIRECTIONS TO C-LEVEL (directions below): In The Wobbly Alley Between Chung King Road And Hill Street / Behind Full House Restaurant / Past A Chicken Coop / Through A Red Door]
::NICOLE COUSINO's work explores issues of power, human agency and representation. She just completed a documentary, "Concrete & Sunshine", about California's burgeoning prison system and its impact on individuals on both sides of the prison walls. The video also calls attention to prisons as public works projects. In order to provide a picture of life prior to the state's obsession with incarceration she will be showing a Department of Transportation film, "California? A State of Progress," which highlights California's earlier, more productive forms of public works projects.
::ASHLEY HUNT is a Brooklyn based artist, his most recent work centers around prisons and prison expansion, including a feature documentary titled "Corrections," which centers around prison privatization while examining the politics of prison expansion throughout the United States. Hunt will present excerpts from his documentary "Corrections," and will also show a new video titled "Lockdowns Up" which addresses the response of the prison industry to the events of 9-11 and the possibility of internment camps. "Lockdowns Up" was recently featured as a part of the Call to Action by Third World News Reel at Museum of Modern Art in New York City. His work has been exhibited around the U.S. and internationally, including the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS), the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, the Terra Museum of Art in Chicago, the Bandits-Images Film and Video Festival in Bourges, France, and the International Art Expo 2000 in Germany. Hunt was recently a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
::DIRECTIONS TO C_LEVEL 1.Find yourself in front of "FULL HOUSE RESTAURANT" located at 963 N. Hill Street in Chinatown.[Map to Full House] 2. Locate the alley on the left hand side of Full House. 3. Walk about 20 feet down the alley (away from the street). 4. Stop. 5. Notice dumpster on your right hand side. 6. Take a right and continue down the alley. 7. Exercise caution so as not trip on the wobbly cement blocks underfoot 8. The entrance to C-Level is located 10 yards down on left side, behind a red door, down a black staircase.
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NOMADS+RESIDENTS_LA While competing definitions of "the global" and "the local" are being thrown about in a myriad current political and economic debates, Los Angeles continues, like most major cities, to house a constantly fluctuating mass of natives, migrants and visitors. Even with the much heralded isolation of LA "car culture", these populations meet, exchange information, and share knowledge. Recognizing this fluid process as a resource, NOMADS+RESIDENTS_LA organizes public discussions between people who live in Los Angeles and people who visit the city. Taking its form and motivation from NOMADS + RESIDENTS in New York City, NOMADS+RESIDENTS_LA creates a network among people interested in contemporary/political/intellectual discussions in the context of cultural production. NOMADS+RESIDENTS_LA is organized by a group of artists, writers and curators. Event locations will circulate throughout the city.
ABOUT C_LEVEL C-level is a co-operative lab formed to share physical, social and technological resources. Members include artists, programmers, writers, designers, agit-propers, filmmakers and reverse-engineers. Located in a basement in Chinatown Los Angeles, C-level serves to host a variety of events including screenings, performances, lectures, debates, and tournaments. In addition, the c-level server provides a range of services such as email, web based software applications and streaming media events. For more information, visit http://www.c-level.cc
N+R_LA are: Joyce Campbell | Rita Gonzalez | Sharon Hayes | Anna Helwing | Maria Karlsson | Annika Lundgren | Rachel Mayeri | Lize Mogel | Tone O. Nielsen | Linda Pollack | Bea Schlingelhoff | Jeannie Simms | Tran, T. Kim-Trang
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