Fugitive

Fugitive Studio responds to public practices that defy categorization and necessitate a variety of increasingly fluid roles. A conditional space that takes on multiple forms such as work sessions, conversations, publications, project production and explorations, Fugitive Studio creates a collaborative, non-hierarchical collegial environment that moves away from the politics of division and competition. By mobilizing communication, engagement, and resources, Fugitive Studio seeks to critically examine the problematics of public projects as well as produce new writings and initiatives in response.
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THE ORGANIZERS:
Cesar Garcia is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, writer, and cultural activist currently interrogating the erasure of locality in the context of biennial exhibitions, homogenizing global culture, and the ongoing technological revolution. His master’s thesis will explore the ability of community-engaged and collaborative art practices to function as alternative archiving methods under the auspices of the curatorial framework of the biennial exhibition. He will be using the education component of the inSITE exhibition at the U.S.-Mexico border as a point of departure for analyzing the intersection of collaboration, contemporary art practice, and the retention of cultural memory. With a background in theater & performance, Garcia is currently expanding his work to various mediums in an effort to question the categorization of artistic practice, while exploring the fluidity in the process of cultural production. His current performance and photography installation projects aim to create intimate encounters between viewers and their environments, aiming to interweave and contextualize personal narratives in a social fabric that de-emphasizes individual lived experiences and locality. Garcia completed his undergraduate work at UCLA and is expected to receive his Master of Public Art Studies from USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in May 2009.
Susan Bell Yank is an artist, scholar, writer, and organizer deeply concerned with collaborative art practices and their varying standards for sustainability, measurable impact, and critical reflexivity. Currently working on her masters thesis, she plans to conduct field research in New Orleans to examine these practices. Trained as a painter, her art practice investigates the socio-geographic make-up of the Los Angeles built environment by mapping signs and taxonomies, resurrecting colloquial urban histories, and creating signage to rupture behavioral flows. Her motivation behind organizing Fugitive Studio stems from an awareness of the increasingly amorphous and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary art, and the troubling lack of language or institutional formats to support it. Yank received her B.A. from Harvard University in Visual and Environmental Studies in 2003, and is slated to receive her Masters in Public Art Studies from USC in 2009.
ADVISORY BOARD
Edgar Arceneaux (Artist)
Donna Conwell (Associate Curator, inSite_05)
Sara Delaiden (LA Urban Rangers)
Melissa Lo (Ph.D. Student, History of Science, Harvard University)
Emily Mast (MFA Student, USC)
Richard Parker (MFA Student, USC)

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