LA/LA: Place and Practice

Created in partnership with The Getty Foundation, The Getty Research Institute,

The San Diego Museum of Art, and Scripps College for Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA

The San Diego Museum of Art

Saturday, May 2, 2015

10:00 am - 10:15 am

Coffee

This panel looks at writing on art and culture in Southern California and the border region,

focusing on Latino representation across media outlets and the future of writing on Latino and

Latin American art practices.

Moderator: C. Ondine Chavoya, Professor of Art History, Williams College

Carolina A. Miranda, Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

Juan Devis, Senior Vice President, Content Development + Production, KCET

Sharon Mizota, Art Reviewer, Los Angeles Times

Luis C. Garza, Senior Consultant and Researcher, Autry National Center and La Raza -

Photographer

Riverside

● Luis G. Hernandez, Artist/co-founder of the MexiCali Biennial/Director of The Steppling

Art Gallery at San Diego State University-IV campus

● Nery Gabriel Lemus, Artist

● Raul Baltazar, Artist

● Alejandra Espasande-Bouza, Film Archivist, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts &

Sciences

● John D. Spiak, Director/Chief Curator, Grand Central Art Center

1:00 pm - 2:10 pm

This panel investigates cultural initiatives that have bridged Latino and Latin American

communities in the region, including artist- and advocacy-driven projects that mirror civic justice

organizations and seek to excavate the complex territory of “community.”

Moderator: Ricardo Dominguez: Associate Professor, Visual Art Department and

Principal Investigator, CALIT2/QI, University of California, San Diego.

Oscar Romo, Professor, University of California San Diego and Director, Alter Terra

Patricia Valencia, and Aida Salazar (co-presenting), former directors of Regeneración

Sandra de la Loza, Artist

Presentations

● Cocina Abierta (Christina Sanchez Juarez), Artist, Educator, and Organizer

● Camilo Cruz, Artist

● Felicia 'Fe' Montes, Artist/Activist, Mujeres de Maiz

● Chris Cuellar, School of Echoes

● Raquel Gutiérrez, Community Arts Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

4:35 pm -5:00 pm

Closing Performance: Nao Bustamante, Artist

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Histories and Migration Panel

This panel considers Southern California’s historic relationship to Latino and Latin American

cultures and communities, looking in particular at movement and migration as a way to

understand the evolving nature of these communities, their relationships with the various

regions of Latin America, and the impact on cultural production.

Moderator: Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Artist/Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of

California, San Diego

Kency Cornejo, Assistant Professor of Modern/Contemporary Latin American Art, University of

Ecologies, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego

11:30 am - 11:45 am

Coffee

11:45 am - 12:45 pm

Presentations

● POLEN: Adriana Trujillo + José Inerzia

● Beatriz Cortez, Artist, Professor of Central American Studies at California State

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch

Welcome Back

This panel focuses on the archive in the expanded field as pedagogy and aesthetic action,

manifested through teaching, aesthetic investigation, curation, publishing, archiving, and

Ken Gonzales-Day, Professor of Art, Scripps College

Fiamma Montezemolo, Artist/Anthropologist, California College of the Arts

3:30 pm -3:45 pm

Coffee

3:45 pm - 4:45 pm

Presentations