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Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance

Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance features 3 large-scale installations by Panos Aprahamian, Heather M. O’Brien, and Simon Liu, whose artworks have been shaped by the recent revolutions taking place in Lebanon and Hong Kong. Though their aesthetic tactics and political subject matter differ, a common stance by Aprahamian, O’Brien and Liu can be observed. Within the current devastation of failed nation states and forced Disapora, a poetic approach to political events ‘makes life worth living.’

 

Revolution Everywhere

MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Class of 2021 - Eugenia Barbuc

Transfer &&, & Reassembled

Traces of conversations, blueprints and strings that reach outwards, towards one another. Keeping placeholders for latent signals that are somewhere behind or ahead of us. Fragments of an invisible assembly, or better still, mermaid signs for Natterville and drawing suns for impossible video games. 
Eugenia Barbuc, James Basilio, Eylese Davis, Natalie Delgadillo, Rachel Finkelstein, Andrea Hidalgo, Jules Marasa in conversation. 

Life Worth Living

Life Worth Living

This series, comprised of twelve chapters documenting contemporary projects produced for 2021, imagines the curative power that aesthetic and discursive pharmakons might have in our global crisis. Curated by Juli Carson in collaboration with the University Art Galleries at UC Irvine, the series will be updated periodically as new chapters come on line.

Chapter 1: Ethics of Estrangement

Post-Graduate MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Class of 2020 - Morgan Cuppet-Michelsen

Codex, Kodaks, Codecs

Codex, Kodaks, Codecs cycles between the overlapping and conflicted primacy of language in visual arts with the transitional nature of the spoken and written form. Through misrecognition (homonyms), blending (portmanteau), and contextual (jargon), the result is a confluence that describes itself as well as its (un)becoming through analog photographic process.