22
@ DIVERSEartLA – Networked art by networked curating
https://www.laartshow.com/diverseartla/
DIVERSEartLA is back with a new ecological lens. Curated by Marisa Caichiolo, this year’s edition will examine not just how the environment is represented in art, but how humanity’s place in the world is depicted. This exhibition will open up an important dialogue about the Earth’s past, present, and future, uniting the community around discussions of the global climate crisis and potential solutions.
“One of the most powerful things about art is that it brings people together, and transforms the way we communicate. The goal of DIVERSEartLA 2022 is to view this sector of art within the show through ecological glasses.
This topic is at the heart of a growing number of art narratives, including exhibitions built with high-tech innovations, designed to inspire artistic appreciation and the desire to respond to environmental challenges – reinforcing the value of translating environmental advocacy into art.
video by Eric Minh Swenson –>
The installations, immersive experiences, and performances represent our present day and the looming impact we will all face if the planet continues to warm. DIVERSEartLA 2022 will encourage visitors to confront the complex challenges of our global climate crisis and imagine potential solutions.” – Marisa Caichiolo
Our engagement with museums and institutions this year includes projects with Dox Contemporary in Prague/Czech Center New York and The General Consulate of The Czech Republic in Los Angeles; MUSA Museum of the Arts of the University of Guadalajara and MCA Museum of Environmental Science; MUMBAT Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil & Museum of Nature and Science Antonio Serrano of Entre Rios, Argentina; Museum of Nature of Cantabria, Spain; Skid Row communities; Torrance Art Museum; Raubtier Productions & Unicus.
images by LA Art Show
Torrance Art Museum presents Memorial to the Future, a collaborative installation. The large-scale sculptural object created by Daniela Soberman, which houses the video components and open-source photographic elements, is curated and co-authored by
Max Presneill
is an artist and the Director / Curator of the Torrance Art Museum, a small contemporary art museum in Los Angeles, as well as the Curatorial Director for Artra Curatorial. He is the Co-Founder of Durden and Ray (2009-present), a collaborative artists group and gallery in LA as well as the Founder and former Director of Raid Projects (1999 – 2009).
video by Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanovi? –>
Daniela Soberman – photo by Genie Davis
Daniela Soberman
Serbian-American artist
?(b. 1976 Downey, California; lives and works in Los Angeles).
First generation American and daughter to immigrant parents from former socialist Yugoslavia, Daniela grew up making regular visits to Eastern Europe/Yugoslavia (pre and post civil-war) where brutalism and socialist avant-garde became foundational to her DNA and now regularly show up in her work. Daniela explores themes of unconventionalism, memory, and the shared human experience.
Soberman also has a small / large cult following for her published books [which are carried at the Smithsonian].
LA Art Show 2022- DIVERSEartLA section
Torrance Art Museum presents Memorial to the Future, a collaborative installation – curated and co-authored by Max Presneill of the Torrance Art Museum. The large-scale sculptural object created by Daniela Soberman, which houses open-source photographic elements and the video components by curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne contributing a curated program of international video artists.
Networked art via networked curating
Marisa Caichiolo – Max Presneill – Daniela Soberman – Sue-Na Gay – Kisito Assangni – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Memory of the Future?
program – curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
original duration – 107 minutes
selected artists
Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Arrogance, 2021, 3:03
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Oaktown, 2019, 17:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Scale of Disaster, 2013, 9:40
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Ferrovores, 2021, 5:30
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2018, 3:51
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under the Golden Leaves, 2021, 8;50
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Along Thorns, 2021, 3:21
Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2020, 10:26
Elena Vertikova (Poland) – Under Certain Circumstance, 2021, 3:00
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Keke, 2021, 5:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Melting Fields, 2019, 8:35
Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – The End of The World As We Know It, 2021, 4:25
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Vaches:Decoupage, 2021, 3:46
40 minutes short cut of the original video program–>
Memory of The Future?
The concept of the program composition of art videos curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne is considering the architectural installation at Torrance Art Museum as a modular system and his curatorial contribution as one module among the others forming in its totality on one hand a curatorial artwork (among other artworks in the framework of the global artwork, the installation on its totality is representing), communicating with the other static, interactive or moving installation components.
When the viewer/visitor is sensually experiencing the installation, particularly the moving images modules, the 100 minutes running program “Memory of the Future?” is confronting the visitor with the memory of Unknown, Unexpected, the yet to come – as long as he/she is staying sensually experiencing the installation.
“Memory OF THE Future” is referring beyond that primarily to the Uncertainty of the Future of Planet EARTH and its inhabitants – the “Climate Change” they are causing. How do artists deal with the aspect of taking responsibility for each other by taking responsibility for planet Earth saving its integrity for future generations?
images © by the artists–>
The selected artists – Tova Beck-Friedman (USA)- Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Mikey Peterson (USA) – Claude Ciccolella (France) – Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Elena Vertikova (Poland)
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Kim Maree (New Zealand) –
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – originating from different continents and cultural backgrounds & experiences approach the aspect of transferring the memory of the already existing to the not yet existing differently. The 15 selected video works, commu-nicating with each other and the other art modules they are embedded in are sharing the memory of ideas and ideals, juxtaposing also the incompatibility of economic and ecological interests.
The curatorial contribution would like to support the architectural installation by encouraging, activating and motivating the visitor/viewer to become part of the artistic concept.
About the curator
As a cultural activist, new media artist und curator, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) is also the director and founder of The New Museum of Networked Art and its associated platforms of static, interactive and moving images, including as huge collection of art videos created by international artists between 2000 and 2020. Since 2000, his artistic and curatorial works have been presented on a wide range of festivals and media art exhibitions all over the world including, Venice Biennale, Biennale de MONTREAL, Biennale of NEW MEDIA and VIDEO Santiago de CHILE, Biennale of Electronic Media PERTH (Australia), FILE Electronic Language FESTIVAL Sao Paulo. There have been successful collaborations with TAM – Torrance Art Museum in 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 und now recently in 2022.
the video program is produced by The New Museum of Networked Art
Memory of the Future?
Curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
selected artists
Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – Arrogance, 2021, 3:03
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Between Species, 2021, 9:16
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne (Germany) – Oaktown, 2019, 17:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – Scale of Disaster, 2013, 9:40
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Ferrovores, 2021, 5:30
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Gloriosa Superba, 2018, 3:51
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under the Golden Leaves, 2021, 8;50
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Along Thorns, 2021, 3:21
Oliver Ressler (Austria) – Everything’s coming together while everything’s falling apart: Limity jsme my, 2020, 10:26
Elena Vertikova (Poland) – Under Certain Circumstance, 2021, 3:00
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Keke, 2021, 5:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Melting Fields, 2019, 8:35
Kim Maree (New Zealand) – Masterplan, 2019, 9:58
Susanne Layla Petersen (Denmark) – The End of The World As We Know It, 2021, 4:25
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Vaches:Decoupage, 2021, 3:46
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Natalia Ludmila (Mexico) – Swim, swim don’t sink, 2022, 3:40
Oleg Karchenko (Ukraine) – Satisfaction, 2021, 4:13
Oleg Karchenko (Ukraine) – ls_it_impusar_gl, 2021, 4:22
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Ian Gibbins (Australia) – Colony Collapse, 2019, 3:54
Yossi Galanti (Israel) – Green Bag in the First Act, 2021, 4:03
Barry Whittacker (USA) – Sugar Water, 2021, 4:02
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Stand Up, 2020, 1:46
Irina Paskali (Macedomia) – Two of us, 2020, 3:00
Shivkumar K V (India) – Being Back to Nature, 2020, 4:07
Marcus Keim/Beate Hecher (Austria) – Pangäa, 2020, 13:00
Pierre Ajavon (France) – Lost Garden, 2018, 4:16
Mikey Peterson (USA) – Through The Rift, 2021, 6:58
Dee Hood (USA) – The Powers That Be, 2022, 2.29
Alina Vasilchenko (Russia) – The Tree, 2020, 1:23
Aaron Oldenbourg (USA) – Nightwalk, 2021, 1:00
Vanessa Cardui (Germamy) – Nature Dance, 2021, 1:00
Zlatko Cosic (Bosnia) – The Lungs, 2022, 5:00
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – a) Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece) – When I was the Moon, 2020, 6:10
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Albert Merino (Spain) – Memories of Detachment, 2021, 18:00
Renata Padovan (Brazil) – The Scale of the Disaster, 2013, 9:41
Jeremy Newman (USA) – The Dreaming Biome, 2020, 8:00
Moshe Vollach (Israel) – “31 Cubes” – A land art project, 2013-2016, 8:35
Caspar de Gelmimi (Germany) – Life in the future, 2020, 4:50
Maria Korporal (Netherlands) – Thinking with my Knee – original: Denken mit dem Knie, 2021, 1:49
Dee Hood (USA) – Ghost Forest, 2020, 3:46
Laura & Sira Cabrera Diaz (Spain) – Sintonizar con la Natura / Tune in to Nature, 2021, 9:43
Vanessa Cardui (Germamy) – The green thread, 2021, 6:38
Ian Gibbins (Australia) – floodtide, 2018, 8:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Bellevue, 2020, 7:00
