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  • In and Out of Context

    In and Out of Context

    by Art Practical Editors

    I came to San Francisco to put on my last exhibition, and I decided to stay, in a moment of making a decision about community. I feel like I'm at a point where my art and my life are intermatched, kind of like a marriage. I'm looking at San Francisco as a place where I can have a commitment to the place, and a one-to-one relationship with it, where I will give to it and I hope it will give to me.

     
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  • Landfill: Part 2

    Landfill: Part 2

    by Elyse Mallouk

    Los Angeles itself offers a sprawling promise of utopia, full of legends and replete with vacant spaces waiting to be transformed into “Temporary Autonomous Zones,” sites that exist briefly at the edge of established institutional and structural boundaries. Parker’s work makes use of these physical and hypothetical zones to produce microtopias, experiments that are situated between idealist notions of community and pragmatic methods for bringing people together.
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