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#Repost @nomadicdivision ・・・ LANDxAIR: @werkartz Artist in Residence, Julia Tcharfas @meksikou invites you to take part in her What Do You Do Between 5 P.M. and 11 P.M.? questionnaire, issued here exactly one-year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Link in bio! Under the LANDxAIR residency, Tcharfas plans to render the collected questionnaires into her ongoing research for assembling an anti-clock. The artist encourages participants to fill-out the questionnaire by hand or on the computer and mail to either the street address or the email address linked in @nomadicdivision bio. 🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙

#Repost @nomadicdivision ・・・ LANDxAIR: @werkartz Artist in Residence @bapari_ has released their EP, Daybreak ❄️🦋🐬!!!! Daybreak is available on all streaming platforms. Composed within the last year, the EP Daybreak is a pulsing meditation for brighter days. Find the EP anywhere you stream your music!

#Repost @nomadicdivision Our current LANDxAIR Artist in Residence @bapari_ premieres their new EP ‘Daybreak’ Friday 2/26 on @puffyradio on @NTS_radio . Their time during the residency hosted by @werkartz is in support of their ‘Daybreak’ EP, prepping for the release date 3/11. The producer and DJ is a Los Angeles native whose music practice is deeply enmeshed with their community and peers. They have composed scores for productions ranging from No Sesso runways to Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, veering in and out of a variety of stages with their experimental underground club music. Tune in to @puffyradio on @NTS_radio TOMORROW at 17:00 PST to hear the latest release

#Repost @nomadicdivision Say hello to our upcoming Artist in Residence for LANDxAIR @werkartz , Julia Tcharfas! Julia Tcharfas (born 1982, Donetsk, Ukraine) is an artist based in Los Angeles. Her research draws on materials from modern scientific and technological folklore and takes the form of archives and exhibitions. Tcharfas is the founder of Before Present project space in Pasadena and has recently exhibited work in Magic Hour, Twentynine Palms; the Swiss Institute, New York; Project 1049, Gstaad; Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London. A profile about her practice has been featured in the Swiss Institute’s SI: Visions video series. Julia proposes to explore the deceptively simple question of how time is passed, inspired by a phrase from an archaic self-help book: “What do you do between 5 P.M. and 11 P.M.?” #werkartz @olympicdtla

#Repost @nomadicdivision Our March Artist in Residence for LANDxAIR @werkartz will be Emily Barker @celestial_investments Emily Barker is a paraplegic and chronically ill artist, designer, and advocate for people with disabilities. They’ve given artist talks at UCLA, The Royal Academy of the Arts in London and several other schools about their most recent show Built to Scale a solo exhibition at Murmurs Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles that explored how design standards physically perpetuate, embody and replicate the structural prejudices of society towards people considered “abnormal,” “divergent,” or “abject”. People who physically deviate from societally created norms have little space built that include them. The exhibition was published in Cultured, Flaunt, Art Viewer, Medium among many others. They studied at RISD and SAIC while able-bodied and after an accident had found higher education to be so inaccessible that the segregation that exists for wheelchair users and the chronically ill must be repaired so that they may have the basic human rights of access and same opportunities as the able-bodied or able passing communities. For LANDxAIR Emily seeks to create a mobile but site-specific utopian domestic space that would allow disabled artists or immune-compromised artists (specifically with mobility devices) to thrive and make art unencumbered by inaccessible building standards such as countertop heights, standard doors, inaccessible bathrooms, inaccessible appliances, amongst many other features. #werkartz @olympicdtla

#Repost @nomadicdivision ・・・ Next up in our Artists in Residence for LANDxAIR: @werkartz is Panteha Abareshi @pantehart My work is rooted in my existence as a chronically ill/disabled body existing with multiple medical illnesses, at the root of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia- a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain, and bodily deterioration that both increase with age. Through my work, I aim to discuss the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored, constantly examined, and made to feel like a specimen. Taking images that are recognizable as “human” forms, and reducing them to the gestural is a juxtaposition of my own body's objectification, and dissection. Through my performance work, I pushed my body to, and often beyond, the limits of its ability. The radicalized objectification of my own corporeal form allows for a continued examination of my bodily deterioration, and its connection to a larger context of universal fragility, fear, pain and mortality. In my video work and installations, I aim to make the viewer hyper-aware of their own body, and actively employ accessibility as a tool, both withholding and over-extending it as a means of casting light onto the ill/disabled experience. With every piece, my practice traces and documents my body's malfunction, and its disintegration. With this deterioration comes implantation of medical devices, prosthetics, and the use of mobility aids. My body is the primary material and medium in my practice, and these materials become vital to the visual language of my work. Currently, I am contemplating the prosthesis, and simultaneous abstraction and mechanization of the fundamentally inorganic “body.” For LANDxAIR, Panteha will be fabricating new sculptural work as well as developing performance/installation work for video and digital audiences. #werkartz @olympicdtla

Congratulations to those selected for the LANDxAIR residency hosted in our DTLA space! #Repost @nomadicdivision ・・・ We are excited to announce our four new Artists in Residence for LANDxAIR @werkartz who will be joining us over the upcoming months as we work to support their proposed projects. Thank you to all of the artists that applied- we are grateful for and humbled by the incredible richness of artistic creation happening in our community. First up is Arielle Baptiste aka @bapari_ . Haitian-American musician, DJ, and producer Bapari has provided support for artists like Total Freedom, Tygapaw, Shygirl, Coucou Chloe, Mexican Jihad, Kingdom, Bok Bok, DJ Haram, and SFV Acid at parties on both coasts and headlined LA's Boiler Room showcase. While living in New York she regularly DJ’d events at venues like Elsewhere, Nowadays, No Bar, and Mood Ring as well as playing Melting Point’s New Years' Eve Party and Papi Juice in Brooklyn. Most recently, Bapari opened for and served as the tour DJ for Steve Lacy. Bapari has produced tracks for recording artists Saturn Rising, Matiss, Oscar Key Sung, Banoffee, and Davia Spain. She formerly played drums in the LA-based punk band Fuck U Pay Us, as well as soccer for the Haitian national team. Bapari DJs the monthly show Puffy on NTS radio and is releasing her debut club EP on Fake Accent Records. For LANDxAIR Arielle is working on a new video collaboration. We look forward to sharing more soon. #werkartz @olympicdtla

Deadline tonight! #Repost @nomadicdivision ・・・ Deadline to apply for #LANDxAIR is tonight at midnight! Hosted by @werkartz at their 7,000 sq ft exhibition space in DTLA this winter, LAND’s curatorial team will be selecting 4 LA-based artists in residence for 2-4 week periods. Artists will be given $1,000. We can’t wait to see what will be created in this space. Apply through link in bio!

LAND and Werkartz announce an open call for LA-based artists to participate in the LANDxAIR Artist Residency program this winter at Werkartz’s 7,000 sq. ft. exhibition space in Downtown Los Angeles. 4 artists will be selected for 2-4 week residencies and provided studio space, curatorial support, and a $1,000 honorarium. Apply now through the brief online form, deadline to apply is December 6. Apply through link in bio!

#tbt LA in Bloom curated by @mar_parsi - @nickaguayo84 @saraheawad @williambradleystudio @jonni_cheatwood @dallapozza @xelallork @maysha_mohamedi

Black Lives Matter #blackouttuesday

Following guidelines issued by the Los Angeles Department of Public Health in response to increased cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), both the LA IN BLOOM closing reception and Soup & Tart have been postponed. We have now extended the exhibition LA IN BLOOM, which will be by appointment until further notice. Stay safe out there!