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LAXART IS PLEASED TO DEBUT OFFICE HOURS   Office Hours at LA> Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection. Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA> Participating artists and hours of availability: Edgar Arceneaux Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations and video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. From 1999 to 2012 Arceneaux served as Director of the Watts House Project, an artist driven neighborhood redevelopment project centered around the historic Watts Towers. He co-founded the WHP as a non-profit organization in 2009 with writer and arts organizer Sue Bell Yank. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Kitchen, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. His work was included in Marking Time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia; Mutatis Mutandis, at Secession, Vienna, Austria, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. Arceneaux is currently developing a collaborative project with the US State Department and the country of São Tomé e Príncipe, as well as a solo exhibition opening in May of 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, a forum created by Theaster Gates as part of the University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris. Available appointments with Edgar Arceneaux:   Saturday, March 16, 2013 12pm – 12:50pm 1pm – 1:50pm 2pm – 2:50pm  Tania Bruguera Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, installation and video. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating public forums to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, while also challenging notions of spectatorship and participation by transforming conditions for “viewing” into those for “citizenry.” Recent exhibitions include Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2012; The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, 2012, and Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2012. Bruguera participated in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal. Her works have also been exhibited at the New Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Helsinki Art Museum; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her performances have been presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela. In 2011, Bruguera spent a year operating a community space in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York as part ofImmigrant Movement International, a long-term project presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art. From 2003 to 2009, Bruguera was the founding director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana, the first performance and time-based art studies program in Cuba. Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours is realized in collaboration with the USC Roski MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program and its 2013 curatorial practicum. Available appointments with Tania Bruguera:   Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3pm – 3:50pm 4pm – 4:50pm 5pm – 5:50pm   A.L. Steiner A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs. Available appointments with A.L. Steiner:   Friday, April 5, 2013 1pm – 1:50pm 2pm – 2:50pm 3pm – 3:50pm Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability. Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA>Office Hours

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