The levity of this year’s edition feels purposeful: Not only will the show not be marred by tragedy, but it will also remind attendees of art’s potential to express joy.
Renée Reizman
Renée Reizman lives in Los Angeles, where she is a research-based interdisciplinary artist and writer who examines cultural aesthetics and their relationship between urbanization, law, and technology. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Awl, and Real Life Magazine. Learn more about her dog on Twitter and Instagram.
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The Nefarious Power of the Unseen
Invisibility: Powers & Perils raises exciting questions around racial, technological, and ecological invisibility, and leaves us asking for more.
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Joseph Beuys Predicted the “Manosphere”
Beuys tackled masculinity through humor and irreverence — but the subjects he parodied are increasingly a fixation for an oppressive segment of the population.
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Exposing the Dark Underbelly of the American West
Out of Site focuses on the scientific tools used to map the West’s resource-rich landscape, and how those technologies have become forces of destruction.
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Artists Unearth Universes in Caltech’s Archives
The artists in Crossing Over were inspired by a century of monumental discoveries from the scientists who have made Caltech one of the world’s most elite research institutions.
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The Relentless Optimism of Beatriz da Costa
Throughout her career, she collaborated with scientists, doctors, and animals, blurring the boundaries between art projects and scientific experiments.
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Art as the Mother of Invention
No Prior Art at the Los Angeles Public Library shows off inventions and patents from unlikely creators and allows audiences to become inventors.
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3B Collective Honors the Grittier Side of Los Angeles
The group exemplifies what a decolonial art practice can be: honoring all contributors rather than crediting one artist with sole authorship of a work.
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The Chicanx and Latinx Artists Who Made the Border a Connection Point
Suturing the Border shows how an international group of artists built relationships along this nebulous zone dividing Mexico and the United States.
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Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveillance
Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly.
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Machines Cannot Replace Human Boredom
Katherine Behar’s automated office machines simply pantomime labor, just like many bored office workers after they’ve fulfilled their daily email quota.
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FotoFest Houston’s Power Lies in What Remains Unseen
For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.