Curators

KEVIN HALLAGAN is a multidisciplinary artist whose goal is to empower others to tap into their own creativity and imagination. Kevin’s art is heavily rooted in exploration and experimentation, each piece influencing the next in a rapidly evolving body of work, which has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and has been featured in a number of art publications.


LESLIE FOSTER is an LA-based artist using experimental film and installation to explore Black and queer futurity through the lens of dream logic. He currently serves as the director of art residency for Level Ground, analyzes stories for Disney, and fantasizes about running away with a sea-faring band of nomadic artists.

 

Shelter (In Place) Structure

by Katie Shanks • @art.kshanks

My Shelter Structures to this point have been constructed in (and of) the natural world. By transforming the landscape into an edifice offering a sense of comfort within this vast world, distilling and encapsulating the experience thereof. They are anchored in place both literally and definitionally. What to do though, when that world, and our daily navigations of it are denied us? The challenges of working within the confines of social distancing guidelines inspired #artat6ft, but mere days before the show was to occur Shelter in Place/Safer at Home was enacted. Given the prompt to engage an iconic Los Angeles location, I chose the La Brea Tar Pits.

 

Foreign and Familiar

By Rebekah Neel • @rebekahneel

Between 1987 and 1993 my mother and grandmother wrote each other more than 1,000 letters. My mother lived in the sprawling city of Shanghai, China, and my grandmother lived in the tiny rural town of New Freedom, Pennsylvania. They saw each other in person only a handful of times over those six years and their phone calls were infrequent. These handwritten letters, which often took weeks to reach one another, were their primary way to stay in touch. They are all at once foreign and familiar. Foreign communication methods with familiar handwriting. Foreign social dynamics existing in familiar cycles of history. Foreign versions of familiar people.

 

#1 XVII. The Star

By Coffee Kang • @coffeeekang

I am bringing a series of ceramic vessels from the project, XVII. The Star, to the LA river, collecting and pouring out water with them as a performance. XVII. The Star presents a water voyage with hope for a new start. In light of this pandemic fear and difficulties, I hope this performance will bring us hope, take some time and we will find ways out.

 

Letters to the Universe

By Centrifuge Arts • @centrifugearts

Letters to the Universe is a poetic dance film born out of necessity that asks, in a time of global pandemic and grave uncertainty about the future: how can we be with ourselves without the things that distract or embellish our existence? Is it possible to imagine who we might become without our productivity, our connections, our badges of honor? In taking the time and space to truly see ourselves, for perhaps the first time in our lives, can we find grace?

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By Keva Walker • @kevawalker

Right now it feels like a ghost town in some areas of Los Angeles while others feel chaotic. I specifically traveled to the outskirts of The Arts District and found my way into an old factory building. It felt safe to truly let all my feelings out while doing what I love, dancing will always get me through the toughest of times.