Carolina Caycedo
Studio Residency
c3 is pleased to host artist Carolina Caycedo in partnership with Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in conjunction with their CiR 2018-19 season programming.
PUBLIC EVENT | Sunday, December 2, 2018
2-4 pm at c3:initiative
ABOUT THE C3 EVENT
Participatory presentation of the Serpent River Book
Published in 2017 by Caycedo, the Serpent River Book combines archival images, maps, poems, lyrics, satellite photos, with the artist’s own images and texts on river bio-cultural diversity, in a long and meandering collage. The fluctuating publication can frame many narratives. As a book it can be opened, pleated, and read in many directions. It also has a performative potential to it, functioning as a score, or as a workshop tool. The books gathers visual and written materials compiled by the artist while working in Colombian, Brazilian, and Mexican communities affected by the industrialization and privatization of river systems.
ABOUT CAROLINA CAYCEDO
Carolina Caycedo (1978, lives in Los Angeles) was born in London to Colombian parents. She transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right. Carolina’s artistic practice has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the artist’s process of research and acting. Through work that investigates relationships of movement, assimilation and resistance, representation and control, she addresses contexts, groups and communities that are affected by developmental projects, like the constructions of dams, the privatization of water, and its consequences on riverside communities.
She has developed publicly engaged projects in Bogota, Quezon City, Toronto, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Lisbon, San Juan, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Mexico DF, Tijuana, and London. Her work has been exhibited worldwide with solo shows at Vienna Secession, Intermediae-Matadero Madrid, Agnes B Gallery Paris, Alianza Francesa Bogotá, Hordaland Kunstsenter Bergen, 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, and DAAD Gallery in Berlin. She has participated in international biennials including Sao Paulo (2016), Berlin (2014), Paris Triennial (2013), New Museum (2011), Havana (2009), Whitney (2006), Venice (2003) and Istanbul (2001). In 2012, Caycedo was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin resident. She has received funding from Creative Capital, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Harpo Foundation, Art Matters, Colombian Culture Ministry, Arts Council UK, and Prince Claus Fund.
ABOUT THE DISJECTA CIR 2018-19 CURATOR IN RESIDENCE, SUZY HALAJIAN
Curator-in-Residence for the 2018-2019. Suzy Halajian will present 3 exhibitions throughout The Politics of Landscape season. Based in Los Angeles, Halajian's work begins at the intersection of art and politics by regarding image-making as a practice steeped in colonial pasts and modern surveillance states. Halajian has recently curated exhibitions and programs at LACE, Hammer Museum, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (all Los Angeles); Sursock Museum, Beirut; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; and UKS, Oslo. Halajian serves on the Programming Committee of Human Resources LA. In 2017 she was granted a Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and in 2014 she received a Curatorial Research Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her writing has been published by ArtEast, BOMB, X-TRA, Ibraaz, among others.