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| Steve Roden |
Big City Forum @ Armory Center for the Arts
Shifting Space, Shifting Place
Anna Neimark/ Steve Roden/ Flora Wiegmann
145 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
Wednesday, October 2nd
7 – 9 pm
Big City Forum
presents the final panel at the Armory Center in 2013. This will be a
true, cross disciplinary conversation about the concept and poetics of
Space. We anticipate a rich dialog with members of the BCF creative
community presenting an individual body of work, a reading, a screening,
or a movement that has helped shape their ideas and vision about Space,
either at a personal/psychological level
or related to ideas around social change, engagement and public space.
The event will feature an architect, artist/musician, and
dancer/choreographer.
Featuring:
ANNA
NEIMARK: Anna Neimark is co-founder of First Office, a design studio
that focuses on form through a critical engagement with the conventions
of architectural drawing. Recent publications include an article, “The
Infrastructural Monument, Soviet Works under Construction and in
Representation” in Future Anterior, as well as a series of essays
co-authored with Andrew Atwood: “Zoopol, A Monument to the Animal
Kingdom” in Project, “How to Domesticate a Mountain” forthcoming in
Perspecta, and “Abstraction Returns” in Think-Space. Anna is full-time
faculty at SCI-Arc. She received a BA in Architecture from Princeton and
an M.Arch from the GSD.
STEVE
RODEN: Steve Roden received his BFA from Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles,
CA and his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He
has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA; the Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena, CA; the Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; the
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; the San Francisco Art Institute, San
Francisco, CA; the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art and Science,
Fresno, California; the Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA; the Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, and Le Bon Acceuil, Rennes,
France.
Roden
has been included in group exhibitions at the Menil Collection,
Houston, TX; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Mercosur Biennial Porto
Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Centre George Pompidou Paris, France; San
Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; UCLA Hammer Museum Los
Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; the Sculpture Center, New York, NY; the
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; the Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Run Run Shaw New Media Center, Hong Kong,
China, and the Kitchen, New York, NY.
FLORA
WIEGMANN: Flora Wiegmann is a Los Angeles-based dancer and
choreographer. Usurping the tactics of visual artists, she attempts to
broaden the platform for dance by making works on film, site-specific
dances, endurance pieces, and by collaborating with artists such as
Fritz Haeg, Drew Heitzler, Silke Otto-Knapp, Alix Lambert, Margo Victor,
and Andrea Zittel. Creating both live and filmed performance works, her
recent projects have been presented nationally and internationally. Her
work has been shown at ICA, Philadelphia; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach; LACMA, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; The
Kitchen, New York; Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica; Art2102,
Los Angeles; Art Basel; and Cneai, Chatou.
Moderator:
WILL WRIGHT:
AIA Los Angeles. Will is the Director of Government and Public Affairs
for the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects
(AIA|LA) and a 2011 AIA|LA Presidential Honoree. As the chief design
advocate for Los Angeles, he has more than a decade of experience
lobbying for a healthier and more beautiful city. At AIA|LA
he is responsible for a variety of roles including connecting
architects and designers with civic leaders to help shape public policy.
In 2013, Will became a founding board member of the non-profit From Lot
To Spot, which helps underserved communities transform vacant lots into
parks. Will is also serves on the boards of the BOMA-LA PAC and the Los
Angeles County Business Federation (BizFed) as a Vice Chair of the Land
Use & Development Committee. Past leadership includes serving as a
member of the statewide Climate Plan Strategic Planning Steering
Committee. As a graduate from the Art Center College of Design, Will won
an AIGA 365 award as the Editor of the literary arts publication,
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