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Indepth Arts News:
"Transit Projects: Survival L.A."
2002-07-06 until 2002-07-27
Raid Projects
Los Angeles, CA,
USA United States of America
Transit Projects: Survival L.A. explores the thematic
concept of "survival" as it relates to issues of
contemporary art practice. Los Angeles artists investigate
notions of personal endurance, struggle and triumph,
release and transcendence. Each artist reflects on the
various manifestations of "survival" in our culture
today. Artists explore topics ranging from serial TV
dramas that allow for the viewer's collective kinship
with dramatized struggle, to "extreme" demonstrations of
physical hardship and endurance, and beyond, to the
personal coping mechanisms activated in navigating our
everyday struggles.
Transit Projects: Survival L.A
investigates how the individual negotiates the physical
and psychological terrain of our everyday social
constructs, within a set of evermore fluid and transitory
boundaries.
The depARTment produces the Transit Projects
exhibition series. The Transit Pojects program invites
contemporary artists to interact, adapt, engage, and work
within the context of non-traditional spaces, and across
disciplines such as fashion, architecture, interior and
graphic design. It seeks to expand the relationship
between art, presentation, and audiences beyond
established formats, inviting a variety of perspectives to
inform these relationships. As the Transit Projects
series develops according to each individual site and
project, it promotes a dialogue about the arts and their
context, encouraging a playful and indepth
interpretation and approach to the arts in contemporary culture.
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