Mar 18-Pedro Lasch Public Talk at Chelsea College of Art and Design
Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch |Thursday, March 18th, 2pm-3:30pm
Games, Non-Habitual Habits and Temporal Rearrangements: An Artist Talk by Pedro Lasch
Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank (next to Tate Britain, Pimlico tube)
This talk is free and open to all
Pedro Lasch is an artist, educator, and cultural producer whose preoccupation with the theory and practice of a socially engaged art has led him to the formulation of an aesthetics based on public interventions, social interactions, games, and temporal rearrangements. In addition to his individual work in a wide range of disciplines including drawing, painting, video, installation and performance, he leads on-going projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as 16 Beaver Group.
His individual work and his collaborations with 16 Beaver have been shown internationally at both alternative and mainstream institutions such as, Sean Kelly Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA, The Nasher Museum of Art (U.S.A), Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art and The Royal College of Art (England), Centro Arte Alameda, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico), The Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), and The Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), among others.
Appearing in numerous exhibition catalogues and edited collections, his art and writings have also been published and reviewed in specialized journals across disciplines, such as October Magazine, Saber Ver, Art Forum, ARTnews, Cultural Studies, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as diverse and international news media like The New York Times, The Philadelphia Weekly, El Diario de México, El Universal, and La Jornada. His projects have received awards, recognitions, and support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2007 Painters & Sculptors Award), the Dedalus Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and Asociación Tepeyac de New York. He is represented by Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York City, and galerieofmarseille in Marseille, France.
Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. He currently divides his time between New York (NY) and Durham (NC), where he is an Assistant Research Professor of Visual Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is a former Duke Latino/a Studies Director and present Community Liaison. Having served on multiple juries and selection committees, he is also a board member of the North Carolina Arts Council (2007-2010), the Chiapas Media Project/Promedios (2007-present), and Mexicanos Unidos de Queens (2006-present). For the academic year of Fall 2009 and Spring 2010, Lasch will be based in London, UK on a research leave from Duke University.
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