Posted: June 11th, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Black Mirror - Espejo Negro, Events - Pedro Lasch, Phantom Limbs | No Comments »
Dear friends and people in LA whose work I respect,
I hope you can join me at this last public event I’ll be doing during this LA visit.
If we did not get to meet and you would still have time before I go back to teach at Duke University on June 30th, please do let me know.
Pedro
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Social Art Practice & (De)Colonial Aesthetics (Ten Years After the WTC Attacks)
An Artist Talk & Conversation with Pedro Lasch
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
6pm - 8pm
Hosted by Public Address Los Angeles
Outpost for Contemporary Art in Eagle Rock
1268 North Avenue 50
Los Angeles, CA 90042
http://publicaddresslosangeles.org/
The event is free. We will pass the hat for donations.
This two part event will begin with an artist talk bringing together three multi-year projects (Naturalizations, 2002-ongoing, Black Mirror/Espejo Negro, 2007-2010 and Twin Towers Go Global/Phantom Limbs, 2001-2011), through their specific engagement with ideas about social art practice and decolonial aesthetics. Part two will follow with a public conversation about these two terms in relation to the major processes of change (or lack thereof) in global power structures and international art since 9/11, 2001.
Posted: September 11th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Phantom Limbs, Public Proposals | No Comments »
Dear friends,
Today is the 9th anniversary of September 11, 2001. This message is sent out to you as we honor the countless lives lost to fear and violence since that tragic morning in New York. The organization of Twin Towers Go Global (TTGG), the artist run platform of AND AND AND, and the director and staff of dOCUMENTA(13) have chosen this symbolic day to launch a series of three special 9/11 anniversary reports (2010, 2011, 2012). Like all other projects in the AND AND AND series, these reports are part of dOCUMENTA(13).
After I recently accepted the challenge of serving as one of several artistic advisors to the Architecture and Engineering Committee of TTGG, and having already been in conversations for a few weeks with the AND AND AND platform, I proposed to both parties that we collaborate on a series of reports updating our various lists and networks on the yearly developments of the TTGG’s International Memorial Reconstruction, a monumental project that consists of the building of exact replicas of New York’s Twin Towers in different cities around the world.
You can here read my public acceptance as advisor to the TTGG’s Artists & Scholars Reinvent World Trade Program:
For all other information on the 9/11 Anniversary Reports, TTGG, the IMR, AND AND AND, or dOCUMENTA(13), please see the links included below.
Kind regards,
Pedro Lasch
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About the First 9/11 Report at the AND AND AND Platform of dOCUMENTA(13)
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For more information, visit the dOCUMENTA(13) site at:
http://www.documenta.de/
Select English or German and see the 10.9.2010 entry:
The full English announcement can be found here:
…as well as the link to the complete First Anniversary Report in the series (6-pages):
For more information on AND AND AND, visit:
About TWIN TOWERS GO GLOBAL (TTGG) and the International Memorial Reconstruction (IMR)
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TWIN TOWERS GO GLOBAL (TTGG)
EMAIL (write INFO or SUBSCRIBE in your title):
info@twintowersgoglobal.org
FACEBOOK
For updates and information, you can join the facebook page TWIN TOWERS GO GLOBAL, or add George Cromley, Director of TTGG Media to your facebook friends list.
TOLL FREE TELEPHONE
1 (866) 530 8765 (until end of September 2010)
or
1 (877) WTC 2012 (beginning October 2010)
Posted: September 4th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Phantom Limbs | 1 Comment »
In August 2010 I received an invitation to join the organization Twin Towers Go Global as the first artist in residence for their Artists & Scholars Reinvent World Trade Program. Excited by the ambitious program of TTGG, I accepted the invitation on September 2nd, 2010. Conscious of the possible criticisms and objections of many people whose opinion I respect, I am issuing this short public statement.
I am thrilled to be working with TTGG. Artists today cannot sit on the sidelines as decisions are being made about the fate of the world. If someone has decided that the Twin Towers of New York are to be duplicated in different cities around the world, why shouldn’t artists or architects get involved to make sure it gets done right? TTGG’s challenge to help develop plans for new WTC buildings in New Orleans and Kabul, for example, is formidable.
As I join a project that is so clearly larger than all of us, I will do my best to stay true to the principles I hold dear. These include the importance of international cooperation over violent confrontation, as well as the belief that art and aesthetics exist within, not outside, the most difficult ethical issues of our time. Is it possible to build a truly international memorial that honors the lives of those who died in New York, as well as those fallen in Kabul, Baghdad, and Darfur? Can we imagine a common language in art and architecture, which might express the often contradictory positions we inhabit? I believe we can, and for the next three years I am ready to do everything within my power to help Twin Towers Go Global realize that dream.
Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Phantom Limbs | No Comments »
Pedro Lasch Phantom Limbs
A series of installations, paintings, and drawings commemorating September 11, 2001.
Budapest