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Grupo Bijari (Fall 2010) is a collective of artists, urban planners, architects, and designers that was formed in Säo Paulo, Brazil in 1996. The group aims to find a synthesis between art and activism through participatory public projects and urban interventions. Grupo Bijari has explored issues of sociopolitical control, urban gentrification and cultural identity, through a diverse range of resources and technologies, including, poster campaigns, large-scale video projections, installation, performance and VJing. » more about Bijari's past work and the project they will develop in LA. Octávio Camargo (January 14-March 4, 2011) is a composer and theater director based in Curitiba, Brazil. His collaborative practice incorporates site specificity, social art and urban interventionism, with interdisciplinary activities in the fields of theatre, poetry and musical composition. He has taught Aesthetics and Harmony at the University of Arts in Parana (EMBAP), Brazil, since 1992 and directs a theatre company “Cia iliadahomero de Teatro” (www.iliadahomero.wordpress.com) which is focused on the staging of Homer´s Iliad in the Brazilian translation of Manuel Odorico Mendes. Camargo also collaborates with errantbodies press - as a writer and co-editor of the Surface Tension series Errant Bodies. » more about Octávio Camargo's past work and the project the artist will develop in LA. Ala Plástica (March/April 2011) is an art and environmental organization based in Río de la Plata, Argentina that works on the rhizomatic linking of ecological, social, and artistic methodology, utilizing direct intervention methods without giving up the symbolic potential of art. Since 1991, Ala Plástica has developed a range of non-conventional artworks focused on local and regional problems, and they have collaborated with other artists, scientists, and environmental groups. Their work could be defined as “slow activism” in that their dialogical work with communities is developed with an attention towards durations and site-specificity. » more about Ala Plástica's past work and the project they will develop in LA. X. Andrade/Full Dollar(Sept/Oct 2011) lives and works in Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador. He is an urban anthropologist, Chairman-for-Life of Full Dollar Inc, a company that traffics in anthropology and contemporary art, and the Chair of the Visual Anthropology Program at the Latin American Graduate Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). In both fields he is interested in casting an ethnographic look on the social life of objects, images and ideas in an urban context. » more about Full Dollar's past work and the project they will develop in LA. Nicolás Consuegra (Jan/Feb 2012) is a Colombian artist whose practice is sensitive to time, place and audience. His projects question the ambiguity of the “local” versus the “universal" and explore questions surrounding cultural production and complex processes of multicultural evolution. In addition to his personal practice, Consuegra is a co-founding member of the editorial board of Revista Asterisco—an independent art magazine from Colombia. 45treinta (March/April 2012) was founded in Colombia in 2007. This collaborative group initiates projects that engage artists and non-artists in the act of drawing through workshops, exhibitions, websites, and print publications. The group explores the hybrid nature of Latin American culture, which is influenced by a constant mixing of indigenous roots, multi-ethnic knowledge, European and American colonization, and more recently information via the Internet. For more information about Outpost, please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at julie@outpost-art.org Outpost HQ 1268 N. Ave 50 Los Angeles, CA 90042 office (323) 982-9461 map Sign up to receive email notifications about our programs as well as artist opportunities. |
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