CREATIVE MINDS, a student-run organization affiliated with UCLA Arts+Healing, brings arts and drama therapy to homeless youth and others in need in communities throughout West LA.
Director Victoria Vesna opened her honors class, Biotech & Art to visitors for a workshop led by visiting artist Jason Fahrion, who presented his art projects with insects as biological factories.
Students and visiting scholars examined the silkworm life cycle and look at potential medical and artistic applications of the substances that silkworms produce along with the silk. They also learned about Fahrion’s work with honeybees and the local production of honey.
Opening reception:
April 17, 2014 5-7 pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Space
CNSI 5th floor
“those that from a distance look like flies”
This exhibition is generously supported by the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. All events sponsored by the David Bermant Foundation.
MICK LORUSSO+ALIA GHONEUM Workshop: Nanodiamonds in the Treatment of Cancer
Thursday, April 10th // 4-6:50 p.m.
Broad Art Center, Room 5240
In this workshop participants learn about recent research on nanodiamonds in the treatment of cancer. They will create scaled-up simulations of experiments that Alia Ghoneum has conducted with nanodiamonds on metastatic cells.
This project was created in collaboration with Patrice Le Gal, director of research at CNRS. A videographer and sculptor born in Santiago, Chile, Javiera Tejerina-Risso lives and works in Marseille.
Sound composed by Sussan Deyhim Performers: Jasmine Albuquerque-Croissant, Marc Breslin, Clarissa Ribiero
Thursday, March 27th, 2014 6-8 pm
at the UCLA CNSI Art|Sci Gallery An experimental space in collaboration with the media Art Department
Performance starts at 7pm sharp
0° 0′ 0″ N, 0° 0′ 0″ E The point at which the equator (0° latitude) and the prime meridian (0° longitude) intersect is in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon..
Parking is available near CNSI in structure 9, adjacent to the building. For directions and more information call 310 794 2118 or http://artsci.ucla.edu **allow extra time for parking
ASSEMBLING SAMIRA: Queering Sexual Humanitarianism Through Experimental Filmmaking
NICOLA MAI: Lecture + Screening
April 1, 2014 // 12pm lunchtime lecture
Karim is an Algerian refugee selling sex as a transvestite (Samira) in Marseille, France. This art-science installation tells his story by assembling on two screens the different ways Karim presents himself in different settings including ethnographic observation, health services and humanitarian interventions. View trailer here.
Presented by internationally renowned artist Lita Albuquerque, Prime Meridian: Zero Degrees explored the relationship between humanity and the movement of the cosmos. Albuquerque projected two videos on the walls of stellar rotation from the north and south poles and a projection on the ground of a body’s shadow running. In this projected world, Albuquerque suspended our ordinary reality. The normal ebb and flow of life ceased, in order to better understand our common bonds of time, stillness and motion.
With sound composed by Susan Deyhim, Prime Meridian: Zero Degrees was performed by Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant, Marc Breslin and Clarissa Ribiero.
Lita Albuquerque is an installation/environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the landscape and public sites.
By approaching living material with the tools of artistic research, Ted Meyer worked to create poetic, yet absurd interactions between the individual and the environment, focusing on how creative impulse marks and alters the living world.
