[spectre] Sat, Lui Velazquez Opens New Space with New Show

[dj lotu5]

Come out Saturday night and celebrate the opening of our new space, with 
much more space! Please pass this on to anyone interested...

Intimate Simulations

Grand opening of Lui Velazquez 2.0
Saturday March 14th / Sabado 14 Marzo
7-9pm

Featuring the work of:

Susy Bielak
Dream Addictive Lab
Elle Mehrmand
Zac Montanaro
Priscilla Lázaro Rabago

Co-curated by Katherine Sweetman, Micha Cárdenas and Felipe Zuñiga

Lui Velazquez
Calle José Maria Larroque #273.
2do Piso, Int. 6, Colonia Federal.
Tijuana, Baja California.
Mexico, C.P. 22 300*
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flyer at: http://luivelazquez.com/lui_card1
directions at: http://luivelazquez.com/directions

//  Intimate Simulations  //

In contemporary western society, we have developed an intimate 
relationship with our simulations. Both simulation and reenactment have 
become part of our daily lives, and we are familiar with their logics. 
Simulation is so deeply embedded in our thinking, that many of our most 
important decisions are made based on simulation, such as the dropping 
of bombs. Yet simple, personal decisions in our daily lives are also 
made on simulations, such as weather simulations. In our homes at night, 
we watch the news and see reenactments of crimes. Our political 
struggles are influenced by the reenactments of the lives of historical 
figures and moments, such as the recent film 'Milk'. Scientists rely on 
the logic of simulation to inform their decisions and conclusions, 
making the most sacrosanct act of 'proof' in our society, based on a 
simulation of, for example, biological behaviors. Legal decisions depend 
on reenactments such as in the assassination of JFK. In Simulacra and 
Simulation Baudrillard quotes Ecclesiastes saying "the simulacrum is 
never what hides the truth-- It is truth that hides the fact that there 
is none. the simulacrum is true." Today this idea still holds great 
significance as new forms of simulation and reenactment work themselves 
into our most private moments.

Artists are directly engaging with the logics of simulation and 
reenactment, using their vernaculars and exploring their dimensions and 
implications. In this show, we are presenting a number of pieces which 
deeply engage with simulation and reenactment. In Suzy Bielak's  
"Quake/Temblor", a reenactment of the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, we 
witness a reenactment of a moment from her personal history, using the 
technologies of scientific simulation. Elle Mehrmand's "w3eks.." 
simulates her memory of 3 weeks of her life, providing an intimate 
reliving of her experience. Priscilla Lázaro Rabago's performance and 
video both contains and recreates a puppet show, creating a nested 
topology of copies and simulations of humanness. Zac Montanaro's 
"Missing Priest Puts Focus on Cluster Ballooning" reenacts a political 
act of communication through low tech border disturbance gestures. While 
Dream Addictive's Untitled_Mood is a simulator of a virtual mirror with 
a memory, in which the viewers intimtate experience of their own image 
in the mirror is fractured and doubled through the memory of the mirror 
itself. These pieces explore multiple trajectories of simulation and 
evoke its place, embedded in our lives, between us and ourselves.

More information about Lui Velazquez and past shows at
http://luivelazquez.com

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micha cárdenas
performance /social media / public culture

C(a)lit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net
CRCA Researcher, http://crca.ucsd.edu
MFA Candidate, UCSD, http://visarts.ucsd.edu
MA, EGS, http://egs.edu

blog: http://bang.calit2.net/tts