[spectre] Lui Velazquez Gallery Announces New Larger Space and new Advisory Board

[dj lotu5]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lui Velazquez Gallery Announces New Larger Space and new Advisory Board

Contact:
Katherine Sweetman, Director
619-838-7666
me at katherinesweetman.com

Micha Cárdenas, Curator
619-750-8851
mcardenas at ucsd.edu

Felipe Zuñiga, Curator and Co-Founder
felipe.zunigaglez at gmail.com



Where:

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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Lui Velazquez, a space for transborder, transdisciplinary dialog and art 
located just a few feet from the turnstiles of the US/Mexico border 
crossing, would like to announce our two new expansions. Lui Velazquez 
will be moving into a new space, three times the size of its previous
location. The grand opening of the new space will coincide with the 
exhibition "Intimate Simulations", opening on Saturday, March 14th from 
7-9pm. The show features the work of Susy Bielak, Dream Addictive Lab, 
Elle Mehrmand, Zac Montanaro, Priscilla Lázaro Rabago and was curated by 
Katherine Sweetman, Micha Cárdenas and Felipe Zuñiga. More details about 
the opening are at http://luivelazquez.com.

The new location will be the site of Lui Velazquez's series of 
programming for the year entitled "Poetry, Politics and Pedagogy", 
focusing on the intersections of these three topics. The series includes 
performances, workshops and discussions including Dream Addictive, the 
ALTBIT project, Upgrade! Tijuana, UCSD MFA candidates Elle Mehrmand and 
Lesha Rodriguez and many other artists and collectives from Tijuana and 
San Diego. We are very happy to announce our expansion and are happy to 
accept project proposals from artists who seek to further our mission of 
creating cross border community and a space for critical dialog 
supported by transdisciplinary practice.

In addition to this exciting new move, Lui Velazquez is announcing the
inauguration of its new advisory board. The board consists of Teddy 
Cruz, Adriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez, Louis Hock, Lucia Sanroman, 
Robert J Sanchez and Bill Kelley. The board's role will be to provide 
valuable feedback on our direction, to help establish relationships with 
artists and institutions and to suggest possible avenues for funding.

Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and
Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy
that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and
the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’
Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with
community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its
work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive
of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in
Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in
Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently
received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize
and is currently an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism
in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.

Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance
Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in
1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico.
He was co-Director of The Thing (www.thing.net) an ISP for artists and
activists from 2000 to 2004, as well as Senior Editor from 1996 to
1999. He is a former member of Critical Art Ensemble. Ricardo’s
performances have been presented in museums, galleries, theater
festivals, hacker meetings, tactical media events and as direct actions
on the streets and around the world.

Louis Hock began making films when he was studying psychology and
poetry at the University of Arizona, graduating with a BA in Psychology
in 1970. In 1973 he received an MFA from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. Before joining the Visual Arts Department in
1977, he established the film program at the University of Texas at
Arlington. In the fall of 1997 Hock participated in inSITE97, an 
international exhibition spanning the U.S./Mexico border region with his 
installation, International Waters / Aguas Internacionales. Poinsettia, 
a multimedia installation by Hock, was commissioned by the Ex Teresa 
Arte Actual in Mexico City in 2000/01. The work centered on the Flor de 
Noche Buena (the Poinsettia plant), and its emblematic relationship to 
U.S.& Mexico. La Panaderia in Mexico City exhibited Hock's Piramide del 
Sol: A monument to Invisible Labor in 2002. In the fall of 2003 the 
International Center for Photography in New York showed Hock's photos, 
Nightscope Series, in their traveling (through 05), “Only Skin Deep” 
exhibition, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco. At LAMOCA in the 
fall of 2004, Hock screened a new media installation, FERAL, as part of 
the LA Freewaves event. A single channel version of the work was then 
screened in Chile, Argentina, and Israel. Also in 2004, Hock screened a 
new digital version of his 1979 cine-mural, Southern California, at the 
Getty Center a one person event. Hock has been the recipient of numerous 
awards and grants including the National Endowment for the Arts, the 
American Film Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, and California Arts 
Council (2002). At the University, his research is associated with the 
Center for Latin American Studies (CILAS) , Center for U.S./Mexican 
Studies, the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), and 
the University of California Digital Arts Research Network (DARNET).

Lucia Sanroman is a contemporary art curator and is currently Assistant 
Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She was born in 
Guadalajara, México, and educated in Victoria, British Columbia (M.A., 
2003, art history, University of Victoria; B.A., 1997, University of 
Victoria; Fine Arts Diploma, 1989, Victoria College of Art). She has 
held the position of assistant curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art 
San Diego since 2006. At MCASD, she has curated numerous exhibitions, 
including Material Actions, Suburban Sublime, Memory is Your Image of 
Perfection, and Drawing the Line, critically celebrated group 
exhibitions that combine collection artworks with new work by invited 
artists. She is primarily responsible for selecting the artists and 
organizing the acclaimed Cerca Series of solo exhibitions, where she has 
worked with regional and international artists, including James Drake, 
Yvonne Venegas, Brian Ulrich, Hector Zamora, Peter Simensky, William 
Feeney, Iana Quesnel, Joshua Mosley, Nina Katchadourian, and Javier 
Ramirez Limón. Her current projects include co-curating, with Director 
Hugh M. Davies, MIX: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers (summer 
2009), and an upcoming exhibition of San Diego contemporary artists, as 
well as a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Ruben Ochoa. In 
2008 Sanroman co-curated, with Ruth Estevez, the group exhibition 
Project Cívico/Civic Project the inaugural exhibition for El Cubo, the 
Centro Cultural Tijuana’s new museum expansion. She lives in Tijuana, 
Mexico, and has published extensively about contemporary art of this city.

Adriene Jenik <http://www.adrienejenik.net> is a telecommunications 
media artist who has been working for over 15 years as an artist, 
teacher, curator, administrator, and engineer. Her works combine "high" 
technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, 
and performance. She received her BA in English from Douglass College, 
Rutgers University and her MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute. Prior to joining the UCSD faculty, Jenik was 
employed as an engineer in the Blast Jr. development team for Disney 
Online's Daily Blast. Over the past 15 years she has taught a broad 
range of electronic media classes at California Institute of the Arts 
(CalArts), UC Irvine, University of Southern California (USC), and 
UCLA's New Media Lab.

Bill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, independent writer, curator, and critic 
based in Los Angeles. Bill is the former director and current Editorial 
Advisor of the journal LatinArt.com and is pursuing his Ph.D. in 
contemporary theory and criticism at UC San Diego. His most recent 
projects include Proyecto Cívico: Diálogos y Interrogantes for CECUT 
(Tijuana, Mexico 2009) and Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social for 
Museo del Banco Central (Quito, Ecuador 2008).

Robert J Sanchez is an internationally exhibited and collected artist 
and arts educator. A Chicano born in Austin, Texas in 1952, Robert 
graduated with a B.F.A. from Memphis College of Art, a M.A. from The 
University of New Mexico, and did post-graduate work at Cornell 
University. His solo and collaborative work includes painting, drawing, 
text, installations, performances, and video projects. His conceptual 
base is essentially narrative and the content reflects an on-going 
interest in the symbiotic relationships between artistic expression and 
cultural issues that shape community and society. He has had solo 
exhibitions at the Centro Cultural de la Raza San Diego, the Porter 
Troupe Gallery in San Diego, at Terrain Gallery in San Francisco, and 
Casa de la Cultura in Tijuana. Important group shows include the Venice 
Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, Fundacio Joan Miro Barcelona, Artist 
Space New York, and Newport Harbor Museum Biennial. Texts on Sanchez 
have been published in Barcelona and Helsinki and most recently in 
“Contemporary Chicano and Chicano Art”, Bilingual Press, Tempe, AZ. He 
has worked in collaboratives such as BAW/TAF, Los Anthropolocos, Mobile 
Toy Theater, and currently is a member of The Infinity Lab. He resides 
in San Diego and is an Associate Professor of Art at San Diego Mesa College.

Lui Velazquez is a contemporary art project that takes the form of a
space, a collective practice and a platform. As a project, Lui
Velazquez started as an extension of research dealing with relational
aesthetics, which included projects from Shannon Spanakhe, Camilo
Ontiveros, Felipe Zuniga and Sergio de la Torre dealing with
performative, social, media and conceptual gesutres. As a collective
practice, Lui Velazquez has established a strategy of interdisciplinary
promiscuity, collaborating with dj’s, poets, graphic designers, net
labels, musicians, television producers, curators and media activists.
As a platform, Lui Velazquez functions as a facilitator of producers
outside of the “mainstream art world”. Lui Velazquez functions as a
flexible organization that hosts residencies, collaborations and
productions which aims to trouble the flows of distribution and
production of cultural expressions in the transborder region of
Tijuana/San Diego.

Katherine Sweetman is an artist, educator, curator, and internationally
exhibited artist in the fields of new media art and documentary video. 
Her current work deals with online social networking sites and the 
issues surrounding personal disclosure in the public realm of the World 
Wide Web. Katherine has a B.A. from Cal-State San Marcos, and an MFA 
form the University of California, San Diego. She is also currently a 
part-time instructor at Cal-State San Marcos and has recently completed 
a summer teaching fellowship the University of California, San Diego.

Micha Cárdenas / dj lotu5 / Azdel Slade is a transgender artist, 
theorist and trouble maker. She is an MFA candidate at the University of 
California San Diego and holds a Master's degree in Media and 
Communications with distinction from the European Graduate School and a 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Florida International 
University. She is a researcher at CalIT2 and the Center for Research in 
Computnig and the Arts. Her interests include the interplay of 
technology, gender, sex, desire and resistance. She is a founding member 
of a number of art/activism collectives including Sharing Is Sexy, the 
borderlands Hacklab and the City Heights Free Skool. Her work has been 
exhibited internationally at museums, galleries, conferences, community 
spaces and public spaces. She blogs at http://bang.calit2.net/tts and 
http://secondloop.wordpress.com .

Felipe Zúñiga's (Mexico City, b. 1978) installations and videos have 
been shown in Mexico as well as internationally in venues such as the 
Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland; El Centro Cultural 
Español (CCE) in Miami, Florida; the Consulate General of Mexico in Los 
Angeles, California; and Casa del Lago, Mexico City, among others. His 
recent artistic practice has been focus in the interconnection between 
body, communication and space. This broad equation has been contracted 
and expanded regarding he is working in an private-intimate space such 
as my studio or public spaces such as the border between Tijuana an San 
Diego. His working field is developed in the intersection between 
performance, language, and video. There is also an important component 
about the individual-personal and the collective-social that fluctuates 
from project to project, i.e. the use of speech quotation of a selected 
group of people regarding identity politics in one case, to the 
insertion of intimate statements in the public realm.



For more information, see

http://luivelazquez.com
http://trac.superluser.net/altbit
http://theupgrade.net/
http://louishock.info
http://specflic.net
http://www.thing.net/~rdom/
http://bang.calit2.net
http://bang.calit2.net/tts
http://secondloop.wordpress.com
http://katherinesweetman.com/

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