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Wishing to provide a cultural platform that stands somewhere between a salon and an alternative space, the goal of the haudenschildGarage is to be a home away from home for cultural experimentation, play, and conversation. Whether residency, dialogue or artists commission, the hope is that through providing a permissive context for opinion and production, new ideas and visions will have an opportunity to take shape.
garageTalks
The garageTalks come in all shapes and sizes. Intimate exchanges, contradictory opinions across the room and continents, artists, curators, writers and friends share their bombastic shouts and whispered voices. All of this talk is accompanied by the surround sound of good food and drink.
Previous examples of garageTalks include Political Equator, a 3 day trans-border public event which included a film screening and panel; Asian Art Now, a panel and presentation by Mami Kataoka, senior curator at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; and The Special Period: Cuban Culture in the 1990s featuring both a film screening and panel.
GARAGE PROJECTS
Highlighting ongoing relationships with other institutions and alternative art spaces, the haudenschildGarage most recently collaborated with the New Chinatown Barbershop. What resulted was the Graffiti Project – eight graffiti artists were invited to do a project in a private space in Los Angeles. Later this month, the haudenschildGarage will host a reception for Orchard in partnership with LACMA Wests Consider This and Eat the Market.
SPARE PARTS
Spare Parts is a renewable cycle of projects commissioned and produced by Eloisa Haudenschild and Steve Fagin, 3 over a 3-year cycle that will encourage the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. The projects may vary in form; one a book, still another an installation, and a third a musical extravaganza. The only rule of the cycle is, no trilogies allowed. These projects will take place both very far and close to home. Projects are under preliminary development in Shanghai/Hong Kong, New York, Russia, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles and the Israeli-Lebanon frontier. Our inaugural collaboration is with Walid Raad and Eyal Weizman.
THE COLLECTION
Continuing their commitment to emerging artists worldwide, the Haudenschilds have collected internationally. The Latin American collection began in the early 1990s and continues through today due in part to their involvement with inSite, a network of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects within the border region of San Diego and Tijuana. This experience has helped to shape the collection as several inSite artists are represented as a result of the relationships formed.
During the late 1990s, the Haudenschilds began collecting and forming friendships with emerging Chinese contemporary artists. As part of an ongoing commitment to the artists, selections of photography and video from the collection formed the exhibition Zooming into Focus (2003-2005) which traveled to five cities within the United States, Mexico, China, and Singapore.
Marking many important milestones for this particular genre, it was the first exhibition of its kind in San Diego and Singapore, the first contemporary Chinese photography exhibition at the Centro Cultural Tijuana, the first time the Shanghai Art Museum exhibited a group show of Chinese video and photography as well as a collection of Chinese contemporary art from the United States, and the first retrospective exhibition of Chinese photography and video ever held at the National Art Museum of China (Beijing). Illustrating a commitment to education, the haudenschildGarage also coordinated garageTalks, artists residencies and two symposia in the United States and China.
WEBSITE & BLOG
For a full list of specific projects, artists and collaborations, please visit the newly launched website and blog, an open forum for exchange focusing on new projects, revolving dialogues, and the introduction of emerging artists.
For additional information, please contact Monica Jovanovich, Project Manager, monica@haudenschildgarage.com
