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Daytoday for Los Angeles

Barter Exchange Project with Carolina Caycedo

Frames by Adrian, g727, and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs present Daytoday, through the Cultural Exchange International Grant

Event: Daytoday for Los Angeles

Location: Various locations in Los Angeles, including g727 as event base on selected dates.

Offsite Dates: Ongoing throughout Los Angeles - July 1 – August 5, 2009

Onsite Dates: Family Barter Days @ g727 on July 17 & 18 and July 31& August 1, 2009: Friday – Saturday 1-6 pm

contact: Adrian Rivas
g727.adrian@gmail.com

Daytoday is an ongoing public network of personal exchanges that offers alternative ways of meeting business and personal needs- without using money.  Daytoday was started by Carolina Caycedo in 2002 and has toured cities like Vienna, Bogotá, London, Sevilla, North Adams, New York and San José.  From July 1 to August 4, 2009 it will be operating in Los Angeles, exchanging and bartering all kinds of values.  Take a look at the bartering lists, and match your necessities with Carolina’s.  If you don’t find what you need, or what you can give, you can always propose a new barter.

Note: Throughout the duration of the program, Carolina will travel around Los Angeles creating a network of personal exchanges through the barter system.

Get in touch at c_caycedo@hotmail.com
Keep track of the changing locations on twitter or join our g727 facebook page.
For more information go to g727.org.

CAROLINA GIVES
Spanish conversation sessions
Production assistance
Film an event
Babysitting
Cook a meal
Groceries shopping
Transport persons to the airport, doctor
beach, etc.
Transport commodities (pick up and delivery)
Follow someone
Answer emails
Video editing
Haircut
Artist book (Marc Emery Almanac 2009)
Shanty Sounds CD (2003)
A drawing
Swimming lessons
Tell you a secret
Whatever personal belongings I have with me
Discuss contemporary art
Try and explain Colombia’s political situation
Reggaeton MP3s
Take pets for a walk
Kiss
Pay a visit
Paint a room or a fence
Give advice from my point of view
Typing
Audio transcription
Pose for an artwork
Sing a song
Tips about Puerto Rico
Image scanning and data archiving
Company
Lecture about my art practice
Flyer and poster design
English to Spanish translations

YOU GIVE
Snorkeling partner
Meal
Tattoo
Massage
Movie, concert or theater tickets
Wine
Books
International telephone card
Used laptop
Digital Camera
Sneakers
A place to live
City tour
Invite to a party
Artwork
Web page design
Document performance on August 1st
Digital audio recorder
Jeans
Tips about LA
Try and explain California’s economical situation
French lessons
Music
Take me somewhere beautiful
Fresh fruit
MP3 player
Write an article on my work
Surf lessons

About Carolina
Born 1978, London, England; lives and works in Isabella, Puerto Rico.

Carolina Caycedo responds to the effects of global capitalism with a practice rooted in processes of communication, movement, and exchange. Her varied projects— from street actions and itinerant markets to public marches— all germinate in dialogues with communities outside of the art world, and her works invariably refer back to the culture and economy of the street.

About g727
g727 seeks to generate dialogues on artistic representations and interpretations of the urban landscape. The building blocks of a city comprise more than simply buildings, streets, and sidewalks. They equally encompass personal experience, collective memory and narratives. These are the less tangible, but no less integral elements that transform mere infrastructure into place. Through photography, painting, writing and video installations, artists open our eyes to these elements and heighten our awareness of what makes a place a place. g727 welcomes these artists to its space to help us all better understand the complex nature of cities and the urban condition.

About the Cultural Exchange International Grant
Provided by the City of Los Angeles through the Department of Cultural Affairs, the goal of the program is to enhance Los Angeles as a national and international center, fostering cultural understanding through the expansion of networks an exchange of knowledge by creative professionals.  Additionally, CEI seeks to reach out to audiences throughout the City’s rich and diverse communities engaging them in the residency projects of international arts/cultural professionals and their host organizations.

Artwork at the intersection of photography and cartography, a book of related essays and a series of public programs. More info at http://tatteredfragments.info

Exhibition: Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map
Location: g727, 727 Spring Street, Downtown LA
Dates of Exhibition: May 16 – July 3
Gallery Hours: Friday – Saturday, 1-6 pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 7-10 pm.

April 18, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA) – Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map is a curatorial project that includes an art exhibition, and a series of public programs and a book of related essays. g727, a non-profit art gallery in downtown Los Angeles, will host the exhibition and associated events.

Photography and cartography are entwined in similar processes of subject orientation that structure our experience of social, environmental and virtual landscapes. A map is not a representation so much as a system of propositions. This project reveals mapping itself as a generative process of knowledge creation, a liberatory method for re-imagining and re-imaging our world, its built and natural environments, and the relationship between space and place.

An international roster of artists have been selected by independent curators Adam Katz (Los Angeles) and Brian Rosa (Mexico City) to participate in the exhibition. Mapping and photography are conceptual frameworks, rather than methods, that unite this group of artists. The exhibition will include video, installation and sculptural pieces in addition to two-dimensional photographic work and digital renderings. Participating artists include Anthony Auerbach, Katherine E. Bash, Noah Beil, Cris Benton, Frank Gohlke, Gregory Michael Hernandez, David Horvitz, David Maisel, Adam Ryder, Oraib Toukan, Angie Waller and Nikolas Schiller.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, g727 will host a series of public programs that further engage issues of orientation, land use, the city, maps and technology. Each event includes a small reception and all are open to the public.

• Travelogue – An evening of films by experimental filmmaker Bill Brown and a video installation by Bia Gayotto, Xing LA: From Altadena to LB.
• Shaping LA: Maps for planning, developing and resisting the city – A panel discussion moderated by James Rojas with Los Angeles urban planners, developers and activists.
• enGage ludiCity: A Situationist-inspired ludic urban action (derive/detournement) using mobile technology for collective design and reflexion on the psychogeography and historicity of Los Angeles. A Cultural Civic Computing experience by UCLA’s Center for Research in Engineering Media and Performance (REMAP).

In the publication, Tattered Fragments of the Map, artists are joined by critics and scholars in a collection of essays that explore broader themes orbiting around the terrain of photographic and cartographic representation, image making and consumption, and the experience and interpretation of landscape. Rather than drawing conclusions from the work presented in the exhibition, this collection of texts is offered as a projection, a departure, a tangent, a gesture towards new territories for thought and inquiry. Contributors include Anthony Auerbach, Cris Benton, Bill Brown, Bill Fox, Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Gerardo Greene Gondi, Herbert Gottfried, Alex Haber, Simone Hancox, Adam Katz , Brian Rosa, and Anusha Venkataraman.

The website http://tatteredfragments.info provides a complete calendar of events, artist bios, and information on how to support this no-profit venture. Commemorative artworks by participating artists are on sale through the website, as is the associated publication.
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About the Curators
Adam Katz is a cultural programmer, consultant, and curator in Los Angeles. He currently manages the programs at Telic Arts Exchange, co-directs the artist run workspace gallery and has recently developed innovative arts and community spaces in Venice Beach (The Mission) and Silver Lake (siteLA).

Brian Rosa is an urban researcher, photographer, and curator. He is currently based in Mexico City, where he is preparing Palimpsesto Urbano, an exhibition on the symbolic role of large-scale planning in Mexico during the Porfirio Diaz regime, as part of his participation with El Taller Internacional de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y+.