Rooms: Tiny Openings will be exhibited on Saturday, July 31st and August 1st at 2:00pm at The Santa Monica Airport (3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405) inside Trade City’s PopWagon. Created using interviews from Los Angeles residents during the pandemic, the piece is a collaboration between visual artists, sound artists, and performing artists. The audience is the final collaborator in a play with no beginning or end but rather a series of openings. Featuring work by Dong Jun Joon, Naomi Kasahara, Hollace Starr, Alexis Tongue, Maureen Weiss, Sibyl Wickersheimer, Josh Worth, and John Zalewski. Free to the public, reservations are required. Please RSVP to mweiss@trade-city.org. Rooms: Tiny Openings is made possible through funding from the Seaver Research Council (SRC), and the Academic Year Undergraduate Research Initiative (AYURI), and Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) grants from Pepperdine University and is a co-presentation of Trade City and Sea Change Lab.
About Sea Change Lab:
Sea Change Lab is an interdisciplinary, contemporary art lab developed by artist and curator Marcus Kuiland-Nazario as part of Recovery Justice: Being Well, and presented by 18th Street Arts Center. Truly a reflection of the past year and pandemic, the programming for Sea Change Lab exists simultaneously online via Zoom, Instagram, and on-site at Santa Monica’s 18th Street Art Center Airport Campus (3026 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90405), streaming from Trade City’s PopWagon, a custom trailer hosting the Lab. Using the Lab as a broadcast station, Kuiland-Nazario is presenting work by Mariel Carranza, Sarah Johnson, Trade City, Carmen Argote, Phillip T. Nails, Paul Donald, ALEXANDMUSHI (aka Alex Nichols and Mushi Wooseong James), Dorian Wood, and Hiroshi Clark. Except for Trade City’s Rooms, Sea Change Lab’s programming will be virtual, delivered via 18th Street Art Center’s website, or by following the hashtag #seachangelab or the social media of the participating artists. The purpose of the lab is to be of service to the practice of the artists participating. Sea Change Lab is a space for artists to explore ideas developed during quarantine, and share them at their discretion. For more information, please visit https://18thstreet.org/event/sea-change-marcus-kuiland-nazario, and/or visit @_seachangelab_ on Instagram.
