Audrey Chan.

Conseil juridique et artistique (Legal and Artistic Counsel) will be featured in the upcoming exhibition:

By and For: Democracy and Art
An exhibition organized by the Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, curated by Carol A. Wells

June 11-July 3, 2011
Opening Reception: June 11, 2011, 7-10pm
Closing Reception: July 3, 2011, 2-4pm
Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Contemporary artists address the shifting meanings of freedom and equality, censorship and civil liberties and specifically, consider the role of art in a democracy in their works.

Thirty works were selected by curator, activist and art historian Carol A. Wells, who also serves as the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Artists: Mariona Barkus, Ulla Barr, Yvonne Beatty, Christine Behnen, Tristan Blodgett, Christina Carroll, Audrey Chan, Bayesteh Ghaffary, Michael Graham, Leslie Gray, Karen Gutfreund, Sinan Leong Revell, Larry Lytle, Barbara Margolies, Silva Matossian, Felicia Montes, O O, Sheila Pinkel, Chris Ramos, Jeffrey Robison, Catherine Ruanne, Amy Spain and France White

FULL-LENGTH VIDEO DOCUMENTATION:

Introduction by Leslie Dick and presentation of “c. 7,500″

Panel discussion with Elana Mann (moderator), Andrea Fraser, Catherine Lord, and Mary Kelly

Panel discussion with Theresa Masangkay (moderator), María Cruz, Chitra Ganesh, Faith Wilding, and Emily Roysdon

Panel discussion with Martha Rosler, Dorit Cypis, Andrea Bowers, and Audrey Chan (moderator)

Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium was a student-organized project that took place at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in March 2007. For more information, please visit: exquisiteacts.org.

Video credits:
Cameras - Adam Feldmeth, Nicholas Grider
Video Editor - Audrey Chan
Sound - Emery Martin

I Voted for Shirley, photograph and twine, edition of 5, 2009-11

DAN GRAHAM, a project space run by artist Aaron Wrinkle, is participating in the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair from January 27-30, 2011. The booth will feature limited editions by artists who have created projects at DAN GRAHAM’s Echo Park and Chinatown locations since 2009. My contribution is a limited edition of photo prints of my installation “I Voted for Shirley” that was created for “1969,” an evening of performances organized by artist Vincent Ramos. The homage to Shirley Chisholm’s election to the U.S. House of Representatives was rendered in twine on Glendale Boulevard with the assistance of my mother. The edition includes a bundle of the same twine, to be used as desired.

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DAN GRAHAM booth
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
January 27-30, 2011

Photo credit: Elana Mann

I recently participated in Collective Show LA, an exhibition featuring artist-run spaces and projects in Los Angeles. Accompanied by special guest Jennifer Li, I performed a gallery-centric version of “Counts of 8,” a tap dance demo first created for A Day in LA: Washington Boulevard Art Concert in 2009. The Los Angeles Road Concert series is organized by Stephen van Dyck.

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COLLECTIVE SHOW LOS ANGELES

Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years. Over 20 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. Screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and PDFs will be available online after the show.

COLLECTIVE SHOW LOS ANGELES 2011
LOCATION 995, 997 North Hill Street Los Angeles CA 90012
RECEPTION Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm
EXHIBITION Friday through Sunday, January 21-23, 2011, 12-6 pm & Thursday through Sunday, January 27-30, 2011, 12-6 pm

LOS ANGELES 2011 PARTICIPATING GROUPS
323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, ART2102 of Los Angeles, ACP (Artist Curated Projects), CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham, Darin Klein & Friends, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, JMOCA (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, [name], NIGHT GALLERY, Open Arms, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summercamp’s Projectproject, Workspace, WPA, and upcoming Collective Show hosts: Ditch Projects (Oregon) GIBSMIR-Family (Zurich) and Secondhome Projects (Berlin)

Collective Show

Collective Show LA

Collective Show Blog

I’ll be singing backup dolphin for Ponce de Leon’s “The Island of Florida” live record release party at Origami Records in Echo Park on January 15, 2011 @ 7 PM. Ponce de Leon is John Hogan (Ponce), Dave Reich, Carrie Collins, myself, and many talented others. Come support the lost art of vinyl and post-colonial revisionist dolphin party rock opera!

Mark Manders, Ramble Room Chair, 2010. Installation view, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2010

The works of Dutch artist Mark Manders present a number of possibilities for viewers. On a material level, his sculptures and installations appear as carefully constructed assemblages of furniture, human and animal figures, newspapers, networks of welded metal piping, tea bags and other ephemera of daily life found in his studio and on the street. They are conceived as artefacts that would be found in the rooms of his Self-Portrait as a Building (1986-ongoing), an ever-expanding parallel super-structure created by a fictional alter ego whose artistic production and obsessions inform Manders’s own, while never fully converging as a true autobiography. Manders’s sculptures can also be read as poems that have been freed from the strictures of language and whose concrete physicality belies traces of ghostly afterimages and waking dreams. Having made a decisive turn from poetry to art when he was a young man, Manders’s inventive relationship with language is also revealed in the poetic and precise manner in which he describes his artistic practice. An exhibition of his recent sculptures, ‘Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments’, is currently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and will travel to the Aspen Art Museum, the Walker Art Center and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Read the interview “Artists at Work: Mark Manders” by Audrey Chan at http://www.afterall.org/online/artists-at-work-mark-manders.

Political cartoon of Louis XIV, unknown artist

Please visit http://audreychan.net/conseil-juridique-et-artistique/ to check out recently-posted project updates:

• Full-length HD video of my interview with legal philosopher Bernard Edelman
• French and English transcripts with illustrations
• Text of the letter from the City of Nantes detailing impermissible subject matter for display in municipal gallery spaces

I will be participating in this year’s Monster Drawing Rally, a marathon drawing orgy and fundraiser for Outpost for Contemporary Art on Sunday November 14, 2010. I will be drawing from 3:30-4:30pm. I’m excited to break out the old pen and pencil!

Monster Drawing Rally 2010 schedule

In April 2009, I interviewed legal philosopher Bernard Edelman at his home in Paris, France. Our wide-ranging conversation included such topics as the legal limits of political expression in France, the relationship between conceptual art and French authors’ rights, and the potential pitfalls that arise when genres of social and aesthetic activity are mixed.

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Review of the exhibition “NOTES TOWARD AN EXHIBITION : Audrey Chan” by Christophe Cesbron, published in Wik (weekly entertainment guide of Nantes, France), Number 76, May 20, 2009:

“At the gallery of the School of Fine Arts, Audrey Chan presents an ensemble of stunning propositions including an interview with philosopher and jurist, Bernard Edelman, specialist in authors’ rights. Audrey Chan, American artist in residence at the School of Fine Arts of Nantes, develops a work – artistic or political – that is a critical reflection and engagement with the very materials of the creative process. The passionate interview of Edelman sets up a pointedly absurd discussion between the jurist and the artist. The difference of generation, language, status of the two protagonists, their position and the game played between them (in front of and behind the camera) generates a strange dialogue, addressing the notions of artwork, politics, and censorship. The jurist-philosopher’s certainty of speech and his domineering and constructed politeness stumbles against the hesitant, mischievous, and stubborn voice of the artist, casually demonstrating that art does not bend to any system, no form is forbidden nor locked within any boundary, and does not answer to any definitive definition.”

http://audreychan.net/conseil-juridique-et-artistique/

I’ve started a new blog at audrey-chan.tumblr.com where I will post drawings daily, as well as various comics and art-related odds and ends I’ve been collecting. Please visit often!