I’m so excited to be participating in Field Workshop: Action Projects at the ICA LA. Join me on Aug. 21 to participate in Season 3 of We Are All Americans - a socially engaged documentary project in the form of an oral history recording workshop series and an audio podcast. Participants will be able to sign up for 1 hour time slots between 1-6pm to have social distanced (with masks) recorded conversations about how family stories are passed down from generation to generation and what it means to be American at this moment.
Essay published in Artlines, Summer 2019 Edition
Last February I presented my work on a panel at CAA in NYC, “Liberal Democracy and Social Practices,” moderated by Susan M. King for the Women’s Caucus for Arts. Essays by each panelist (Karen Frostig & Hazel Uzunkaya, elin o’Hara slavick, and myself) were published in Artlines Summer 2019 Edition. Read it here (mine is page 10-11).
* Since the essay was written I learned that the Great-grandmother who came to the US on a fake passport was indeed Ida Casarsky (on my maternal grandfather’s side) not Pauline Zuckerberg (on my maternal grandmother’s side).
THEN, WHAT If? NewMediaNewMusicNewEngland at Five Points Gallery
Happy to have two short video clips included in this among friends, strangers and video art sheros.
“THEN, WHAT IF? has been curated by Gene Gort and Ken Steen from an international call for entries and includes seasoned veterans and young producers. a collection of 60 video clips and 60 sound compositions that are 60 seconds in duration each, and are paired randomly using a Cageian model of indeterminacy with 3600 potential variations.”
THEN, WHAT IF? is on view at Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT Nov. 1-30, but can also be experienced online at NewMediaNewMusicNewEngland.
Emotional Labor exhibition at American Jewish University
Negotiations, a video I made with Jeremy J. Quinn after the first year of our son’s life, is included in the exhibition Emotional Labor at the Platt and Borstein Galleries at American Jewish University, curated by Dr. Rotem Rozental. Other artists included are Danielle Durchslag, Jordan Nasar, B. Neimeth, Kaitlynn Redell and Roni Shneior. The exhibition opened on August 25 and runs through November 1, but I am just getting to announce it now. More details here.
B, Rotem and I will do an exhibition walkthrough on Wednesday Sept. 18 at 6:30pm.
Platt and Borstein Galleries
American Jewish University
15600 Mulholland Drive
Bel Air, CA 90077
group exhibition at UNION in DTLA Arts District
Kamikaze 2019 - Paul's Brain: Michele Jaquis / Paul Pattison
As Part of PØST’s Kamikaze 2019 exhibition series, Paul’s Brain is a one night only exhibition of videos, drawings, relief prints and sculptures made in collaboration with and inspired by Paul Pattison, a long time friend who suffered from epilepsy. Paul and I met in 1996 while we were students at Burren College of Art in Ireland. We stayed in touch after I returned to the States and he often visited whichever city I was living in. We began collaborating in 2007 by recording a conversation about his experiences with epilepsy and the memory loss, depression, and addiction that came with it. The intention was to develop a two-person exhibition of his relief prints with my videos and sculptures. For various reasons this project was put on hold and several years later Paul asked if I’d like to make a documentary about his epilepsy, completely forgetting that we had started that project already. Paul died in 2015, at which point I resolved myself to complete the work in his honor, using the recorded conversation as a starting point from which the rest evolved.
July 25th, 7-10pm
PØST
@ MiM gallery
4654 West Washington Blvd.
LA, CA 90016
Paul's Brain - Nominated for Best Short Documentary & Best Editing
Paul’s Brain has been nominated for Best Short Documentary & Best Editing and will be screened on July 3 at 4:00pm in the ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival in Toronto, Canada. Details are here.
Presentation at CAA - Feb. 15th in NYC
This week I’ll be presenting my recent work at CAA on a panel sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Art: Liberal Democracy and Social Practice. Details are here.
Embracing - collaborative exhibition at DAC Gallery
Collaborative work made by artists from ECF Westside Art Center, my students and I are on exhibit at DAC Gallery Dec. 7, 2018 - Jan. 3, 2019 - the third annual collaboration between my Uniquely Abled class in the Creative Action Program at Otis College of Art and Design and the Exceptional Children’s Foundation (ECF) Art Center Westside, a program that mentors adult artists with developmental disabilities. Read the full press release here.
Some of our Favorite Things - exhibition at Ben Maltz Gallery
Opening tomorrow, Sept. 30 and running through Dec. 9, I am participating in Some of our Favorite Things at Otis College of Art and Design’s Ben Maltz Gallery: “a group exhibition of favorite art-related objects—things that have been accumulated over years, mementos inherited from family, gifts from friends and strangers, beloved books, and treasured artistic tools, each contributed by invited Otis College community, including artists, curators, writers, collectors, and cultural influencers. Each of these objects is accompanied by a description written by the lender, offering context to the work and the individual lending it. This exhibition is an exercise in storytelling, a glimpse into Otis College's far-reaching network of friends, alumni, and art world colleagues—a mapping of our multi-faceted community, as well as the great city of Los Angeles.”
We Are All Americans Oral History Recording Workshop
Also as part of Maiden L.A. I am facilitating an oral history recording workshop for my podcast series, We Are All Americans. Come share your story. More details here.
Sunday Aug. 19, 11am - 3pm
455 Jung Jing Rd.
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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image credit: graphic design by Milly JC. Designs
Open Studio Aug. 18th, 7-10pm
As part of Maiden L.A. Jeremy J. Quinn, Marc Ericson and I are having an open studio this Saturday, Aug. 18th from 7-10pm. Come visit and see what we've been making. More details here.
455 Jung Jing Rd.
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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clockwise: artwork by Marc Ericson, Jeremy J. Quinn and Michele Jaquis
Intersections: LAUNCH LA exhibition at Korean Cultural Center
My 2013 video, Things We've Heard, made in collaboration with Juna Amano, Rosalyn Myles and Marissa Magdalena Sykes, will be included in the LAUNCH LA open call exhibition, Intersections at the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles. Opening reception is 6:30pm Friday August 17, runs through August 30. More details here.
four video stills from Things We've Heard, 2013
soft bytes: a feminist animation festival
Also on May 19... my recently completed video, How I Read to My Son, will be included in this screening curated by the Association of Hysterical Curators. Soft Bytes, is a feminist animation festival to be held at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles on May 19th at 7:30pm. If you are local and can make it... Tiger Strikes Asteroid is in downtown Los Angeles: 1206 Maple Avenue, #523.
Link to Facebook Event for more info.
Email me if you want a link to watch the video online.
Veterans and Immigrants Oral History Recording SkillShare Workshop
On Saturday May 19, from 1-4pm, I will be facilitating an Oral History SkillShare workshop for anyone interested in recording stories about military and/or immigrant experiences. This workshop is part of my sabbatical project inspired by letters my great-grandfather wrote during WWI and the fact that he got his US citizenship because of his military service. Lauren Vazquez, Otis College of Art and Design MFA Public Practice alumna and former teaching assistant for my Otis Community Radio class, will be helping me collect the stories which we will share online.
Link to Facebook Event for more info.
New video included in Second Daytime
I am honored to have an excerpt of my latest project, "Dearest Pauline," included in Second Daytime, an online exhibition of performance art on video curated by Sarah Rushford for Ortega y Gasset in Brooklyn, NY, through August 2018.
production still from Dearest Pauline, shot by Sarah Rushford
Presentation at CAA
Today I will present work my Community Radio students made in response to their workshop with Mexican artist, Taniel Morales, at the CAA panel PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA — CASE STUDIES IN TEACHING FROM EXHIBITIONS.
Sabbatical has begun
After nine years teaching and serving as a full time academic administrator at Otis College of Art and Design, I am officially on sabbatical. Follow me @michelejaquis on instagram to see what I'm doing, making and seeing.
Paul's Brain premieres at Echo Park Film Center, Sept. 23rd
I'm super excited that the project Paul Pattison and I began in 2007 is complete (well, at least the single channel version is) and it will premiere at the Echo Park Film Center's New Works Salon Sept. 23rd at 8pm alongside works by three other filmmakers. Here is the trailer for Paul's Brain.
Pedagogy of Social and Environmental Responsibility at CAA
Heading to NYC this week for the College Art Association Conference where I will be chairing a panel on the Pedagogy of Social and Environmental Justice - Saturday Feb. 18, 1:30PM–3:00PM in Gramercy A/West, 2nd Floor at Hilton Midtown. If you're in town come visit.