Mexicali Biennial
Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada's current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window "portal" as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders. Please note that […]
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada's current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view […]
Join us for Alien Excavations opening reception and book launch. This group exhibition highlights ALIEN - a multi-part artist publication that brings together five artists to investigate the meaning of “alienness” within the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. The book consists of three interlocking books produced with Taller California and MexiCali Biennial. Rather than looking to outer space, the […]
Alien Excavations is an exhibition built around the small-run artist book ALIEN, unfolding through ephemeral source materials, and interactive stations. PURCHASE ALIEN HERE. ALIEN began as an idea “in space,” emerging from the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab as a speculative publishing project that both embodies and interrogates the concept of alienness within and beyond […]
To mark the closing of Alien Excavations at the MXCL BNL LAB, Taller California will host a pop-up featuring the workshop’s past projects! Books and prints will be available from 12-5pm, including ALIEN, a three-part artist book produced by Taller California and the MexiCali Biennial. At 3pm, Taller’s founder and editor Lorena Mostajo will be […]
Brown Futurity: Artists and Their Archives brings together artists and archivists for a timely and urgent conversation about preservation, authorship, and legacy. This public panel centers artists and explores archives as powerful tools for storytelling, self-determination, and cultural futurity. The discussion features Xaviera Flores, Librarian and Archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, artist […]
Please join us on Friday, March 27 from 6 – 8:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB for a salon aimed at bringing together artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This gathering invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who are interested in shaping the cultural […]