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SUMMARY:Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive
DESCRIPTION:Brown Futurity: How to Create an Archive is a hands-on workshop designed to address persistent gaps in knowledge around artist-led and community-based archives. While institutions have historically shaped what is preserved and remembered\, many artists and communities continue to face barriers in documenting and sustaining their own histories. This workshop responds to that gap by offering practical tools and critical frameworks for building archives from the ground up. \nPresented as part of Whittier College Poet StoryLab\, and led by archivist Xaviera Flores\, the session brings together practical expertise and community-centered approaches to archiving. \nParticipants will be guided through foundational questions that shape archival practice: How can we begin to preserve and document our own materials? What are the first steps in organizing an artist archive? How do we determine what to keep\, and what to let go? What does it mean to collect responsibly\, and for whom is the archive being built? \nDesigned for artists\, cultural workers\, and community members\, this session provides a practical toolkit to begin building sustainable archives\, while encouraging participants to think critically about authorship\, access\, and long-term stewardship.
URL:https://mexicalibiennial.org/event/brown-futurity-how-to-create-an-archive/
LOCATION:MXCL BNL LAB\, 6545 Greenleaf Ave\, Whittier\, CA\, 90601
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SUMMARY:RE+actions: Performing the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of performances that revisit key moments from past MexiCali Biennial programs. RE+actions brings together three Biennial alumni to re-engage a previous performance as part of the current exhibition\, HERE & THERE\, THEN & NOW. This exhibition brings together archival materials alongside select artworks\, re-presented in a chronological showcase. \nRE+actions invited artists include Carmina Escobar\, Rebeca Hernandez\, and Annabel Turrado. \nPerformances are scheduled to begin at 3:00 p.m. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://mexicalibiennial.org/event/reactions-performing-the-archive/
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SUMMARY:MexiCali Biennial: Then\, Now\, Next
DESCRIPTION:MexiCali Biennial: Then\, Now\, Next brings together scholars\, art historians\, curators\, and artists to examine the evolving frameworks that shape artistic production in and around the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. This convening foregrounds the border not only as a geopolitical condition\, but as a conceptual\, material\, and methodological site—one that continues to generate new forms of artistic inquiry and cultural exchange. \nAcross a series of focused discussions\, participants will engage key concepts that have defined and challenged border art practices over the past several decades. Topics include portability and site-specificity; the material and symbolic role of border walls and fences; the use of readymades and everyday objects; and the tension between local contexts and global circulation. \nThe symposium also addresses broader structural questions: how biennial models operate within and against center–periphery dynamics; how archives are constructed\, activated\, and contested; and how surveillance\, mobility\, and displacement inform both artistic production and curatorial strategy. Presenters will reflect on methods for navigating the border as a space of activation—through exhibitions\, interventions\, and public programming—while also reconsidering the role of museums and alternative spaces in shaping these narratives. \nThis gathering offers an opportunity to situate contemporary practices within longer trajectories of border-based cultural production\, while opening space for new approaches to research\, exhibition-making\, and cross-border dialogue. \nSpeaker list to come. \nAGENDA: \n3:00 – 4:00 PM\nPANEL 1: BORDER(RE)HISTORICIZATIONS \n4:15 – 5:30\nPANEL 2: ARTIST-CURATOR RELATIONALITY IN/OUT OF MUSEUMS \n5:45\nNo host dinner and drinks at Poet Gardens/Whittier Brewing Co. located within walking distance at 13002 Philadelphia St.
URL:https://mexicalibiennial.org/event/mexicali-biennial-then-now-next/
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