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for the sake of dancing in the street
Images by Gina Clyne. for the sake of dancing in the street is a group exhibition celebrating the interconnectedness of feminist and queer resistance. Collectively the work documents and amplifies individual acts of resistance as well as historical and ongoing global feminist protest movements, including the …

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Maria Maea
Star Gazer
Opening Reception Saturday, May 20 3 – 7pm STAR GAZER is a cooperative sculptural installation meant to help us navigate our present moment, while situating ourselves in relation to the North Star (Polaris). Maria Maea’s practice is deeply rooted in her family lineage and her …

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Adee Roberson
Tempo (Cosmogram #1)
CYCLES Sunset Activation + Performance Friday, July 28 6:30pm Los Angeles State Historic Park Free / No RSVP Required In a sunset activation + performance, Adee Roberson channels oceanic and cosmic sounds through synthesizer, percussion and voice, accompanied by special guest Nailah Hunter on Harp. Hunter …

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Jackie Amézquita
Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailing of the Land/Soil)
Images by Gina Clyne. Join LACE and LAND for the closing celebration of Jackie Amézquita’s Gemidos de la Tierra (Wailing of the Land/Soil). featuring a special performance by Dorian Wood and Michael Corwin and free tamales provided by Across Our Kitchen Tables for the first …

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Multiple Artists
Frame Rate: Memories Digitized
Images by Ruben Preciado. Featured Filmmakers: Walter Vargas Will O’Loughlen Sharmaine Starks Kandi Cole. This program is organized by Gemma Jimenez and Nicole Ucedo Workshop Sign-Up Link Screening RSVP Link LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and EPFC (Echo Park Film Center) are pleased to present Frame …

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Amir H. Fallah
CHANT T-Shirt
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER Screen Printed T-shirt Open edition $75 50% of proceeds will go to the Omid Foundation and The Center for Human Rights In Iran and 50% of proceeds will go to LAND to sustain the project. As part of LAND’s ongoing project, Signs for Change, and in partnership with artist Amir H. Fallah, LAND has commissioned a wearable artwork to raise awareness and funds for two human rights organizations: Omid Foundation and The Center for Human Rights In Iran. The T-shirt is launching alongside a large-scale public sculpture, CHANT, prominently displayed on La Brea Avenue (LA Brea/Melrose avenue intersection) in the heart of Hollywood at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery. CHANT carries the rallying cry of the movement “WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.” in the colors of the Iranian flag, distilling our anger into a demand that can and must be met. Written in English, Farsi, and the phonetic Farsi, these translations are important to diasporic Iranians whose relationship with the written language is in the phonetic form. The sun in the center of the piece carries great symbolic weight during such a pivotal moment for the future of the Iranian people, representing a universal light and a beacon of change and positive growth. Moreover, this symbol of a humanized sun, especially with feminine features, is ancient and prevalent throughout Iranian culture.   PRE-ORDER HERE
Multiple Artists
Mohn LAND Grants
Announcing Mohn LAND Grants, a new and ambitious initiative to introduce, and invest in, emerging Los Angeles artists, providing them with a platform to present site-responsive, transdisciplinary work across Los Angeles County and to serve as a first formal public presentation. Over a five year …

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Kahlil Joseph
BLKNWS®
LAND presents a citywide installation of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS®​, a conceptual news program taking the form of a two-channel installation connected to a newscast that blurs the lines between art, reporting, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique. ​BLKNWS®​ is currently broadcast at sites across Los Angeles, with …

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Anna Sew Hoy
Ongoing Exhibition: Psychic Body Grotto
Los Angeles State Historic Park 1245 N Spring St Los Angeles, CA 90012 LAND commissioned Los Angeles-based artist Anna Sew Hoy to create the large-scale, bronze public sculpture Psychic Body Grotto at the 32 acre Los Angeles State Historic Park. Drawing on the artist’s previous …

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Some behind the scenes of the making of #inthebell Some behind the scenes of the making of #inthebellyoftheserpent by @priestusssy - it took a team of assistants, fabricators, volunteers and supporters to bring the Serpent to life. Thank you to everyone that participated in its making.

We hope you will join us tonight from 5-7 for an opening ceremony with @irkamateo @sacredtainohealing 

In the Belly of the Serpent is located in the center of @lastatehistoricpark closest to the Spring and Sotello entrance
We are honored to be joined tomorrow by Irka Mateo We are honored to be joined tomorrow by Irka Mateo, @irkamateo for an opening ceremony of In the Belly of the Beast by Star Feliz, @priestusssy. 

Opening Ceremony
Thursday, September 14
5-7PM
@lastatehistoricpark 

Join us for an opening ceremony led by Irka Mateo — a Dominican Taíno ceremonialist and spiritual healer — to activate the healing energy of the serpent spirit on the land. 

Irka Mateo was born in the Dominican Republic. Throughout her life, Irka has expressed herself through singing, songwriting, documenting, and learning ceremonial music and the syncretic spirituality from rural Dominican areas. In New York City Irka worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian for ten years as an educator, creating and implementing programs for children, conducting educational lectures, and producing and starring in musical performances. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles, California, and supports the Sacred Taino Healing community, which she founded in 2019, through ceremonies and spiritual healing. Irka is also studying Indigenous pottery and producing Taíno-inspired ceramics while continuing to share four decades of direct Taino research in the Dominican countryside through music, courses, in-person and online gatherings, educational short films, art, and storytelling, affectionately known as Los Cuentos de Akutu. Learn more at https://sacredtainohealing.com/

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LAND presents In the Belly of the Serpent by Star LAND presents
In the Belly of the Serpent 
by Star Feliz @priestusssy 

Opening Ceremony with Irka Mateo
Thursday, September 14 - December 8, 2023
5-7PM

@lastatehistoricpark 
1245 N Spring Street
LA, CA 90012

Join us this Thursday, September 14 for an opening ceremony led by @irkamateo — a Dominican Taíno ceremonialist and spiritual healer — to activate the healing energy of the serpent spirit on the land. 

In the Belly of the Serpent invites us to collectively envision the abolishment of global systems of exploitation. In the Taino culture (indigenous Caribbean), The Great Mother, or the creator of life, is often represented as a serpent. Here her belly is blocked: our world struggles because of an insatiable extraction of natural resources and human labor. By incorporating this form, and connecting it to the rehabilitating power of earth and water, Feliz aims to create a sacred space to reflect on the possibilities of the future, and then dream them into reality. Built and painted by hand, the creation of the earth mound utilizes the same water which once flowed through the historic Zanja Madre beneath the park, as well as Afro-Arawak power plants and mystic symbols. For Feliz, building with materials from the surrounding environment is root medicine for connection, belonging, and remembrance for diasporic populations. The serpent emerges as an activated force of rebirth once more.

In the Belly of the Serpent is supported by the Mohn LAND Grant, funded through the generosity of @jarlmohn and Pamela Mohn. 

LAND and the artist would like to thank the following individuals for their support in realizing the project: Stephanie Campbell and the staff of LA State Historic Park; producer Irina Gusin; fabricator Christopher Wawrinofsky; artist assistants Steph Lister, Javi Pineda, and Nin Saucedo; graphic design Jimena Game; and volunteers David Alas, sar artoonian, Blessing Greer, Charles Westcott, Jessa Shwayder Carta, Avery Collins-Byrd, Audrey Harrison, Hannah Taylow, Brielle Brilliant, Luke Godinez, Dani Gonzalez, Ash Hoyle, Lily Null, Camille Kelley, Shabina Toorawa, Darlene Escobedo, Angela Pastor, Wendy Jaime, and Justi Sexton.
Sunset rainbow over the serpent // join us for the Sunset rainbow over the serpent // join us for the opening of In the Belly of the Serpent by Star Feliz @priestusssy Thursday 5-7 @lastatehistoricpark
If in New York this week, don’t miss @yasmine.di If in New York this week, don’t miss @yasmine.diaz solo presentation @thearmoryshow with @ochigallery of new works expanding from For Your Eyes Only, a multimedia and video installation that was shown this summer and inspired the exhibition, for the sake of dancing in the street, by LAND and @oxyarts. #LANDpicks
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