High Beams #4

As part of the larger festival, Ultra!, which is sponsored by the Torrance Art Museum and the city of Torrance, High Beams #4 will feature works from 16 prominent artist collectives from around Los Angeles, Northern California, and Colorado. The first daytime High Beams event will include longtime participants, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Durden and Ray, and Last Ditch, as well as newcomers like MOTOR, SF Artists Alumni, Hyperlink, and La Backyard.

Although the projects will be as varied as the artists themselves, common themes revolve around social justice and a post-COVID world. Many works were made in response to the traumas of 2020, like Durden and Ray’s poolside ode to the summer that never happened; Level Ground’s response to political anxieties; and SFAA’s multidisciplinary display of artists producing work focused on ideas of diaspora and western cultural mythologies.

For my collaboration with SF Artist Alumni I’ve presented an iteration of one of my public installations titled, “By Any Other Name.” Though, originally presented in 2017 with an accompanying video component, for High Beams, the work has been tweaked to project the original audio via an outdoor readymade sculpture. Taking the form of unattended luggage, the public artwork plays to cultural assumptions around banal objects while using the audio to examine how repeated narratives can follow us and distort our perceived environments.

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