Opening Celebration: Construction, Occupation

Join us for the opening celebration of the exhibition . The festivities will begin with a curatorial welcome by guest co-curators Juliana Caffé, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, and Yudi Rafael. Performances by Preta Ferreira and Raphael Escobar, backed by a live Brazilian band, will follow. The party will continue with Brazilian food and drinks.

Construction, Occupation presents the work of 24 artists and collectives that engage art’s potential to shape the city through the power of community. Drawing on myriad visual languages and poetics grounded in collective action, the exhibition investigates a radical urban vocabulary that blurs art and activism to address questions of infrastructure and vulnerability, circulation and segregation, and the body in public space.

Image: Sato, Kopke Occupation Series, 2015. Photo by the artist

Host or Publisher Fowler Museum at UCLA