EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT

is a program that operates from the studios of TIN FLATS.
on each occasion, an invited guest will present works, films/videos, readings, things & ideas.

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Sunday June 5, 2022 7:30pm
EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / NO.4
"Last Straw" - organized by Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, and Wren Gardiner.

(still from "Red Play" by kelechi agwuncha)

For EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / No. 4 we've invited artists from Danielle Dean's MFA prep class at UCSD. "Last Straw" was organized by Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, and Wren Gardiner.

Bios

Emily Greenberg is an artist and writer currently based in San Diego whose works have appeared on pages and screens, including those of Smack Mellon, BRIC Arts, The Knockdown Center, AC Institute, ARC Gallery, The Iowa Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Santa Monica Review, Witness, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Emilygreenberg.net

Heige Kim is a Korean American artist working with videos and installations to investigate location-specific environmental and ecological issues. She critically explores landscapes regarded as toxic in her practice and reflects on how our human-centric relationship to our environment produces relational imbalance. Currently, Kim is a second-year MFA graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.

kelechi agwuncha (b.Chicago, IL) is an Igbo-American video artist, filmmaker, and sound artist who uses a surrealist approach to create a set of interventions and reconstructions upon sports & bodily movement that become rehearsals of play. Using techniques of expanded cinema they construct black imagery alongside live rhythms of theatrical and musical performances ; this is otherwise known as VJing or video jockeying. They are based in Chicago and San Diego, where they are finishing up an MFA in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego and studying under the Isaac Julien Lab, of University of California, Santa Cruz.

Hazel Katz is a Los Angeles-based video artist and filmmaker focusing on the politics of visibility through reenactment and pop culture archives. Her 2017 short film, Bubby & Them, won top international film at WNDX festival. Hazel's work has been supported by MOMA PS1, Tate Modern, and festivals internationally, and her 2019 feature documentary Florida Water is now distributed by Collective Eye Films. Hazel recently completed a yearlong collaborative residency at UnionDocs and is currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at UC San Diego.

Wren Gardiner is a Los Angeles based performance artist. Their practice intertwines performance with writing, video, installation, and object making. Wren uses humor in their work to explore themes of shifting/constructed identities that exist within American culture.

 
for more info & to RSVP please email: benbenjamintong@gmail.com 

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Sunday November 7, 2021 6pm
EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / NO.3
NINA SARNELLE

video still from Nike X and My Dead Hand (2019) 

For EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / No. 3 we've invited the artist Nina Sarnelle. For this iteration of the series she will be presenting works by Lenka Clayton (Qaeda, Quality, Question, Quickly, Quickly, Quiet (2002), & People in Order (2006)), alongside her own work (Nike X and My Dead Hand (2019)).

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. In the last few years she completed a major commission for the Guggenheim Museum and a large project for the 57th Carnegie International, as well as a residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Headlands Center for the Arts and Palais de Tokyo Insta Residency. Clayton’s work is held in many public and private collections including The Fabric Workshop and Museum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Blanton Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Nina Sarnelle is an artist and musician living on stolen Tongva/Kizh/Chumash land that is often referred to as Los Angeles. Her work includes intimate participatory performances, large public events, music composition, video and sculpture. She recently had a solo video show at the New Museum in NY. Her work has also been shown at MoMA & Recess (NY), Whitechapel Gallery (London), The Hammer Museum, The Getty Center & Human Resources (LA), Ballroom Marfa (TX), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), NADA (Miami), Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Project 88 (Mumbai), Mwoods (Beijing), and others. 

 
for more info & to RSVP please email: benbenjamintong@gmail.com 

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Monday October 4, 2021 7pm
EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / NO.2
JASMIN BLASCO

For EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / No. 2 we've invited the artist and filmmaker Jasmin Blasco. He'll be presenting Mike Leigh's Naked (1993), and his film, The Frog (2020).


Jasmin Blasco is a French-American artist who works with sound, language, film, installation and performance. His practice explores the relationship between interpretation, translation and narration. Blasco's work pays particular attention to the evolving dialog between communication systems and their embodiment, observing the ways in which narratives emerge from the encounter between the lived experience and the built environment. 

His work has been exhibited at the Antarctica Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, Istanbul Modern, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The MAK Center LA, Zébulon, The Music Center LA, Human Resources, Coaxial, Café OTO, Iklektic, Spektrum, Goldsmith, Ikono.tv, Baert Gallery, Wilding Cran Gallery and with Seymour Projects in Paris.

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WEDNESDAY JULY 28, 2021 8pm
EXT. PARKING LOT - NIGHT / NO.1
RODRIGO VALENZUELA

Rodrigo Valenzuela, Santiago, Chile 1982. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Where he is an Assistant Professor and Head of the photography department at UCLA. 
Valenzuela is the recipient of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. He has received the Joan Mitchell award for painters and sculptors, Art Matters Foundation grant, and Artist trust Innovators Award.
Recent solo exhibitions include Screen series at the New Museum, NY (2019), Lisa Kandlhofer Galerie, Vienna, AU (2018), Work in Its Place, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene (2018); American-Type, Orange County Museum, 2018; Labor Standards, Portland Art Museum, 2018; Future Ruins, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, 2015. Recent residencies include Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine), MacDowell Colony (NH), Bemis Center for contemporary arts (Nebraska), Lightwork (Syracuse), and the Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York).