In Conversation / December 2020
December 16, 2020 // 7:00p PST
FREE – Registration Required
As a follow up to our conversation in July with 8 LA Artists, we are bringing together a group of local arts leaders to support a generous exchange of ideas, practices, knowledge, and inspiration – across creative practices and disciplines. Join us for a discussion on navigating changes, new initiatives, and ways for artists to connect with us in the coming months. This online event is FREE and open to the curious and creative.
In Conversation With:
Chloë Flores, homeLA
Daniela Lieja Quintanar, LACE
Dorothy Dubrule, Pieter
Elizabeth Cline, The Industry
John Burtle, Human Resources
Miranda Wright, Los Angeles Performance Practice
Patricia Garza, Network of Ensemble Theaters
Facilitated by Milka Djordjevich
Hosted by Los Angeles Performance Practice
This project is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
Chloë Flores (Yaqui) is a curator, writer, arts producer, and community organizer whose work centers on body-based and performative practices, modes of reception, and the dynamic relationship of public/private space in the production of culture. She is the Executive Director and Curator of homeLA, a LA-based nomadic dance-centered performance project; and the Founder/Director of GuestHaus Residency (est. 2011), a housing residency that supports Los Angeles nonprofits and artist-run spaces through free housing for visiting artists, writers and curators. Flores has worked in the arts in Los Angeles since 1999, owned/operated a gallery from 2005-2008, and received her MA in Curatorial Practices in 2011 from USC. She has worked on exhibitions and texts for the following organizations: LACMA, The J. Paul Getty Museum, The Orange County Museum of Art, The Office, The Armory Center for the Arts, Dance Resource Center, Monte Vista Projects, Cypress College,The Sweeney Art Gallery at UC Riverside, Anthony Greaney, Sierra Nevada College, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture Mackey Garage Top, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE).
Daniela Lieja Quintanar (Mexico City, 1984) is LACE Chief Curator and Director of Programming. She works between Los Angeles and Mexico, emphasizing contemporary art and curatorial practices that explore the politics and social issues of everyday life. In 2019, she was awarded the Warhol Foundation Curatorial Research Fellowship and as a result of this project, she curated the upcoming exhibition Intergalactix: against isolation/contra el aislamiento at LACE. She was part of the curatorial team of MexiCali Biennial 2018-20, co-curating different exhibitions in the Mexico-US Californias region. She served as Project Coordinator and Contributing Curatorial Advisor for Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in the 1990s Mexico at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Getty PST: LA/LA initiative. In 2016, she worked with artist Teresa Margolles for her contribution La Sombra to the Public Art Biennial CURRENT: LA Water. She organized with LACE La Pista de Baile by Colectivo am, as part of the Getty/Redcat PST: Live Art LA/LA Performance Festival. She curated Unraveling Collective Forms (2019); CAVERNOUS: Young Joon Kwak & Mutant Salon (2018) and Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language (2018 co-curated with Essence Harden); home away from by Jimena Sarno (2017), El Teatro Campesino (1965-1975), (2017 co-curated with Samantha Gregg) at LACE, Between Words and Silence: The Work of Translation and Down and to the Left: Reflections on Mexico in the NAFTA Era at the Armory Center for the Arts (both 2017, co-curated with Chief Curator Irene Tsatsos), and Acciones Territoriales (Territorial Acts) at the Museo Ex Teresa in Mexico City (2014). Lieja holds a BA in Ciencias de la Cultura from the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, and an MA in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere from the University of Southern California.
Dorothy Dubrule is choreographer and performer based in Los Angeles, where she has served as director of Pieter Performance Space since 2017. Her choreography is made in collaboration with people who do not identify as dancers and has been performed in theaters as well as bars, clubs, galleries, sound stages and sports arenas. Dorothy is a board member of Grex, the West Coast Affiliate of the AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, where she organizes programs that explore applications of Group Relations work within arts spaces. Her writing on the experience of performing in Tino Sehgal’s work, What I’m doing when I’m selling out, can be found on SF MoMA’s digital platform, Open Space. She received her MFA in Choreography and Performance from UCLA’s Departments of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Prior to moving to LA, she was a member of performance collective Club Lyfestile and comedic girl group Body Dreamz in Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Cline has dedicated her career to supporting and advocating for interdisciplinary artists and artistic communities. For the past fifteen years she has organized and produced performative, site responsive works across Los Angeles. Since 2014, Elizabeth Cline has served as Executive Director for The Industry, a Los Angeles-based experimental opera company founded by Yuval Sharon in 2010. Previously she was the Assistant Director at Machine Project, an arts non-profit in Los Angeles founded by Mark Allen, and a Curatorial Associate at the Hammer Museum, where she organized artist’s projects in the Public Engagement program.
John Burtle is a living artist in Los Angeles. They like making art with friends, and are the managing director of Human Resources Los Angeles. They have been hosting a series of exhibitions curated by Visitor Welcome Center inside a tattooed rectangle on their right forearm. John also collects rubber stamps, and has recently been making kaleidoscopes, jigsaw puzzles, and blankets.
Milka Djordjevich is a choreographer, performer, and teacher. Her work draws from a variety of compositional strategies to question preconceived notions of dance, examining labor and gender in so-called “neutral” public spaces of theaters, galleries, and museums. Her work has been shown at many venues, including REDCAT, Grand Performances, Pieter, MAK Center, the Hammer Museum and Machine Project in Los Angeles; the Kitchen, the Chocolate Factory Theater, the Whitney Museum and Danspace Project in New York; Counterpulse and BAMPFA in Northern California; PICA’s TBA: 18 in Portland, Oregon; and internationally in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and the UK. Djordjevich is a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts artist grant recipient and was a 2017-2018 Princeton University Hodder Fellow. She currently teaches at Wesleyan University and AMDA, and has taught at UCLA, UC Riverside, CalArts, Pasadena City College, UC Irvine, Pomona College, Movement Research and PICA’s TBA:15 Festival.
Miranda Wright founded Los Angeles Performance Practice in 2010, and the LAX Festival in 2013. Miranda comes from a theater background, and works as an independent producer and performance curator. She has worked with Center Theatre Group, Center for the Art of Performance (CAP) UCLA, and CalArts Center for New Performance, among others, on special projects and initiatives, including a research initiative with neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists led by Kristy Edmunds and Sam Miller. She is the 2014 recipient of Center Theatre Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award, and in 2015, was awarded a Cultural Exchange International Fellowship through the City of Los Angeles and the British Council to work with ArtsAdmin in London, and in 2016 she was the Curatorial Artist in Residence at CAP UCLA. Miranda holds a certificate from the Institute for Curatorial Practice In Performance at Wesleyan University, and an MFA in Producing from California Institute of the Arts.
Patricia Garza. Currently serving as Director of Programs and Engagement at the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET), Patricia is overseeing NET’s programmatic activities—including the NET/TEN grant program, the Connector mobile app for artist-to-artist touring and resource sharing, events/convenings, and online field learning—as well as member engagement and marketing/ communications. A former member of the artistic staff at L.A.’s Center Theatre Group (CTG) for over a decade, Patricia filled roles spanning artistic and new play development, education and community partnerships, and programming. Most recently, as Line Producer of Special Artistic Projects, they managed new play projects and essential artistic initiatives. Patricia had the honor of working alongside former CTG Associate Artistic Director Diane Rodriguez for six years. Together they engaged world-renowned international and local companies on multi-year projects focused on collective and ensemble creation. An active member of the national theatre community, Patricia has been selected as a Theatre Communications Group’s Young Leader of Color, is a Leadership U Continuing Ed grant recipient, and was a fellow for the Salzburg Global Seminar on Young Cultural Leaders twice. They frequently speak at public events and facilitate group conversations. In addition to leading a strategic planning consulting processes for El Teatro Campesino and Playwrights’ Arena, they have also served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and The Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, among others. Patricia’s passion is working with other theatre professionals nationally on issues surrounding anti-racism and inclusion with a focus on the LGBTQIA+ community through artEquity. Former board service includes Get Lit, L.A.’s leading nonprofit in teen poetry programs. Patricia has an MFA/MBA in Theatre Management from California State University, Long Beach, and a BA in English with a minor in Theatre Studies from UC Berkeley.
