The haudenschildGarage was founded in 2003 as a 21st century cultural search engine, pursuant of interesting work wherever it occurs and in whatever form it takes. Today, the haudenschildGarage hopes to transcend the 19th century salon and the 20th century alternative art space by providing a home away from home to all seeking to engage in cultural experimentation, play and conversation. It routinely presents symposia, lectures and film screenings to the public.
Whether international projects, dialogs or commissions, the haudenschildGarage wishes to collaborate with like-minded institutions and artists. The goal is that by providing a permissive context for opinion and production, new ideas and visions will have an opportunity to take shape.
The haudenschildGarage hosts FUEL4TALKS, a series of small format interviews. Past FUEL4TALKS have included Mian Mian, Lisa Tan with Derrick Cartwright and Lauri Firstenberg, Leslie Thornton, Martha Rosler, Orchard New York, Eduardo Abaroa, Slavoj Zizek, and Lincoln Schatz with Monica Jovanovich and Jordan Crandall.
Larger, often collaborative events, Garage Talks, have included Travelog with the MOCA Allan Kaprow retrospective Art as Life; a two-day Garage Talk with the Orange Country Museum of Art exhibition Disorderly Conduct; Political Equator II conferences with the collaboratives Ala Plastica and the Urban Think Tank; Teddy Cruz with Yvonne Venegas, Josh Kun, and Michael Krichman; Walid Raad and The Atlas Group; Asian Art Now with curators Mami Kataoka, Norman Bryson, Doryun Chong, and Yukie Kamiya; the panel Alternative Universes: Emerging Artists’ Spaces; inSite_05 Conversations; and The Political Equator I conferences, a three-day Garage Talk featuring Hou Hanru, Pi Li, Andrew Ross, Teddy Cruz, Steve Fagin, and Eyal Weizman, among others. This event included the World Première of Cao Fei’s video Whose Utopia.
The haudenschildGarage has commissioned new works by emerging international artists. In conjunction with the Political Equator II conferences (2007), artist Raul Cardenas of Torolab was commissioned to create the stage for the conferences with an Emergency/Conversation Table; as part of the Spare Parts project, A Crime Has Many Stories (2008), young Argentine author Washington Cucurto was commissioned to write a text, El Hijo, based on Ricardo Piglia’s short story The Madwoman and the Story of a Crime (1975) and also commissioned a video of Ricardo Piglia performing his short story at Malba – Fundación Costantini (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires).
As past of the haudenschildGarage artist-in-residence program in 2003, Chinese artists Yang Zhengzhong and Shi Yong produced new works. Yang Zhengzhong’s video I Will Die, made while in residence, was selected for the 2004 Venice Biennale and Shi Yong held the premiere performance of Super Angel, an interactive web-based project, at San Diego State University. Tom Zummer was an artist-in-residence in 2007 and he produced new work. Infamous Chinese author Mian Mian was an artist-in-residence in 2009 and she discussed her banned novel Candy (2000) and her forth-coming 2009 novel, Panda Sex.
In addition to the residency program and commissions, the haudenschildGarage works directly with artists through Garage Projects. In 2009 coinciding with the anniversary of the Art For Sale exhibition, the haudenschildGarage held a ten-year reunion in Shanghai and Beijing for artists, critics, and curators. In 2007, New York artist Lisa Tan traveled to Buenos Aires to complete her Recoleta grave rubbings and Los Angeles based artist, Karla Diaz, created a mural with artist Mario Ybarra Jr. for the 2007 Prague Biennale. Art critic Matthew Schum traveled to the 2007 Istanbul Biennale to interview the organizing curator Hou Hanru and created daily blog postings for the haudenschildGarage website. In 2006 the haudenschildGarage collaborated with the New Chinatown Barbershop bringing together eight graffiti artists to create an installation in its Los Angeles space.
In late 2006, the haudenschildGarage launched the hG, Spare Parts projects, a 3-year cycle of projects commissioned and produced by Director Eloisa Haudenschild and Commissioning Editor Steve Fagin that encouraged the juxtaposition of the crucial, the trivial, and the arcane. The projects included Decolonizing Architecture, selected for the 2009 Architectural Venice Biennale, A Crime has Many Stories that premiered at MALBA in Buenos Aires in November 2008 and The Last Book which launched in April 2009 at the MAK Center, Schindler House in Los Angeles.
The haudenschildGarage initiatives for 2010 include the establishment of new and the support of existing programs that involve at-risk youth.
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