<nettime-ann> Just Space(s) // LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) // September 26 - November 18, 2007

[Ava Bromberg <ava@inthefield.info>]

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Just Space(s) // LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) // 
September 26 - November 18, 2007

Just Space(s)
September 26 – November 18, 2007
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Organized by Ava Bromberg and Nicholas Brown
http://www.justspaces.org/

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, September 26, 7-9pm

Download "Just Space(s)" Press Release & Events Schedule:
http://www.justspaces.org/press/just_spaces_press_FINAL.pdf

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/// INTRODUCTION ///

Everyday we confront spaces that don't work - from our neighborhoods and 
parks, to our prisons, pipelines and borders. In this exhibition and 
programming series, artists, scholars and activists reveal how these 
spaces function - and dysfunction - making way for thought and action to 
create just societies and spaces.

The projects in this exhibition reflect the renewed recognition that 
space matters to cutting edge activist practices and to artists and 
scholars whose work pursues similar goals of social justice. A spatial 
frame offers new insights into understanding not only how injustices are 
produced, but also how spatial consciousness can advance the pursuit of 
social justice, informing concrete claims and the practices that make 
these claims visible. Understanding that space - like justice - is never 
simply handed out or given, that both are socially produced, 
differentiated, experienced and contested on constantly shifting social, 
political, economic, and geographical terrains, means that justice - if 
it is to be concretely achieved, experienced, and reproduced - must be 
engaged on spatial as well as social terms.

By transforming LACE, in part, into an active learning environment, Just 
Space(s) seeks to provide visitors with tools to consider alternatives 
to reactionary and essentializing political discourse that tends to 
dominate and frame our conceptions of justice - and constrain our 
abilities to imagine and implement it. The exhibition presents some of 
the most innovative and efficacious contemporary artistic, activist, and 
scholarly work engaging social and spatial analyses. In addition, a 
library/infoshop and symposia and event series extend the scope and 
scale of the main exhibition. Taken in whole or in part, Just Space(s) 
aims not merely to show what is unjust about our world, but to inspire 
visitors to consider what the active production of just space(s) might 
look like. It asks a crucial question: How do we move from injustice to 
justice exactly where we stand - in our neighborhoods and our 
institutions, at the level of the body, the home, the street corner, the 
city, the region, the network, the supranational trade agreement and 
every space within, between, and beyond? While much theorizing about - 
and active experimentation with - the role and potential of a spatial 
justice framework remains undone, this exhibition and its public 
programming contribute to the articulation of a powerful concept/tool 
that links critical theory and ethical practice.

Just Space(s) builds upon the recent publication of a special volume of 
Critical Planning (UCLA Journal of Urban Planning, Volume 14, Summer 
2007) on the theme of spatial justice, which also serves as a companion 
to the exhibition. Follow the links below to download PDFs of selected 
essays from the special volume, including "Editorial Note: Why Spatial 
Justice?" by Ava Bromberg, Gregory D. Morrow, and Deirdre Pfeiffer, and 
a spatial justice bibliography. Visit the Critical Planning website for 
more information and to purchase a copy of the journal.

http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2007/08/spatial-justice.html
http://www.spa.ucla.edu/critplan/current_issue.htm

http://www.justspaces.org/
http://criticalspatialpractice.blogspot.com/2007/09/just-spaces.html

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LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Wed-Sun 12-6pm, Fri 12-9pm
323.957.1777 / http://www.welcometolace.org

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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW, SYMPOSIA & LIBRARY/INFOSHOP

http://www.justspaces.org/overview.htm
http://www.justspaces.org/symposia.htm
http://www.justspaces.org/infoshop.htm

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EXHIBITION THEMES & PROJECTS

http://www.justspaces.org/themes.htm

THEME#1 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / PRISONS AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

The Corrections Documentary Project (Ashley Hunt) /// Million Dollar 
Blocks (Spatial Information Design Lab) /// Up the Ridge (Appalshop's 
Holler to the Hood)

THEME#2 >>> (IM)MOBILITY / BORDERS, LABOR, MIGRATION

The Black Sea Files (Ursula Biemann) /// Political Equator (Teddy Cruz) 
/// disOrientation Guide (Counter-Cartographies Collective) /// Spatial 
Justice for Ayn Hawd (Sabine Horlitz and Oliver Clemens) /// Searching 
for Our Destination (Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri ) /// Water Station 
Maps and Warning Posters (Humane Borders and No More Deaths) /// Host 
Not Found: A Traveling Monument of the Suppression of Search (Markus 
Miessen and Patricia Reed)

THEME#3 >>> ECONOMIC JUSTICE / THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

The Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice (SAJE - Strategic 
Actions for a Just Economy) /// Mobile Planning Lab for South LA (Scott 
Berzofsky, Chris Gladora, Dane Nester, Nicholas Wisniewski, and SAJE) 
/// UTOPIA-dystopia (Los Angeles Poverty Department) /// Principles of 
Unity (Right to the City Alliance) /// RFK in EKY (Appalshop and John 
Malpede) /// Spatializing Labor Campaigns (Service Employees 
International Union)

THEME#4 >>> ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE / PUBLIC HEALTH

Syracuse City Hunger Project Maps (Syracuse Community Geography) /// 
LATWIDNO - Land access to which is denied no one (Sarah Lewison and Erin 
McGonigle) /// Invisible5 (Amy Balkin, Tim Halbur, and Kim Stringfellow) 
/// Public Green (Lize Mogel) /// Public Access 101 - Malibu Public 
Beaches (Los Angeles Urban Rangers) /// Best Not to Be Here? (Marie Cieri)

THEME#5 >>> RACIALIZATION OF SPACE / SPATIALIZATION OF RACE

Detroit Do Your Thing! (the Center for Urban Pedagogy) /// Detroit's 
Underdevelopment (Adrian Blackwell) /// The New Yorkers' Guide to 
Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs (Friends of William Blake) /// A 
People's Guide to Los Angeles (Laura Pulido)

THEME#6 >>> LAND / INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES, LAND CLAIMS & TREATY RIGHTS

A Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience 
(Rosemary Gibbons and Dax Thomas - Boarding School Healing Project) /// 
Dakota Commemorative March (Waziyatawin Angela Wilson and David Miller) 
/// Secret Military Landscapes and the Pentagon's "Black World" (Trevor 
Paglen) /// Spiral Lands (Andrea Geyer)
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