Remote Intervention
Los Angeles Review of Books
Co-Edited by Mashinka Firunts Hakopian and Medaya Ocher
Contributors
Nancy Baker Cahill
Gabrielle Civil
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Gelare Khoshgozaran
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Jennifer Moon
Tobias Rees
Rob Reynolds
Tui Shaub
Anuradha Vikram
Mandy Harris Williams
Meldia Yesayan
This symposium was convened in the immediate aftermath of the global pandemic, and invited Los Angeles-based artists, curators, and cultural workers to reflect on these questions:
How can we imagine the role of artists and cultural workers amid conditions of pervasive crisis, as we transition indefinitely toward remote, mediatized forms of production and reception?
Would it be possible to assemble a toolkit of speculative, technologically-enabled practices; digital networks of mutual aid; and virtual para-institutions that could represent a meaningful contribution at the present conjuncture?
What new communicative forms could artists and cultural workers devise to stage generative interventions as many are living life onscreen?
Image: Nancy Baker Cahill, Hollow Point 102, animated VR drawing still, 2017
