BROODWORK
| BROODWORK | |
|---|---|
 File:BROODWORK_logo.png BROODWORK logo | |
| Born | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | social practice |
| Notable work | BROODWORK (2009), It's About Time (2011) |
| 🏅 Awards | Imagine Ireland for Culture Ireland, Pasadena Art Alliance Grant |
| 🌐 Website | BROODWORK.com |
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BROODWORK is a social practice art and design project based in Los Angeles and founded in 2009 by visual artist Rebecca Niederlander and architect Iris Anna Regn. BROODWORK's projects involve an expansive network of artists and allies whose work "realized an unexpected perspectival shift after becoming parents."[1] Notable participants include individuals from various creative fields, including poet Elizabeth Alexander, writer and documentarian Alain de Botton, author and Families and Work Institute founder Ellen Galinsky, sculptor Tim Hawkinson, and architect Greg Lynn.
Overview[edit]
BROODWORK names the previously undefined community, creative practitioners who are parents, and through collective means, investigates and presents its artistic practices and products. The individuals included in BROODWORK are artists, designers and architects as well as creatives from allied fields, particularly education and literature. BROODWORK's projects are often experiments in Interdisciplinarity that investigate the way in which family life impacts the time and space possible for creative work, the environment of creative work, and changing ideas of audience as artists communicate family to family and parent to child.
As a social practice entity, much of the creative output of BROODWORK consists of events, actions, or conversations, as well the exhibition of static objects such as sculptures and paintings. This reflects the group's emphasis on expanding its conversation outside the museum walls. This also reflects the group's emphasis on the politics of time as they apply to creative parents. Speaking to the latter topic in a 2009 interview in Coagula Art Journal Niederlander states: "Creativity happens in shorter bursts. Before children, you can be much more chaotic with production. You can spend time exploring any avenue that comes into your mind."[2]
While adults are their primary audience, BROODWORK's projects, particularly workshops and installations, are often designed for the two audiences of adults and children, which is atypical for a contemporary art entity whose nature is not wholly pedagogic. Some of BROODWORK's events involve parent-child interaction.
Exhibition History[edit]
BROODWORK has presented several major exhibitions since 2009, at venues including the Otis College of Art and Design, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Trajector Art Fair (Brussels), and the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock. These exhibitions range from large group exhibitions featuring many artists, to smaller, thematic projects featuring 3-4 artists. Founders Niederlander and Regn act in diverse roles as curators, artist organizers, and artists. Typical for a social practice entity, some of BROODWORK's projects have also been realized in non-gallery/museum spaces and via radio, or do not involve any object-making practice at all.
Participants[edit]
In addition to its co-founders, Rebecca Niederlander and Iris Anna Regn, BROODWORK's organizational structure also includes four advisors: artist and Museum Director Tibbie Dunbar, Families and Work Institute founder Ellen Galinsky, artist-educator Asuka Hisa, and Visual Understanding in Education (VUE) founder Phillip Yenawine. BROODWORK has also acted as an advisor and collaborator to other entities and projects including the Architecture and Design Museum, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and the Social Practices Art Network (SPAN). The group's articles for the Herman Miller Company's LifeWork Blog[3] are demonstrative of the group's ongoing participation in a public dialog of work-life balance issues.
Within BROODWORK's own projects, collaborating artists and creatives vary from project to project, with many artists participating in multiple projects. Due to BROODWORK's emphasis on family, several collaborators have participated alongside their partners or spouses. Below is a complete listing of the collaborators who have participated in BROODWORK projects since its inception.
- Aeolab
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Abira Ali
- Jillian Armenante
- Hadley Arnold
- Peter Arnold
- Iwan Baan
- Jennifer Bass
- Juliette Bellocq
- Andrew Berardini
- Barbara Bestor
- Lauren Bon & Metabolic Studio
- Corinne Van der Borch
- Alain de Botton
- Leonardo Bravo
- Jemima Brown
- Edgar Bryan
- Andrew Byrom
- Jim Campbell
- Joyce Campbell
- Rebecca Campbell
- Jamison Carter
- Dallas Clayton
- Elise Co
- Annie Coggan
- Kim Colin (Industrial Facility)
- Alan Compton
- Laura Cooper
- Alex Couwenberg
- Clare Crespo
- Dante's Inferno
- Alice Dodd
- Heidi Duckler
- Laurence Dumortier
- Tibbie Dunbar
- Don Durfee
- Tim Durfee
- Ann Faison
- Felicia Filer
- Finishing School
- David Fletcher
- Laura Gabbert
- Matt Gagnon
- Ellen Galinsky
- Norman Galinsky
- Lance Glover
- Dan Goods
- Jan Greenberg
- John S. Hall
- Tim Hawkinson
- Health and Beauty
- Sam Hecht
- Garnet Hertz
- Asuka Hisa
- Brian Hohlfeld
- Seonna Hong
- Steven Hull
- Florian Idenburg
- Leigh Jerrard
- JEFF&GORDON
- John Kaliski
- Alla Kazovsky
- Jung Hyang Kim
- Soo Kim
- Alan Koch
- Sandra Jordan
- Rebecca Kneubuhl
- Dan Koeppel
- Brandon Lattu
- Jing Liu
- Greg Lynn
- Gabriel Mann
- Ilaan Egeland Mazzini
- David McDonald
- Zoe Melo
- Marcia Mihotich
- Christine Moore
- Pat Morton
- Dave Muller
- Cara Mullio
- Eric M. Nelson
- Mark Newport
- Natalie Nguyen
- Rebecca Niederlander
- Christoph Niemann
- Eamon O'Kane
- Laura Owens
- Nikita Pashenkov
- Danica Phelps
- Mike Pierzynski
- Eli Pulsinelli
- Project Food LA
- Laura Purdy
- Iris Regn
- Lucas Reiner
- Katrina Rivers
- Jules Rochielle
- Gregory Roth
- Michael Rotondi
- Kati Rubinyi
- Rebecca Rudolph
- Jaime Rugh
- Jeff Rugh
- Kati Rubinyi
- Michele Saee
- Julia Salazar
- Carina Schott
- Michelle Segre
- Shawn Seymour
- Mohamed Sharif
- Linda Taalman
- Nick Taggart
- Tony Tasset
- Colin Thompson
- Nina Tolstrup
- Yoshimi Tomida
- Jane Tsong
- Nina Tolstrup
- Denise Uyehara
- Staci Valentine
- Kiino Villand
- Mark Vallianatos
- Nicole Walker
- Amanda Walter
- Waterlab ArKIDtecture
- Patty Wickman
- Patrick Wilson
- Renee Dake Wilson
- Michael Worthington
- Yi-Hsiu Yeh
- Alexis (Weidig) Zoto
Publications[edit]
- BROODWORK: It's About Time. OTIS College of Art and Design. Los Angeles, California. 2012.[4]
Images[edit]
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BROODWORK co-founders Rebecca Niederlander and Iris Anna Regn.
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BROODWORK, the group's inaugural exhibition at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, 2009
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It's About Time at the Ben Matlz Gallery at the OTIS College of Art and Design, 2011.
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Marking Time at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2011.
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Waterlab at the Art and Design Museum Los Angeles, 2011.
References[edit]
- ↑ "BROODWORK Statement". Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ↑ Klabin, Karen (2009). "BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life" (PDF). Coagula Art Journal (99).
- ↑ "Herman Miller LifeWork". Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ↑ "BROODWORK: It's About Time Catalog". OTIS College of Art and Design. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
External links[edit]
- BROODWORK official webpage
- Interview with Rebecca Niederlander Iris Anna Regn on social practice
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alla-kazovsky/broodworks-its-about-time_b_856591.html Huffington Post article on the exhibition BROODWORK: It's About Time.
- http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/beyond-the-cubicle/ New York Times article featuring BROODWORK
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