HOW TO: Oh, look at me deepens Gonzalez’s commitment to creating provocative, participatory social spaces within institutional settings. As acts of queer infiltration, class—aware interventionism, her work wants us to see and explore, to dance and read—outloud the potential of our embodied cognition. We are only when we interact, when we commune. 

Locust Projects presents Disembodied, the third in a series of guest curated video exhibitions in Locust Projects’ Screening Room that launched in fall 2019. Guest curated by Dennis Scholl, founding board chair of Locust Projects from 2001-2006, the exhibition features works by emerging and established artists including: Cara Despain, Julie Fliegenspan, Alexa Lim Haas, Jillian Mayer, Nicole Salcedo, and Siena Stubbs. The exhibition opens to the public by appointment and walk-ins (capacity permitting) on Saturday, March 6 from 11am to 5pm and is free and open to the public. 

From April 1 to June 30, the Miami Design District will feature Outage by Jennifer Levonian and Eva Wylie in its Jade Alley Films Series, a collaborative year-long art video feature of four artist video selections by the District's key institutions, including Locust Projects, de la Cruz Collection and ICA Miami.

Originally commissioned and premiered by Locust Projects in 2019, Outage is a video that utilizes Levonian's signature cut paper animation technique, which incorporates deftly rendered watercolors into short films that wryly depict prescient social narratives and Eva Wylie's unique printmaking techniques. The single-channel animation was made from over 3,000 frames and more than 275 screens were used to create pieces for the animation.

Viewable 24/7 at the Garden Building Lobby in Jade Alley.

Locust Projects supports the business of being an artist through LegalARTLink, a program offering pro bono legal services, referrals, and professional development workshops for artists based in Miami. 

If you have questions about the program or need help with a new legal issue, schedule an appointment here to chat with Allyn Ginns Ayers, LegalARTLink Director, practicing attorney, and dancer. LegalARTLink Office Hours will be held on the first Thursday of every month.

Empower your career by joining our next LegalARTLink webinar on Tue, May 18 at 2pm.  We'll be covering a new law, the CASE Act, which sets up a small claims copyright tribunal within the Copyright Office with the aim of making it easier to resolve copyright disputes without having to file a federal lawsuit. This change has the potential to make it far easier for artists to protect and control their copyrights.  Hosted by LegalARTLink Director, practicing attorney, and dancer, Allyn Ginns Ayers.  

HOW TO: Oh, Look at me is the fifth iteration of the HOW TO series, in which artist GeoVanna Gonzalez creates works of art to accompany poems featured in an online open-source poetry collection by Berlin-based writer Martin Jackson.  At www.tutorials.fyi, readers are invited to comment and edit the poems, creating a constantly evolving, shifting collection that is never static or complete. Similarly, Gonzalez's installation, HOW TO: Oh, Look at Me, a physical embodiment of Jackson's poem No Rothko, is constantly being created and recreated through interaction.

Join us for a participatory roundtable with Gonzalez and Jackson discussing their longtime collaboration, guided by Locust Projects' Monica Peña.  Participants will be invited to view, comment on, and add their questions to a shared Google Doc in real time, influencing the course of our conversation.