Latest Artist in Residence
MM — Beyond the Table: Building Bonds with Life-Sized Mahjong
Beyond the Table: Building Bonds with Life-Sized Mahjong
Saturday, April 26, 3–7PM
FCCW’s Garden:
3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space
Max participants: 200
Free
Join us for the culmination of our residency with Mahjong Mistress! You’re invited to the FCCW garden for the unique experience of playing mahjong in teams with the large-scale tiles. Through interactive play life-size tiles, this culminating event highlights teamwork and connection on a grand scale, using strategy and play as a metaphor for community-building and solidarity.
Additionally, we will have mahjong tables set-up with TAs, who can teach you how to play, and we’re inviting vendors, like 626 Hospitality Group, to sell ice cream, drinks, snacks, and more. You will not want to miss the spectacle of this grand-scale mahjong game, come have a mahjong afternoon!
About FCCW’s Artist In Residence Program
FCCW’s Artists-in-Residence is a multidisciplinary program that presents new work by women, trans, and nonbinary artists. The program takes the shape of a three-month residency within the organization, where artists are provided with the structural and material support, as well as dedicated time from all FCCW staff. Residencies culminate in an exhibition (or other form of public presentation) and a series of public programs developed with the artist that provide insight into their process and influences.
Artists are selected through an invitation process led by our programming director, Mandy Harris Williams. We are most invested in artists that engage contemporary, intersectional feminist topics and ways of working. Most artist residents are local to Los Angeles County, or have a significant connection to the place, culture, or context of Southern California. Additionally, we prioritize work that has components of social activation and community engagement. In
general, throughout all avenues of our work, we are attempting to confront what bell hooks called “white-supremecist capitalist patriarchy.” For us this means prioritizing artists who are marginalized by this system, including women, trans and nonbinary artists, queer artists, artists of color, and those with disabilities, as well as more invisible marginalizations around, for example, chronic illness, trauma, class and/or immigration/citizenship status.
Between immersive multimedia installations, alternative co-learning frameworks, and collaborative performances, projects have probed wide-ranging issues from prison abolition and third-culture identity, to parental labor and familial lines across diasporic experiences.
Past Residents
- LYLEX 1.0 by PHILTH HAUS
- Cassandra Press
- Letter from the Etui
- Ahree Lee
- Adee Roberson
- gloria galvez
- Sarita Dougherty
- Yasmine Diaz
- iris yirei hu
- Moozies
- Intersectionality Now
- Small Fries, Full Lives
- Carol Zou
- Void of Course
- Aryana Ghazi-Hessami
- Allison Conner