Saturday, February 3, 2024 | 52:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Join us for the Closing Program of Yoshie Sakai: Grandma Entertainment Franchise. Enjoy a guided tour with exhibition curators Dav Bell and Ana Iwataki followed by a special reception hour in the Museum Lobby. This event will be the final opportunity to view the exhibition.
SCHEDULE
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Curatorial walkthrough with Dav Bell and Ana Iwataki
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Closing Reception hour. Light refreshments will be provided.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
In her first solo museum exhibition, Grandma Entertainment Franchise, artist Yoshie Sakai brings together three immersive installations produced over the last three years: Grandma Day Spa, Grandma Nightclub, and Grandma Amusement Park. These three distinct but interconnected installations, composed of Sakai’s video and sculptural work, satirically reproduce public sites of leisure, re-imagined with grandmothers as their target demographic.
The exhibition is curated by Dav Bell and Ana Iwataki.
PARTICIPANT BIOS
Dav Bell is an artist and independent arts organizer who is interested in collaborating with kind people to cultivate tangible and creative connections. Through encounter, relationship building, and humor, he sees art as a possibility for truth and reconciliation. He is committed to finding more ways we, as humans and other sentient beings, can thrive together. He holds a BFA from the University of California Los Angeles and an MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice from the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the founder and former director of the Los Angeles artists’ project Visitor Welcome Center (2015-2021) and is co-founder and director of The Greenhouse Project, an intergenerational education space that centers art, food and climate justice, located in Santa Cruz, California.
Ana Iwataki is a writer, curator, and organizer from and based in Los Angeles. She is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Media and Culture at the University of Southern California. Her research is grounded by her scholarly, political, and intimate commitments to the production and preservation of culture in diasporic and hyperlocal contexts. Her in-progress dissertation examines the cultural and spatial politics of 800 Traction, a former warehouse in the Arts District where artists, many of them Japanese American, lived and worked until their eviction in 2018. She holds a BA in Art History from Pitzer College and MA in Curatorial Studies from the Sorbonne, Paris, France.