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OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The City of West Hollywood presents
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2025: VOICE
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST
ENGAGEMENT | AGENCY | PRESENCE | RESONANCE
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2025: VOICE
Curated by Deborah Oliver @irationalexhibits, asks artists to consider and explore the many ways voices resonate in public spaces.
Dates: July 25, 26, and 27, 2025
We invite individual and collaborative artists to propose projects for this outdoor public visual and performance art festival in
West Hollywood, at Plummer Park, West Hollywood Park, and Sunset Plaza. We welcome projects that use installations, performance,
actions, gestures, and sound to reflect on the power of voice.
We encourage artists to create spaces where audiences can listen, participate, and reflect—spaces that make complexity visible
and foster dialogue. Whether through solo actions or collaborative projects, we seek to consider how art can amplify unheard voices,
bridge divides, and reimagine community.
Visit https://artinoddplaces.org/voice to apply. Questions? Please refer to the application FAQ page or email aiopnyc@gmail.com
Irrational Exhibits 13: Juxtaposing Terrains
An evening of Durational Performance, Video, Sound Art, and Photography
October 26, 2024 – One night only 7:00 p.m – 9:00 p.m
Curator/Producer Deborah Oliver, Associate Curator/Producer Jerod Thompson
17 Artists | 5 Galleries | One Night Only at the Bendix Building in
Track 16 1st Floor | Tigers Strikes Asteroid | Monte Vista Projects | 515 Gallery | Durden and Ray
Participating Artists: christy roberts berkowitz, Claudia Bucher, Joana P. Cardozo, Maria Adela Diaz, Kiyo Gutierrez, Ulysses Jenkins, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Ibuki Kuramochi, Simon Leung, Cade Moga, Andrea Nhoch, Mehregan Pezeshki, Saun Santipreecha, Mark Steger, Raymond Tran-Nguyen, Sichong Xie, and Kim Zumpfe
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The Irrational Exhibits 12: Body, Materiality and Systems,
2023 a visual performance art catalogue is here.
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Special thanks to Virginia Arce for conducting all the interviews and writing the catalogue. Also, thank you to Amanda Maciel Antunes for creating this beautifully designed catalogue. Irrational Exhibits 12: Body, Materiality and Systems took place on May 27th in the Bendix Building at Track 16, Tigers Strikes Asteroid, Monte Vista Projects, 515 Gallery, Durden and Ray, and Mutable Studios.
2021-2022 Research & Innovation Grants
The Research and Innovation Advisory Committee (RI Committee), composed of a faculty member from each CTSA department, awarded the following proposals for the 2021-2022 academic year:
Deborah Oliver, Associate Professor, Art: The Art of Performance @ UCI 7th Edition. An annual event dedicated to experimentation in live art co-founded by Oliver and Professor Jenkins in 2015. This project fosters dialog, pedagogical connections, and engagement between cutting edge visiting performance artists and inter-disciplinary artists with undergraduate students, through performances, workshops and conversations.
We are excited to announce the arrival of the Irrational Exhibits Catalogue 2001 – 2019
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Thanks to Rochelle Fabb and Metabolic Studio, a direct charitable activity of the Annenberg Foundation, for their funding of Irrational Exhibits 10th Anniversary: Mapping the Divide presentation and this publication and to Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions for presenting this project in their 2017 Gallery Programming.
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