MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art

ALTERNATIVE CONTEMPORANEITIES:TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONES (TAZ)
21 March – 30 May 2015

Curator: Richard Haden
Assistant Curator : Cristy Almaida

This group exhibition builds on the work: Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ) by Hakim Bey (Peter Lamborn Wilson). The project is curated by Richard Haden.

TAZ “alludes to creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control...thus creating the foundation for authenticity and spontaneity”. Richard Haden proposes to articulate the exhibition through TAZ and the ways in which it has to do with recreating an “intentional community” (IC) which relates to how past communities purposefully organized in various forms as collectives, to succeed as small villages or townships, guilds, radical groups, et cetera, that eventually gave way to controlling socio-economic structures, which eventually led to the loss of authentic empowerment.

Participating artists:

3PQ
Farley Aguilar
Kevin Arrow
Dogan Arslanoglu
Zack Balber
Alejandro Bellizzi
Loriel Beltran
Pip Brant
Belaxis Buil
Timothy Buwalda
Khadine Caines
Autumn Casey
Clifton Childree
James Concannon
Jeroen Eisinga
Philip Estlund
Barry Fellman
Violet Forest
Rob Goyanes
Adler Guerrier
Elisa Harkins
Jason Hedges
HICCUP
Patricia Margarita Hernandez
Andrew Horton
Guo Jian
Brookhart Jonquil
Sinisa Kukec
Charles Linder
Cole Miller
Beatriz Monteavaro
Jillian Mayer
Kuby Nnamdie
Ernesto Oroza & Magdiel Aspillaga
Orestes De La Paz
Gavin Perry
Christina Pettersson
Michelle Lisa Polissant
Cheryl Pope
Ralph Provisero
Jan & Dave
Johnny Robles
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
AdrienneRose Gionta
Barron Sherer
Kalan Sherrerd
Sleeper
Misael Soto
Seth Tobocman
Frances Trombly
Kyle Trowbridge
Angela Valella
Sofia Valiente
Michael Vasquez
Agustina Woodgate
Alex Yudzon