Taking ideas addressed in Adler Guerrier’s exhibition as a starting point, Collective Action: Artists for Housing and Homeless Rights investigates the devastating impacts of the California housing crisis. Featuring the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) and the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), a community-based theater group working in Skid Row, this program demonstrates the powerful role community-based arts play in visualizing issues of housing inequality.

Program Schedule

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - Coffee and Pastries

10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Terra Graziani from AEMP introduces maps documenting displacement and conducts a training on how to lead oral history interviews

11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Guest curator Diana Nawi leads a tour of the CAAM exhibition "Adler Guerrier: Conditions and Forms for blck Longevity"

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Lunch

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - John Malpede, Henriëtte Brouwers, and Walter Fears from LAPD presents an excerpt from their performance, What Fuels Development?

1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.+ - Panel discussion featuring both collectives discussing art's capacity as a transformative political force

Curated by Alex Sizemore. Presented in partnership with USC Roski School of Art and Design, MA Curatorial Practices and the Public Sphere.