The City of West Hollywood’s Artists & Icons series will host a conversation with artist, filmmaker, and advocate Nancy Baker Cahill, and author, educator, artist, and abolitionist Patrisse Cullors.

The event will take place on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the City of West Hollywood’s Council Chambers/Public Meeting Room, located at 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. The event is free, but seating is limited and expected to reach capacity. RSVP is requested via Eventbrite. Parking validation for the adjacent five-story West Hollywood Park structure will be available at the event (parking is limited to availability).

The event will be broadcast live on the City’s WeHoTV on Channel 10 within the City of West Hollywood on Spectrum. It will also be available for livestream and replay the City’s WeHoTV YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/wehotv and on streaming services such as AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and Roku.

The City of West Hollywood’s Moving Image Media Art (MIMA) program will unveil Body Politic by Nancy Baker Cahill, a newly commissioned two-part public artwork that will exist simultaneously in three dimensions along the iconic Sunset Strip this fall, starting on Tuesday, October 1, 2024. The ten-minute Body Politic video artwork will be on view simultaneously at the top of every hour on the face of three digital billboards on the famed Sunset Strip in the City of West Hollywood from Tuesday, October 1, 2024, through Friday, February 28, 2025. The second part of the work will exist in an augmented reality three-dimensional space above two billboards and will only be visible while on site with the 4th Wall app, a free Augmented Reality (AR) art platform. The historic exhibition will be the first time an augmented reality experience will interconnect with an artwork presented on the face of a full-motion billboard. Body Politic centers around the themes of body sovereignty, data rights, voting rights, and basic human rights. The artwork will begin approximately one month prior to the general election, concurrent with the City of West Hollywood’s “Get Out the Vote” efforts. More information about Body Politic is available on the City’s website.

About Nancy Baker Cahill – Nancy Baker Cahill is an American interdisciplinary media artist and expanded filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She has created immersive augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences, video installations, and blockchain projects, often rooted in drawing. Her work frequently merges technology and public art, drawing upon both ecofeminist land art and the history of political interventions to examine systemic power, body autonomy, civics, and climate crisis, among other issues. She is the founder and director of 4th Wall, a free AR public art platform focused on public engagement, critical social practice, and site interventions. Her work appears in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; RFC Art Collection, Miami, FL; and 0x Collection, Prague, CZ. For more information, visit https://nancybakercahill.com.

About Patrisse Cullors – Patrisse Cullors is a New York Times bestselling author, educator, artist, and abolitionist from Los Angeles. Her work has been featured at The Broad, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Frieze LA, Hammer Museum, The Fowler, and a host of theaters, galleries, and museums across the globe. Cullors has won numerous awards for her art and activism. In 2020, she launched a one-of-a-kind online MFA program at Prescott College. She also launched the Crenshaw Dairy Mart with fellow artists Noé Olivas and Ali Reza Dorriz. Her current work and practice are focusing on “Abolitionist Aesthetics,” a term she has advanced and popularized to help challenge artists and cultural workers to aestheticize abolition. She recently founded The Center for Art and Abolition – a trailblazing nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering abolitionist artists and leveraging the transformative power of art to catalyze social change. Patrisse’s mission is to invite all of us to grow towards abolition through intergenerational healing work that centers love, collective care, and art. For more information, visit https://www.patrissecullors.com.

The West Hollywood Artists & Icons series is a periodic event organized by the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division that celebrates the lives and work of West Hollywood residents and artists who present their work in the City, and who have made significant contributions to local, national, or global culture. The series has previously focused on many local artists and icons including Lou Adler, Barbara Bain, Bette Davis & Mae West, Frances Taylor Davis, Dan Guerrero, and Michael McMillen.

For additional information about the City of West Hollywood’s Artists & Icons Series, visit www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/about/west-hollywood-artists-icons.

For more information, please contact Rebecca Ehemann, the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Manager, at (323) 848-6846 or at rehemann@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.

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