The Community 'Museu'

Orange County Museum of Art,  2017 California-Pacific Triennial
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February - May 2017

Curated by Casandra Coblentz

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Installation: Photographs, Videos, Print Materials and Mason Line Hammocks

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The Community 'Museu' renders visible many connected networks of tenant resistance and community organizing in Southern California and Rio de Janeiro, and, through its public programming, strengthens and actively enlarges these connections. 

 

Featuring participation and documentation from Santa Ana Against Gentrification/SAAGE and the Los Angeles Tenants Union, two ongoing local tenant’s rights movements in Orange County and Los Angeles, a series of public conversations and film screenings highlights the work local activists while providing a platform for geographically adjacent tenants rights struggles to actively collaborate.

Museu das Remoções, an archive created by Vila Autodromo residents, depicts the Rio de Janeiro favela's struggles to sustain their community's fabric and resist their city's multi-year efforts to displace the Vila Autodromo from their land due to speculative luxury development for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.  The very developments displacing the favela residents are modeled after Orange County's all-inclusive gated compounds, whose owners forced the relocation of the Orange County Museum of Art during this exhibition in an effort to retain their high property values and expand luxury development.

Each of these fights is different, yet all are connected through the similar economic causes and consequences of eviction and displacement.

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