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Pedro Lasch
b.
Lives and
works in Durham, NC and New York
Performance by visitors using masks from Pedro Lasch’s project,
Naturalizations. Photo courtesy the artist. |
Pedro Lasch received his BFA from the
Cooper Union Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York in
1999. A preoccupation with the theory and practice of socially engaged
art has led Lasch to develop his work as a series of public
interventions within the flow of the everyday. These interactions or
temporal rearrangements form a chain of open routines that develop
within specific social situations originating mostly outside of the
conventional art context.
His various roles as artist, educator, activist, cultural organizer
and producer should be understood as building upon one another to form
an interdisciplinary practice. He was recently the subject of a solo
exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art (2006), and has participated in
group exhibitions at The International Center, New York (2006); Artists
Space, New York (2006); Baltimore Museum of Art (2005); Royal College of
Art, London (2005); Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA (2005);
Playas Tijuana, Mexico (2005); Patriot, The Contemporary Museum,
Baltimore (2005); Rum46, Arahaus, Denmark (2005); Mass MoCA, North
Adams, MA (2004); Mutter Museum, Philadelphia (as part of The Big
Nothing); Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania (2003), among
others. He is a core member of 16 Beaver Group, New York, and Nomads &
Residents, New York, both collaboratives of cultural producers who
organize events and participate in exhibitions worldwide. Lasch has also
worked as organizer and cultural advisor to Mexicanos Unidos de Queens,
New York and the Asociación Tepeyac de New York, New York, in particular
as an organizer of the experimental arts workshop Art, Story-Telling,
and the Five Senses.
More Information:
http://www.queensmuseum.org/exhibitions/lasch.html
http://radiopolyphony.thing.net/index.html
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=7109&page=1#14631
http://www.16beavergroup.org/
http://www.tepeyac.org
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