Artists Space is pleased to announce a survey of work from Mexicali Rose, a community media center and gallery in the Mexican border city Mexicali. A nexus for cultural and personal exchange between artists, journalists, activists and filmmakers on both sides of the border, Mexicali Rose exemplifies the possibilities of 21st century hybridized culture through its pursuit of artistic expression grounded in barrio life. The work of the center has been recently featured in Artforum, May Revue, Mexico City’s Generacion, and media throughout Baja California.

Founded by Mexicali-born filmmaker Marco Vera in 2007 as an audio-visual workshop for neighborhood kids in border-adjacent Pueblo Nuevo, the workshop quickly expanded to include craft and trade classes, a community gallery exhibiting the work of local and international artists, a cinema club that showcases the work of Mexican and foreign filmmakers, and a radio station formed to provide a free and uncensored platform for local youth.

Radical Localism: Art, Video, and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s  Mexicali Rose
http://artistsspace.org/aspace/exhibitions/radical-localism-2/

and

The City Machine and Its Streets: Anomalous Ecologies
http://artistsspace.org/aspace/programs/the-city-machine-and-its-streets/
https://www.facebook.com/events/226253067473721/

Opening: Friday March 30th, 2012
Symposium: Saturday March, 31st, 2012
Screenings: Sunday April 1st, 2012