Artist Oscar Tuazon reflects on the role of his project the "Los Angeles Water School [LAWS]," a multi unit structure engaging with the Los Angeles River. For several years LAWS provided a platform for bringing people together around the ...See moreArtist Oscar Tuazon reflects on the role of his project the "Los Angeles Water School [LAWS]," a multi unit structure engaging with the Los Angeles River. For several years LAWS provided a platform for bringing people together around the question of water through exhibitions and panel discussions commencing with a community organized exhibition called Language and a roundtable engaging Tongva histories of the river and indigenous thinking around water. The structure moves to various sites to engage with questions of water in diverse contexts including East Lansing, Michigan and Spring Valley, Nevada thereby creating a dispersed map of how clean water moves across vast distances and connects us. Tuazon reflects on how an artwork can intervene at critical moments in an infrastructural conversation and then disappear again.
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