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Elizabeth TravelslightAboutElizabeth Travelslight is an American artist known for her installations, where she applies her knowledge on math, feminist history of science and contemporary art. She employs mostly ideas about with imagined communities and technologies of memory, particularly around practices of knowledge making and knowledge sharing before, beyond, and within the written word. In 2013 she founded the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism and now currently lives in san Francisco with her family. While working on her studio practice she also teaches both on the high school and the university level, most recently at the San Francisco Art Institute’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Travelslight started exhibiting in 2009. One of her more renounced exhibitions was a two-place group exhibition called “The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers” where she introduced her ‘Safety Blankets’. This 2015 exhibition occurred in partnership with the Bay area society for Art & Activism and introduced her ideas of weaving traditional and nontraditional materials together. Early life and educationBorn in Daly City, CA and raised in San Francisco, Elizabeth Travelslight graduates in a BA in mathematics in 1999, from the university of California Santa Cruz, where 10 years later she would receive her MFA from the Digital Arts|New Media Program. In between her BA and MFA, she calls upon many years of local community organizing and non-profit arts program management experience to provide administrative, operational and programmatic direction for the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism which she founded in 2013. From 2000-2008, Elizabeth worked as a member of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative where she served on the Board of Directors and as a founding member of the Anti-Oppression Working Group. Her studio art practice followed the completion of a MA in Media & Communication through the European Graduate School in 2008, in Switzerland. Her master thesis, A Science of Spaces: Art, Empire, & Being, was selected for publication with ATROPOS Press. She currently lives in San Francisco where she teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute and serves as Executive Staff for the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism. Elizabeth has worked as a teaching artist with hundreds of Bay Area middle and high school students and she continues teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies. MFA, Digital Arts and New Media, University of California Santa Cruz MA, Media & Communication, European Graduate School BA, Mathematics, University of California Santa Cruz Artistic PracticeTravelslight blurs the line between traditional and digital media while still exploring writing and philosophy through conceptual art, curious objects, and installations that enter this conversation on the relationship between folk art, craft and technology. Her current studio practice is based on “feminist intertwinnings” which mean literal weavings of text and textiles. She adds to traditional material, unexpected material such as mirrors that are weaved in intricately that play with sight, and the subject. Also found furniture and other domestic objects partake an important role in her installations. Her works, altogether, create this discussion between dichotomies that both create tension and let’s go and talks about remembering and forgetting, knowing and not knowing to re-create a new standard of difference and relationship. Her practice is also heavily influenced by motherhood and the relationship between her and her child. In the article “Beyond the Studio: What Do Artists/Writers/Curators Need?” they asked Travelslight What do artists need, and she responded, “Affordable child care; affordable studio space; affordable health care; affordable housing; affordable public transportation; meaningful, diverse, community engagement; fundamental human rights as essential community values.” This translates to activism and motherhood being on the same level of importance for her and her creative process. In the exhibition “The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers” according to Random Parts this exhibition talks about “the impact of surveillance technology and the digital economy on housing security and how affluence secures both privacy and housing.” And Travelslight ‘Safety Blanket’ encompasses the idea of digital era technology, folk art or craft and motherhood by creating these ‘quilts’ that combine traditional materials for children blankets and ‘surveillance technology’. KQED Arts described the ‘safety blankets’ as quilts that are made from “flannel and fleece are strips of bulletproof material, infrared surveillance-blocking Mylar and a custom-printed fabric depicting the remnants of Edward Snowden’s dismantled computer. Travelslight presents an object of comfort as an illusion of safety and privacy. What figurative security blankets do we continue to wrap ourselves in?” Travelslight delves into the ideas of comfort and the known, with the hardness of the surveillance materials and the unknown of technology and advance. Elizabeth’s work is motivated by social problems and collaborative efforts. For example, she exhibited on “Southern Exposure: Declarations for the New Year” a piece that explored her interest on text and her commentary on capitalism. Similarly, on another exhibition called “War and Healing” she engages in the conversation on how afghan children are entertained and almost blindfolded from war by innocence. She creates a mobile called ‘Green Parrots’ that touches on the play between what is a toy and what is used in war and she walks in this thin line to engage with the viewer and the striking reality of these children. Her work on the Bay Area Society of Art and Activism comes to a peak with the creation of the project “Collective Memory”. This is an archive of activist art from the bay area for people to submit for others to search and look at. Travelslight commented on how children inspired this project and how her classroom dynamics worked. She wanted to create a platform where people could search and find more about local activist art. Most recently “Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area” explores the possibilities on how new media is brought together by different internet platforms through the recent work of artists, activists, and technologists addressing the most pressing issues of our time. Exhibitions“Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area” 2016 (San Francisco, CA) “Declarations for the New Year” 2016 (San Francisco, CA) “(processing) - Bay Area Artists and the Archive” 2015 (San Francisco, CA) “Making a Scene: 50 Years of Alternative Bay Area Spaces” 2015 (San Francisco, CA) “The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers” May-June 2015 (Oakland and San Francisco, CA) a Transbay visual art exhibition about housing security and digital privacy. “Overnight Strange: A Vaudeville for the Displaced (co-curator)” 2014 (San Francisco, CA) “Four Core Chambers” 2014 (Berkley, CA) “Bay Area Media & Arts Festival” (curator) 2014 (San Francisco, CA) “War & Healing” 2014 (San Jose, CA) “Bay Area Global Youth Media & Arts Festival” (curator) 2012 (San Francisco, CA) “Hungry Ghost” 2012 (San Francisco, CA) “Wartime Revival of the Senses” 2012 (Oakland, CA) “hidden in sight” (with SoEx's Youth Advisory Board) 2011 (San Francisco, CA) “All of the Above” 2011 (Oakland, CA) “A Place Her Own” May 2011 (San Francisco, CA) “Things That are Possible” April-May 2010 (Santa Cruz, CA) “sonicSense: CIELO/SKY PART II” 2010 (Canary Islands, Spain) “Artclash Collective's Fun-A-Day Show” Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective. 2010 (Oakland, CA) “sonicSense: Art of Collaboration Symposium” 2009 (Santa Cruz, CA) “Invisible Ingredients” Rock! Paper! Scissors! Collective. July 2009 (Oakland, CA) “Fun-A-Day Show” Queens Nails. February 2009 (San Francisco, CA) References“The Dissidents, The Displaced and the Outliers” Random Parts.“Elizabeth Travelslight” Digital Arts and New Media. University of California Santa Cruz. “Elizabeth Travelslight (DANM '10) at Yerbabuena Center for the Arts” Digital Arts and New Media. University of California Santa Cruz. “Elizabeth Travelslight The Art of Mathematics” San Francisco Art Institute. 2016. “Elizabeth Travelslight + Erin McElroy | Take This Hammer: Artist Conversation | YBCA” (Video) Yerbabuena Center for the Arts YouTube Channel. 2016. “Romer Young - Cult- Southern Exposure - Imcline- Amperand – Mission Comics” San Francisco Opening reviews by artbusiness.com. January 2016. Bieschke, Mark. “Saving radical actions and spaces, Virtually” 48 hills. August 2015. Burke, Sarah. “Data and Displacement” East Bay Express. May 27, 2015. Castner, Brian. “War and Healing Depicted in Silicon Valley Art Gallery” The New York Times. March 2013. Frock. Christian L. “Beyond the Studio: What Do Artists/Writers/Curators Need?” KQED Arts. May 12, 2014. Holmes, Emily K. “‘Dissidents’ Tackle Displacement and Surveillance in Two-Part Exhibition” KQED Arts. June 3rd, 2015. Rhoades, Kate and Wazwaz, Maysoun “Social Fucking Justice (With Elizabeth Travelslight)” Congratulations Pine Tree. May 20th, 2015. |
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