TELIC ARTS EXCHANGE
Publications in any media - but primarily in the form of books and DVDs - are generated under the label Editions. These publications amplify the concepts produced through the other four projects by creating objects to put into circulation.
The Public School is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up. The Public School is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system.
Not a gallery in the traditional sense, the Distributed Gallery is a video exhibition project made of televisions and video monitors in various semi-private locations around (but not limited to) Chinatown. At the moment, video monitors are located in Fong's, Via Cafe, Ooga Booga, and The Public School. Each month a new artist, writer, curator, collective, or other cultural practitioner is asked to select one video for each monitor in its given context, the sum of which amounts to an exhibition.
Berlin is a conceptual art gallery set in Los Angeles's sister city, Berlin. Recognizing that art is experienced through so-called secondary formats of press releases, rumors, websites, advertisements, anecdote, and freely circulating images, Telic decided in 2007 to create a gallery within this particular place. Berlin-based architects SMAQ selected an address, Brunnenstrasse 11, and designed an exhibition space situated on the 2nd floor.
From 2003 to 2008, 975 Chung King Road was the shopfront space within which Telic Arts Exchange generated hundreds of installations, performances, exhibitions, screenings, lectures, meetings, and other moments in time that don't lend themselves so easily to one-word description. Nevertheless, there is one word that consistently wove itself through the programming in a variety of ways - event. An event lasts a minute or two or for five years