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Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between Los Angeles-based artists, scholars, and curators, providing a forum for debate about representations of the city. In this fourth iteration, archival scholar Michelle Caswell, social scientist Laura Pulido, and multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams explore the ways in which archives can repress or enable certain histories of the city, as well as strategies for working with archives that chronicle Los Angeles's past and shape its future.
This program is moderated by Zanna Gilbert, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. It was organized by Zanna Gilbert and Isabel Wade, research assistant at the Getty Research Institute.
This event occurred on Sept 21, 2022.
Learn more about this event
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3574.html
Imaginaries of LA is a series of conversations between Los Angeles-based artists, scholars, and curators, providing a forum for debate about representations of the city. In this fourth iteration, archival scholar Michelle Caswell, social scientist Laura Pulido, and multidisciplinary artist Kandis Williams explore the ways in which archives can repress or enable certain histories of the city, as well as strategies for working with archives that chronicle Los Angeles's past and shape its future.
This program is moderated by Zanna Gilbert, senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. It was organized by Zanna Gilbert and Isabel Wade, research assistant at the Getty Research Institute.
This event occurred on Sept 21, 2022.
Learn more about this event
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3574.html







![Barbara T. Smith, With Love from A to B (1977)
Created with Nancy Buchanan, With Love from A to B was initially a video performance for the 1977 College Art Association convention. Smith had the idea of using the framing edge [of the screen] to initiate all action, with the center field more or less empty. In the video, Smiths hands act as a suitor courting buchanans hands, who do not return the suitors love. The original piece ended with Smith controversially cutting her own finger a choice she later regretted and re-shot so that the violence was only implied.
This video is part of the Barbara T. Smith papers at the Getty Research Institute. View the finding aid for Smiths archive: https://primo.getty.edu/permalink/f/19q6gmb/GETTY_ALMA21155149520001551
Barbara T. Smith: The Way to Be is on view at the Getty Research Institute from February 28, 2023 through July 16, 2023. Learn more: https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/barbara_t_smith/index.html Barbara T. Smith, With Love from A to B (1977)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I9AFdRDKLGk/mqdefault.jpg)


