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Karla Diaz
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2015
Grant Summary
Support for ongoing work.
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Artist Statement
I am a visual artist,
writer, performer and activist. Born in Los Angeles and raised both in Mexico
and L.A. My work often uses performance and writing to question institutional
power, create collaborations and provoke dialogue among diverse communities. I
use performance, writing and multimedia installations to redefine the role of
an artist as a facilitator to engage people in critical discourse. Inspired by
a personal narrative, I like to explore social, subcultural, marginalized and
anthropological issues, often inviting communities and audiences participation
into the work. Art Matters will be supporting my interest in social justice
thru an exploration of food politics in my ongoing project “Prison
Gourmet," an on-going multimedia project, made from California prisoner's’
commissary-food item recipes. I am excited to develop this project and work
(for the first time) with the prison community outside of California.