PROJECT
PeoplesLab, 2024

PeoplesLab offers procedural, pragmatic and sensorial tools for change: meeting conflict with an adaptive process to revive trust between people; guiding recognition and understanding of differing perspectives; illuminating ways in which we may be caught in old structures, beliefs and habits; teaching communication and negotiation skills to bridge differences, and generate creative options for effective collaboration. In our era of severe cultural tension and...
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Where Art Might Happen

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Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, 2021

Philipp Kaiser, Christina Vegh,
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

The publication Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, accompanies the exhibition of the same name presented at the Kestner Gesellschaft during 2019. The structure of this publication is astutely highlighted by the chapters Where Art Might Happen, an overview of the exhibition including 42 artists, as well as essays + oral histories in the following chapters Institutional...
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PeoplesLab: Transforming Corona into Possibility
Online | April 22 – May 10 2020

If the conflict between us is also within us, then this time of Corona isolation is an opportunity to focus WITHIN – to recognize our habits, biases, resistances and reactions; to witness, feel, assess and change.
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The Sighted See the Surface, 2020

LM Projects is pleased to announce its latest publication, The Sighted See the Surface, by artist Dorit Cypis

The Sighted See the Surface​ is an expansive project developed by Dorit Cypis over the course of seven years (2012-19). Sparked by the death of mentor and teacher Michael Asher, Cypis excavates her 40 year art practice by connecting disparate points from past to present while unearthing the complexities between sight and seeing, difference...
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Friendly Fire

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Friendly Fire, Epoch Virtual, 2020
EPOCH Gallery | September 5 – October 23

Friendly Fire – Epoch Virtual explores how our internal landscapes may reveal traumas of social histories – trapping us into reactive behavior. Histories are embodied and refracted by us even as we may hold elevated social principals and values. How may we be wearing the ancient warrior coliseum as a collar around our necks? In the age of Covid-19 everything has shifted under and around us. It’s a new world order yet held by broken old world structures. How will we assess...
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The Color of Whiteness
Field Workshop: Action Projects,
2020
ICA Los Angeles | August 30, 2020

The Color of Whiteness was performed Sunday, August 30, in-person and over Zoom, by invitation-only and on site at ICA-LA. This event was created by Cypis and 7 previous participants of PeoplesLab: Identity, Race, Whiteness + Antiracism, a research/training/dialogue program Cypis developed in June 2020 following the tragic murder of George Floyd.
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Friendly Fire (a coronation)
a performance, video and Zoom event in 3 Acts

May 24, 2020

Everything has shifted under and around us. It’s a new world order with broken old world structures. We need to relocate our bodies spatially, temporally and socially. How do we assess conditions with new eyes, ears, minds and bodies to weave our ways towards developing generative models for who we want to be to ourselves and to one another?
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Come Closer, 2019

Come Closer is a triptych of prints intended to be challenging to read. The work asks the reader to take time, to focus carefully in following a flashlight beam across words that appear and disappear in shadow.
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XI OPEN CITY Festival of Art in Public Space, Lublin, Poland
Showcasing contemporary art in urban space as an integral part of everyday urban reality. Hospitality versus Hostility in Lublin’s History and Contemporary Global Cultures
September 13 – October 12, 2019

Welcome the Stranger is created for the Open City Festival, Lublin, Poland, an ancient city with complex political and cultural histories. Welcome the Stranger is an urban installation, performance and social engagement project that reflects principles of sharing sustenance across all human need. Dorit Cypis and Louise Steinman are two artists, a visual artist and a writer, living in Los Angeles, USA, both with family roots in Poland’s Jewish community.

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The Sighted See the Surface (Studio), 2019

The Sighted See the Surface, which began as a tribute to artist Michael Asher whose practice shed light on power and consciousness, documents a mapping process of projected light across 11 photographs installed on a wall at the artist’s studio. The photographs perform as portals into events taking place between 1973 - 1977 and 2012 - 2016. Cypis’ process borrows from crime detective tropes connecting unlikely suspects, locations, intentions and expectations to chart a prism of...
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Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts
Kestner Gesellschaft | August 30 – November 19, 2019

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts focuses on the legendary founding years (1970–1980) of the California Institute of the Arts, which has produced numerous well-known artists. This wide-ranging group exhibition presents a variety of perspectives on the school: parallel movements from the milieus of Conceptual Art, feminism, and Fluxus as well as the school’s radical pedagogical concepts will be brought together for the first time.
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The Art of Direct Action: Social Sculpture and Beyond, 2019

Karen van den Berg, Cara M. Jordan, Philipp Kleinmichel (Eds.)

Texts by Karen van den Berg, Mary Jane Jacob, Cara M. Jordan, Grant Kester, Philipp Kleinmichel, Kuda Production, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Marina Naprushkina, Dan Peterman, Rainer Rappmann, Pedro Reyes, John Roberts, Gregory Sholette, Caroline Tisdall, Anton Vidokle, Caroline Woolard

One of the most significant shifts in contemporary art during the past two decades concerns artists and collectives who have...
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Peoples Lab: Basics Workshop
LATELY | August 21, 2019

Does conflict in your personal life seem chronic? Do disagreements in your professional life feel irreconcilable? Whether you’re looking to sharpen individual or collaborative capacities, Dorit Cypis’ Peoples Lab offers practical and adaptive tools designed to uncover social and psychological blind spots. By fostering honest relations between people while building self-knowledge and communication skills, the Lab realigns thinking and opens space for new collective action.
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The Winter Office

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The Winter Office: The Social Territories of a Warming World #2
with Andrew McNeely & Dorit Cypis

Armory Center for the Arts | July 27, 2019

Please join The Winter Office for the second in a series of public conversations on non-ideal theories of art, collaborative design, and spatial justice in the 21st century city. In the center of The Winter Office's current Armory exhibition is a working Podcast studio that functions as a public speaking and listening environment where new, urgent models for dwelling and housing can be imagined in conversation. These public conversations will be recorded and produced as a podcast series...
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Community Corporation SM

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Community Corporation Santa Monica:
Tools of Engagement Training

Resident Council of Community Corporation Santa Monica
January-July 2019

I got to know these terrific folks mentoring them in collaborative group dynamics through my Tools of Engagement. They are members of the Resident Council of Community Corporation Santa Monica - committed to leading their fellow residents in building strong, healthy, safe communities, while advocating for affordable housing locally and nationally.
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Close Your Eyes If You Want to See
Santa Monica Prefecture | April 1 – July 6, 2019

Santa Monica Prefecture is pleased to present a new work by artist Dorit Cypis, Close Your Eyes If You Want to See, a social sculpture exploring relationships between psychological, physical and social aspects of identity and social relations. Clear, fearless, and piercing, Dorit’s work emphasizes critical social engagement, never falling into reaction, or outrage.
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One Another: Identity, Difference + Conflict
NAVEL | April 17, 2019

Dorit Cypis presents a ten-act interactive presentation on identity, difference and conflict – key themes in the upcoming collaborative research project, One Another. Here, interested audience members will be invited to apply to participate in the seven month process, where, if selected, they will progress through several rounds of rigorous collective inquiry and self-examination.
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Mandarin Plaza

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Mandarin Plaza Pop Up
March 30-31, 2019

“On Captiva Island, I would ride an old bicycle a few times a day from the Gulf side to the Bay side - over a mile-long dirt road that meandered through tropical jungle. Wanting to understand where I was, I often left the road to walk amongst the unfamiliar flora and remember clearly the exact moment I recognized that the largest of the trees had grown huge endless limbs around other trees...suffocating them!"
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WORD 2018-2019: The Bruce Geller Memorial Prize
March 2019

The 2018-2019 Word Grant: Bruce Geller Memorial Prize, a project of American Jewish University’s Institute for Jewish Creativity, supports artists creating projects that explore Jewish ideas, themes, tradition, history, and identity. We believe in supporting a contemporary, vibrant, Jewish cultural landscape in Los Angeles.
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Kulture Klub
February 14, 2019

2018 was a BIG year for Kulture Klub and we wanted to reach out and share some highlights.
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Arts Tune Up at Art Share LA
Arts Share LA | January 12, 2019

Calling artists in and around Los Angeles! Join us for a morning of networking and learning with the LA County Arts Commission. This Tune-Up will include an opportunity to participate in three 40-minute sessions on a variety of topics.
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NAVEL: Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 Announcement
NAVEL | November 26, 2018

NAVEL is proud to announce the programming committee for Spring/Summer 2019, elected by the collective via an open call. NAVEL welcomes Gloria Galvez, Jasmine Nyende, Dorit Cypis, Chris Tyler, Daleen Saah, and Yewande Pearse.
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Performance Scores and Instructions for the Midterm Elections
Hyperallergic | October 31, 2018

Edited by artists John Burtle and Elana Mann, the new book Propositional Attitudes: What do we do now? is an anthology of recent performance scores and instructions meant to blur the lines between spectator and participant. Featuring contributions from Carolina Caycedo, Dorit Cypis, Fallen Fruit, Udita Upadhyaya, and many others, the collected works engage with themes of political organizing and social responsibility, raising difficult questions like: “What societal roles should we...
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Peacebuilding through an Artist’s Perspective. Member Spotlight: Dorit Cypis
Mediators Beyond Borders | 2018

Dorit Cypis, an artist and conflict engagement consultant, is a founding member of MBBI as well as the founding chair of MBBI’s Middle East Initiative. With several awards, fellowships, and start-ups in her name, she has been expressing socio-cultural relationships and personal identity in an aesthetic way since her 20s.
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Simone Forti and Dorit Cypis in Conversation
X-TRA | October 10, 2018

This is the third X-TRA Forum, a series of programs using the 20-year archive of contemporary art quarterly X-TRA as a springboard. In 2004, X-TRA printed a conversation between Dorit and Simone, titled “Between the Conceptual and the Vibrational.” X-TRA is honored to bring the two back together to share another part of their ongoing conversation.
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Art Reminds Us: We Are Implicated in Each Other’s Lives, 2018

One of the things recent events at the Mexico/US border have shown us is the power of documentation: audio, video, and photos that indelibly show the human impact of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. While the viral response to news of separated families and children held in “tender age facilities” underscores the power of such practices, it also raises questions for those of us in the art world: What can art do that journalism can’t? If documentation can stop...
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Untitled: a procession on the borders of something that has already shifted
Materials & Applications | September 29, 2018

Privacies Infrastructure features a choreographed project by Gwyneth Shanks and Sarah Lewis-Cappellari, which takes the form of a walking procession through private and public spaces in Echo Park, featuring presentations from special guests along the way.

The performative walking procession features Gwyneth Shanks, Sarah Lewis-Cappellari, Dorit Cypis, Loren Fenton, Dana Cuff, David Godshall, and Manuel Lopez, amongst others.
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Alternative Spaces: That was Then This is Now
LAXART | June 23, 2018

A discussion on the changing cultural and socio-political landscape undergirding the role of alternative art spaces over the past 40 years.
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Propositional Attitudes: What do we do now?, 2018

Golden Spike Press, 2018; edited by John Burtle and Elana Mann, is an anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions.

The pieces in the book follow a long historical tradition of artists who blurred art and life through performance scores, directions, and instructions such as Pauline Oliveros, Lygia Clark, Allan...
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Biomythography: Un-Panel Workshop
OVERTON HALL | January 28, 2018

Organized and facilitated by Dorit Cypis and Holly Tempo, this workshop trains participants in creating open dialogues and conflict resolution while addressing themes from the art exhibition Biomythography: Currency Exchange and the current political landscape, such as race relations, gentrification, identity, and empathy.
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The Future of Policing, 2015 – 2018 ongoing

Presented by Days of Dialogue, Institute for Non Violence Los Angeles, across Communities of Los Angeles City and County, Dorit Cypis is assisting The Future of Policing as a Dialogue Facilitator. Days of Dialogue is a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to be a catalyst in the community problem solving process by creating dialogue on sensitive social issues among diverse community groups.
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To the Population, 2016

A safety vest protects the human chest and warns of danger. This vest is stuffed with “campaign” buttons asking questions of psycho-physical dimension. We pass people in need on the streets every day. What do we know of one another? How can we connect beyond our fear, towards empathy and reciprocity?
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Artist Lecture & Workshop
ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY | November 13 & 14, 2017

Dorit Cypis will conduct “Diversity Inside Out”, a workshop for students of the Art Department, St. Cloud State University. Aesthetic tools of performance (movement, gesture), drawing (tracing), spatial awareness, and creative critical thinking will be used to build skills of self-reflection, bias awareness, difference recognition, empathy, and reciprocity.
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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation
October 26, 2017

Livestream Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 7:05 PM (PDT)

At its core, the job of an actor is to reflect humanity. Or, as Natalie Portman succinctly put it, “An actor’s job is empathy.” For the performer, this means more than just walking in someone else’s shoes; it requires us to inhabit experiences and perspectives that could be completely alien to our own.
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Hot Box: Smokin’ Ideas, Scoopin’ the Dish
THE BOX LA | July 22, 23, 29, 2017

Hot Box: Smokin’ Ideas, Scoopin’ the Dish is a multi-weekend event meant to inspire and evoke care for ourselves and our culture. Featuring Gina Lamb, Dorit Cypis, Barbara T. Smith, and Corazon del Sol.
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Children + Families Affected by US Immigration Law Enforcement
CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES | July 14, 2017

An action oriented dialogue about how children and families are affected by American Immigration law enforcement.
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Archaeology of Conflict: Meet the Resistance
July 22, 2017

A workshop offered by Dorit Cypis for people working with people.
Saturday July 22, 10AM – 4PM.

Chronic conflict can shift sustainably when the systemic roots are unearthed. Archaeology of Conflict: Meet the Resistance digs deep to question, critique, and engage conflicted relations between and within people, between and within social systems. As an artist, educator, mediator and social activator I offer an integration of aesthetic, perceptual, communication and participatory...
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Dorit Cypis | Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX
MUSEUM OF NON VISIBLE ART | June 30, 2017

Interview with Dorit Cypis by Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio WYBCX.
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Focus Group
CHARLIE JAMES GALLERY | May 20 – July 8, 2017

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Focus Group, a group exhibition curated by Michael Shaw, with works by Dorit Cypis, Sandra de la Loza, Kate Hoffman, Amitis Motevalli, Scott Short, Suzanne Wright, and Samira Yamin.
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PUBLICATION
The Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators, 2016

Published in Handbook in Mediation, editor Alexia Georgakopoulos, Routledge Press, 2017


The Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators frames lessons on recognizing the knots of chronic conflict through considering the spatial nuances of human identity and social relations. As an artist and mediator I use the double lens of aesthetics and mediation to explore...

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“You May Add or Subtract From the Work”
ARTFORUM CRITIC’S PICK | April 5, 2017

Curators Simon Leung and Sébastien Pluot present original scholarship on Asher and D’Arcangelo, including video interviews conducted by Pluot and Dean Inkster with the likes of Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Lawrence Weiner; vintage ephemera; and copies of Asher’s collected writings, and a 1978 Artists Space catalogue in which D’Arcangelo had his name replaced by blank space. Recent works by Dorit Cypis, Ben Kinmont, Emilie Parendeau, and Silvia Kolbowski each reflect an explicit engagement...
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The Mediation Handbook: Research, theory, and practice

The Handbook of Mediation gathers leading experts across fields related to peace, justice, human rights, and conflict resolution to explore ways that mediation can be applied to a range of spectrums, including new age settings, relationships, organizations, institutions, communities, environmental conflicts, and intercultural and international conflicts. The text is informed by cogent theory, state-of-the-art research, and best practices to provide the reader with a well-rounded...
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The Intersection of Immigration Law and Community Dialogue: Where Information Meets Community Conversation
MEDIATORS BEYOND BORDERS LOS ANGELES | April 15, 2017

In our current national climate of rapidly changing immigration laws we face historic issues relating to temporary, permanent and refugee migration to the U.S. We will provide information and tools to understand varying perspectives on these difficult issues.
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You may add or subtract from the work:
On the work of Christopher D’Arcangelo and Michael Asher

SCHINDLER HOUSE | March 23, 2017

With documents of works by Michael Asher and Christopher D’Arcangelo (including six films by Dean Inkster and Sébastien Pluot with Stephen Antonakos, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Daniel Buren, Ben Kinmont, Naomi Spector, and Lawrence Weiner), and works by Dorit Cypis, Ben Kinmont, Silvia Kolbowski, Emilie Parendeau.
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FAR 40 Year Anniversary: A FAR Bazaar
CERRITOS COLLEGE ART COLLECTIVE | January 28-29, 2017

Dorit Cypis became Director of FAR in 1979 as the 3 founders left, and with Christina Ritchie rewrote the by-laws to state that all workers of FAR become members of the Board of Directors and that FAR would be turned over to a new Board group every 3 years. This initiated FAR's governance structure that has lasted 40 years.
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Undefeated: Difference, Bias, and Dialogue
THE MAIN MUSEUM | December 10, 2016

We are waking up post-election, some scared, some angry, some moved towards change. For this program, Dorit Cypis will guide participants through activities to help us confront discord together. We are undefeated if we are willing to move beyond fixed positions, explore skills to deeply recognize our differences, assess our bias, ask questions of one another and dialogue towards embodied change.
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S/Election
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL GALLERY | Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017

S/Election addresses issues around citizenship that have been increasingly prominent leading up to the 45th presidential election.
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Artist Faculty and Students Lead a Discussion on Race
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL GALLERY | June 2016

A group of college faculty, whose work appeared in SKIN at the LA Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) in Barnsdall Park, recently took part in Un-Panel 2: Race Talks. Organized and facilitated by Fine Arts faculty Dorit Cypis and Holly Tempo, the event also included April Bey, Christopher Christion, Camella DaEun Kim, Nery Gabriel Lemus and Daniel Rothman.
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“Tools of Engaging Conflict” Workshop with Dorit Cypis
TRANSART INSTITUTE | June 2016

Many artists today are working in collaborative and partnership situations. Often this engagement brings up difficult cultural and personal differences amongst the parties. Differences that are not understood can become an impasse to working together and result is conflict. How we communicate can have a tremendous impact on relations across conflicting differences. There is nothing wrong with difference, nor with conflict, in fact we need challenges to go beyond what we already know in...
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NEYC Hygiene Packs for Homeless People
June 2016

Grace, a core youth of NE Youth Council was voted in as new member of Cypress Park Neighborhood Council. NEYC are local youth bridging community and police by modeling generative social relations through street events - currently distributing Personal Hygiene packs to home-less folks in their neighborhoods. I've been working on developing this program past 2 years.
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Whose Bare Life (braille), 2015

Series of 18 prints, each unique
Photographs with visual braille in Silkscreen.
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Kulture Klub Collaborative – Recording Studio
April 2016

Kulture Klub Collaborative is an independent nonprofit arts organization that brings together artists and youth experiencing homelessness at YouthLink in the Youth Opportunity Center, a crisis drop-in center located in downtown Minneapolis.
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Collaborative Strategic Planning
February 8, 2016

I was at a seminar in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago on Collaborative Strategic Planning.
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Dispute Resolution Techniques for People in Arts & Entertainment
CALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS | August 10, 2015

Cypis will discuss how the nature of conflict is affected by relationships - who we are to ourselves and who we are to others and how identity beliefs form bias.
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Drawings | Fridges
GREENE EXHIBITIONS | July 13 – July 25, 2015

Group exhibition at Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles
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Who Did It (alert), 2013 – 2015

Who Did It (alert) makes simple words complex to read. The 5 prints mimic the 5 colours of Homeland Security Advisory System instituted in the USA in 2002.
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Correspondence
February 22, 2015

Readings by Morani Kornberg-Weiss and Meital Yaniv. Followed by a discussion lead by Dorit Cypis.
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News to Be Read (National Geographic), 2013

PROJECT
News to Be Read, 2013

Photograph of a monthly journal, Braille edition - one of a series of eight.
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Performing Empathy: What the Arts Can Offer Conflict Resolution, 2014

Empathy, Art and Mediation

Differences between people can be incomprehensible, fueling mistrust that can deter us from engagement. Recognizing and negotiating personal and cultural differences is dependent on developing empathy for oneself and between people. Empathy is more than feeling for another; empathy requires us to reach deep within ourselves and recognize our own inner responses so we can then better recognize another person’s response.
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Creative Tools for Conflict Engagement
February 14, 2015

Conflict is human, so is moving past conflict. Conflict that is between people is also within people. To engage with conflict towards transformation and generative relations we must engage with both the internal and external circumstances of conflict.
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The Sighted See the Surface
LM PROJECTS | May 6, 2014

This work is dedicated to the late Michael Asher who serves as a catalyst for Dorit Cypis’ ongoing research project The Sighted See the Surface. Asher’s critique of institutions shaping what is made visible and not visible to the public has inspired Cypis to work with the Braille Institute in Los Angeles as a site for study and collaboration.
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The Sighted, 2013

Archival pigment prints on Hahnemuhle rag paper.
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Diversity Inside/Out: The Role of Anxiety in Mediation
November 26, 2014

This is an interactive presentation that recognizes the important role that anxiety and identity play in challenging mediators to “mediate courageously”.
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Can i be dropped from history?, 2013

Video: 30 sec (loop), iPad, aluminum frame, 12” x 18” blackboard.
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History Lesson (an arrangement), 2011

In Tribute to Tadeusz Kantor

Tadeusz, I am so happy to be in relations with you once again. It has been quite some time since we last met, Los Angeles, the summer of 1984 I believe. The Olympic Games, against the LA backdrop pretense of urban harmony, had inhaled the city. Downtown, hundred of homeless people were given one-way bus tickets to Arizona, “cleansing” the streets of a hyper visuality of basic human life needs.
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Understanding Conflict Through Art
November 11, 2014

Cypis is one of three recipients of the SPArt (Social Practice Art) grant. SPArt is a Los Angeles-based initiative that funds artistic projects.
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… a prelude to The Life of Life, 2012

The Life of Life is a performative work including “sleight of hand” tricks that continue the artist’s aesthetic exploration of the uncanny nature of history.
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Los Angeles: A Zone Beyond Time, 2010

Relocating to Southern California in 1975 was an adjustment to Pacific Standard Time and to the persistence of shifting sands. That’s the year I landed in Los Angeles, specifically at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts), after a half-year residency in New York’s Soho, across the street from the art bookstore Jaap Reitman, and five years studying in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Days of Dialogue: Police Community Relations in the Aftermath of Michael Brown and Ezell Ford
October 30, November 1 & 5, 2014

On October 30, 2014, 160 people from South LA came together for Days of Dialogue to talk together of their grief and frustration in the wake of recent police killings in their local neighborhoods and nationally.
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ALL MY FLOWERS (2010), 2011

Yearlong event - flowers held in this vase from January 1 – December 31, 2010
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Foreign Exchanges: You who look may not see, 2008

“May I help you?” “No thank you. Just looking”.

To look is to scan, taking in selectively without commitment, to consume, gliding over endless surfaces, to shop, desiring, inhaling without exhaling, to project without reflection. To see, is an intimate act, recognizing that the one outside of oneself is different and at the same time very like oneself. To witness this simultaneous sameness and difference of “you” requires a commitment from me of extra-ordinary...
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The Crisis This Time, Conversations on Israel/Palestine
LEVANTINE CULTURAL CENTER | August 2014

Dorit Cypis is collaborating with the Levantine Cultural Center to provide dialogue facilitators and organize evening dialogues with participating audiences.
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Plis (the similar between Polish and Palestinian), 2011

Two rubbings of same silver box (from A Symmetry).
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flip, flop, foul and reconciliation: which beautiful game?
EAST OF BORNEO | July 2014

Rook Campbell and Dorit Cypis are colleagues, a professor of sport diplomacy and an artist and mediator. They engage on “Fútbol: The Beautiful Game,” an art exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art curated by Franklin Sirmans.
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Dorit Cypis appointed 2014 Guggenheim Fellow
JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | April 2014

Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
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A SYMMETRY, 2011

A Symmetry is a time line of photographs and text charting seven objects chosen from the artist’s family archive.
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A Brave New World (remix), 2011

Ghostly reflections of Hieronymus Bosch...Dante’s Inferno...Dawn of the Dead... interchangeably drifted through my mind when I first entered the tent city of Occupy Los Angeles, late October, 2011. The terrain of people was bare, raw, gritty, and utterly public. I’m an artist and a mediator. I chose to show up on site frequently over the next month offering engagement and conflict transformation skills to support their capacity to perform expressions of public outcry at our culture’s out of...
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Dorit Cypis Joins AAMS Mediation Panel
March 25, 2014

All mediators on the AAMS Party Select Program have at least five years of experience in arts and entertainment, have attended mediation certification training, meet annual continuing education requirements, and have served as a mediator on at minimum twenty (20) cases.
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The Artist and Her Archive, 2010

The artist spent three-months investigating her archive to discover connective portals of personal and political dimensions. Personal objects took on cultural and political meaning not previously recognized.
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Conflict, Mourning and Aesthetics, 2008

(what happens when history does not pass?)

Conflict, informed by a complexion of personal subjectivities and cultural forces, exists within and between people. Where there is difference there will be conflict and as human difference is inevitable, so is conflict. The question is, what tools are available towards questioning, examination, reformation and transformation?
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SPArt announces 2014 Inaugural grants in Social Practice
February 3, 2014

SPArt, a new Los Angeles-based granting organization, announces its inaugural 2014 grants in Social Practice.
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Inside/Outside/In, 2010

Inside/Outside/In was developed as a performance for Dan Graham the gallery, to engage with the artist Dan Graham's Performer/Audience/Mirror, originally performed in 1975.
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The Spirit of Proximity, 2008

Journal for Art and Protest

What is the lifespan of the spirit of revolution? I always wondered about this question ...even as very young child. I remember my father, a textile engineer, traveling every year to Central America from Israel, and then from Montreal, and returning home, it seemed to me, with stories of either recurring natural disaster or revolution. My juvenile mind couldn’t comprehend, but I did wonder: why another revolution in the same...
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I + We Collective by Robbie Herbst
HUMAN RESOURCES | January 15-25, 2014

I + We is an experimental and participatory (political) movement workshop. Borrowing techniques from dance, social sculpture, and new games, the structured hour and-a-half experience explores collective identity, play, and movement.
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Galileo, 2008

Galileo is an immersive installation of photographs, mirrors, a telescope and chairs.
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Shifted/Sight
HINGE PARALLEL | January 11 – March 1, 2014

"Dorit Cypis' work at Hinge Parallel plays textually with font, layout and color to confound reading, comprehension of seeing, self-knowledge, and being witness.
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DORIT CYPIS & PETER WU
Can i be dropped from history?
Panel Discussion

GREENE EXHIBITIONS | October 26, 2013

What are some considerations on authorship, identity, history, and dialogue when individual artists work in response to one another? Artists Dorit Cypis and Peter Wu will discuss this question moderated by curator and art historian Claire de Dobay Rifelj.
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Stranded Subject (Weekends), 2007

Stranded Subject (weekends), an immersive installation, digitally re-combines newspaper images to create new narratives from those that are delivered to us daily.
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Between the Conceptual and the Vibrational, 2003

Dorit Cypis speaking with Simone Forti

Simone Forti today, is the same woman I met many years ago, and so much more. Her work in dance, from the 1950's to today, 2004, spans the aesthetic movements of expressionism and minimalism and has branched much further into a mature hybrid of both, embracing a deep humanism of extraordinary focus to the details of life and death, which surrounds us daily.
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Can i be dropped from history?
October 2013

DAAP has invited me to offer a public lecture about my artwork and a pedagogical workshop that facilitates discussion of museum studies and contemporary art practice, questioning institutional and cultural constructions of knowledge, meaning, and value.
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Artistic Sensibility in Conflict Resolution
July 24, 2013

Artistic Sensibility in Conflict Resolution July 24, 2013 by Dorit Empathy is more than feeling for another; empathy allows us to listen for the emotional cause of a conflict. Arts have the inherent ability to short-cut cognitive and affective blocks and ignite empathy.
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Sightlines, 2006

Sightlines, is an immersive environment where the viewer becomes partner to cross-historical and cross-cultural variables.
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Folding Time Rhymes
GREENE EXHIBITIONS | July 20 – August 24, 2013

Group Exhibition at Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles
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Enact – Art in the Mind
May 6, 2013

In 1970, 65 artists participated in a project called Art in the Mind, curated by Athena Tacha and published at Oberlin College. An early document of conceptual gestures, the catalog was the exhibition.
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Shifter – What We Can Knot
THE POP-HOP | May 23, 2013

SHIFTER is thrilled to invite you to a book launch, with a series of short presentations celebrating the launch of our twentieth issue titled What We Can Knot.
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Kulture Klub at the Capitol
April 4, 2013

Decisive Moment: An Exploration of Portraiture – Work on view was created collaboratively with artists from Kulture Klub Collaborative and local artist Adriana Rimpel.
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Liberty (leading the people), 2003

Liberty (leading the people) is a reflection on Eugene Delacroix's romantic/classical painting Liberty Leading the People, 1830. Cypis employs photography, video, performance, and sculpture to create an immersive space of experience and discovery, psychological, physical and political.
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