Dorit Cypis

PROJECTPeoplesLab, 2024

dorit — Thu, 20 May 2021 03:17:01 +0000

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,...

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

dorit — Wed, 19 May 2021 21:56:29 +0000

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 astut...

NEWSPeoplesLab: Transforming Corona into PossibilityOnline | April 22 – May 10 2020

dorit — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:22:20 +0000

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....

PROJECTThe Sighted See the Surface, 2020

dorit — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 03:41:40 +0000

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 me...

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

dorit — Sat, 12 Sep 2020 03:26:37 +0000

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 wa...

PROJECTThe Color of WhitenessField Workshop: Action Projects, 2020ICA Los Angeles | August 30, 2020

dorit — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 18:14:49 +0000

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...

NEWSFriendly Fire (a coronation)a performance, video and Zoom event in 3 ActsMay 24, 2020

dorit — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:03:56 +0000

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 ...

PROJECTCome Closer, 2019

dorit — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 01:32:02 +0000

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. ...

PROJECTXI OPEN CITY Festival of Art in Public Space, Lublin, PolandShowcasing contemporary art in urban space as an integral part of everyday urban reality. Hospitality versus Hostility in Lublin’s History and Contemporary Global CulturesSeptember 13 – October 12, 2019

dorit — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 02:44:43 +0000

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 ...

PROJECTThe Sighted See the Surface (Studio), 2019

dorit — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 21:13:59 +0000

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...

NEWSWhere Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArtsKestner Gesellschaft | August 30 – November 19, 2019

dorit — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 04:22:23 +0000

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 mo...

PUBLICATIONThe Art of Direct Action: Social Sculpture and Beyond, 2019

dorit — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:33:04 +0000

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 Sh...

NEWSPeoples Lab: Basics Workshop LATELY | August 21, 2019

dorit — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 01:42:37 +0000

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 psychologic...

NEWSThe Winter Office: The Social Territories of a Warming World #2with Andrew McNeely & Dorit Cypis Armory Center for the Arts | July 27, 2019

dorit — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:28:37 +0000

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 spe...

NEWSCommunity Corporation Santa Monica:Tools of Engagement Training Resident Council of Community Corporation Santa MonicaJanuary-July 2019

dorit — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 22:22:26 +0000

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 communitie...

PROJECT Close Your Eyes If You Want to SeeSanta Monica Prefecture | April 1 – July 6, 2019

dorit — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:04:04 +0000

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 emp...

PROJECTOne Another: Identity, Difference + Conflict NAVEL | April 17, 2019

dorit — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:19:53 +0000

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...

NEWSMandarin Plaza Pop Up March 30-31, 2019

dorit — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 05:15:00 +0000

“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 momen...

NEWSWORD 2018-2019: The Bruce Geller Memorial Prize March 2019

dorit — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 05:03:50 +0000

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 ...

NEWSKulture KlubFebruary 14, 2019

dorit — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:55:45 +0000

2018 was a BIG year for Kulture Klub and we wanted to reach out and share some highlights....

NEWSArts Tune Up at Art Share LAArts Share LA | January 12, 2019

dorit — Sun, 23 Dec 2018 04:36:38 +0000

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....

NEWSNAVEL: Programming Committee Spring/Summer 2019 AnnouncementNAVEL | November 26, 2018

dorit — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 02:24:39 +0000

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....

NEWSPerformance Scores and Instructions for the Midterm ElectionsHyperallergic | October 31, 2018

dorit — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 02:46:19 +0000

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 ...

NEWSPeacebuilding through an Artist’s Perspective. Member Spotlight: Dorit CypisMediators Beyond Borders | 2018

dorit — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:23:18 +0000

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 aesthe...

NEWSSimone Forti and Dorit Cypis in ConversationX-TRA | October 10, 2018

dorit — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:20:21 +0000

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...

PUBLICATIONArt Reminds Us: We Are Implicated in Each Other’s Lives, 2018

dorit — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 03:22:10 +0000

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 he...

NEWSUntitled: a procession on the borders of something that has already shiftedMaterials & Applications | September 29, 2018

dorit — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:46:31 +0000

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...

NEWSAlternative Spaces: That was Then This is NowLAXART | June 23, 2018

dorit — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 04:14:40 +0000

A discussion on the changing cultural and socio-political landscape undergirding the role of alternative art spaces over the past 40 years....

PUBLICATIONPropositional Attitudes: What do we do now?, 2018

dorit — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:09:44 +0000

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

Th...

NEWSBiomythography: Un-Panel WorkshopOVERTON HALL | January 28, 2018

dorit — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:48:53 +0000

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, gentr...

PROJECTThe Future of Policing, 2015 – 2018 ongoing

dorit — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:29:25 +0000

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 organiza...

PROJECTTo the Population, 2016

dorit — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:10:36 +0000

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...

NEWSArtist Lecture & WorkshopST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY | November 13 & 14, 2017

dorit — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 23:55:35 +0000

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-r...

NEWSThe SAG-AFTRA FoundationOctober 26, 2017

dorit — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 03:41:42 +0000

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...

NEWSHot Box: Smokin’ Ideas, Scoopin’ the DishTHE BOX LA | July 22, 23, 29, 2017

dorit — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:25:32 +0000

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....

NEWSChildren + Families Affected by US Immigration Law EnforcementCHILDREN’S INSTITUTE LOS ANGELES | July 14, 2017

dorit — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:03:00 +0000

An action oriented dialogue about how children and families are affected by American Immigration law enforcement. ...

NEWSArchaeology of Conflict: Meet the ResistanceJuly 22, 2017

dorit — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:24:11 +0000

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 bet...

NEWSDorit Cypis | Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCXMUSEUM OF NON VISIBLE ART | June 30, 2017

dorit — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 19:12:50 +0000

Interview with Dorit Cypis by Brainard Carey for Yale University Radio WYBCX....

NEWSFocus GroupCHARLIE JAMES GALLERY | May 20 – July 8, 2017

dorit — Sat, 20 May 2017 00:55:26 +0000

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....

PUBLICATIONThe Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators, 2016

dorit — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:42:00 +0000

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

The Space of Conflict: Aesthetic Lessons for Mediators frames lessons on recognizing the kn...

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

dorit — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 04:19:24 +0000

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...

NEWSThe Mediation Handbook: Research, theory, and practice

dorit — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 04:06:17 +0000

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, enviro...

NEWSThe Intersection of Immigration Law and Community Dialogue: Where Information Meets Community ConversationMEDIATORS BEYOND BORDERS LOS ANGELES | April 15, 2017

dorit — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:56:30 +0000

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. ...

NEWSYou may add or subtract from the work:On the work of Christopher D’Arcangelo and Michael AsherSCHINDLER HOUSE | March 23, 2017

dorit — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:19:27 +0000

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, Emili...

NEWSFAR 40 Year Anniversary: A FAR BazaarCERRITOS COLLEGE ART COLLECTIVE | January 28-29, 2017

dorit — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:53:42 +0000

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 ...

NEWSUndefeated: Difference, Bias, and DialogueTHE MAIN MUSEUM | December 10, 2016

dorit — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:28:39 +0000

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 ou...

NEWSS/ElectionLOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL GALLERY | Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 8, 2017

dorit — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 05:19:49 +0000

S/Election addresses issues around citizenship that have been increasingly prominent leading up to the 45th presidential election....

NEWSArtist Faculty and Students Lead a Discussion on RaceLOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL GALLERY | June 2016

dorit — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 21:52:50 +0000

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, Christophe...

NEWS“Tools of Engaging Conflict” Workshop with Dorit CypisTRANSART INSTITUTE | June 2016

dorit — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 04:36:22 +0000

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 ha...

NEWSNEYC Hygiene Packs for Homeless PeopleJune 2016

dorit — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 04:20:19 +0000

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 neighb...

PROJECTWhose Bare Life (braille), 2015

dorit — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:36:35 +0000

Series of 18 prints, each unique
Photographs with visual braille in Silkscreen. ...

NEWSKulture Klub Collaborative – Recording StudioApril 2016

dorit — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 01:45:43 +0000

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. ...

NEWSCollaborative Strategic PlanningFebruary 8, 2016

dorit — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 05:20:28 +0000

I was at a seminar in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago on Collaborative Strategic Planning....

NEWSDispute Resolution Techniques for People in Arts & EntertainmentCALIFORNIA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS | August 10, 2015

dorit — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 21:51:33 +0000

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....

NEWSDrawings | FridgesGREENE EXHIBITIONS | July 13 – July 25, 2015

dorit — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:33:31 +0000

Group exhibition at Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles...

NEWSI Hope the Wind Don’t BlowOTIS MFA PUBLIC PRACTICE | May 9-17, 2015

dorit — Sat, 09 May 2015 22:15:36 +0000

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PROJECTWho Did It (alert), 2013 – 2015

dorit — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:34:10 +0000

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....

NEWSCorrespondenceFebruary 22, 2015

dorit — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 03:43:03 +0000

Readings by Morani Kornberg-Weiss and Meital Yaniv. Followed by a discussion lead by Dorit Cypis....

PROJECTNews to Be Read, 2013

dorit — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:59:28 +0000

Photograph of a monthly journal, Braille edition - one of a series of eight....

PUBLICATIONPerforming Empathy: What the Arts Can Offer Conflict Resolution, 2014

dorit — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:58:01 +0000

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 mor...

NEWSCreative Tools for Conflict EngagementFebruary 14, 2015

dorit — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:38:59 +0000

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....

NEWSThe Sighted See the SurfaceLM PROJECTS | May 6, 2014

dorit — Tue, 06 May 2014 23:15:57 +0000

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 ...

PROJECTThe Sighted, 2013

dorit — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:50:18 +0000

Archival pigment prints on Hahnemuhle rag paper....

NEWSChats About Change Pivoting: Ethics And AestheticsJanuary 17, 2015

dorit — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 22:30:57 +0000

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NEWSDiversity Inside/Out: The Role of Anxiety in MediationNovember 26, 2014

dorit — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 03:55:11 +0000

This is an interactive presentation that recognizes the important role that anxiety and identity play in challenging mediators to “mediate courageously”....

PROJECTCan i be dropped from history?, 2013

dorit — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:58:09 +0000

Video: 30 sec (loop), iPad, aluminum frame, 12” x 18” blackboard....

PUBLICATIONHistory Lesson (an arrangement), 2011

dorit — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:21:00 +0000

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. ...

NEWSUnderstanding Conflict Through ArtNovember 11, 2014

dorit — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:25:12 +0000

Cypis is one of three recipients of the SPArt (Social Practice Art) grant. SPArt is a Los Angeles-based initiative that funds artistic projects. ...

PROJECT… a prelude to The Life of Life, 2012

dorit — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:59:37 +0000

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....

PUBLICATIONLos Angeles: A Zone Beyond Time, 2010

dorit — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:26:22 +0000

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 stree...

NEWSDays of Dialogue: Police Community Relations in the Aftermath of Michael Brown and Ezell FordOctober 30, November 1 & 5, 2014

dorit — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:41:03 +0000

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. ...

PROJECTALL MY FLOWERS (2010), 2011

dorit — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:38:32 +0000

Yearlong event - flowers held in this vase from January 1 – December 31, 2010...

PUBLICATIONForeign Exchanges: You who look may not see, 2008

dorit — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:29:04 +0000

“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...

NEWSThe Crisis This Time, Conversations on Israel/PalestineLEVANTINE CULTURAL CENTER | August 2014

dorit — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:57:12 +0000

Dorit Cypis is collaborating with the Levantine Cultural Center to provide dialogue facilitators and organize evening dialogues with participating audiences....

PROJECTPlis (the similar between Polish and Palestinian), 2011

dorit — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:42:25 +0000

Two rubbings of same silver box (from A Symmetry)....

PUBLICATIONflip, flop, foul and reconciliation: which beautiful game?EAST OF BORNEO | July 2014

dorit — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 23:06:37 +0000

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....

NEWSDorit Cypis appointed 2014 Guggenheim FellowJOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | April 2014

dorit — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:30:42 +0000

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

PROJECTA SYMMETRY, 2011

dorit — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:05:32 +0000

A Symmetry is a time line of photographs and text charting seven objects chosen from the artist’s family archive. ...

PUBLICATIONA Brave New World (remix), 2011

dorit — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:15:37 +0000

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...

NEWSDorit Cypis Joins AAMS Mediation PanelMarch 25, 2014

dorit — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:02:05 +0000

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....

PROJECTThe Artist and Her Archive, 2010

dorit — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:51:00 +0000

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....

PUBLICATIONConflict, Mourning and Aesthetics, 2008

dorit — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:33:24 +0000

(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,...

NEWSSPArt announces 2014 Inaugural grants in Social PracticeFebruary 3, 2014

dorit — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 23:56:00 +0000

SPArt, a new Los Angeles-based granting organization, announces its inaugural 2014 grants in Social Practice....

PROJECTInside/Outside/In, 2010

dorit — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:07:53 +0000

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....

PUBLICATIONThe Spirit of Proximity, 2008

dorit — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:31:18 +0000

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, a...

NEWSI + We Collective by Robbie HerbstHUMAN RESOURCES | January 15-25, 2014

dorit — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:02:10 +0000

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....

PROJECTGalileo, 2008

dorit — Thu, 08 May 2008 00:28:55 +0000

Galileo is an immersive installation of photographs, mirrors, a telescope and chairs....

NEWSShifted/SightHINGE PARALLEL | January 11 – March 1, 2014

dorit — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:14:05 +0000

"Dorit Cypis' work at Hinge Parallel plays textually with font, layout and color to confound reading, comprehension of seeing, self-knowledge, and being witness....

NEWSDORIT CYPIS & PETER WUCan i be dropped from history?Panel DiscussionGREENE EXHIBITIONS | October 26, 2013

dorit — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:44:15 +0000

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....

PROJECTStranded Subject (Weekends), 2007

dorit — Mon, 07 May 2007 00:40:56 +0000

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

PUBLICATIONBetween the Conceptual and the Vibrational, 2003

dorit — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:45:50 +0000

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 m...

NEWSCan i be dropped from history?October 2013

dorit — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:32:53 +0000
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....

NEWSArtistic Sensibility in Conflict ResolutionJuly 24, 2013

dorit — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:40:47 +0000
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....

PROJECTSightlines, 2006

dorit — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:51:09 +0000
Sightlines, is an immersive environment where the viewer becomes partner to cross-historical and cross-cultural variables....

NEWSFolding Time RhymesGREENE EXHIBITIONS | July 20 – August 24, 2013

dorit — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:55:13 +0000
Group Exhibition at Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles...

NEWSEnact – Art in the MindMay 6, 2013

dorit — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:25:07 +0000
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....

PROJECTRed Window, 2005

dorit — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:59:41 +0000
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NEWSShifter – What We Can KnotTHE POP-HOP | May 23, 2013

dorit — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:06:27 +0000
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....

NEWSKulture Klub at the CapitolApril 4, 2013

dorit — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:51:06 +0000
Decisive Moment: An Exploration of Portraiture – Work on view was created collaboratively with artists from Kulture Klub Collaborative and local artist Adriana Rimpel....

PROJECTLiberty (leading the people), 2003

dorit — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 01:08:40 +0000
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....