Assembly 2020

Be a local of my life – presentation and conversation

By artist Brianna Ortega

ASSEMBLY EVENT — FRIDAY JUNE 5th at 5-5:45PMInspired by both surf localism and locality, Be a Local of My Life explores what it means to be a local person in a community. In this project, community is defined as the people you come in contact with and have relational, verbal, social, or object exchanges with on a recurring basis. How do intimate relationships with a place shape a community? How can our identification as a local be shaped by memory-based knowledge instead of only site-specific factual information about a place? How does power, memory, and time influence a community member’s journey to becoming a local?  

The Assembly event centered on Be a Local of my life will detail the project, open up discussion on what it means to be a local, with artist Brianna Ortega and guest feminist surf and surf localism researcher, Dr. Rebecca Olive, from The University of Queensland.

ASSEMBLY EVENT The Assembly event centered on Be a Local of my life will detail the project, open up discussion on what it means to be a local, with artist Brianna Ortega and guest feminist surf and surf localism researcher, Dr. Rebecca Olive, from The University of Queensland.