Torrance Art Museum (TAM) is excited to announce two exhibitions: In Medias Res: Expanded a collaboration with FEMMEBIT, and Supercollider and Jet Pascua: The Arrears on Arrival. In Medias Res: Expanded Cyber Wave Feminism: A Love Letter to Los Angeles’s Coastal Chaparral Curators: Kate Parsons + Janna Avner Artists: Anna Luisa Petrisko, Brian Dario, Casey Kauffmann, Eli Joteva, Ellie Pritts, Eve Lauryn LaFountain, Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Janna Avner, Jody Zellen, Huntrezz Janos, Katia M Stewart, Matt Nespor, Petra Cortright, Richelle Ellis, Sara Zucker, Tuna Bora In Medias Res: Expanded celebrates the contributions of Los Angeles based feminist and post-cyberfeminist artists. This exhibition reflects today’s digital uprootedness, challenging conventional definitions of cities and urban identities in relation to mainstream media, geography and land ownership. The title “in medias res,” comes from a Latin phrase meaning “into the midst of things.” Suggested by this phrase, the artists invite viewers to engage with the heart of their stories, wherein they explore their relationships to Los Angeles as they negotiate daily life in relation to Hollywood and society at large. These artists reinterpret the visual mainstays of Los Angeles from personal, multicultural, dreamlike, queer, decentralized, and other alternative histories to offer a more nuanced understanding of the city than Hollywood’s palm-dappled, hegemonic and heteronormative Barbie-esque ideations. As with the City of Angels, LA’s thriving artistic scenes is fed by the TV and film industry, video game industry, art world and cult of celebrity. The wide range of mediums, tools and narrative expressions in this exhibition — including analog video, film, animation, AI, game engines and XR – reflect the artists’ navigation of LA’s various creative industries. Despite its competitive nature, LA maintains an extraordinary collaborative spirit, without which FEMMEBIT and Supercollider would not exist. In Medias Res: Expanded is a collaboration between FEMMEBIT, SUPERCOLLIDER and Torrance Art Museum. Gallery Two: JET PASCUA: The Arrears on Arrival JET PASCUA: The Arrears on Arrival is the Filipino-Norwegian’s solo exhibition of key pieces selected from three decades of an artistic practice that mines the depths of life forged by the promises seized and the deceits endured in that unmappable country called Diaspora. At a time when displacement is at an unprecedented intensity the world over, this exhibition channels the larger questions about political histories that condition forced migration through the specificity of the history of his country of origin, the Philippines. Chinua Achebe’s observation that “Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him” is the text that serves as Pascua’s talisman in his practice. The assembled objects, performative drawings, and video look squarely at the realities that beg to be reshaped, exposing the nerve points in the arc of his pursuit of grasping the forces that lead people toward risk and abandonment. Acknowledging the debts incurred upon departure, Pascua confronts the painful legacies of displacement. Even as he might privilege what’s punk, pitiless, or profane about the human condition, it is motivated by an unblinking demand of the self and the world a profoundly different path forged only through struggle. Casting harsh light on the face of the present order of reality for the children and orphans of diaspora is how the artist imagines communities can summon the strength to craft a different order of reality. – Carina Evangelista