“Liv Mendez”
How to Sleep Faster #10, 2019 ❀ Published by Arcadia Missa
Demonstrate Continuity of the World in my Absence 2019, three full-color page text/digital collage, commissioned by Arcadia Missa.
writing
Copywriting, 2015-2018, 2023-Present ❀ Client: Exhibition A
100+ contemporary-art focused texts released alongside artist editions including collaborations with Juan Arango Palacios, Katherine Bradford, Thornton Dial, Shara Hughes, Rachel Eulena Williams, Chloe Wise, Brad Phillips, Monica Kim Garza, Kandis Williams, Danielle Orchard, Melvin Way, and Loc Huynh, among many others.
Copywriting, 2018 - 2019 ❀ Client: Central Bookings International
Including written and creative contributions to inaugural catalog debuted by FADER.
MFTA Loves NYC: A Retrospective of Creative Reuse, 2015 ❀ Materials for the Arts (New York City Department of Cultural Affairs)
Co-curated with former Secretary of the Board, Barbara Korein. The exhibition traced MFTA’s innovative model over its 35 year history, reconstructing the program’s origins and evolution with installations of archival documents, various ephemera, and select historical features on notable MFTA members such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Creative Time, The Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, Henry Street Settlement, ABC No Rio, MoMA, and MoMA PS1, among many, many others, as well as contributions by artist beneficiaries including artworks by Kembra Pfahler, Jane Dickson and Mary Beth Edelson.
curatorial
exhibition history
In Case It Gets Away From Us, 2020 ❀ Online group exhibition curated by Zoë Argires
Almost Never, 254 words
in the mud and the sun and the rain and the dust, 2020 ❀ Online exhibition by @art_death, curatorial project by Matthew Tully Dugan
i love money (ambient youth), 02:25 video sound concept, you have the right to ask for help, 1:00 video sound concept, in the mud and the sun and the rain and the dust, 09:00 video sound concept, 32 digital collages, miscellaneous ephemera
If A Child Set The World On Fire Would They Do It Like This Or Like This, 2019 ❀ Group exhibition at Interstate Projects (Brooklyn) curated by Museum Gallery
Eponymous text, 177 words, installed sequentially as 1” high die cut lettering
MAGNUM, 2019 ❀ Group exhibition curated by Zoë Argires
The Oasis Smiles Back II, 33:33 sound installation, three digital collages on paper in sheet protectors, 8.5” x 11”
LA’s Feminist Idol, 2021 ❀ Hosted by Feminist Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles)
Performance concept selected as one of 20 finalists
performance
NYC Lathe, 2019 ❀ Performance at China Chalet (New York)
Three song set by NYC Lathe (Liv Mendez, Jake Begin, Alexander Muret, and Matthew Tully Dugan) alongside Christ Dillinger
Didn’t Get Any Pics But The Stripper Was Here, 2018 ❀ Performance for Gabriella Chen Fussner’s 21st Birthday Party at Spicy Village (New York)
60:00 immersive experience
The Oasis Smiles Back I, 2018 ❀ Freshman Class Edit at Bowery Poetry Club (New York) curated by David Potter
Five poems, live reading
telltale heart, 2021 ❀ From Illusion of Stability, unreleased seven-track demo tape produced by Mall Boy
2:05 video
video & sound
SevFool ❀ ongoing
Deepak Noise
i don’t exist (07 CD#36), 2020 ❀ From ongoing IDE series comprising audio, mixed-media on canvas, and assorted home goods
06:09 sound concept