Domingo Project, 2012 - present
bread-truck
6'2" x 10'3" x 7'2"
Situated in Southern California, between unceded territories of the Kumeyaay and Tongva peoples, domingo project, aka untitled space, aka rolling social sculpture (63 sq. ft. 1967 bread-truck) is an art play based research, practice, and project space.
Curator / Project manger: Ana Briz
Driver/ Director: noé olivas
"domingo", Part 1 : Presented by The Crenshaw Dairy Mart & The Mistake Room
When “ domingo”, a rolling social sculpture based out of a 1967 Chevrolet step-van, was acquired by CDM Co-founder noé olivas in 2011, initially the title of the sculpture was inspired by a found sign with the word, “Domingo” (Sunday in Spanish). olivas began to consider Sundays not his day of rest but his day of art practice - his day of labor. Blending notions of labor and leisure together, Sundays, being a day traditionally reserved for gathering with family, frames projects done within domingo, where friends, family, and people from the community can gather and share stories and experiences of art with others.
Last year, the Crenshaw Dairy Mart was invited by The Mistake Room to participate in the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health's We Rise Initiative. This invitation was part of The Mistake Room’s trio of projects for the initiative, “Things with Feathers”, for the duration of Mental Health Awareness Month in May 2021. Today, we are so delighted to share Part 1 of that project with you all!
“domingo” was launched alongside “abolitionist pod (prototype)” as part of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart’s #PrayforLA initiative, a multi-year program organizing, prototyping, and piloting language and vocabulary around an abolitionist future following the Covid-19 pandemic, imagining what comes after this pandemic - how this pandemic could have been different - and how systems of mutual aid, community safety and care, healing practices, prayer and accountability can become subsidized systems of healthcare infrastructure.
For “domingo” as part of The Mistake Room’s “Things With Feathers,” the Crenshaw Dairy Mart began working with the largely working-class immigrant communities of Pico Union.
In coordination with team members and volunteers which include Prosperity Market, Art Supply Kits Lead Organizer Jake Freilich, Concierge Kitchen, and The Graff Lab, Juice Wood, Mykaila, and Jaya Kang, olivas and the CDM and TMR teams put domingo back to work as a site of service to its peers and community, distributing care in the form of food, and art supplies, and providing a site for collective creativity to a community disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A special thank you to César García-Alvarez, Kris Kuramitsu, and The Mistake Room.
Video and photo documentation for this project have been produced by MyCa Creative by Juice Wood, Mykaila ( @filmblacktivist ), @jayakang , @bklynn_ , and @outofpocketproject .
_
domingo has been supported, in part, by The Mistake Room (TMR) and Art Rise, a project of WERISE.LA, an initiative of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, and by the tremendous support of Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI), Community Services Unlimited (CSU), Prosperity Market, Inglewood Community Fridge, Armada Unified, Concierge Kitchen, Art Supply Kits Lead Organizer Jake Freilich, Lesson Plans Artists: Cindy Bonaparte, iris yirei hu, Salvador de la Torre, and Erin Bagley
I Scream For Ice-Cream, 2014
Video documentation
Poetics of Labor, 2012
video
domingo