Artbound - Season 7

KCETLink's Emmy-award winning series Artbound returns for a new season with The Mundane Afrofuturist Manifesto, an hour-long documentary film exploring five Southern California artists engaged with black aesthetic production and the problems of representation. The film explores the tension between conventional, segregated channels of distribution and black imagination, and the potential for using Afrofuturism to assert a different set of values with which to imagine the future.

Artbound collaborates with the Museum of Contemporary Art to feature videos from their channel MOCAtv. The series showcases upcoming exhibitions, historical segments, artist documentaries, and original video art pieces created in collaboration with artists, musicians and fashion designers. Features interviews with Museum Director Philippe Vergne, and leading curators.

"Artbound" explores art created amidst social upheaval, including the life and work of Noah Purifoy whose practice was radically transformed by the Watts Riots; the emergence of Chicano printmaking in response to the Chicano Moratorium; Andrea Bower and Noe Gaytan whose work engages with the contemporary struggle for raising the minimum wage and unionization of adjuncts in higher education; and Michael Maltzan's design of the Star Apartments which addresses the issue of homelessness in Downtown Los Angeles.

Artbound celebrates Black History Month with a special episode.