Review of Actions Exhibition in Artillery
May 26th, 2010 by edith
Noel Korten writes about the exhibition in Artillery.
Actions for April 15 – 18
April 13th, 2010 by edithApril 15 -18
Elana Mann
Performing Economies II
Friday, April 16, 3-5pm
Carolina Caycedo performs The Colombian Connection and Elana Mann performs How did that get done: A Cross Section and Time Series Analysis of the No-Income Hypothesis
Sunday, April 18, 2-5pm
(non-edible) Bake Sale for the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles with Lara Banks, Dan Greaney, Stephanie Hutin, Jason Kunke, Adam Overton, Nate Page, Vincent Ramos
(Mann is still looking for participants- so contact her if you are interested! elanamann@gmail.com)
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Thursday, April 15, 1pm
Mary Sutton and Critical Resistance
Can We Build Our Way Out of Prison Overcrowding?
In conjunction with Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, Mary Sutton, CSPG’s Program Director and members of Critical Resistance Los Angeles will give a presentation created for Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CURB.
The powerpoint features posters from CSPG’s exhibition, Prison Nation: Posters on the Prison Industrial Complex .
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Saturday, April 17, 7pm
Poli Marichal’s Shadow Puppet Theater with Jamie Kim, Beth Peterson, and Marianne Sadowski
Once Upon a Grid (Greed) and other contemporary fables for the 21st Century
Once Upon a Grid (Greed) and other contemporary fables for the 21st Century mixes satire and fact in order to create fantastic narratives that address our troubled times. Rod shadow puppets made out of recycled materials are used to reenact some of the critical events that are shaping our world.
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Sunday, April 18, 2-5 pm
Closing Reception and Catalog Proofing Party
Celebrate the final actions of the exhibition and help proof the soon to be released catalog – a party to celebrate all the artists, organizations, and viewers who made the Actions, Conversations, and Intersections exhibition possible.
Light refreshments courtesy of the Echo Park Private Brewery serving a micro-brewed Nut Brown Ale and Light Ale, Bavarian style pretzels and mustard donated by the We Miss Munich Bakery, with additional snack support provided by Lauren M. Kasmer and Joyce Dallal via Whole Foods.
2-3 pm
Classical Music Trio
Comprised of Vincent Reyes on guitar, Jerico Flores on violin and Mini Zabala on flute will perform selections from their classical repertoire as well as jazz standards and original arrangements of modern pop songs.
Vincent Reyes began playing guitar professionally at 15 and studied composition at NYU under Ruth Schonthal. He is a member of the American Guitar Society and had studied briefly under Scott Tennent. He has written music for various film and theater productions, arranged music for the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra, and is the composer for ThreeTwoOne Productions.
Jerico Flores has been a member of the Hamilton Orchestra, West LA Youth Orchestra, and the Glendale Youth Orchestra under the direction of Brad Keimach. He had been chosen to play the Brach Violin Concerto at CSUN and is currently studying violin at the Thornton School of Music at USC.
Mini Zabala was a flutist with the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds (Pierce College) for several years and went on tours with them to Europe. She has also played with several other groups including the Kelley Love Orchestra, has performed as pit orchestra flutist for some local community productions, and is presently a member of the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra.
2-5pm
Heather Ellison and Lyn M. Watanabe
Pillow Thoughts
Pillow Thoughts was conceived in part from the installation, Cup Thoughts by Nicola Atkinson Does Fly (NADFLY). These pillows once displayed at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Park, have been donated by NADFLY to inspire others.
Seeking eighty participants to re-fashion the pillows and return them for an exhibition in the fall of 2010.
Actions for April 8 – 11
April 4th, 2010 by edithApril 8 -11, 12-5pm
Beth Elliott
Time and Tide II
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April 9 and 10, 6-9pm
Audrey Malone and Justin Streichman
Emeline and Bernhard: an Invitation to a Scene
Emeline and Bernard Palsgrave cordially invite you to a tea and cake bash.
Please join us on April 9th and 10th between 6 and 9 p.m.
The Palsgrave twins have spent too much of their lives secluded. It’s well past time we kick up their heels and let things unravel.
Consume delights.
Partake in banter.
Witness furor.
Play.
A collaboration of
Audrey Malone & Justin Streichman
Text By Kelli Anne Noftle
Costumes By Joey Grana & Nina Behrsin
* ‘Emeline & Bernard: An Invitation to a Scene’ is an exploration of intimacy and relationship as two people approach the unraveling and disintegration of their sheltered world.
The work takes inspiration from the Beales of Grey Gardens (eccentric mother and daughter relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis), and the Silent Twins (reclusive and inseparable twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were sent to Broadmoor Hospital in their teens for petty crime and arson).
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April 11
Joyce Dallal and Lauren M. Kasmer
Homesĭtē Recipe Exchange and Party
3pm: Culinary Performances
5pm: Party for all Homesĭtē Participants
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April 11, 2-4pm
Nicola Atkinson Does Fly
Nadfly Fika Shop hosted by Humberto & Mancini
Coffee and Cake for $3
Actions for March 24 – 28
March 24th, 2010 by edithMarch 25 at 3pm & March 26 at 1pm
Cindy Marie Jenkins
Imagine East Hollywood: autobiography of a neighborhood
Offer up your suggestions as to how East Hollywood can reflect your concerns, interests, values, and so on by writing your suggestions on the Imagine East Hollywood walls or being interviewed on camera by the Imagine crew.
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March 27, 12-5pm
James Balsam
Safety is on the Shore
Safety is on the Shore is an experimental music environment – a rules-based space where everyone entering is required to be making some kind of vocal musical sound for the duration of their presence in the space. It is an abstract laboratory of tensions and resolutions relating to social anxiety and salutary communal activity.
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March 27, 1pm
Ara Oshagan
The Collaborative Image Project involves the photographer and the photographed working in unison to create a portrait of a person and an inner life. After a portrait is produced, it is printed on large paper and the person photographed is encouraged to draw or write on the photograph and/or paper. They are encouraged to write about their lives and inner thoughts. But they are free to do what they please with the portrait.
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March 28, 12-5pm
Beau Daignault
Temporal Hyperplane Photograph
Daignault has built a camera by joining together a 1940’s 4 x 5 camera to a flat bed scanner. It captures movement in focus rather than as a blur. This permits some very surprising distortions which are visually intriguing and frequently amusing.
The scanner photograph offers an image, which, in addition to being inherently three dimensional, reveals the fourth dimension in a unique way. Each ‘exposure’ occurs over a number of minutes, or as little as one minute. The opposite ends of the image are captured at entirely different moments in time, not all at once as in a ‘typical’ photograph, thus the Temporal Hyperplane Photograph.
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March 28, 3pm
Jonathan Ward
Excavated Shellac
Jonathan Ward is the person behind Excavated Shellac, a popular blog that focuses on rare 78rpm recordings of folkloric and vernacular music from around the world. He will present a “listening session,” playing original records from his collection and discussing the early history of the recording industry, as well as allowing listeners to experience the wide variety of early music that was captured on this medium.
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March 28, 1-5pm
Joyce Dallal and Lauren Kasmer
Homesĭtē Clothing Exchange
Apparel alters & exchanges will take place in the gallery portico.
Bring an article of clothing you no longer want, tell us why, trade for anothers contribution.
Have a Homesĭtē label sewed or pinned on what you are wearing.
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March 27 and 28, 2-4pm
Nicola Atkinson Does Fly
Nadfly Fika Shop is open for buying coffee and cakes served to you by Yana on Saturday and Melissa Anderson Contreras on Sunday.
$3
Actions for March 18 – 21
March 17th, 2010 by edithMarch 18 – 21, 12-5pm
Telematique Ensemble: Aurisha Smolarski, Doran McGee, Somerset Waters and Federico Tobon reside in the video room presenting:
The City Re-Emerged When We Arrived
Through the use of live video imaging and live interactive music, participants will go on a visual and auditory journey through Los Angeles from past to present to a potential future. The once vital Los Angeles was a city boasting of sustainable landscape that has since been taken over by the motor vehicle and concrete landscape. Through the use of sustainable transportation-the bicycle, participants will experience the re-evolution towards a more lush green, more livable environment.
Audience participation is required!
Here is how you can participate:
1) Get on the bike
2) Invite up to 2 people to join you in the pedi-cab
3) Start pedaling
4) Enjoy the ride!
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March 18 -20, 12-5pm
Jade Thacker
Playroll Handout Part II
Interact with ceramic casts of the space between handshakes and gestures of intimacy.
Try it On, Shake it Off, Leave your mark.
Add to an archive in progress of the space between this Saturday from 12- 5.
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March 20, 1pm
Charlie Hachadourian and Poorang Nori
Tonir-Lavash
In many villages across the Mid/Near East families and friends gather around a Tonir (a clay bread oven) periodically and proceed to make flat bread (Lavash). Traditionally, the Tonir is installed in one family’s house and relatives and friends bring the flour and water to this location to produce the bread that is shared among all.
In this project they perform the making of Lavash in a Tonir with the intention of evoking the sentiments of the traditional gatherings for making bread in such small villages. By replicating the practice of making bread they aim to create a situation that provides a place for discourse regarding the very elemental connection between community members and the production of sustenance.
The performance also calls into question the tendencies of post-industrialized cultures to distance the production of goods from the community, thereby severing the link between the act of production and the act of consumption. Through the making of the bread in the Tonir, we hope to rekindle the simple sense of community that comes into being when people gather around the making and sharing of food.
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March 20, 2pm
Center for Experimental Art and Architecture
Presentation and film by Vasken Brudian for the preparation for Sunday’s collaborative painting event inspired by Zen garden methodology.
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March 20 & 21, 2-4pm
Nadfly Fika Shop is open serving coffee and cardamon cake with guest operators James Frede on Saturday and Marjory Garrison on Sunday.
$3
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March 21, 2-4pm
Nancy Keystone with Critical Mass Performance Group
Celebrate the 41st anniversary of Allan Kaprow’s performance, Pose, with light refreshments and photographed chair sitting.
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March 21, 2-4pm
Center for Experimental Art and Architecture
Collaborative painting project led by Vasken Brudian.