Actions, Conversations, and Intersections

February 18 -21

Edward Pine Stevens and Joseph Stuckelman reside in the Actions space this week with their installation, Make Objects Make Marks, which is a participatory action involving fabrication, assemblage, printing, and drawing using salvaged and scrap wood. They will create works on paper, using simple printing and rubbing methods to record the process of transformation from scrap to sculpture, from part to whole.

Do not wear precious clothing–limit 10 participants at once (with frequent rotation).

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February 20, 1:00 pm

BikeHaus presents:
Cloud Lines and Chemospheres

A climb to clear our heads and see our city from a renewed perspective. We’ll venture up Laurel Canyon, along Mullholland drive to visit some of LA’s most prestigious hillside architecture, take a break from it all and enjoy the views. Bring plenty of water and some snacks, the ride will be difficult but definitely rewarding.

Ride is free. Meet at Barsndall at 1pm, move out at 1:30. We’ll finish up at 3 and probably return to Barnsdall by 4pm.

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February 20 – 21, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Join Nicola Atkinson Does Fly for coffee and cake in her Nadfly Fika Shop.

Fee: $3

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Saturday, February 20, 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Karaoke Mixtape: The Prologue

Presented by Pedestal and the All-Girl Band (Paige Tighe and Hataya Tubtim) of Otis Public Practice. This event is inspired by the Laton Project where one of THE only social activities we could do was Karaoke at the only restaurant/bar in town. Singing familiar pop songs bonded us to each other and the townsfolk who joined us.

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February 21, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Work with Michael Sheehan in raising his 10 ft. wooden sculpture, CAIRN 2/10, 520 wooden blocks with text

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February 21, 3:00 pm

Class three of the Public School’s investigation of Ambivalence.
Get caught up with the latest discussions here.

All events free and open to the public unless noted.

February 11 – 14
February 13 at 6:00 pm Performance

Ballerina Kelly Valignota

Jocelyn Foye’s project, Ballet Abstracted resides in the Actions space this week. Incorporating photographs and casts from her prior performance based pieces with a new performance by ballerina, Kelly Valignota on a bed of sand, Foye continues her investigation of mark making and movement. Partial support provided by Angels Gate Cultural Center.

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February 11 at 1pm

Can Design Stop a War?
Slide lecture by Carol A. Wells

Art inspires and empowers the disenfranchised. There has never been a viable movement for social change throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, without the arts—theater, poetry, music, posters—being central to that movement. Political posters in particular are powerful living reminders of struggles worldwide for peace and justice. Communication, exhortation, persuasion, instruction, celebration, warning: graphic art broadcasts its messages through bold images and striking designs.

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February 13, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

The Municipal Art Gallery staff brings you a Valentine Paper Cutting Festival. Spend the afternoon making super sweet valentine’s by using various paper cutting techniques from around the world. Materials and equipment on site but if you have a favorite pair of scissors or extra paper you would like to share please bring it.

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February 13, 1:00 – 5:00 pm

Nadfly Shoes One Day Print Event

NADFLY FIKA SHOP & HOMESITE CLOTHING EXCHANGE goes into Barnsdall Park to do silk screening while you wait. Nicola Atkinson Does Fly, Lauren M. Kasmer and Joyce Dallal alter your wardrobe . Bring your t-shirts, dresses, tea towels, tablecloth, pillows etc…to be printed on and or exchanged.
Fee: $15 per print

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February 13 & 14 , 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Nadfly Fika Shop, the first coffee shop since Barnsdall’s founding in 1927 will be open for coffee and Nadfly Cardamom Cake. Drink from paper cups with a drawing of Nicola’s temporary residence in Los Angeles.
Fee: $3

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February 14 at 2:00 pm

Kill Kitty Kill perform their special Valentine’s Day set.

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February 14 at 3:00 pm

The Public School host the second class on Ambivalence.
Here are the reading assignments:
Mourning and Melancholia
Taboo and the Ambivalence of Emotions (from Totem and Taboo)

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February 14, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

M&A Presents: Lunar Valentine’s Sunset with the Museum of Complaints

In a special Valentines Day celebration of the central role that communication plays in all healthy relationships, please join us for a reading and book signing with Matthew Bakkom of the New York City Museum of Complaint.

Champagne Reception for the author and all the lovers in attendance.

2:00 pm
Smart Gals celebrates their 10 year anniversary with a Winter Picnic Performance featuring freshly baked bread from the Bicycle Bread Company, hot coffee from Cafécito Organico, savory music, and sweet bits of surprising theater unwittingly triggered by our guests.

3:00 pm
The Public School begins their class on the topic of Ambivalence.

This course will (maybe) explore different concepts and theories of ambivalence, typically defined as “simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action;” “continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite);” and “uncertainty as to which approach to follow.”

In addition to researching and reading what various contemporary thinkers have to say about ambivalence, we will also attempt to debate the relative pros and cons of ambivalence as a state/position/strategy. What is dangerous, or, alternately, enchanting, about ambivalence? How might we theorize an ethics of uncertainty?
Readings will include excerpts from USC professor Karen Pinkus’ new book on alchemy and ambivalence, as well as selections from psychoanalytic, queer, trans and other works relevant to the topic. Suggestions encouraged!

More authors will be reading in the Smart Gals Reading Preserve today:

Friday, February 5

12:00 pm: Cecil Castellucci
1:00 pm: Nevin Schreiner
2:00 pm: Joseph F Mattson
3:00 pm: Chris Davidson
4:00 pm: Aimee Bender

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Artists’ Roundtable Discussion Moderated by Sandra de la Loza
Friday, February 5 at 7:00 pm

Join Steven L. Anderson, Michael Arata, Christine Louise Berry, Vlad Bliffett, Dara Brady, Joyce Dallal & Lauren Kasmer, Jenna Didier & Oliver Hess, Nicola Atkinson Does Fly, Betsy Lohrer Hall, Cindy Marie Jenkins, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective, Ara Oshagan, Laurel Paley, Faith Purvey & Hataya Tubtim, and Mary Sutton as they discuss the role of participatory based practice in Los Angeles.

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Both events free and open to the public at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 644-6269

Read with Los Angeles based authors in the Smart Gals’ Reading Preserve

Thursday, February 4
12:00 pm: Chris Epting
1:00 pm: Brendan Constantine
2:00 pm: Christopher Lepkowski
3:00 pm: Cecil Castellucci
4:00 pm: Cecil Castellucci

Friday, February 5
12:00 pm: Cecil Castellucci
1:00 pm: Nevin Schreiner
2:00 pm: Joseph F Mattson
3:00 pm: Chris Davidson
4:00 pm: Aimee Bender

Saturday, February 6
12:00 pm: Janet Fitch
1:00 pm: Rita Williams
2:00 pm: David Francis
3:00 pm: John Albert
4:00 pm: David Wollock

Sunday, February 7
12:00 pm: Jen Sincero
1:00 pm: SA Griffin
2:00 pm: Winter Picnic Performance
3:00 pm: Noël Alumit
4:00 pm: Imani Tolliver