Actions, Conversations, and Intersections

March 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.

Jennifer Moran, Brian Janeczko, Enci Box and Aurisha Smolarski present the collaborative project, In the Living Room of LA’s Bicycle Culture, highlighting a small aspect of bike culture with the audience invited to be participants. The installation puts the culture on display, and includes discussions, creations and interactions in a ever evolving format, mimicking the dynamic bicycle culture in Los Angeles.

The Exhibit includes an on-going, rotating series of participatory events:

Photography/Painting/Furniture Collaboration
Various artists exhibit artwork that serve as the “living room” decor fabricated out of bicycles.

Video Documentary
The Echo Park Film Center screens a series of videos with films addressing anything and everything about bicycle culture.

Bicycle Workshop
Part of the “living room” is a bicycle workshop where visitors can learn how to fix flats and basic bicycle maintenance.

Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12, 12-5pm

Bicycle Dressing & Explosion: Two bikes are available to dress with objects, stickers, and streamers.

Spoke Card Design and Trading: Create, trade and discuss the art of spoke card making. Contribute to the Spoke Card display by adding your own designs or trade for designs by others.

Thursday, March 11, 6:30-9:30 pm

Art Cycle Meeting: The final Art Cycle meeting regarding the March 13 Art cycle event on Santa Monica Boulevard.

Saturday, March 13, 12-5pm

Bicycle Explosion: Bicycles from the Bike Dressing Activity are de-constructed to be hung from the ceiling of the gallery.

Bike Noise: Turning the bicycle into a musical instrument through the use of contact microphones, electronic pedals, and amplification visitors are invited to produce music from prepared bicycles.

Experimental Mobile Music Workshop: The Bicycle Bell Ensemble orchestrates a musical event in which bicycles bells are used to create musical compositions.

Sunday, March 14, 12-5pm

Bike Rack Installation: A bike rack fabricated off site with donated materials and labor, referencing the unique ideas and designs of Frank Lloyd Wright’s art and architecture, to be displayed on the portico.

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Sunday, March 14, 2-4 pm
Nadfly Fika Shop: Coffee and cardamon cake served by special guest host Marjory Garrison. $3

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All events free and open to the public unless otherwise noted at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027.

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.