Actions for March 18 – 21
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010March 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.
