Actions, Conversations, and Intersections

Review of Actions Exhibition in Artillery

edith — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:41:46 +0000

Noel Korten writes about the exhibition in Artillery.

Actions for April 15 – 18

edith — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:52:25 +0000

April 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

edith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:52:56 +0000

April 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

edith — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:37:16 +0000

March 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

edith — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:45:23 +0000

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.

Actions for March 11 – 14

edith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:37:17 +0000

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.

Tonite at 7:30

edith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:49:54 +0000

Dos Lunares presents:
The wonderful documentary La Turista Soy Yo about Flamenco singer Luis Agujetas, the youngest son of the well-known and highly regarded Flamenco cantaor Agujetas el Viejo. This documentary by Trina Bardusco, follows Luis Agujetas through his daily rituals which include his nightly job singing at the famous Flamenco tourist mecca La Carbonería en Sevilla, Spain.

Light refreshments served.
Free and Open to the Public

Actions for March 4 – 7

edith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:37:43 +0000

Friday, March 5, 7:30 pm & Sunday, March 7, 2:00 pm

Dos Lunares presents Calé Rachi a weekend of exploration into the world of Flamenco through film, discussion and interactive rhythm making/palmas.

Their Flamenco weekend will kick off with a film night, discussion and tapas on Friday, March 5 at 7:30pm. They will be screening the wonderful documentary La Turista Soy Yo about Flamenco singer Luis Agujetas, the youngest son of the well-known and highly regarded Flamenco cantaor Agujetas el Viejo. This documentary by Trina Bardusco, follows Luis Agujetas through his daily rituals which include his nightly job singing at the famous Flamenco tourist mecca La Carbonería en Sevilla, Spain.

Palmas, the art of Flamenco hand clapping will be featured in their Sunday presentation, March 7 at 2pm. Join them for a lively afternoon of interactive, participatory rhythm making with Los Angeles bailaora, Cristina Lucio.

The name of their presentation, Calé Rachi or Gypsy Night is a nod to the intersections of Chicano and Gitano culture that took place along the Mexican-American border during the early 1900s.

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Saturday, March 6, 1:00 pm

KXPO 99.9 presents a special live broadcast of their ever popular program, The Recent Rupture Radio Hour! Join your hosts Jose Lopez-Feliu and Swirling Wheelnuts live in studio as they broadcast their ever popular post-modern store-front radio show to millions of listeners in East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley; special guests include an expert on urban chicken raising and a dog-headed man.

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Sunday, March 7, 2-4pm

Nadfly Fika Shop hosted by Andrew Sanchez.
Coffee and Cardamon Cake for $3

Sunday, February 28 Actions

edith — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:16:44 +0000

12-5pm: Howard Hill and Patricia Zambrano turn salvaged furniture and clothing into desirable objects. Dismantling chairs, tables, beds, mailboxes, etc into bike racks, benches and paintings. Spend some time making stuff with them.

12-5pm: Pseduo-Sod Forest artist Amy Caterina will be knitting grass and deer skin. She invites you to knit with her.

by Lauren Kasmer

1-5pm: HOMESITE Clothing Exchange

Bring an article of clothing you no longer want, outgrew, never liked, or just want to have immortalized. Tell the story of your contribution. Exchange it for another item donated by other participants or the MODAC Museum of Fashion Designers and Creators and American Apparel.

And/or: A Homesite label can be sewed or pinned on what you are wearing.

Enjoy a beverage supplied by Whole Foods Santa Monica.

Exchanges are documented and become part of the Homesite
project.

2-4pm: Ana Llorente hosts the Nadfly Fika Shop. Coffee and cardamon cake for $3.

Saturday Actions

edith — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:05:30 +0000

Spend your rainy Saturday afternoon inside the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery hanging out and working on the following projects:

12-5pm: Amy Caterina knits more grass and more fur for her forest floor and forest animals. Bringing your needles and join her.

12-5pm: Upcycling with Howard Hill and Patricia Zambrano – transform salvaged and scavenged furniture into desirable and usable objects. This weekend they share their techniques. Bring an object to work on or choose from theirs.

12-5pm: Theordore Payne docents are on hand every weekend to talk to you about native flora and fauna. Whether you have a yard or a balcony they can give tips on the plants that are best for your location.

1-5 pm: The Longest Potholder will be growing today. Laurel Paley invites you to bring clean socks to modify into a new section of the potholder.

1-5pm: Some of the largest knitting needles in town will be in use by Shelley Ruggthorp and her knitting coherts. You’re invited to join her and knit.

2-4pm: Minh Phan hosts the Nadfly Fika Shop. Enjoy fresh brewed coffee and homemade cardamon cake for $3.