04.29 - 05.1.2016 ETERNAL TELETHON: 55+

“Eternal Telethon: 55+” will broadcast non-stop from 1:00pm on April 28th through the evening of May 1st. The broadcast can be watched live online at EternalTelethon.com and will feature a wide range of creative contributions from over 150 artists.

An ongoing series of collectively-organized live web-casts, the Eternal Telethon raises money to create a convalescent home for retired and ailing artists in need of a break. The telethon functions both as a showcase for artists to present new, experimental work in a low-pressure environment, as well as a demonstration of how a community can effectively define its needs and empower itself.

Below is the schedule, subject to change. 

Friday Afternoon

1:00- Introduction to the great Eternal Telethon 
2:00- Clare Kelly
3:00- Laub and Jennifer Moon
3:20- Guthrie & Streb
3:40- Michele Jacquis
4:00- Derde Verde
4:40- Bake Sale
5:00- Elizabeth Hall

Friday Evening 

5:40- Lainey Racah
6:20- Maypole construction
6:40- David Gilbert
7:00- Slam Dunx
7:20- Jasmine Nyende
7:40- cocktail hour
8:00- Finishing School
8:20- Stephanie Hutin
8:40- Elonda Billera
9:00- Christy Berkowitz
9:20- Joseph Mosconi 
9:40- Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal
10:00- Childless
10:10- Retirement home amenities brainstorm
10:20- Margie Schnibbe
10:40- Kim Calder
11:00- Duber
11:40- Visions (Gabie Strong & David Nuss)

Friday Midnight

12:10 - Balloon Pop
12:20- Elisa Larkins & Neven Lochead
12:40- Andrew Cox
1:00- Molly Shea
2:30- Matias Viegener
3:00- Nick Malkin
3:20- Eternal Telethongs 
4:00- Alexis Disselkoen and Friends
4:20- James Raymond
5:10- Kelby Vera
5:40- People screaming at the top of their lungs

Saturday Morning

8:00- Nehemias De Leon
8:20- Plan for a Retirement Home in a Video Game
8:30- Diana-Sofia Estrada
9:20- MC Radio Hour
10:00- Geneva Skeen & Alise Spinelle
10:20- Sergi Gee and Camellia Saleh
10:40- Filling Up the Thermometer
11:00- Pauline Lay
12:00- Julius Mack

Saturday Afternoon

12:40- Elyse Reardon-Jung
1:00- Ted Byrnes
1:40- Pettiness workshop
2:30- Alex Sanchez
3:00- Jay Lizo & Chelsea
3:20- People talking about things they shouldn't talk about
3:40- Paul Pescador
4:50- "The Promise of a New Day" by Paula Abdul recital
5:00- Simone Gad
5:20- Dustin Smith
5:30- people describing illnesses that they have had

Saturday Evening

6:00- Slow Rose
6:20- Steve Kado
6:40- Handski
7:10- Chrysanthe O
7:30- People On Drugs
7:40- Clitbait
8:00 Marshall Astor
8:00 Keith Rocka Knittttel
9:00- Miles K and Jesse Elias
9:20- Everyone reading all of their Facebook posts in order all at once
9:40- Leisure Van Fock
10:00- Katie Herzog
10:25- Eternal E-mail-athon
10:40- Steve Kado
11:00- people explaining what has happened up until this point
11:20- Niko Solorio

Saturday Midnight

12:00- Megan Daalder and Anna Ialeggio 
12:50- People admitting they've had crushes on republicans
1:00- Andrew Choate
1:40- Aaron Wrinkle
2:00- David Bell & Guan Rong
2:30- emotional nudity
3:00- Emi Kuriyama
3:30- Manuel Lima & Vanessa Baish
4:00- Yoshie Sakai
4:20- Albert Samreth
5:40- people trying to stay awake


Sunday Morning

6:40- Pancake Breakfast
7:00- Dave White
8:00- Jessica Mckinley
9:00- Juan Manuel Gudino and Oscar Santos
9:20- Krista Feld
9:40- Von Curtis
10:00- Michal Kamran
10:20- People Talking on phones about phones
10:40- Ante Bodlović 
11:00- Malisa Humphrey
11:40- Badlands

Sunday Afternoon

12:00- Brian Getnick
12:40- Enrique Castrejon
1:00- Liz Nuremberg
1:40- Desida
2:00- Frau Fiber
2:30- Pedal Strike
3:00- Telethon
3:20- Nate Page
3:40- Kyle Roberts
4:00- Spokenest
4:20- Kim Ye
4:40- Mariel Carranza
5:00- Emily Lacy
5:30- Lili Bernard
6:00- Star Partners
6:30- Megan Cotts & Ali Prosch
7:00- Marshall Astor
7:30- Carl Pomposelli
8:00- Purity 

Founded in early 2009, the Eternal Telethon is very pleased to have featured a multitude of artists sharing their creativity to show support for the creation of an artist retirement home. Past Eternal Telethon broadcasts have taken place near and far, including in Los Angeles at Machine Project, Public Fiction, the MAK Center, Redcat, Barfspace,Bellyflop Gallery, and under a blanket, in New York at X initiative, and in Mexico City at Bikini Wax.


For more information or get involved with the Eternal Telethon contact eternaltelethon@gmail.com

Select performances from the Eternal Telethon’s archive can be found here https://www.youtube.com/user/eternaltelethon

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4.25.16 Friends Series # 3: James Benning and Sharon Lockhart

Monday, April 25 7-9PM 

Conversation with James Benning and Sharon Lockhart 

Please note: This event is held at LACA: 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021 

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4.24.2016 Alex Romania: JERK

"Jerk" created and performed by Alex Romania 7:30pm, $10 suggested 

This physically vulnerable choreography frames the male body between violence and pleasure -- a microphone is bound to the body and swung from the pelvis evoking forms in the realm of BDSM, pornography, athletics, games, and flagellation. Through genital hypnosis and rigorous discomfort, this is a dance of (narcissistic) pleasure and (quiet) longing, (self) mutilation and (self) care. A dance to flatten and complexify the male body, to tenderize the flesh, to move beyond and to newly inhabit — a phallic solo to recompose the phallus.

With an opening performance by Edward Sharp

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Alex Romania is a multidisciplinary performance-maker, organizer, andteacher based in NYC who has taught and shown work nationally and internationally. Besides creating performance work, Alex organizes events with dance and performance artists in NYC (such as the ‘Get Your A$ in CLA$’ class series at Abrons Arts Center), holds irregular discussions and events through his collective journalism platform INVISIBLE ARTISTS (a resource to approach sustainability in the arts), teaches teens how to devise original performance, video-documents live performance, and practices Thai Yoga. Alex has performed in works by Kathy Westwater, Catherine Galasso, Andy de Grout, Eddie Peake, Jacob Slominski, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Simone Forti, Steve Paxton and has collaborated with a handful of performance art collectives, amongst other artists. http:// cargocollective.com/ alexromania

Edward Sharp:

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http://futuredeathagency.tumblr.com/

Hosted by Sophia Cleary

4.22.14 DecolonizeLA: Take Back The Night

April 22nd, 3pm-10pm at Mariachi Plaza (1st & Boyle Ave in Boyle Heights)

Join us with your family to our Annual Take Back the Night.
Justice For My Sister has the pleasure of collaborting with The Taste of Boyle Heights Farmers Market, Mujeres de Maiz, Ovarian Psycos, and many other community resources!

Programming will include:
-community resources and representatives
-poetry
-music
-art
-screening of videos about women who have survived violence

Acompañanos con tu familia a nuestro Annual Retomemos La Noche.
Justicia Para Mi Hermana tiene el placer de colaborar con El Sabor de Boyle Heights, Mujerez de Maiz, Ovarian Psycos, y muchos recursos mas de la comunidad! 
El programa incluyera:
ecursos y representantes de la comunidad, poesía, música en vivo, arte, y proyecciónes de videos sobre mujeres que han sobrevivido la violencia. El evento se llevara acabo el viernes, 22 de Abril de 3 ha 10 de la noche en Mariachi Plaza hubicado entre las calles 1st y Boyle Avenue en la ciudad de Boyle Heights.

4.22 - 4.23.2016 WHO IS BABY?

WHO IS BABY?

Friday, April 22 - 7:30PM 

Saturday, April 23 - 7:30PM

"who is baby" is an experimental show that roves the city (& the country) (& the planet) ... baby likes sexxx & $$ & capital(isms) & "poems"/"schoems" ... & she also abhors / absorbs (sexism, racism, classism, -ism, -ism, -agism) ... & you can watch her - & yourself! - & more! - on friday & saturday APRIL 22 & 23 @ 7:30 PM ... baby says: "BE ON TIME!!!!" ... baby says: "RSVP @ whoisbaby.123@gmail.com ... baby says: "you can always say no." 

BIO

Baby ... is “ummmmmm” & “ahhhhhhhh” & “please be quiet” & “sighhhhh” & “why you gotta be like that” & “noooooo” & “okay, okay” & “lets do it” & “reeeeeeealllllllllly” & “shhhhh don’t tell” & “you are so weird” & “i know it” & “can’t you just grow up” & “no, i can’t” & “well then its over.” 

4.14.2016 Decolonize LA: RAC Mutual Aid Food Program

Every Sunday rain or shine at Macarthur Park (on Parkview between Wilshire and 7th)

Box given out at 4pm .

Healthy food is a human right ! A dignified life is a human right!

Programa de Asistencia Mutua de Comida en MacArthur Park 
Caja se reparte at las. 4pm

Comida saludable es un derecho Humano
Una vida Digna es un derecho Humano!

Community space is located at: 2515 West 7th St., Los Angeles, CA 90057

DESCRIPTION:

 

We work on acquiring the means to one day transform this system into an image of our own humanity.  We support community in movement to inspire a local/global network of revolutionary autonomous communities through action, mutual aid programs, worker alternatives, educational skill shares, access to community health resources, access to legal resources, access to housing, as well as social media.

Trabajamos en adquirir los medios por los cuales un día podemos transformar este sistema a una imagen de nuestra humanidad. Apoyamos a la comunidad en movimiento a inspirar una red global y local de comunidades revolucionarias y autónomas a través de acciones, programas de ayuda mutua, alternativas de empleo, talleres y intercambios educacionales, acceso a recursos comunitarios de salud, recursos legales, recursos de vivienda, y acceso a canales sociales de comunicación.

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4.14 - 4.16.16 Telémachos Alexiou: The Culture Of Refusal

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursday, April 14,  6-9pm
Friday, April 15,  12-6pm and 8-11pm
Saturday, April 16, 12-6pm

SCREENING: Queen Antigone followed by conversation between Alexiou and Zackary Drucker
Friday, April 15, 8-11pm

Telémachos Alexiou is an artist whose medium is pictures. They can move as videos, they might flicker as movies or just attempt to freeze a moment for a posterity they will never know – but they all share a power whose intentions aim straight for the heart and mind.
In his films – most notably “Queen Antigone” (Germany, 2014), a road movie about contemporary Greece that is as political as it is personal in the way that only tragedies can be – a world of symbols and allusions clash with reality. Hostile to the lyricism of truth, preferring to remain addicted to its own legends, life becoming a teetering diva whose self-inflicted demise becomes a final act as necessary as it is unavoidable.
This need to reach catharsis, to find closure, to achieve conclusion is a constant theme in the work of Alexiou – no statements are left half-said, everything and everyone has a defiant stance in the play of life and death: sex, relationships, emotions, thought, wants, needs, frustrations and happiness are all equal on a stage that dares you to ignore the spectacle.
Full of bodies bearing witness, his work is fiercely confrontational, in both format and content – brutally direct video installations document the exuberant uniqueness of icons such as Vaginal Crème Davis or the artist and curator Dimitris Antonitsis; experimental in subject but crystal-clear in form photographs associate random visions that lurk between fetish and lyricism; texts violate the reader with ancient rage and contemporary seduction; everything about his visuals is meticulously meant to explode in the retina like a burst of a strong yet sophisticated mind-altering substance, subtle in effect yet effective in distortion of consciousness.
Telémachos Alexiou is a next generation artist, discussing his temptation to exist beyond the sarcasm and idolatry that has been dominating the main discourses in the contemporary art world – he arrives with a declaration of belief whose self-definition is as defiant as the ancient culture his work is a part of.
The culture of refusal to compromise one’s freedom. 

Panagiotis aka Otis Chatzistefanou (Mr.)
Editorial Director for www.nakedbutsafe.com

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Queen Antigone
Telémachos Alexiou's second feature length film “Queen Antigone” is a sumptuously visualized allegory of the current, dismal, geopolitical situation of his fatherland. Framed in exquisitely aestheticized vignettes and fusing allusions that refract references from Sophocles to Gregory J. Markopoulos and from Michelangelo Antonioni to Jack Smith, the scenario of this intense and stylish movie follows a disenfranchised young woman and her teenage brother as they desperately attempt to escape the double burden of historical inheritance and contemporary bankruptcy. An elegy about the spiritual breakdown of a nation, the narrative resonates with barely contained rage, unfolds at a meditative pace and ultimately ignites the screen with a volatile combination of existential emergency, languid lyricism and spectacularly modern photography.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Telémachos Alexiou is a twenty-something filmmaker and artist who, during his childhood and teens, received formal ballroom dance training and won several national titles. At the age of 17, he moved to London to study Communications and Visual Culture at the London Metropolitan University and three years later to Berlin, where he studied Film Theory at the Freie Universität and started working as a filmmaker and artist. His diverse body of work includes narrative feature films, media installations, performance art and photography. Among other places, his work has been hosted by the Berlin IFF, the Thessaloniki IFF, the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in a mini-retrospective of his films, the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, the HAU Berlin, the Los Angeles Outfest, Queer Lisboa 16, etc.

Apart from his own films, Alexiou has worked with other filmmakers and artists, including Bruce LaBruce, Zackary Drucker and Vaginal Davis.

Queen Antigone (2014)
Directed by Telémachos Alexiou
Produced by Jürgen Brüning & Telémachos Alexiou
93 min.

With:
Athena Mathiou
Kristof Lamp
Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Giorgos Makris
Aristotelis Varytimidis
Panayotis Evangelidis
Kostas Alexiou
Pepi Tinoglou

Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff

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4.12.2016 Chantal Akerman: Contre L'Oubli/Against Oblivion

8PM 

An evening of rare filmic treats, a bar, an accordionist, a Yididish interlude, and a reception to follow. Presented as part of Chantal Akerman: Contre L'Oubli/Against Oblivion
- with a lecturette by film maker and programmer Courtney Stephens

LE 15/08 (1973) 
Set in the wet heat and suspended time of a 15th of August (France’s main religious holiday in the summer, literally everything stops), Chris, a young woman from Finland has just arrived in Paris. Staying with a friend of Chantal Akerman, she utters a long, intimate monologue. She is filmed in static shots which monitor her unspoken anguish and idleness, moving from one room to the next. The young woman, through the repetition of empty and haunting daily gestures, becomes a pure “existential” figure. 
<Adapted and translated from the description in the Pompidou catalogue of 2004>
42 mins

BRUSSELS TRANSIT (1982, Dir: Samy Szlingerbaum) 
“Brussels-Transit,” which was produced by Chantal Akerman, was the first Yiddish-language film made in Europe in 30 years. Written and directed by Samy Szlingerbaum (who co-directed 15/08), it is about his parents’ search for a home in the wake of World War II. It is an austere, death-haunted work, , made all the more so by the knowledge that it would be Szlingerbaum’s only feature; he died of AIDS in 1986. (adapted from The Jewish Week)
Short clip

AGAINST OBLIVION (1991, Dir: Chantal Akerman)
A short piece commissioned by Amnesty International, Against Oblivion (Contre l’oubli) is about the murder of Salvadorean union activist Febe Elisabeth Velásquez.
3 mins

Presented as part of: Chantal Akerman: Contre L'Oubli/Against Oblivion, the retrospective organized throughout Los Angeles in collaboration with Los Angeles Filmforum, Cinefamily, Veggie Cloud, Fahrenheit and Human Resources. Program organized in collaboration with Paradise Films and Cinémathèque royale de Belgique and presented with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Institut Français, and with the support of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Belgium.

Accordion accompaniment provided by Andy Favre!
Special thanks to Kalyane aka La Collectionneuse! https://www.instagram.com/la.collectionneuse/

4.9.2016 Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement

Come join us for a night of ----

Embarrassment Envy Euphoria Excitement

Pretend you are someone else for a night
Dress up as your favorite whatever (preferably from the 1920s, Victorian, Rococo or Elizabethan era)
You will be filmed 
There will be lots of fog
3 lovely hosts (who only speak in riddles) will help guide you to places you dont really need to go 
And then you dance for hours. You can't see anyone and they can't see you. You keep dancing. Then you step outside because the fog is hurting your eyes and you can't breathe.
And then you're like, " What the hell am I doing here? This is great." You stay for another 4 hours and pass out in the bathroom. The End

Hostesses will be serving poppy seed muffins around the clock as well as advil for your dancing headaches

DJs
Mystery DJ 3am-4am
Cole MGN 1am-3am
Silent Servant 11:30pm-1am
Savage Fantasy 10-11:30pm
+more TBA

$5 Entry
If you arrive in costume $2 

Certain amount of proceeds will go to Human Resources
Certain amount of proceeds will go to Bernie

4.8.2016 Macular Showcase

Human Resources presents an evening of live audiovisual performances and experimental abstract films by the Dutch media arts collective Macular and a selection of Dutch filmmakers.

Macular is a group of artists who share an interest in art, science, technology, and perception. Part nomadic lab, part research group, part braintrust, the collective is an ever evolving construct that manifests its creative output through installations, films, and live performances. Their work explores the behaviours that emerge from generative systems and processes, both natural and artificial, and is firmly focussed on establishing immersive sensory experiences.

Work by Macular members has been shown worldwide at festivals and institutions such as: Ars Electronica (Linz, AT), WRO International Media Art Biennale (Wroclaw, PL), Saatchi Gallery (London, GB), Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, TW), Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam, NL) Woodstreet Galleries (Pittsburgh, US), AxS Festival (Pasadena, US), Lucida Space NCCA (Moskow, RU), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival (Hong Kong, CN), TodaysArt Festival (Tokyo, JP & The Hague, NL), DEAF Biennale (Rotterdam, NL), Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam, NL), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, NL), Exit Festival (Paris, FR), Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, NL), V2_Institute (Rotterdam, NL), Kontraste Festival (Krems, AT), Sight&Sound Festival (Montréal, CA)

http://www.macular.nl/

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PROGRAM

Live AV:
Collide by Joris Strijbos & Nicky Assmann
(http://macular.nl/works/moire-studies)
Gut Feeling by Eric Parren
(http://macular.nl/works/gutfeeling)

Films by Macular:
Liquid Solid by Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos
(http://macular.nl/works/liquidsolid)
Drifting by Eric Parren
(http://macular.nl/works/drifting)

Films by invited Dutch filmmakers:
#11, Marey <-> Moiré by Joost Rekveld
(http://www.joostrekveld.net/wp/?p=50)
Loudthings by Telcosystems
(http://telcosystems.net/works/loudthings/)
Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis
(http://lightcone.org/en/film-3742-marsa-abu-galawa)

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Sound powered by Perpetual Dawn

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Creative Industries Fund NL

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Entry: $5

4.6.2016 SOME WARE: Samo Sound Boy, SISSA, DJ Cuntry Noise, Some Ware DJ

Wednesday April 6th, 2016

SOME WARE 
at Human Resources
(SW004)

Samo Sound Boy
SISSA
DJ Cuntry Noise
Some Ware DJ 


8:00 PM - 1:00 AM
all ages
$5 sugg. donation

4.7.2016 KCHUNG presents: BRUJAJA

KCHUNG presents BRUJAJA, A Gathering of Witches

Thursday April 7th, 9pm


"First, there has been the desire to rethink the development of capitalism from a feminist viewpoim, while, at the same time, avoiding the limits of a "women's history" separated from that of the male part of the working class. The title, Caliban and the Witch, inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, reflects this effort. In my interpretation, however, Caliban represents not only the anti-colonial rebel whose struggle still resonates in contemporary Caribbean literature, but is a symbol for the world proletariat and, more specifically, for the proletarian body as a terrain and instrument of resistance to the logic of capitalism. Most important, the figure of the witch, who in The Tempest is confined to a remote background, in this volume is placed at the center-stage, as the embodiment of a world of female subjects that capitalism had to destroy: the heretic, the healer, the disobedient wife, the woman who dared to live alone, the obeha woman who poisoned the master's food and inspired the slaves to revolt." - Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 2004

BRUJAJA celebrates the witch as a site for resistance and magick, rebellion and healing.

With performances by: Sarah Gail Armstrong, Electric Sound Bath, Rafa Esparza, Glitzer, MRK, The Oracle of Los Angeles, and vōx, with KCHUNG DJS

*BRUJAJA is a part of KCHUNG Lounge artist in residence, Christy Roberts Berkowitz's: The Center for Strategic Magick and Healing Sh*t. March 18th - April 30th. Email ChristyRoberts.Art@gmail.com for a complete schedule of events.

4.5.2016 Anya Liftig / Gracie Devito / Samuel White

Performances by

Anya Liftig
Gracie Devito
Samuel White


Anya Liftig is a New York based performance artist. Liftig's work has been featured at TATE Modern, Performmer Stammtisch Berlin, Grace Exhibition Space, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Yale University, Center for Performance Research, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall and many other venues. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Art Papers, X-tra, Mix Magazine, Katalog, Jezebel, Hyperallergic, Burnaway and many others.

Gracie DeVito (b 1985) is a performance artist living in LA. She received an MFA from calarts in 2012 and shows with Tif Sigfrids gallery.

To learn about Samuel White please text him at 323.206.2617

4.1.2016 Friends Series # 2, Erin Christovale and Henoch Moore

Friends Series #2, Erin Christovale and Henoch Moore 5-7PM

They will be speaking on black soundtracks and the parallels between rap and house music.

Erin Christovale is a curator and film programmer based in Los Angeles. She has lectured at Princeton University, California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of Syracuse, New York. Her curatorial projects have been mentioned in ARTFORUM, Hyperallergic, Artsy and Artnet. Her ongoing film program, Black Radical Imagination, is currently in its third iteration and has been featured in over 25 institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, ART BASEL, and MOCA.


Henoch Moore is an LA based creative and entrepreneur inspired by music, culture and the black experience. He runs his own creative agency, Gene's Liquor, based in Los Angeles, CA. 

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Please note: This event will take place at LACA 2245 E Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90021 

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This iteration of Friends Series is organized by Wendy's Subway, LACA, and Human Resources.

4.1.2016 Andrew Berardini "Shades of Gray" / Alice Wang Closing Event

Shades of Gray
7-10pm, April 1, 2016
Performances at 7:30 and 9pm


Shades of Gray is an excerpt from Andrew Berardini's work-in-progress the Standard Book of Color to be read in Alice Wang's exhibition, with music by ​Luke Fischbeck​ / Lucky Dragons​. ​E​ach shade will be ​read in immersive atmosphere by a different voice.​​

The Standard Book of Color is a compendium of essays, stories, and poems of nearly a hundred individual shades of color.

Presented in connection with the exhibition "Alice Wang" (March 25 - April 1, 2016)

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3.25 - 4.1.2016 Alice Wang

Alice Wang

March 25 - April 1, 2016

Opening Reception: Friday March 25, 2016 7-10pm

Closing Event: Andrew Berardini "Shades of Gray" April 1, 2016 7-10pm

Hours: Weds - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment

3.17.16 - 3.20.16 Ruth Angel Edwards: Derivatives and Futures

Ruth Angel Edwards: Derivatives and Futures

New av works and a live performance in collaboration with Jos McKain

OPENING RECEPTION + PERFORMANCE: March 17, 8-10PM performance begins at 8:30PM

GALLERY HOURS: March 17-20, noon-6PM

"I'd just like to point out that if anybody cares to look at the video evidence, at no point was my bare backside revealed.

So therefore the fact he says he's seen it totally negates the credence of what he said in the previous part of the answer....I'm glad I've got that off my chest – it's been bothering me, that."

The work simultaneously inhabits multiple time frames in dance music's cultural past and present, re-contextualising them as a way of exposing their failures and flaws as well as any latent positive potential, exploring hedonism and spectacle in popular culture, and the role it plays within capitalism.

ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Ruth Angel Edwards is a multimedia artist currently living and working in the UK. She originates from Nottingham, England, and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London. Her work draws from pop culture - looking at mainstream and subcultural youth movements both past and present, and within these, the ways audio and visual content are used to manipulate an audience and to disseminate information. 

Most recently her work has concentrated on dance subcultures from the late 1980s into the 90s and early 2000s, and mainstream genres popular today such as EDM, Dubstep and House. She examines lyrical and sonic qualities, alongside the visual content, including graphic design, fashion and music videos, reflecting on the trajectory of dance and rave music as an illustration of the changing politics of music subcultures, both overt and concealed. Working between music, sound, moving image, sculpture, printed collage and online work, subcultural and mainstream youth cultures are referenced, appropriated and subverted, creating sensual and disorientating environments. 'Female' physicality (body and voice) appear as a motif within the practice. Used to imply pleasure, sensuality, freedom, spirituality, love, excess, the mass produced sexualised female body has become a visual code for hedonism. Alongside this, the work draws on and openly references 'Techno Shamanism', a theory pioneered by new age philosophers such as Terrence McKenna in the late 80s, most popular in the UK and Californian rave scenes. Techno Shamanism incorporated aspects of New Age and Environmentalist thinking, and predicted that electronic music, psychedelic drugs and new technologies such as the internet would be instrumental in bringing about radical changes in society, entering a new era around the dawn of the millennium in 2000. ​

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3.12.16 COH, Brandon Nickell, Pinkcourtesyphone, Cameron Shafii

10pm $10

CoH (Sweden) (Ge-stell)
http://www.post-pop.org/

CoH (Cyrillic) is a Russian sound artist, based in Sweden, who has been active since 1998. He has released numerous works on esteemed experimental labels like raster-noton, Editions Mego, Coil's Eskaton, and more. He is well-known for his collaborations with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Coil, among others. His works explore texture, atmosphere, and tone, and his body of work is one of the strongest in the realm of experimental electronic music. On this tour, he will be presenting works from his forthcoming EP 'Return to Mechanics' on Ge-stell.

• Pinkcourtesyphone (Los Angeles) (LINE) 
http://www.pinkcourtesyphone.com/

Richard Chartier is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception and the act of listening itself.

But his Pinkcourtesyphone project is a more emotional, dare one say musical side of his work. Pinkcourtesyphone is dark but not arch, with a slight hint of humor. Pinkcourtesyphone is amorphous, changing, and slipping in and out of consciousness. Pinkcourtesyphone operates like a syrup-y dream and strives to be both elegant and detached. Pinkcourtesyphone has collaborated with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Kid Congo Powers, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, and Gwyneth Wentink. CoH even remixed his cover of 'I am a photograph' (by Amanda Lear) with Kid Congo Powers on vocals. Pinkcourtesyphone has released work on labels including LINE, Important Records, Room40, and Dragon's Eye Recordings.

• Brandon Nickell (San Francisco) (Ge-stell) 
http://ge-stell.net/

Brandon Nickell hardly makes room for spaces between the threads, for lines trickling towards gaps and fissures, for non-hierarchical entry and exit. His Ge-stell debut 'Skyline' is marked by generative and hyper-concatenated rhythms, placing angular, yet ambient-tipped synthetic textures against deft beat programming. His productions oscillate between propulsive and percussive arrangements, through events that do not link conclusively. He runs the Isounderscore label.

• Cameron Shafii (San Francisco) (Ge-stell) 
http://ge-stell.net/

Cameron Shafii is a San Francisco-based composer and computational linguist, practicing generative and systems music. His compositions are inflected by software processing based on recombination, autonomous file handling, and approximate string matching algorithms. He runs the Ge-stell label.

2.28.16 This Unwieldy Object: A Modern Research Drama by Anna Zett

This Unwieldy Object: A Modern Reserach Drama by Anna Zett

The screening of the 47 minute film will be followed by a Q&A with the director and the curator

5:30pm doors open 
6pm film starts 

Organized by Clara López Menéndez with HRLA

THIS UNWIELDY OBJECT
A MODERN RESEARCH DRAMA BY ANNA ZETT 2014, 47 min

In the trans-genre film "This Unwieldy Object" the animated dinosaurs of Hollywood cinema meet the petrified ghosts of colonial science. You follow the protagonist on a road trip into the dusty heart of the USA, where fossil traders, sculptors and scientists are trying to reconstruct the plot of natural history, the plot of progress. But the more experts she encounters, the more unwieldy their objects of research appear. Dig sites become crime scenes, and fossils turn into characters, determined to play a main part in the violent history of the American Frontier. The story ends in the middle.

About the filmmaker: 
Anna Zett is an artist with a background in theory, now working across the disciplines of video, radio, drama and dance. Playfully engaged with the tragedy of science & technology, her practice tries to rely on physical vulnerability as much as it relies on historical inquiry and an experimental setup. Recent screenings and exhibtions at Serpentine Cinema London, National Gallery Prague, Transmission Gallery Glasgow, Sorbus Gallery Helsinki, Banner Repeater London, TENT Rotterdam. Beyond the visual arts Anna Zett has written and co-directed a radio play for the public radio in Germany last year, published essays online and offline, and is co-hosting a dance show called Copy&Dance, based at HAU2 Berlin.

02.26.16 David Kanaga | Ben Babbitt

8PM

DAVID KANAGA 
Oakland based experimental music composer, new media artist and active writer, exploring interactive possibilities of music in games and other dynamic environments. Works include DYAD / OGST, the music for the interactive game Proteus. Listen Up: https://davidkanaga.bandcamp.com/

BEN BABBITT
LA based composer, working with creating soundtracks for interactive games, including the soundtrack for Kentucky Route Zero. Listen Up: https://benbabbitt.bandcamp.com/