4.14 - 4.16 (Performances at 10PM each night) 7 Planets 7 Days Part 1. Moon Mars Mercury

When the Ancients observed certain objects in the heavens which did not hold fixed positions like the stars around them, but rather moved along mysterious orbits of their own, they gave them the name of 'planetoi' or wanderers. Unlike our current conception of nine planets, seven planets were known at this time. As it was understood that all actions of the heavens were mirrored by occurences here on Earth, all knowledge at the time was organized in accordance with these 'wanderers' The humours, or fluids, which controlled human health and temperament; the properties of all known metals; the modes or scales which were used in the creation of music; and the division of time into weeks of seven days.

LaPorscha Wynne and Ossian Winningham are pleased to pay tribute to these seven Planets with the presentation of seven performances, each held on the sacred day of the Planet for which it was named. Our Series begins with three performances:

Monday, April 14th : The Moon
Tuesday, April 15th : Mars
Wednesday, April 16th : Mercury

The Series will be presented at Human Resources Gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles with Performances beginning at 10 PM nightly.

Artist Bio: La Porscha Wynne

La Porscha is not an artist.
As a model or muse she transcends the visions with which she is provided and the desires of her employers to create a persoanl work of truth and beauty in an act of creative alchemy. Working from the disadvantaged position of an African American woman, viewed as a tool by those who would prefer to create mere commercial images in alliance with prevailing trends, she manages to express her essence against all odds to elevate the mundane to the sublime.
La Porscha sees everything as a base or a shell to reveal or extract a new entity from. Every object that was once readymade or "pret a porter' with a learned conceptual boundary is stripped to its bare element of utilitarian function. Like a prop of minimalist proportions it manifests into a sculptural creation where we see it for its singularity set also in its new identity as a part of a whole of an outfitted work of art. Utilizing the tradition of collage in a three dimensional context, La Porscha transforms herself and her tools into a work of living, dynamic sculpture.
Faced with a world which would distill her blackness, her sense of style, and the ineffable aspects of her sense of self; her every creative act must utilize an element of destruction in order that she may assert true self expression upon the ashes the ashes of that expression which is relentlessy both taken from and aggressively forced onto her.
She hopes that this show will inspire you to never accept the confines into which the so-called "art world" would force us, the true creative youth.

Artist Bio: Ossian Winningham

I began my main musical project, "Bleak End at Bernie's", in an environment resembling the artists salons of the aerly 20th century, where the presentation of concepts and performative trappings held equal if not greater footing than the music itself. An interest in the occult and the ritual context of Renaissance Magic began to inform these performances, until the point the point that I was presenting miniature works of musical theatre under the names "Castle Freak" and "Diving God", creating the music with a revolving cast of musical collaborators and transforming myself into symbolic characters on stage.
After studying "The Key of Solomon" I began to create invocations to Planetary Daemons on stage with the project " Voiheuristick Necromorph" in collaboration with the artist Lux Ananda. As these shows became more elaborate I began to feel a mounting frustration with the ephemeral nature of presenting work of this calibre within the context of a DIY Music Show.
"Seven Planets Seven Days" marks the first time that such work will be presented as performance art in the context of a gallery as opposed to a "music show"

With Artistic Collaboration from Michael Shawn and Three Moons