6.12.15 L'INFERNO: A MULTIMEDIA DESCENT INTO THE INTERSECTION OF AGONY AND EUPHORIA
L'INFERNO: A GROUP ART SHOW / LIVE FILM EVENT
FRIDAY, JUNE 12th
$5 DONATION / DOORS AT 8:30PM; PERFORMANCES AT 9:00PM
ALL AGES
+ALL PROFITS BENEFIT WEST LA ANIMAL SHELTER+
A full multimedia art show in the vein of last year's acclaimed 'Try To Forget' show, the 'L'Inferno' event brings together some of the most controversial and avant-garde artists in Los Angeles to create an unforgettable and dynamic night of audio and visual experiences that one will never forget - culminating in a screening of the rarely seen 1911 film adaptation of the classic literary descent into hell, Inferno with a live dark ambient / death industrial score by Jay Gambit.
ARTISTS BIOS
UNICA (Maria Garcia, Concrete Shiva)
Unica is the noise/performance project of Los Angeles-based Maria Garcia. Previously known as Concrete Shiva, she has releases on US noise labels Cave Life, Christian Pop, Prima Donna, and Basement Tapes. Maria also co-runs MATA, a gallery & noise venue in Mid-City. Using prepared tape loops & homemade contact mics on found objects, Unica is used as a platform to take apart familiar sounds, removing context from the sources to create shifting layers distantly recognizable, but ultimately foreign.
J.S. AURELIUS (Destruction Unit, Marshstepper, Ascetic House, AZ)
JS is the co-founder of Ascetic House, Marshstepper, guitar player in Destruction Unit, creator of Pleasure Corps, denizen of Pigeon Religion and Avon Ladies and sometimes frontman, sometimes faceless but always vital appendage of many ever-shifting entities.
HUNTER SHAW (Dakota Hogback, Abject Renaissance)
Hunter Shaw is a multi-media artist based out of Los Angeles by way of Austin, TX. After creating several award-winning short films in his native Colorado, Hunter attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for film and television production. While majoring in Experimental Film, Hunter created works of varying length which combined traditional cinematic craftsmanship with a highly experimental aesthetic. A number of these pieces were exhibited at NYU, The Pratt Institute and The Grand Screen in New York. Since graduating, Hunter has worked as a freelance set dresser and fabricator in the Art Department on diverse independent features and music videos in New York and Austin, in addition to operating the production company and experimental record label Abject Renaissance.
GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU
Genevieve Belleveau (b. Bemidji, MN 1984) originally hails from Brooklyn, NY and currently resides in Los Angeles. She studied theatre, visual art and voice at Bennington College. She recently created work for Lilith Performance Studio in Malmo, Sweden and will present new works at Future Tenant Art Space, Pittsburgh, PA and Soho Grand Hotel, NYC. Her work has been universally praised for her cutting edge and immersive performances and installations involving about therapeutic role-play, the inherent knowledge and eroticism of plant life, creating a more compassionate world through the practice of BDSM, and more.
SHEREE ROSE
Rose is a legend of multiple Los Angeles underground scenes. Punk shows, feminist reading groups, poetry scenes, fetish clubs, underground performance art events -- she's been there and done that as an active participant and also as a documentarian. First known for her extensive visual art, poetry, and performance collaborations with late partner, Bob Flanagan, draws on her experience from her more than 30 years as a performance artist. While the work was appreciated for being controversial, it is also notable for its intelligent and playful examination of voluntary and involuntary pain, as well as its incredible humor and compassion.
GX JUPITTER-LARSEN (The Haters, Survival Research Laboratories, Banned Productions)
GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who has been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture. During the 1990s he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work is as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who have performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD and record releases.
*remotely performing a prepared piece commissioned specifically to accompany this performance
JAY GAMBIT (Crowhurst, Girl 27)
Jay Gambit is a visual and audio artist based out of Los Angeles by way of Philadelphia. He has been active in a number of musical and artistic scenes since 2010 contributing graphic design for labels such as Three One G records. In 2011, Gambit started the open collaborative sound art project Crowhurst which saw releases on labels such as Chondritic Sound and collaborations with everyone from powerviolence titans Water Torture to members of Bastard Noise and performances with everyone from the likes of Sannhet and The Body to more avant-garde acts like John Wiese and Hive Mind. Recordings can be found on labels like Chondritic Sound and Sol Y Nieve and the most recent experimental output 'Give In' will soon see a release on the world famous Ascetic House label. Recently, the Crowhurst project has split off and taken a more metallic edge while Gambit continues his experimental pursuits under the moniker Girl 27. For this performance Jay Gambit will focus more on his solo work, adding a bleak industrial soundscape and visual distortion to the already bleak landscape created in the film L'Inferno - considered by fans and scholars alike to be the finest and most faithful adaptation of what is unanimously considered the ultimate literary descent into hell.
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