6.2 - 6.18.16 The Distance Plan - Climate and Infrastructure

Image: Carolina Caycedo Dammed Landscape / Paisaje Respresado, 2013, Satellite images and concrete. 110x85x40 cm (each) Courtesy of Instituto de Visión. Image: Installation at DAAD Gallery Berlin.

Opening – Thursday June 2nd, 2016, 6pm.

On view weds-sun 12-6pm June 3rd - June 18th 2016

Artist talk – Bjarki Bragason and Sarah Rara in conversation with Abby Cunnane & Amy Howden-Chapman Saturday June 11th, 2016, 3pm.

Bjarki Bragason, Carolina Caycedo, Fiona Connor, Ryan Jeffrey & Boaz Levin, Steve Kado, Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris for The Canary Project and Sarah Rara. With a new text by Lina Moe. Organized by Abby Cunnane, Amy Howden-Chapman and Luke Fischbeck.

The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure brings together work by 10 practitioners whose works address major infrastructural forms of the present – energy generation, digital frameworks and mass transport networks – in relationship to future alternatives. Providing a diagram of our carbon-intensive era, these works look at the ideologies driving development, and how today’s infrastructure determines both the means by which natural resources are consumed, and the ability of communities to change patterns of carbon consumption by redefining the built environment. The softinfrastructure of institutions attempting to confront climate change at an intergovernmental level is also considered, including the mechanisms of diplomatic negotiation and the scientific knowledge being generated around our current trajectory. The politics of infrastructure is often caught in the fraught terrain between strategies for mitigating climate change and those promoting adaptation. The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure thereby responds to the concept of ‘path dependency’ – the idea that the choices available to us in the present are contingent on knowledge and decisions made in the past, and that future capacity for change is substantially determined by our current planning.

Works consider the energy use of data centers (Ryan Jeffrey & Boaz Levin); Colombian dams being built to power extractive industries (Carolina Caycedo); the California Water Crisis (The Canary Project) solar infrastructure (Sarah Rara) and the energy use of arts institutions (Fiona Connor). Lina Moe investigates the the closure of New York City’s L train for post-Sandy repairs, as an example of civic infrastructures increasing vulnerability. Work by Steve Kado tracks the aesthetics of global mobility, while Bjarki Bragason’s project turns the lens on the scientific imagery and narratives that feed the popular understanding of climate change. In diverse ways, these practices take account of historical decision-making as a form of momentum locking us into a precarious present, while considering the radical alteration our infrastructure needs to undergo.

For further information visit TheDistancePlan.Org
or contact info@thedistanceplan.org

5.29.16 Song of Eurydice

Sunday, May 29 
doors: 4:30
performance: 5 PM SHARP
mediated discussion: 5:30 $10 suggested donation

Song of Eurydice is a choral / movement piece that re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists, emphasizing a discourse between Eurydice (mecca vazie andrews) and the deity of the underworld, Persephone (Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs). Picking up where the ancient tale left off, Eurydice descends once more into the Underworld to contemplate its infrastructure and inhabitants. 

This work-in-progress preview of Prelude + Act 1 marks the LA premiere of Sophia Cleary's REHEARSAL series. REHEARSAL, founded in 2011, is a works-in-progress performance series in which one artist or group shares their work with the opportunity to hear back from their audience. Loosely following the Liz Lerman Critical Response process, REHEARSAL provides a nurturing and structured space for feedback for artists at any stage in their process. 

Song of Eurydice 
choreography by mecca vazie andrews
libretto + score by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs
costume by 69 

Song of Eurydice is made possible by support from the California Arts Council - Local Impact Grant, and the generous time and effort on the part of Sarah Williams / Women's Center for Creative Work.

5.23-5.29.16 Too Much Information

 

Please join CLOSING for a week of presentations that invite 8 artists to play with form of public address and take on the task of communicating a substantial amount of information to an audience.

Monday, May 23rd - Suzy Newbury
Tuesday, May 24th - Samantha Roth
Wednesday, May 25th - Elana Mann
Thursday, May 26th - Patrick Staff
Friday, May 27th - Jennifer Moon + laub
Saturday, May 28th - Patricia Fernandez
Sunday, May 29th - Rosten Woo


at Human Resources
Doors and Cash Bar at 7:30pm
Presentations begin at 8:00pm

Publications and printed matters by Gilda Davidian, David Gilbert, Paul Pescador, and Samantha Roth–produced by CLOSING–will be available for purchase at all events.

CLOSING is an art production initiative based in Los Angeles, CA.

http://closing.la/

5.20 - 5.21.16 LACHSA: nex(t)us

Opening Reception: Fri, May 20 5:30 - 8:30pm with gallery hours Sat, May 21 noon-5pm

5.18.16 Felt Book Screening

Felt Book Screening 8-10pm
((in conjunction with the the Felt Book Exhibition + Prod Shop))

The Institute for New Feeling presents a 70-min video program to complement the current exhibition in the Arts District, and celebrate the launch of the Felt Book as a complete digital anthology.  

Note: this program is made up of works NOT currently on display in the exhibition--don't miss this chance to see them, one night only! 

ARTISTS
Peter Clough
Brody Condon
Jeremy Couillard
Dadpranks
Everything is Terrible
David Fenster
Steve Gurysh
Harrison Apple & Dani Lamorte
Brennan Hill
Egor Kraft
Kim Laughton
Daniel Luchman
Holli McEntegart
Eva Papamargariti
John Peña
Alina Tenser
Ben Thorp Brown
Gary Tyler Plus
Angela Washko



-------------------------------More Info:



FELT BOOK
Borrowing the structure of Fluxus scores, YouTube tutorials, eHow articles, technical diagrams, home remedies, etc., the Felt Book includes text, video, sculpture and interactive works from over 100 artists around the world, each proposing some instruction for “new feeling.” 
institutefornewfeeling.com/feltbook

FELT BOOK EXHIBITION + PROD SHOP
at Werkartz in the Arts District
927 S Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles
Opening Reception May 6, 7-10pm
Closing Event May 24, 7-10pm
Additional Open Hours May 7 & 13, 12-5pm 
and by appointment thru May 23

The Felt Book project began with an exhibition at SPACES in Cleveland, OH in January 2015, and toured the United States with shows at Recess (New York), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Sediment Arts (Richmond), DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND (Toronto), Cave (Detroit), Skylab Gallery (Columbus), The Luminary (St. Louis), Threewalls (Chicago), The White Page (Minneapolis), Leisure Gallery (Denver), False Front (Portland), StoreFrontLab (San Francisco). It was also featured on hour-long Radio broadcasts on KChung Radio (LA) and Clocktower (NY). For over a year Felt Book projects have been distributed weekly via an email subscription called eFELT. 

The Institute for New Feeling is a 3-person artist collective committed to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. We create artwork in the form of treatments, therapies, retreats, research studies, audio meditations and wellness products. 

newfeeling.institute
hello@institutefornewfeeling.com

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5.11.16 DecolonizeLA - The Crop Project

5.11.16
7:30-9:30pm

The Crop Project's exhibition includes an installation of the cornfield’s digging process and found objects from underground. Join members of The Crop Project on May 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m for some corn snacks and drinks!
 
The Crop Project is a public art piece that invites people to grow corn in USC Roski School of Art and Design from April- July 2016. The project includes a 15-square-foot corn field, educational corn growing workshop, corn cooking lessons and a group harvest event in June when corn fully matures. Through a group effort of cultivating a staple food, corn, and sharing the unprocessed product in a city that consumes but rarely grows corn, we can be closer to nature, and closer to each other.

https://www.facebook.com/events/982707568492770/?active_tab=highlights

5.2.16 - DecolonizeLA: The Hag

5.2.16 8-9:30pm

The Hag, “worship, brainstorm sesh + pizza party”

The Hag is suspicious of the myth of progress. We are inviting like-minded individuals, also wary of the propagation of expensive, exclusive “arts & culture initiatives,” to discuss their own qualms with top-down hierarchies at the institutional level, as well as to worship at the altar of fuck all. We will provide pizza & snacks in exchange for your ideas: how to publish, how to intervene, how to propose & push forward alternatives, how to realize our fantasies for decolonizing museums & galleries in Los Angeles, and beyond.

The Hag (est. 2016) is a guerrilla arts publishing coven founded to crush the enemies of women’s liberation in the arts. You can reach us at thehagpublishes@gmail.com

5.2.16 & 5.9.16 - DecolonizeLA - Song of Eurydice

Song of Eurydice re-envisions the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as a call to marginalized artists, emphasizing a discourse between Eurydice (mecca vazie andrews) and the deity of the underworld, Persephone (Carolyn Pennypacker-Riggs). Picking up where the ancient tale left off, as Eurydice descends into the underworld and grapples with re-arranging established ways of thought and processing information. On Monday May 2nd and Monday May 9th between 430-730 we invite you to drop-in to our informal rehearsal as we begin the process of staging Song Of Eurydice.

May 2nd & May 9th

4:30pm - 7:30pm

 

 photo credit: Greg Velasquez

5.7.16 - ReColonizeLA- Isaac Ledesma: New Los Angeles

5.7.16  8pm - Midnight   FREE

5.7.16 - DecolonizeLA: Un-casting colonization from our dreams, casting spells, igniting our decolonized collective dreams through dance & plants w/ Charmaine Bee & Joy

5.7.16. 10am - 3pm

Join us to co - create change collectively as well as release restrictive & oppressive structures that limit expansion. Together let's un-cast the nightmares of colonization! 

This workshop/performance will consist of movement that co-creates ritual space, use of herbs to support collective spell casting/ un-casting and to invoke and activate individual and collective dreams. Together we will interrogate how we can use our dream world as a space to activate our intentions.

We come to this work acknowledging the history, psychological, economic, physiological impact of colonization on people Indigenous to the Americas as well as people of African heritage and the impact on our sacred practices of spell casting and un-casting. This work addresses “decolonizing” as a recognition and grounding in community to connect to the ever - evolving work (of our ancestors). Some of this work includes practices that have been passed on such as working with intention to manifest our desires.  We are engaging in this work in order to assess/ release the oppressive structures that impact our growth and expansion from the micro to the macro level in the everyday. 

We will bring our experience in herbalism/ plant medicine, dream interpretation, and healing movement work into the space to support the work of spell/un-casting.  Be ready to move, walk through the city, dream & dance. Bring a lunch, water, and your intentions to decolonize L.A

5.3.16 - DecolonizeLA: Michelada Think Tank

5.3.16 7pm-9pm

Michelada Think Tank: Surviving an Art School Education

"No nipple is that dark." 

Have you had a moment in art school when you realized you can't even talk about the work because you have to explain/defend/validate your own body/experience/everything? 

MTT member Shefali Mistry, as part of her graduate Public Practice thesis project, has conducted a series of interviews on the experiences of artists of color in graduate school. From these discussions, Michelada Think Tank (MTT) continues the “PoC Survival Guide” project with a public conversation about higher education and art school. Is formal education even necessary? What if you choose a formal education? For people of color who decide to go to art school, how do you survive? How do you thrive as an artist when the curriculum and the community don't reflect your lived experience and your practice? 

Join us for a think tank style generative discussion on not only what issues we face, but WHAT CAN BE DONE. How do we advocate for our own education within these institutions? Where do we try to implement change in curriculum and hiring practices? How do we create large scale structural change to move the condition of PoC artists beyond surviving and into thriving? We know this labor shouldn't only be our burden, but can we do it to ensure a better education for the generations behind us?

More about the project:

Are we so busy surviving that we forget to be radical?

In summer 2015, Michelada Think Tank initiated the "PoC Survival Guide" project, posing the question, "If there was a PoC Survival Guide for Artists of Color, What Topics Would You Want it to Cover?" The project was a tongue-in-cheek, but critical exploration of survival under a framework of institutional racism in the arts. Through a summer residency at LACE (as part of Chats About Change) and a series of think tanks, MTT brought people together to talk about survival strategies for artists of color working in a predominantly white art world. 

Michelada Think Tank is a group of socially conscious artists who are interested in hosting conversations, creating safe places and opening up opportunities to connect and build relationships between people of color (PoC). Through think tank sessions, MTT creates networks of socially-engaged / community artists interested in creative ways of making social change happen.

5.8.16 DecolonizeLA: Project Q

10am - 2pm

Project Q presents:

'We don't have mothers' a 1-day art installation at Human Resources LA.

I will be cutting hair for the kids as well as Patty Wack Vintage giving them clothing. Music workshops and yoga class all at once. I really hope you can be apart of this homage to homeless queer youth and possibly be a person that they can also look up to!

ProjectQ is a non-profit organization founded by Madin Lopez to help LGBTQIA and homeless youth combat bullying, develop self esteem and find an identity for themselves through hair styling. For the past three years, they have been working with different organizations to help realize this goal.

Collapsing social binaries with our individuality

http://www.projectq.me/ 

5.5.16 - DecolonizeLA: Cura Tierra Cura presents: DIS*Locate

Cura Tierra Cura presents:

DIS * Locate

A participatory performance where rocks, pollinators, plants and animals weave participants through critical conversation on displacement in our city and share healing practices of toning, movement and visualization for the future.

7-10 pm at Human Resources

Arrive by 7:30 to begin the evening in an honoring of the land and its people.

We seek to articulate together a critical and poetic view of the current dis*locate landscape; spheres of influence giving voice to some and not to others. What role does everybody play? How is the land and its flora and fauna affected? Can a dialogue exist between all parties? What kind of future are we building? This participatory installation and performance will share tools for healing; we seek balance.

Open to everyone. Displacement organizers (tennant right, NELA, ext) business owners, home owners, transplants, gentrifiers, policy makers, locals, and LA natives are especially encouraged to attend.

5.10.16 DecolonizeLA: DivineBrick

Performance - 9:30pm at HRLA

DivineBrick (josie j) makes research based existentially iconoclastic artwork. A lifetime of re-configuring views, beliefs, self-structure and modeling a research-oriented existence that explores belief and where it stems from, this is where it has lead.

Bass pushing air, creaking, cracking a wooden device called the Basso, to set the bio and molecular rhythm of the space. A device, part bazooka subwoofer speaker, part drum, and part bellowing feedback loop. Supplier of urban noise this wooden sub-woofer will be the splintered connection to indigenous past. A exploration in movement called Corporeal Reformation will occupy the rest of this space. Inner woven reaction to time, space voice and body, will be aided by the pulse of the sub, riding on witnesses inside a WhiteBox as landscape with their collective vocies to activate out collective memory.

Trying to reclaim some sort of indigenous or forgotten belief or behavior is close to impossible when these things have been destroyed or co-opted. Where does one turn if their past does not exist to borrow from it? Sometimes the things that the colonizer has stereotyped as “indigenous” become the only symbols on which to connect to, either in act of dissent or in hopes of connection. This will further convolute this already broken system. This semiotics is also the way the colonizers themselves find ways of connecting to more holistic ways of existing. Unearthing resources and the destruction of land not only uproots the indigenous people but also further removes the colonizer from forgotten memories of coexisting, not occupation of this land and its inhabitants (this includes plants and animals).

To add a bit more texture and dimensionality to this night I welcome Mike Meanstreetz (drums) and Z. Vidal (loop effects). Please come bath in this wave of sound, be our landscape that we have forgotten. Share in the collective vocalization. I hope to remember something I forgotten many lives over.

5.10.16 DecolonizeLA: Liberated Arts Collective

 

Window to the Inside

From Habeus Corpus to prison art practice, Liberated Lifers will lead a discussion about their experiences within California’s State Prisons.

Tuesday May 10th

Fellowship & Food: 6pm

Presentation&Discussion: 7-9pm

HRLA: 410 Cottage Home St, LA 90012

Part of the DecolonizeLA Art Exhibition: May 3-11

The Liberated Arts Collective is a collaboration between formerly incarcerated people serving term-to-life sentences, teaching artists and writers.  We are invested in art as a tool for personal and community liberation, cultural expression and social change. Formerly incarcerated people come to the collective with a range of art experience and interests; some began our art practice years before being incarcerated, some started making art in prison, while others haven’t called our work “art” until now. While incarcerated, many of us used art as a tool to make money, remain sane in solitary confinement or steer away from prison politics. Now on the outside, we use art to recognize our power and potential, engage in leadership, build notoriety, express our concerns and our solutions, and exhibit our progress and our evolution. Through art, we gain a platform for our collective voices, speak to younger generations, address the “crisis on the streets” and educate the public about our experiences in California State Prisons and the probation system.

The Liberated Arts Collective grew out of and is a project of the Youth Justice Coalition’s “Welcome Home LA,” a re-entry project and support system built by formerly incarcerated people in order to bring others home.  Welcome Home was a direct response to the lack of community-input in L.A. County’s and the state’s Reentry  plans.  The collective is owned and operated by liberated lifers and other formerly incarcerated people and serves as democratic space for the uplifting of the collective’s members, their wisdom and vision.  

For more info or to participate, contact us:

LiberatedArtsCollective@gmail.com
(213) 536-1911

5.3.16-5.11.16 DecolonizeLA: Exhibition

Between May 3 and May 11th, HRLA will host an exhibition of work from artists who applied to the DecolonizeLA call for proposals. The work will be shown in the lobby, and second floor space.

Open daily 12pm - 6pm till May 11th

*There will also be a series of performances, discussions and events, please check this site and the DecolonizeLA facebook page for more info.

Artists in the exhibition:

Isabel Avila

Cyrstal Liu - The Crop Project

Avelardo Ibarra

Liberated Arts Collective

Raze the White Box: A think tank of change

About Artists:

Isabel Avila

As society increasingly moves towards the commodification of all aspects of life, I find it personally enriching to look at contrasting values such as "the sacred" through the art process. In my recent installation, Shifts in Perspective, I present images that address cultural preservation and confront the sacred through beliefs and practices of traditional Native ways of gathering medicine (sacred plants). The viewer is informed and confronted with the idea that a supernatural happening may have interrupted the photographic process and resulted in the light leaks on the film.

Crystal Liu - The Crop Project

The Crop Project's exhibition includes an installation of the cornfield’s digging process and found objects from underground. Join members of The Crop Project on May 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m for some corn snacks and drinks!
 
The Crop Project is a public art piece that invites people to grow corn in USC Roski School of Art and Design from April- July 2016. The project includes a 15-square-foot corn field, educational corn growing workshop, corn cooking lessons and a group harvest event in June when corn fully matures. Through a group effort of cultivating a staple food, corn, and sharing the unprocessed product in a city that consumes but rarely grows corn, we can be closer to nature, and closer to each other.

Liberated Arts Collective

The Liberated Arts Collective is a collaboration between recently
liberated term-to-life prisoners a teaching artist, invested in art as
a tool for personal liberation, cultural expression and social change.
Formerly incarcerated members come to the collective with a range of
art experience and interests; some of us began our art practice years
before being incarcerated, some began making art in prison, while
others haven’t made art previously.  While on the inside, we used art
as a tool to make money, remain sane in solitary or steer away from
prison politics.  Now on the outside, we use art to recognize our
power & potential, engage in leadership, build notoriety and lift each
other up.  Through art we gain a platform for our collective voices,
speak to younger generations, address the “crisis on the streets” and
educate the public about our experiences in California State Prisons
and the probation system.

Raze the White Box: A think tank of change

I wear this fools hat connected to the others.  Others following as such family can only do. Blessed are the fools that know no ill.  Bless the suffering that they don’t know the root of...
The Act of decolonization is a complex action. This is problematic since we are all now part colonized and colonizers despite our heritage.  The act of colonizing has stayed alive in the co-opted ideas of free spirit and sewing your wild oats.  This philosophy is now inherent in the culture of the west, the culture of north America and of course the culture of the golden coast.  What is this culture?  It is a culture of searching for new land to conquer and experience ignoring its consequences.  Swung at the opposite end of a club, the reaction to a colonized state is a mirrored response.  Knee jerk flawed and beautiful such is human thought.

Avelardo Ibarra

5.20.2016 Decolonize LA: QT*POC RUN

Q.T*P.O.C. R.U.N.
RUNNING UNITES & NOURSISHES

FRIDAY, MAY 20 2016 @ 6PM
RUN ENDS @ ECHO PARK AVE & PARK AVE 8PM

POTLUCK & FILM SCREENING FOR EVERYONE TO JOIN THE RUNNERS 
EMAIL: DANCINGBIKES@GMAIL.COM 
This is run is open for Queer Trans* People of Color to address issues around (dis)placement we may face in our neighborhood, communities, spirit cultivating spaces, families, etc. We will run around 5 miles in displaced communities of Chinatown, Echo Park & Chavez Ravine. The first 10 runners to sign up will have a chance to make their own Wanna-Be Huaraches and Buya (noise) Makers. The Run is for Free(dom). We are also looking for QT*POC Cyclists support. Pre-Trainings & Huarache/Buya Making Dates : Friday, April 22nd @ 6pm & Friday, May 6th @ 6pm

5.13 - 5.15.2016 James Gamboa: 50/50

50/50
JAMES T. GAMBOA
OPENING FRIDAY MAY 13, 6-9 PM
MAY 13 - 15, 2016

50/50 PRESENTS THE QUESTION, GIVEN THE CHANCE TO PEER INTO THE FUTURE OF YOUR HEALTH, WOULD YOU OPT IN OR OUT? 

USING THE ARTIST’S PERSONAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSTICS, 50/50 EXAMINES AND ABSTRACTS THE PREDICTIVE GENETIC SCREENING PROCESS, AND BRINGS A PRIVATE EXPERIENCE INTO A PUBLIC SPACE.

THE INSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE ENCOURAGES VIEWERS TO QUESTION THEIR CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH HEALTH AND REFLECT UPON THEIR PERSONAL CONCEPTIONS OF UNCERTAINTY AND CORPOREALITY. 

____________________

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, MAY 13 

6-9 PM 
OPENING + PERFORMANCE 

SATURDAY, MAY 14 

12-2 PM
PERFORMANCE

2:30 PM 
SCREENING | THE LION'S MOUTH OPENS

THIS VERITÉ DOCUMENTARY IS ABOUT CONFRONTING LIFE’S MOST DAUNTING MOMENTS WITH PURPOSE AND GRACE, AND ABOUT THE IMPACT OF GENETIC BONDS AND GENETIC TESTING ON THE PEOPLE WE LOVE AND ON HOW WE FACE OUR DESTINY. STUNNINGLY COURAGEOUS YOUNG FILMMAKER-ACTRESS MARIANNA PALKA GATHERS HER FRIENDS AROUND HER AS SHE FINDS OUT WHETHER SHE HAS INHERITED HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE, AN INCURABLE DEGENERATIVE DISORDER WHICH TOOK HER FATHER AND NOW HAS A 50% CHANCE OF TAKING HER BODY AND HER MIND. (2014, DIR. LUCY WALKER,COLOR, 28 MIN.) 

3:15 PM 
CONVERSATION | POLY-PERSPECTIVE 

AS MODERN MEDICINE CONTINUES TO RAPIDLY ADVANCE, WE NOW HAVE THE OPTION TO PEER INTO THE INNER WORKINGS OF OUR BODIES GAINING INSIGHT INTO WHAT MAY LIE AHEAD FOR THE FUTURE STATE OF OUR HEALTH. BUT DO WE WANT IN OUR OUT—WHY OR WHY NOT? 

A PANEL INCLUDING FILMMAKER-ACTRESS MARIANNA PALKA, L.A. BASED MULTI-GENRE ARTIST TRAVIS READ-DAVIDSON AND DR. ARIK JOHNSON FROM THE UCLA HDSA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE DISCUSS THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE QUESTIONS AMID THE EVER—EVOLVING SOCIO-POLITICAL. MODERATED BY SAMANTHA GOODMAN.

SUNDAY, MAY 15

12-2 PM 
PERFORMANCE

2-6 PM 
OPEN SPACE

For more information please email fiftyfiftylosangeles@gmail.com.

5.8.2016 Decolonize LA: Critical Resistance LA

Join the LA No More Jails Coalition on Mother’s Day! 

Where: Lynwood Women’s Jail [Century Regional Detention Facility] 11705 Alameda Street, Lynwood, 90059

When: Sunday, May 8th from 8am - 12pm

We will be at the Lynwood Women’s Jail (Century Regional Detention Facility), hosting a rally and interactive event to build opposition to the proposed women's jail in Lancaster and LA County’s $2.3 Billion Dollar Jail Plan. This year is a pivotal year for the jail fight, as construction on the new women's jail is slated to begin early next year. The LA No More Jails Coalition has been fighting LA County’s jail plan through its various forms since 2011, and we are looking to build support and amplify the voices of those most directly impacted by the construction of a new jail. For our annual Mother's Day event, we will have interactive stations for families and supporters to write messages to their loved ones locked inside, with a giant Mother's Day Card to sign, an instax photo booth for portraits of visitors to take home and post in the Mother's Day card, and an arts and crafts station where children can make their own cards. The LA No More Jails Coalition intends to create a space of warmth, love, and resistance at what is normally an intensely violent and sad space for families. We want to build community to be able to support people with imprisoned loved ones while also building opposition to the jail plan by holding space to talk about community alternatives to the policing and prisons that ravage our communities and take away our loved ones.

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/events/463751643825314

LA No More Jails Coalition Mother's Day Action from Critical Resistance on Vimeo.

5.6.2016 Decolonize LA : Kite's "Sources" and "Some Numbers"

Friday, May 6 - 7PM

DecolonizeLA : Kite's "Sources" and "Some Numbers"

"Sources or ( x ) x + [ ( x ) x { x } x x ] { x } +" is a performance that takes a body through an environmental simulation of the Oglala Lakota comsologyscape, shouldering the burden of 4 female Oglala characters who have shaped space/time. The piece includes 12 sculptures, animation, sound, video, carbon fiber, clothing, and movement, developed from an obsessive hyper-structure derived from “bad” source books that attempt to qualify Oglala religion into a simplified chart. This piece explores the relationship between the body and the entanglement between lies, fiction, oral history, mythology, ethnography, and Oglala religion.

"Some Numbers" is a lecture/performance that asks the question "WHY?" "Why are there so few Indigenous working artists? Why are there so few Indigenous art school graduates?"

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