LA><ART

Tejpal Ajji, Harmonium, Tabla, Chimta, Saturday, October 27, 7pm, LAXART.

       $75 per person

IN CONJUNCTION WITH MARY WEATHERFORD'S EXHIBITION BAKERSFIELD PAINTINGS
LA><ART AND FORYOURART PRESENT NEON CRUISE™ WITH ERIC LYNXWILER 

The Museum of Neon Art | Neon Cruise™ with Eric Lynxwiler: October 26, 2012 from 8-11pm
Limited capacity, to buy tickets please call 310.559.0166, email info@laxart.org, or click below:

Scott Benzel and Mark Hagen will fit a wrecked car with a custom pyramidal bass cabinet and play a mix of Ghettotech, Booty bass, and early Detroit Techno as well as a live original composition through it. Incorporating both a dense mix of sound to create extreme vibrations and slow compositions using live musicians, Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) is an elegy to one of our city’s most influential and pioneering artists, Mike Kelley. 

SAT | AUG 25 | 11AM–6PM

12PM | BASS ELEGY/DEVIL’S NIGHT (FOR M.K.)

The second annual Slangfest is a daylong festival of art workshops, music, and performances. Art activity booths will host family workshops while a lineup of performances including break-dancing and live bands takes the stage. Food trucks will be present during the event. At noon, Scott Benzel and Mark Hagen will fit a wrecked car with a custom pyramidal bass cabinet and play a mix of Ghettotech, Booty bass, and early Detroit Techno as well as a live original composition through it. Incorporating both a dense mix of sound to create extreme vibrations and slow compositions using live musicians, Bass Elegy/Devil’s Night (for M.K.) is an elegy to one of our city’s most influential and pioneering artists, Mike Kelley.

WED | JUNE 27 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JUNE 23

WED | JULY 25 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JULY 18

WED | AUG 15 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY AUG 8

Organized and moderated by Slanguage, these discussion forums for artists will be structured around distinct themes, creating a space for creative practitioners to discuss some of the most pressing personal and professional issues facing contemporary artists today. These discussion forums will serve as safe spaces for candid conversations and are open to artists only. RSVP required. You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

SAT | AUG 11 | 11AM–5PM

Slanguage’s Teen Arts Council organizes a citywide summit for teen arts leaders involved in myriad arts education programs throughout Los Angeles County. During this symposium-like event, teens will share programmatic ideas, discuss the challenges of organizing youth arts programs, share experiences, and form networks for possible future collaborations. 

SAT | JUNE 16 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JUNE 9

SAT | JULY 21 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 14 

SAT | AUG 4 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 28

Led by different contemporary artists from Los Angeles, these three workshops will provide a dynamic opportunity for children and youth ages 5 to 13 to make their own works of art in a wide variety of media. From collages and painting to sculpture and installation, these workshops bring young audiences and artists together for a family friendly arts education experience. RSVP required.  You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

LAXART is pleased to announce the final installation of Art in the Parking Space to be held on Thursday, July 26th at LAXART, commencing at 7pm. This event will be guest curated by Amanda Hunt, Curator at LAXART and will bring to a close this year long project initiated by artists Elena Bajo and Warren Neidich.

WED | JUNE 27 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JUNE 23

WED | JULY 25 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JULY 18

WED | AUG 15 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY AUG 8

Organized and moderated by Slanguage, these discussion forums for artists will be structured around distinct themes, creating a space for creative practitioners to discuss some of the most pressing personal and professional issues facing contemporary artists today. These discussion forums will serve as safe spaces for candid conversations and are open to artists only. RSVP required. You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

PRESALE TICKETS AVAILABLE!

EVENT TICKET: $100
Includes entry and one raffle ticket.

BUNDLE OF 6 RAFFLE TICKETS: $500
Includes entry and six raffle tickets.



BUNDLE OF 12 RAFFLE TICKETS: $1000
Includes entry, twelve raffle ticktes and Curators Council Membership.

   
BUY A CHANCE TO WIN JEWELRY FROM IRENE NEUWIRTH: $25

Media sponsor Angeleno Magazine with generous support from Artspace

Download LAXART Garden Party Donor Form Here!

SAT | JUNE 16 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JUNE 9

SAT | JULY 21 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 14 

SAT | AUG 4 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 28

Led by different contemporary artists from Los Angeles, these three workshops will provide a dynamic opportunity for children and youth ages 5 to 13 to make their own works of art in a wide variety of media. From collages and painting to sculpture and installation, these workshops bring young audiences and artists together for a family friendly arts education experience. RSVP required.  You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

FRI | JULY 20 | 7–10PM

JWORLD’S WORST WORDS: AN EVENING OF SPOKEN WORD, MUSIC, AND PERFORMANCE

Join us for an evening of spoken word, experimental music and performances. Curated by Slanguage, with production support by Mario Davila of LAartlab, this free event will feature guest artists from some of Los Angeles’ most dynamic and creative organizations including; Deondri Ruff, Homeboy Industries; Jael Williams, Homeland Cultural Center; Jumakae, Duende and One Imagination; Rolando “Xpres” Riggio, 826LA; Shanowa Villalobos, Ell@s;  Jessica Cornejo, Heart and Soul and Inner-City Arts; SPEW, Slanguage; and DJ Emilio Venegas Jr., WECAN.

WED | JUNE 27 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JUNE 23

WED | JULY 25 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY JULY 18

WED | AUG 15 | 7–8:30PM | RSVP BY AUG 8

Organized and moderated by Slanguage, these discussion forums for artists will be structured around distinct themes, creating a space for creative practitioners to discuss some of the most pressing personal and professional issues facing contemporary artists today. These discussion forums will serve as safe spaces for candid conversations and are open to artists only. RSVP required. You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

SAT | JUNE 16 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JUNE 9

SAT | JULY 21 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 14 

SAT | AUG 4 | 12–2PM | RSVP BY JULY 28

Led by different contemporary artists from Los Angeles, these three workshops will provide a dynamic opportunity for children and youth ages 5 to 13 to make their own works of art in a wide variety of media. From collages and painting to sculpture and installation, these workshops bring young audiences and artists together for a family friendly arts education experience. RSVP required.  You may RSVP to SlanguageRSVP@laxart.org. 

Developed in the mid-1980s, Simone Forti’s News Animation Improvisations encompasses the translation of the imagery and language of newspaper reports and newscasts into improvised movement compositions. Listening to and reading the news in the months leading up to Made in L.A. 2012, Forti has produced a series of writings and drawings that she will translate into collaborative improvisational performances done throughout the duration of the exhibition at all three venues.

The Skowhegan Alliance, Cabinet, and LAXART are pleased to present:

THE DOUBLE

A one-night, bicoastal screening of video works by Skowhegan alumni
spanning nearly 15 years

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
 

A panel discussion moderated by Aram Moshayedi alongside James Welling, Walter Benn Michaels, Natilee Harren, and Phil Chang. 

April 14 at 2 PM at LA><ART 

2640 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90034

This performance will take place at the Disney Concert Hall/REDCAT Parking Structure 7th Floor, 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA from 8 to 10 PM.

Tori Wrånes performs as part of the fourth iteration of artists Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space.

*Meet outside of Disney Concert Hall in front of the steps @8pm**
(corner of Grand Ave. and West 1st St.)

Tori Wrånes featuring :

JOANA AYALA
MAYA BASTIAN
MICHAEL BENARD 
KEELY BORLAND
JAMES BLENDSOE
ALISSA CORRAO
JAMES CERNE
CHIARA GIOVANDO
JEROME HARRELL
PAMELA IMMEL
DAVID LEE
JEN LEE
SAM LEE
EMILY LOYNACHAN
JOSEF MARTIN
JOS MCKAIN
ARNOLD MCCULLER
ODEYA NINI
ERIN SCHNEIDER
ASH WILLIAMS

SPIN ECHO is a moving sound sculpture in the form of a choir on bicycles. Working with the voice and body as multifaceted instruments, a cast of performers will explore possibilities of range, timbre, gesture, resonance, character, landscape and rhythm in this roving orchestrated yet improvisatory performance.  Its all about sound on Wheels, and as Wrånes says, she is hunting while she is being hunted. 
 
Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway, and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2009. The artist works mainly  with performance, combining her own voice with sculpture. The human electricity is her point of departure, and from thereon she works freely in terms of genre and form. The work is displayed in galleries, theaters, concert venues or site-specific spaces. She has exhibited in venues such as Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka; Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Palais de la Découoverte, Paris; Human Resources and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SXSW, Texas and Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Denmark among others. 

www.toriwraanes.com

Saturday, March 31^st at LA><ART (2640 S. La Cienega Blvd)

LA><ART and the Office of Aesthetic Occupation (officeofaestheticoccupation.blogspot.com) are pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space. Entitled Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time, it will focus on several ephemeral performances occurring at various times and locations across Los Angeles over the course of two weeks.

 
A projected film collage is a study of urban planning in the Third Reich and its connections to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Bettina Allamoda’s video reflects images and details of architecture from the 1920s and 1930s up to the present. The “Haus am Horn,” the “Halle der Volksgemeinschaft,” and Oskar Schlemmer’s frescoes in the Bauhaus building by Henry van de Velde are intercut with less well-known monuments such as Nazi-era administrative buildings or garden fence posts originally found at concentration camps. The artist projected this film collage onto a wall, then recorded herself performing in front of, and together with, the moving picture. Allamoda at times becomes part of the projection - even part of the architecture itself. Each frame in this documentary-style video incorporates related bits of news, text, and quotes from Bauhaus masters culled from the artist’s extensive research. An accompanying soundtrack suggests a link to postwar Californian model homes, featuring 1960s psychedelia, ’70s Krautrock and ’90s British electronic instrumentals.
 
Bettina Allamoda is a Chicago-born artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. Her wide-ranging body of work encompasses sculpture, relief, installation, collage, photography, video, performance, artist’s books, and curatorial projects. Allamoda’s interest lies in the politics of the surface, the body, and physical and public space. Her work attempts to display and present how history is written, excavated, reinterpreted and rebuilt – and sometimes exploited by future generations.

In conjunction with Kelly Poe's exhibition For the Wild, LA><ART will hold a screening of the Oscar nominated documentary film If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front at the Mandrake (2692 S. La Cienega Blvd.) on March 27, 2012 at 7 PM. 
 

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation and radicalization of one of its members.

Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thrilller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.

Drawing from striking archival footage -- much of it never before seen -- and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them, IF A TREE FALLS explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law enforcement, and the word "terrorism" had not yet been altered by 9/11.

Join us for the closing reception of the Artist's Tower of Protect by Mark di Suvero. 

How do we conceive of success in the art world? Who sets the terms? Who should set the terms? What is the role of the market? How does the press figure in? Have art schools shifted expectations of success? Is a coherent notion of success even possible in a world defined by such a pluralistic array of practices? How has the rising profile of the LA art scene changed the way that success is understood here? What is the difference between successful and popular? Has the recession altered the way we think about success? How does success affect an artist’s work in the long run? What are the interpersonal ramifications of success? What is the difference between successful art and a successful career? Is there a way around the “in crowd” problem? What is the price of success? What is failure? Is success satisfying? What’s true success? What is it that really matters in the end?

Panelists:

Mark Bradford

Eileen Cowin

Anna Sew Hoy

Paul Schimmel

Susanne Vielmetter

Moderator:

Holly Myers

When: 3 pm, Saturday, March 24, 2012

Where: LA><ART

               2640 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90034

Tel: (310) 559-0166

Colloquy is a bi-monthly series of panel discussions aimed at addressing big picture questions facing the art world in Los Angeles today. The inaugural project of then/and, an independent curatorial initiative launched in 2012 by writer, critic, and curator Holly Myers, Colloquy seeks to provide a platform for intelligent debate concerning issues affecting artists, art professionals, and the nature of art production in southern California—one contingent not an any individual exhibition or institution, but on the participation of the community at large. To these ends, Colloquy welcomes recommendations. If there is a topic you would like to see explored, please email it to: info@thenand.org.

LA><ART and the Office of Aesthetic Occupation (officeofaestheticoccupation.blogspot.com) are pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space. Entitled Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time, it will focus on several ephemeral performances occurring at various times and locations across Los Angeles over the course of two weeks. Please check the Art in the Parking Space blog site for specific dates and times. As with each project before, each work will renegotiate the meaning, context, and cultural specificity of the parking space.
 
Participating Artists: Bettina Allamoda, Eric Anglès and Tori Wrånes
 
ABOUT THE PROJECTS
 
open edition Bpy (2012 - ongoing)
Conversations: Tuesday, March 20^th and Wednesday, March 21^st, locations variable (please check website: artintheparkingspace.blogspot.com)
 
Three benches are placed in various public parking spots and three-way conversations ensue on the following topic: What is public space? These conversations will be recorded, transcribed, anonymized, lightly edited for fluency and printed as separate booklets. As with all of the artist’s work, the booklets will be available as unlimited editions. Every participant will receive at least one booklet. Participants can be passers-by as well as anyone who wishes to schedule an appointment. Please RSVP toinfo@laxart.org if you wish to join the artist.
 
Eric Anglès lives in Berlin and New York.
 
Performance Collage: Bauhaus Performance
Screening: Saturday, March 31^st at LA><ART (2640 S. La Cienega Blvd)
 
A projected film collage is a study of urban planning in the Third Reich and its connections to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Bettina Allamoda’s video reflects images and details of architecture from the 1920s and 1930s up to the present. The “Haus am Horn,” the “Halle der Volksgemeinschaft,” and Oskar Schlemmer’s frescoes in the Bauhaus building by Henry van de Velde are intercut with less well-known monuments such as Nazi-era administrative buildings or garden fence posts originally found at concentration camps. The artist projected this film collage onto a wall, then recorded herself performing in front of, and together with, the moving picture. Allamoda at times becomes part of the projection - even part of the architecture itself. Each frame in this documentary-style video incorporates related bits of news, text, and quotes from Bauhaus masters culled from the artist’s extensive research. An accompanying soundtrack suggests a link to postwar Californian model homes, featuring 1960s psychedelia, ’70s Krautrock and ’90s British electronic instrumentals.
 
Bettina Allamoda is a Chicago-born artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. Her wide-ranging body of work encompasses sculpture, relief, installation, collage, photography, video, performance, artist’s books, and curatorial projects. Allamoda’s interest lies in the politics of the surface, the body, and physical and public space. Her work attempts to display and present how history is written, excavated, reinterpreted and rebuilt – and sometimes exploited by future generations.
 
SPIN ECHO
Opening: Wednesday, April 4^th, location TBD
 
SPIN ECHO is a moving sound sculpture in the form of a choir on bicycles. Working with the voice and body as multifaceted instruments, a cast of performers will explore possibilities of range, timbre, gesture, resonance, character, landscape and rhythm in this roving orchestrated yet improvisatory performance.  Its all about sound on Wheels, and as Wrånes says, she is hunting while she is being hunted.
 

 
Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway, and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2009. The artist works mainly  with performance, combining her own voice with sculptor. The human electricity is her point of departure, and from thereon she works freely in terms of genre and form. The work is displayed in galleries, theaters, concert venues or site-specific spaces. She has exhibited in venues such as Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka; Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Palais de la Découoverte, Paris; Human Resources and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SXSW, Texas and Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Denmark among others. 
 

Admission: Free; no reservations required.
Location: 830 North Highland Ave., Los Angeles, CA

This event is part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. 

Each night of the festival, Black Box will be the place to meet, drink, talk and enjoy exciting programming and performance. Each night will feature different surprise performances.

This event is made possible by generous support from Joel Chen.

http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/

The history of postwar art in Los Angeles is punctuated by dramatic examples of public artworks, large-scale spectacles, expansive performances, and small-scale interventions in the public sphere. The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival celebrated this history through a contemporary lens, with a series of adaptations, re-inventions, and commissions inspired by the installation and performance artists working in Los Angeles between 1945 and 1980.

Throughout the 11-day festival, a group of new public artworks were on view throughout the city. In addition, new performances premiered each day, including outdoor visual spectacles, experimental theater and sound art, social and political interventions, and media art. A nightly after-party, Black Box, provided a space for socializing, and included surprise performances each evening.

The festival was presented as part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-80, an unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to celebrate the birth of the L.A. art scene. As the festival moved throughout the city, visitors were also surrounded by dozens of groundbreaking exhibitions about the history of art in Southern California.

  Barbara T. Smith and Kim Jones will discuss their own historic works and the milieu of Los Angeles performance art in a conversation among colleagues.  Smith was an important participant in the thriving feminist performance movement that evolved in LA in the early 1970s.  Jones’ famous “Mudman” persona was a challenging life-as-art project that brought resonances of an American experience in Vietnam to the streets of Los Angeles.  The artists will contextualize their practices in dialogue, and reflect on a trajectory that has brought them to the present. 
 
        Developed in 2007 by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade at LA><ART, Talks About Acts is a series of conversations, presentations and performances that inform the contemporary discussion around performance practices.  Previous participants have included Scoli Acosta, Ron Athey, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Lia Gangitano, Los Super Elegantes, Ann Magnuson, José Muñoz, Mario Ybarra, Jr., and Eleanor Antin, whose keynote talk in 2007 laid the foundation for this year’s project.