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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.