Weekly WOAH | July 10-16

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// Thursday, July 10 

In The Flesh

In The Flesh at Crowded House.

// Friday, July 11

Experimental Half-Hour at Made In LA.

// Saturday, July 12

// Sunday, July 13

// Monday, July 14

// Tuesday, July 15

Lost & Found Film Club presents Naughty Bits

// Wednesday, July 16

  • Lost & Found Film Club: NAUGHTY BITS, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
    Awkward teens, boxing burlesque queens, animated cut-paper penises, and feline fanciers and silly smut… Plus 35mm nudies compiled by 60’s Hollywood projectionists in this series of strange and sticky shorts that are as arousing as they are entertaining.
    10:30pm

// last-looks 

Image: Katie Shapiro | at Stephen Cohen.

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Weekly WOAH | July 3 – 9

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Flip City at Steve Turner Contemporary

// Thursday, July 3

  • Jonas Lund: Flip City, at Steve Turner Contemporary, Mid-City.  An exhibition based entirely on what the art market ‘wants?’  Last chance to catch these data-based and produced paintings, each complete with a GPS tracking device so whereabouts can be monitored and archived online here.  #Whoa Disclaimer: You’ll either be left in a state of awe or uninspired abjection.
  • KissMe Lo Maximissimo!, at Human Resources, Chinatown.  Corazon del Sol, Thea Boyanowsky and the Colectivo KissMe present a performance of the mythical world of KissMe Lo Maximissimo. With photos, video, performance, and sound piece by Tyler Adams, and music by B+.  7pm-late.

// Friday, July 4 

Yvonne Rainer’s WAR

// Saturday, July 5

// Sunday, July 6 

KChung TV at Made In LA.

// Tuesday, July 8

Lucky Dragons: Actual Reality at the Hammer

// Wednesday, July 9

// last-looks 

Alex Katz at 356 S. Mission Rd.

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Weekly WOAH | June 26-July 2

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// Thursday, June 26

John Wiese at Echo Park Film Center

John Wiese at Echo Park Film Center

// Friday, June 27

// Saturday, June 28

OLINGLINGO at HRLA

OLINGLINGO at Human Resources

// Sunday, June 29

// Tuesday, July 1

WIFE: The Passengers

WIFE: The Passengers on MOCAtv

// Wednesday, July 2

// last-looks 

Suzanne Wright at Commonwealth & Council

Suzanne Wright at Commonwealth & Council

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Weekly WOAH | June 19-25

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With a behemoth of events happening in sprawling LA … and in a[n art] world where glimmers of grandeur are often obscured amidst monotonous mediocrity— it can be helpful to consult a cynical, curated eye…  So every Thursday you can browse here for where to scope that local art and sound #whoa.  Weekly WOAH will cover happenings at all venues, particularly those at out-of-the-box and artist-run spaces.  Follow our blog to receive e-alerts when Weekly WOAH posts.  Drop us a line to share your event.

// Thursday, June 19

David Hendren at Five Car Garage

David Hendren at Five Car Garage

// Friday, June 20

The Artist & The Computer #2: Auteurs and Experiments at Cinefamily

The Artist & The Computer #2: Auteurs and Experiments at Cinefamily

// Saturday, June 21

at Actual Size

Justin John Greene at Actual Size

  • Wikipedia Meetup: Unforgetting L.A. #4, at 356 S. Mission, Boyle Heights.  Join online magazine East of Borneo for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon aimed to build a better history of art in Southern California.  This meetup focuses on the history of local art spaces and publications.  12-5pm.
  • Motion Tracking: CalArts Post-Graduate Exhibition, at Cirrus Gallery / HyperHyper, DTLA.  New works from graduating MFAs map layers of physical and technological distance between the artist in control, their image, the site of its projection, and that of its reception. Curated by William Kaminski (co-director of former alterna space, Control Room).  Opening reception: 6-10pm.  Through July 12th.
  • Justin John Greene: A Dusk That Never Settles, at Actual Size Gallery, Chinatown.  New paintings by Justin John Greene.  Opening reception: 7-10pm.  Gallery open Saturdays 12-5pm.  Through July 19th.
  • Unsound.com Presents A Noisy Solstice, Location TBA, Culver City.  SOUND: Banetoriko, Damion Romero, French Vanilla, Gil Kuno, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Handsomest Drowned Man, Kuno-Kano, and Telecaves.  UNSOUND: VJ: Kio Griffith, Art: Shoshi Kanokohata, Calvin Marcus, Kate Parsons, Nathan Zeidman, + more.  9pm-2am.

// Sunday, June 22

Magenta at HRLA

Magenta at Human Resources

// Monday, June 23

// Tuesday, June 24

// Wednesday, June 25

// last-looks

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  • there is nothing happening above us, at Wərkärtz, DTLA.  New works by LA artists Jason Burgess and Páll Haukur in the 10,000 sq ft art complex’s gallery.  Burgess exhibits new paintings alongside installations and site-specific works by Haukur.  Curated by Shelley Holcomb.  Through June 21st.

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there is something happening above us.

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On view through Saturday at DTLA’s 10,000 sq ft. arts complex Wərkärtz is a two-man exhibition provoking questions of time, space, semantics, and the authorship of the viewing experience.  Curated by head artist liaison and Wərkärtz studio resident, Shelley Holcomb, there is nothing happening above us features new site-specific works by LA based artists Jason Burgess and Páll Haukur.  At a cross-section of semiotics, the works of these artists attain an intuitive child-like playfulness through unexpected variations in scale, material, and color, while the substance of their representations exists far beyond.

werkartz15On a horizontal plane suspended just below eye level, lies Jason Burgess’ installation The Grove, a weightless sea of multicolored foam orbs stretching across the interior space.   In slow rotation, The Grove quietly animates the adjacent backdrop of Burgess’ paintings, like extraterrestrial clouds in a hanging garden.  The usual staticity of the typical gallery setting—with work level among four white walls, framing the boxed-in viewer to encounter each work like a mirror— is cleverly eradicated throughout the exhibition.  Like Burgess’ work, Haukur’s freestanding ‘clusters’ incorporating drawing, video, sculpture, and found objects, invite discovery— drawing us up-close and to the floor.  Weaving through the subconscious maze of Haukur’s compositions, lie traces of Aristotle, Baudrillard, and a hand contemplating ‘meening.’

werkartz001Haukur’s constructs are less inert objects than material situations produced from the accumulation of codes activated through an interplay of the personal and the political; the subjective and the objective; the signifier and the signified.  Shifting through perspectives and narrative, I sift through vestiges of references to texts, images, and abjection as I move about the algorithms of Haukur’s mad scientist schematics and Burgess’ floating landscapes.  Here, in the sewage of my own private simulacrum— littered with art school academia, Clement Greenberg, and Hegel— I hear Lacan…”what is repeated, in fact, is always something that occurs…as if by chance.”  Press Release.

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works from Jason Burgess and Páll Haukur | curated by Shelley Holcomb
on view through Saturday, June 21st

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Wərkärtz / Studio / Los Angeles
767 S Alameda, Building 2 #100 | Los Angeles, CA 90021
Map | located in DTLA’s Arts District next to the American Apparel factory

Desert #WHOA

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If you’re one of thousands flocking to the desert for the annual Coachella music festival —or the sixth ed. of the one-night sonic showcase: the Wonder Valley Experimental Festival— and are curious to see what’s beyond the line-ups…. Or perhaps you’re still sweating out low-cost sleeping accommodation… Or searching for adventure-stops along your route… Congratulations, you’ve arrived to the right place.  WOAH’s scouted the sprawling desert oasis to present 10 picks for visual attractions that may leave you in a state of ‘whoa,’ or inspire mobilizing plans outside of the valley.  Here’s our EZ Desert A-Z…enjoy:

09252006a53d7419632e61918537e745CABAZON DINOSAURS
50800 Seminole Dr, Cabazon, CA 92230
from Coachella: via I-10 W · 40mi · 45min
— Creationist Dinosaur Displays
For the past 35 years, SoCal travelers headed west on Interstate 10 can see the monumental 150 ft Apatosaurus, ‘Dinny.’  At the Cabazon exit, the ‘World’s Biggest dinosaur’ is joined by his 65 ft Tyrannosaurus Rex counterpart, ‘Mr. Rex,’ together forming the Cabazon Dinosaurs.  Conceived by theme park mastermind, Claude Bell, the dinosaurs were intended to attract customers to The Wheel In Cafe (permanently closing Sept ’13), and to permeate a local monument.  Built from salvaged materials over 11 years, Dinny was completed in 1975, independently at the hands of Bell and ironworker Gerald Hufstetler.  ‘Mr. Rex’ was nearly finished prior to Bell’s 1989 death, but to this day the artist’s vision— a prehistoric garden complete with a Wooly Mammoth— remains incomplete.  However, an everlasting roadside attraction remains, with the Cabazon Dinosaurs immortalized in commercials and feature films (first cameo in Wim Wender’s ’84 film Paris, Texas, pictured) , and to every eye in transit from LA to Palm Springs.  For the inquisitive tourist, stop in to Dinny’s abdomen where the Creationist Museum lies, a gift store and museum promoting… yes, Creationism.

Palm_springs_aerial_tramwaypalm-springs-tram2PALM SPRINGS AERIAL TRAMWAY
1 Tram Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262
from Coachella: via I-10 W · 26mi · 35min
—Ephemeral space-time travel in under 15 minutes
The largest rotating aerial tramway in the world, The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway opened in September 1963.  Designed by Albert Frey and Robson Chambers to provide an efficient method and mode of transit from the Indio Valley to the highest peak of the San Jacinto Mountains, the twelve and a half minute ride encapsulates passengers in a rotating module providing aerial, infinite panoramic views of a changing scenery.  Traversing landscapes, tramway riders start in the Sonoran Desert and arrive in the seasonally snow-capped alpine forest.  Hours and more info here.

1620449_10152340987036506_4649386854365182107_n PHILLIP K SMITH III: Lucid Stead: Four Windows and a Doorway
3190 El Paseo, Palm Desert, CA 92260
from Coachella: via CA-111 N · 11mi · 20min
—Infamous light and mirror house, resurrected
For those at Coachella, it will be hard to miss the launch of artist Phillip K Smith’s largest light installation to date, Reflection Field.  The installation consists of five freestanding volumes of light and mirror scaled 18 ft high by 17 ft wide and spanning a diameter over 100 ft. Reflection Field lights-up on Friday April 11th and remains on view throughout the festival, ending April 20th.  BUT don’t despair if you missed the artist’s project in Indio Valley (or simply wish you never saw the ‘selfie wall’)… An abbreviated installation of the artist’s infamous LED mirrored shack, Lucid Stead— a light-based installation originally set-up for two weeks in Joshua Tree in Oct ’13— is currently on view within the walls of the Palm Springs gallery, Royale Projects.

BOMBAY BEACH at SALTON SEA
Bombay Beach, CA 92257
from Coachella: via CA-111 S · 40mi · 48min
—California’s French Riviera: land of a forgotten American dream
The ruins of Bombay Beach are ideally suited for any ghost town purveyor or seeker of the abandoned and forgotten.  Geographically, it is one of the lowest altitude settlements anywhere in North America.  Before ceding to the demolition of the Salton Sea’s rising waters, Bombay Beach’s initial development plans were intended to create an attractive playground for wealthy vacationers in the 1940s and ’50s.  Modeled and packaged as California’s version of the French Riviera, Bombay Beach now sits as a visible urban and natural gray field, with much of the wildlife succumbing to the increased sea salinity and a series of tropical storms destroying the area in the 1970s.  Today, few permanent residents remain— with the US Census Bureau measuring the population at just 295 people in 2010.  Scattered trailer homes animate a barren desert-sea-scape, haunting the destination that never was with a post-apocalyptic aura making it a must-see for the coast-inclined curious.

2430435038_47172c8c9b_b_tx700SALVATION MOUNTAIN at SLAB CITY
Salvation Mountain, Niland, CA 92257
from Coachella: via CA-111 S · 60mi · 1hr
—Mountain of God’s love at abandoned navy base
Built by Leonard Knight after his hot air balloon failed in this bleak patch of desert near the Salton Sea, the monumental Salvation Mountain exudes messages covered in and created from God’s love.  Beginning construction on the mound in 1986, Knight felt ordained by God to continue spreading his message of love in the hostile environment he unintentionally landed in.  For over twenty years, Knight lived out of his truck and worked continually on this colorful art ‘mountain,’ which forebodes the entrance to Slab City— a free campsite and alternative living community, namesake to the concrete slabs remaining long after the former WWII military base was bulldozed and abandoned.  Located near an active bombing range in the desert city of Niland, ‘The Slabs,’ is hailed as ‘the last free place on earth’ and commonly referred to as an ‘anarchist RV town.’  The off-the-grid housing and living community attracts thousands during winter months, with some permanent life retirees and residents enduring the blazing heats and populating the largely impoverished area year-round.

xr15Z.AuSt.36HIGH DESERT TEST SITES (HDTS) HQ
6470 Veterans Way, Joshua Tree, CA 92252 
from Coachella: via I-10 W and CA-62 E · 56mi · 1hr
—Pop-ups throughout the desert
Located along a stretch of desert communities including Pioneer town, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, 29 Palms and Wonder Valley, High Desert Test Sites (HDTS) provides alternative space for works by both emerging and established artists.  An ongoing ‘experiment,’ co-founded by artist Andrea Zittel, HDTS hosts workshops, events and an array of site-specific art projects in the desert, which remaining continually elastic and calendared on its website alongside affiliated curated events (like the recent three-day event Spectacular Subdivision, showcasing Highland Park’s Monte Vista Projects, curated by Jay Lizo).  With a mission to ‘insert art directly into life,’ encourage site-specificity, and create a platform where art can be showcased on zero budget— HDTS serves a common ground belonging to no one, with floating experimental projects and permanent sites worth checking-out.  Visit the HDTS HQ for driving maps to project locations, catalogs, and more.  Open Sat-Sun, 11am-3pm.

chapelDESERT CHRIST PARK
56200 Sunnyslope Dr, Yucca Valley, CA 92284
from Coachella: via I-10 W and CA-62 E/Twentynine Palms Hwy · 50mi · 1hr
—#Selfies with Jesus at the Last Supper
On a barren hillside in the Yucca Valley, the slowly decaying Desert Christ Park has attracted pilgrims and kitsch hunters for over 50 years.  Near Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave Desert, this Christian theme park was conceived by former local pastor Reverend Eddie Garver.  Visualizing the faith-based attraction to serve as a light monument and symbol advocating world peace, the US government assisted Garver’s realization and granted the ‘Desert Pastor’ 5 acres of south-facing land on this desolate and picturesque mound.  Today, the forty religious statues made of steel-reinforced concrete— ranging in scale from life-size to over twelve ft— attract those in search of capturing the perfect weird photo-op with each fragmented Christian hallmark weighing up to sixteen tons apiece.  Plus you can stop-in to visit the adjacent Rock Chapel— the perfect way to celebrate Christ Easter Sunday.

IMG_07802_smallNOAH PURIFOY OUTDOOR DESERT ART MUSEUM OF ASSEMBLAGE SCULPTURE
63030 Blair Lane, Joshua Tree, 92252
from Coachella · via I-10 W and CA-62 E/Twentynine Palms Hwy · 62mi · 1hr
—Sculpture museum in the middle of nowhere
Nearly 10 acres of desert land serve as permanent exhibition space for artist Noah Purifoy’s assemblage sculptures.  The sprawling open-air desert scenery houses Purifoy’s quirky artworks, all created on-site between 1989 and 2004.  Immersed in the open-air, visitors to the site are invited to wander the unfenced, unwalled, and unmarked museum.  Casually left to encounter and discover each project in an experience akin to a scavenger-hunt, the museum presents an opportunity to engage with the uncanny and to partake in a social experiment exploring the in-between.  Directions to the fairly anonymous desert site available here.

13design-web-joshua3-tmagArticleintegratron-roomINTEGRATRON
2477 Belfield Blvd., Landers, 92285
from Coachella: via I-10 W and CA-62 E/Twentynine Palms Hwy· 66mi · 1.2hrs
—Sound baths in a dome invoked by extraterrestrials
Built by engineer and UFO enthusiast, George Van Tassel— with a design inspired by Moses’ Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla and telepathic directions from Venusian extraterrestrials — the Integratron hosts recurring sound baths in its dome-shaped ‘resonant tabernacle and energy machine.’  Possibly the most intense 60-minute sound bath one can experience, visitors lie on the floor while listening to a sonic healing session of crystal bowls amplified by the space’s unique acoustics; awakening and reenergizing the body’s chakras.  We recommend inquiring on space availability—or booking a private group appt in advance— as this is arguably the most visitors the Integratron sees in the brevity of two weeks annually… If you miss the chance this time, check back for the no-reservation req’d events held two weekends per month and the pop-up sound bath calendar.


32_lockerLEROY STEVENS: UNDERGROUND SCULPTURE
Mojave Desert
—As above, so below.  Sound art, underground. 
For the more ambitious traveler, the Mojave Desert is the site for a unique underground sound installation by LA artist LeRoy Stevens.  Comprised of seventy-five 20 ft lengths of rebar buried below ground, viewers use an on-site provided metal detector to ‘see’ and experience the subsurface work.  Activated through changing pitches, the installation is open to the public throughout the year. Contact the artist for directions and to schedule a site visit.  More on the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) supported project available on the CLUI website.

Experimental Half-Hour

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all images courtesy Experimental Half-Hour

WOAH WAVE: a new genre of Getting Your Sh*t Together!  Hosted by Kara Tomé, founder of ArtSite Projects, GYST Radio broadcasts conversations with DIY artists, independent curators and arts organizations.  A new addition to GYST, the WOAH Show highlights artists working with sound and moving images.  A virtual space surveying technological innovation in the arts through conversations with purveyors of electronic arts and new media, the WOAH Show had it’s first half-hour on-air with the duo behind Experimental Half-Hour (EHH).

h e a r >Experimental Half-Hour | WOAH Show on GYST Radio < h e r e

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vlcsnap-2012-07-24-20h02m10s10Broadcasting experimental music and performance art, Experimental Half-Hour is a show co-founded by Eva Aguila and Brock Fansler.  Developed as a cable access program for experimental media and it’s makers, EHH is a platform connecting and servicing a diverse network of local and international cross-disciplinary artists.  Showcasing an eclectic and extensive roster of musicians, performance artists, dancers, and comedians through televised episodes (seriously though… look at this list), EHH is in many ways a real-time archive documenting the elasticity of contemporary performing arts, audio and video culture.  Broadcasting bi-weekly half-hour episodes on multiple cable access programs in Portland since 2010, EHH has reached the airwaves of NYC, St. Paul, and beyond— collaborating and exchanging content with nomadic new media organizations like NYC’s ESP TV and LA monthly animator and video artist hang-out, Ghosting.

Officially relocating to Los Angeles in late 2013, EHH is in the process of resurrecting a fully-equipped film studio attune to their former home at Portland Community Media—where a green screen, multi-camera setup, and mix of analog and digital technologies synthesize to create a new space for accessing and cultivating experimental work.  To continue this unique DIY language and growing archive, EHH’s fundraiser benefits the equipment needed for setting-up their new digs.  All proceeds directly assist in writing EHH’s LA chapter, where shows will be custom produced, logged, live broadcast, and freely available for HD streaming from floating locations. Committed to shaping and sharing the cultivation of new work through this open platform, you can support Experimental Half-Hour Live in Hollywood by pledging a donation here (through 11:59pm Friday 3.28).

Popping-up with interactive video installations and mobile set-ups throughout the city as part of their month-long campaign, come commune at EHH’s closing appearance: Rebuilding the Temple, an evening of live video synthesis, performance, and video at Human Resources.  As EHH’s first live-taped show in the media capital of the world, Rebuilding the Temple promises to be a multimedia experience as conceptually and visually dynamic as the virtuosos mapped through the couple’s ongoing creative collaboration.

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Rebuilding The Temple | 8pm Thursday 3.27 at Human Resources

Experimental Half-Hour’s one-night takeover of HRLA complete with performances from Afterhours, Geneva Jacuzzi, Diva, and GX Jupitter-Larsen; video screenings by Jennifer Juniper Stratford, Taryn Tomasello, Cristopher Cichocki, Pod Blotz (Suzy Poling), Sarah Rara, Johnny Woods, Peter Larsson, Dungeon Majesty, E.S.P. TV, Vitamin Wig C, and Derek Larson; with the installation Esoterica by Sylvie Spencer in upstairs gallery.

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# N S F W

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| d o n ‘ t  f o r g e t | TRY TO FORGET: A Group Show

Try To Forget

| opening | 8pm-1am Saturday, March 8th | 1443 N. Highland Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90028

Hentai Origami - Eron Rauch

Hentai Origami – Eron Rauch

| d i g i t a l | * Anthony Antonellis  * Ian Aleksander Adams * Terrell Davis * Bebe Bones * Natalie Hands    * Hush B Quiet * Jim Anderson (GrimGrimGrim) * Dave Hudson * Spencer Keller * Marci Pinna * Mauzy Virginia * Carlos A Etchverry * Mattie Hillock * Tracy Clark

| v i d e o | * Molly Ryan * H. Martis * Estrid Lutz + Emile Mold * Logan Owlbeemoth (Tachyons+) * Faith Holland * Vishal Nirvana

| p h y s i c a l | * Trevor Brolin * Jen Miller * Gabe Martinez * Rhys Jones * Eron Rauch * XE Davis * Nora Quinn + Sammy Wong * Trevor Treglia * Jimmy Swill * Rae Threat  * Dorian Wood  * Aria Maximillian * Crystal Brackett  * James Marshall

| s o u n d | (live) * Bastard Noise and Witches Of Malibu * Crowhurst * Hive Mind * Breakdancing Ronald Reagan (TX) * Endometrium Cuntplow * Derek Rogers

| r e a d i n g | * Ian Dick Jones | i n s t a l l a t i o n | * Jay Gambit

| d e s i g n | * (stage) Eron Rauch * (lighting) Obfuscated Visuals

| c u r a t e d  b y | * Jay Gambit

| co-p r e s e n t e d  with |  We Open Art Houses – WOAH

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art + sound IRL

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It is truly the catastrophe of meaning that lies in wait for us – JEAN BAUDRILLARD

In a world where our virtual life has consumed our physical state of being, the lines between IRL and URL dissolve through mechanical routine and limitless manipulation.  Modulators and controllers of an overwhelming panoply of sights, sounds, information, and events, we function in communication networks as both alienated subject and mediated object.  Virtually extended, we are trapped in a circular loop of presented and re-presented information and images–– a simulated reality where representations of history, society, adolescence, youth, and ourselves are commonly perceived as lived experience.

Instruments and vessels of absorption, the evolution of becoming an adult has changed with the expansion of open-source information and the elaboration of pop culture.  We inhabit an age where information and value, notions of private and public, as well as distinctions between the natural and the neutralized, collapse into meaningless noise.  Like the World Wide Web itself, the Post-Internet visual and sound artists showcased here deconstruct the past by reassembling fragments into new strange hybrid forms and futures.

Screen Flicker | Faith Holland

The beauty of this new habitat is juxtaposed in a political climate with recurring themes of corruption, immorality, violence and invasion of even the most basic of personal privacies.  Deeply entrenched in a lifestyle of habitual routine and manufactured need–– where we are constantly having new necessities forced upon us through rendering the technological items our culture has forced us into addiction to–– looking back less than twenty years ago seems like an eternity of waste.  Overloaded and overwhelmed, the only hope is to try to forget.

Try To Forget: A Group Show

AUDIO |DIGITAL | VIDEO | INSTALLATIONS + PERFORMANCES

CURATED BY JAY GAMBIT (Crowhurst)

CO-PRESENTED WITH WOAH

OPENING RECEPTION: 8PM–11PM SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH

AT THE RAT FACTORY

1443 N. Highland Ave, Hollywood CA 90028 (Map)

– Facebook event –

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>DIGITAL: Natalie Hands | Anthony Antonellis | Dave Hudson | Ian Aleksander Adams | Hush B Quiet | Terrell Davis | Bebe Bones | Jim Anderson | Spencer Keller >VIDEO: Molly Ryan | H. Martis | Estrid Lutz | Logan Owlbeemoth | Faith Holland >WALL: Trevor Brolin | Lydia Jones | Nora Quinn/Sammy Wong | Eron Rauch | Trevor Treglia | Jen Miller | Gabe Martinez | Jimmy Swill | XE Davis >PERFORMANCE: Crowhurst | Bastard Noise + Witches of Malibu | Hive Mind | Circuit Rider | Endometrium >INSTALLATION: James Marshall | Jay Gambit

2013: a ⅃ook ᗺack + whoa recap

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The Future.

WOAH bids adieu to MMXIII with a chronological recap of our most whoa-provoking audiovisual moments.  In light of resolutions to cross more trajectories and open more art houses– with 2014 set as a ‘7 Universal Year,’ with the number 7 alluding to greater intellectual and spiritual awakening – there’s hope for much more whoa to come in the new year.  Here’s to the 7 experiences likely to linger with us well beyond MMXIII …

LABookFair13>>LA ART BOOK FAIR presented by Printed Matter at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.  Printed Matter presented the first-ever LA ART BOOK FAIR in February, housing over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers for the three-day archival symposium.   Free to the public, the annual LA ART BOOK FAIR features artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines from around the globe and is companion to the NY ART BOOK FAIR, held every Fall in NYC.  Attendance all-day, every day is recommended for the LA ART BOOK FAIR 2014 just around the corner: January 31- February 2, 2014 // laartbookfair.net

>>HAPTIC & HOLISTIC STRATA by Hiroaki Umeda at Redcat.  The sold-out  HAPTIC & HOLISTIC STRATA at Redcat in February marked Tokyo-based multi-disciplinary artist Hiroaki Umeda‘s US debut.   A compelling vision of dance as multi-sensory visual installation, Umeda’s tight choreography moved synchronously to strobic projections and sonic glitches.  Within flashing patterns, scrolling videos, and explosive light particles, Umeda’s enveloping world of sound, light and movement somehow sublimated looping vertigo into transcendental equilibrium.

Luciana>>PURO DESEO by Luciana Achugar and Michael Mahalchick at Showbox L.A. Brooklyn-based choreographer Luciana Achugar performed alongside frequent collaborator Michael Mahalchick for the LA premiere of the Bessie Award-winning PURO DESEO at Showbox L.A. in March.  Evoking the occult and supernatural through sound, movement, and a moody eye for the preternatural, Achugar and Mahalchick seamlessly webbed the cavernous black-boxed theatre into an eerie, infinite– and at times nightmarish– vortex of apparitions.  For the first minutes of the performance, the viewer sat blinded in darkness (unexpected, this roughly five minutes felt like eternity), with nothing but faint sounds of bells shifting footless through space… casting the spell for the visceral and durational experience that followed.

>>WASH presented by Machine Projects As part of the Field Guide to LA Architecture series running contingent to The Getty’s PST Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., Machine Project presented WASH, a site-specific, interactive sound installation in an indoor swimming pool.  Speakers installed above and above water channeled live and recorded sounds from Ing (John Wood and Max Markowitz), with frequencies and harmonies changing based on the viewer’s vantage point. Layers of feedback were continually added to the composition as the installation evolved throughout the afternoon.  Inviting the audience to swim through the aquatic soundscape or observe from an underground ‘viewing room’ the piece offered room for both collective and personal mediation.  Weightlessly floating and diving through underwater arpeggios, WASH, was almost as ‘immersive’ as possible.

>>THE GREY ONES by WIFE at the Downtown Independent.  WIFE is the performance trio born of LA artists Jasmine Albuquerque, Kristen Leahy, and Nina McNeely.  Premiering at TEDxSoCal, and later airing on The Creator’s Project, THE GREY ONES, juxtaposes live projection mapping with synchronized choreography to create a narrative on the evolution of time.  With an original score by Amon Tobin, THE GREY ONES evokes myth, matter, and decay; employing alternate medias to illuminate mystical phenomena and uncover collective truths.  Amazing to be apart of the team responsible for bringing this to the Downtown Independent  in August.  Presented by Phyllis Navidad, INSTALL:WeHo, MKL Gallery, FruitFlyLife, and WOAH.

>>Goblin: Giallo Live at the Egyptian Theatre. 40 years in the making, Halloween 2013 marked the Italian legends LA debut at the inaugural Beyond Fest.  Goblin’s live set drew from the foreboding, whispering melodies of their acclaimed horror and giallo soundtracks.  With founding members, Massimo Morante and Claudio Simonetti center stage; Suspiria 35mm on the–big–screen; and hosted at the landmark Egyptian Theatre– notorious as the site of Hollywood’s first movie premiere– this was an appropriately hyped event honoring the Maserati of film composers.  Presented by American Cinematheque and Amity, the month-long fest featured screenings, premieres, and music events especially suited to bate and satisfy the tastes of horror, fantasy, and sci-fi fans and nerds everywhere.

>>NUIT NOIRE V presented by Mount Analog A quarterly soiree presented by Highland Park record haven Mount Analog, NUIT NOIRE V welcomed Minimal Wave Founder Veronica Vasicka, duo Beau Wanzer (Mutant Beat Dance) and Elon Katz (White Car) as Streetwalker, Karl O’Connor (Regis) and Juan Mendez (Silent Servant)’s first-last-and-always performance as Sandra Plays Electronics, and the US debut of In Aeternam Vale.  At the risk of sounding like a groupie (because for IAV, I proudly am), I stuttered out ‘thank you’s’ and seized the opportunity for a hug-in-passing from the humbled, single-braided, Laurent Prot.  The magician behind a truly insane labyrinth of sounds, Prot first appeared as IAV in 1983 France.  NUIT NOIRE VI hits the LA underground February 14, make it your valentine and reserve tickets at climbmountanalog.com.