Weekly WOAH | Nov 6-12

// Thursday, Nov 6 

EUREKA & the BIOMASS | at 5 Car Garage

• EUREKA & the BIOMASS, at 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica.
  A ‘Beauty & the Beast’ set in 2100, Megan Daalder’s sci-fi musical follows a human’s love affair with a synthetic organism: ‘the biomass,’ a spectacular behemoth, humanoid puppet.  Performances are sold-out, but meet the biomass today 1-4pm & by appt.  RSVP for location map x info.
  thru Nov 10

// Friday, Nov 7

Fedrik Nilsen’s Mike Kelley doc | at Downtown Photoroom

• Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, at Downtown Photoroom, DTLA.
  Nilsen’s recent documentation of artists’ works alongside a past portrait series of LA artists x gallerists recontextualized into a sculptural format. Curated by Kathryn Andrews.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 6-9pm
  thru Jan 31
• Keith J Varadi: Nu Haiku, at Smart Objects, Echo Park.
  Solo exhibition of new works from the LA-based artist, writer, & curator.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 7-10pm
  thru Dec 12
• Ryoji Ikeda: superposition, at Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Westwood.
  The sound artist presents a disorienting performance exploring the reality of nature on an atomic scale.
  Facebook Event
  8pm
• The Wizard of CalArts: Film & Video by John Hawk, at Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park.
  Screening of works from the CalArts School of Film/Video wizard himself— who has taught experimental media at CalArts for two decades.
  8-11pm

// Saturday, Nov 8 

Taking The Waters with HDTS

• Taking the Waters with High Desert Test Sites, at Various, Mojave Desert.
  Site-specific installations, performances, films, tours, & more make-up this two-day program evolving around a search for water.  You’ll be dehydrated in good co. with artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Matthew Coolidge, Alyse Emdur, Robert Fulton, Marc Ganzglass, Emilie Halpern, Sant Khalsa, Alice Könitz, Nancy Lupo, Erin Schneider, & Kim Stringfellow.  Organized by Aurora Tang.  Details.
  

  throwback Brian Bess at Paris Photo L.A. | at Cherry and Martin

• Brian Bress: You Can’t Sleep on a Door, at Cherry and Martin, Culver City.
  Objects, paintings & sculptures with time based components propel traditions of abstraction & representation into new mediums x genres.
  opening reception 4-7pm
  thru Jan 3
• Scott Short: More and The Same, at Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica.
  Meticulously hand painting machine derived markings, new paintings & drawings touch on absurdism, banality, & the relationship between the original x the copy.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 6-8pm
  thru Jan 3
• Frau Fest, at Secret Vacant Retail Space, DTLA.
  Talks, performances, & installations transform a vacant retail space into a one-night celebration of the female frau energy in all.  With Narcissister, Morgan Borchardt, Eclipse, Sarah Harron, Lukas Kanter, Jeepneys, Amanda Sage, & more.
  RSVP (req’d)
  6-9pm
• Finding A Form, at PØST, DTLA.
  Group show adopting a William H. Gass title as a curatorial lens for works by Jack Brindley, Michael Freeman, Christopher Miles, Yelena Popova, Neal Rock, Rachelle Rojany, & Cody Trepte. Curated by Neal Rock.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 7-10pm
  thru Nov 11
• Maid in Cyberspace REVISITED, online exhibition, at htmlles.net
  Net artists Gaby Cepeda, Émilie Gervais, Faith Holland, Jessica MacCormack, & Shawné Michaelain Holloway present online works paying homage to women web artists of the ’90’s.
  Facebook Event
  online launch 7pm
  thru Dec 31

• Ghosting Volume 13, at 1205 N Main St, DTLA.
  The monthly hang-out for experimental animators & video artists feat. screenings from Natalia Stuyk [above], Joseph Bennett, Alexandre Louvenaz, Jordan Speer x live score by Benedek (PPU) x games by LA Game Space.
  Facebook Event
  8pm-2am | BYOB
  

  throwback White Rainbow at BYOB LA III | at Ham And Eggs

• White Rainbow, at Ham And Eggs Tavern, DTLA.
  Come to BYOB LA III?  Then maybe you were lucky to catch White Rainbow with us…  See him tonight at A man A plan A canal‘s LA debut with artists Fishing, Earth Like Planets, Caspar Sonnet, Graham MacRae, & Thank You Rosekind.
  8pm-1am

// Sunday, Nov 9 

Seven Reeds | at Overduin & Co.

• Seven Reeds, at Overduin & Co., Hollywood.
  Group show feat. Fredrik Vaerslev, Julia Rommel, Nevine Mahmoud, Valentina Liernur, & Jacob Kassay.
  opening reception 6-8pm
  thru Dec 20
• Frank Bretschneider: Sinn + Form, at Human Resources, Chinatown.
  A project by the Berlin-based musician, composer & video artist based on attempts to ‘control, & change’ fundamental chaos.  A modular synth spectacular, with audio made visible through a software-generated correlation meter.
  Facebook Event
  8pm

// Wednesday, Nov 12

• Shizu Saldamando: OUROBOROS (revolutionary cycles, rebirth, or dancing in a circle), at South Of Sunset, Echo Park.
  Interested in social dynamics & physical codes, the artist presents large-format works documenting intimate social interactions from LA’s dance club scene & premieres a new video.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 8-10pm
  thru Dec 3
• Lost & Found Film Club: From the Vaults, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  A curated mix of industrial, educational, sponsored, & OUT THERE films in fuzzed-out 16mm from our favorite cinema ephemera aficionados — satisfy your taste buds, too, with grilled cheeses served on the patio.
  Facebook Event
  10:30pm

// last-looks 

Composite Arcade | at Château Shatto

• Devon Tsuno: Reclaimed Water, at Art Merge Lab, West Hollywood.
  Inaugural Multitude Room event— a series of exploratory artist installations— feat. wallpaper patterns of streams & currents, alongside prints & paintings.
  thru Nov 7
• Joel Holmberg: Witness, at Harmony Murphy Gallery, DTLA.
  Video, painting, sculpture & sound works that extend ‘beyond art that has been described as Post-Internet.’
  thru Nov 8
• Cayetano Ferrer: Composite Arcade, at Château Shatto, DTLA.
  An ‘environment’ playing on ‘civic & fictional space,’ including Endless Columns, a column lit with flashing neon lights within a mirrored room, reflecting a sense of displaced infinity within a cavernous kaleidoscopic casino.
  thru Nov 9
• Cory Arcangel: tl;dr, at Team (gallery, inc.), Venice.
  Selected works by the NY artist, a leading purveyor of technology-based art. Inaugural west coast gallery exhibition x Acangel’s LA solo show debut.
  thru Nov 9
• JPW3: 32 LEAVES I DON’T THE FACE OF SMOKE, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  If you’ve only heard about it… go to hear the sound collab with Daniel Pineda— a 360 degree sound bath worthwhile… Wash your eyes-out with cerulean next door at Sayre Gomez’s I’m Different at François Ghebaly.
  thru Nov 15

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Weekly WOAH | Oct 9-15

// Thursday, Oct 9 

#tbt Scott Benzel at Public Fiction 2012 | at VSF

• Amir Nikravan x Scott Benzel, at Various Small Fires, Hollywood.
  Citing Photoshop’s command collapsing visible layers into one conglomerate layer, Merge Visible features perception-bending 2D paintings & sculpture from Amir Nikravan. In the courtyard, Scott Benzel presents site-specific sound installations Inverted Capitol Spire, Programmatic Architecture Displacement 5-7, & the multi-channel piece Inversion V.
  opening reception 6-9pm | thru Nov 8

// Friday, Oct 10 

Expanded Cities | at Curio

• Expanded Cities Closing Reception LA, at Curio by AFN, Venice.
  

  Expanded Cities | closing 6-9pm

  A light x space x time installation by Ela Boyd x Aaron Farley, the temporary telematic series triangulating three cities comes to an end— with simultaneous performances happening in Richmond, Virginia x Mexicali, Mexico.  Facebook Event.
  closing reception 6-9pm

  

  Freewaves: Question the Projection | at Side Street Projects

• Freewaves: Question the Projection, at Side Street Projects, Pasadena.
  Freewaves x ArtNight Pasadena present interactive public work exploring current attitudes towards art x global events.  Video screening x micro projections from Vera Makianich, Daniel Garcia, Megan May Daalder & more.  Facebook Event.
  6-10pm
  

  JPW3: 32 LEAVES I DON’T THE FACE OF SMOKE, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 7-10pm | thru Nov 15

• JPW3: 32 LEAVES I DON’T THE FACE OF SMOKE, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 7-10pm | thru Nov 15
• Michel Auder / Józef Robakowski: Street Life, at Farenheit, Boyle Heights.
  Selected videos by avant-garde filmmakers, Michel Auder x Józef Robakowski explore tensions between public & private realms through depictions of everyday life.  Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum.
  opening reception 7-10pm | thru Dec 18
  

  Lovewarz Wallwerks | at LAST Projects

• Siobhan Aluvolot x Xara Thustra: Lovewarz Wallwerks, at LAST Projects, Hollywood. 
  Xara Thustra & Siobhan Aluvolot join multidisciplinary forces to create a egalitarian, anti capitalist, queer utopia amidst Hollywood’s Friday night lights.   With books [donation based x give-away], this collaborative send-off invites public participation with a performance by Jeff Zilla (COOLWORLD), DJ Little Dinosaur, & complimentary food.
  closing party 7-11pm
• RENDEZVOUS! (The Month of Macabre edition), at Hyperion Tavern, Silver Lake.
  Screening of All the Colors of the Dark (Italy, 1972), Giallo trailer by Jonny Redman, DJ guests Spaziale, Todd Gilchrist x residents Alfonso Carrillo, George Ben Sun, Carlos Rossi, Dina Juntila, Giacomo. PLUS you could win Bruno Nicolai’s limited ed. red vinyl score… need we say more???
  8pm-2am

// Saturday, Oct 11 

Marjorie Cameron | at MOCA

• Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman, at MOCA PDC, West Hollywood.
  An extensive survey of artist, performer, poet, occult practitioner, x provocateur Marjorie Cameron.  Exhibition includes approx 91 artworks x ephemeral artifacts.
  open to the public today thru Jan 11
• Gracie DeVito: Changing of the Guard, at 356 S. Mission Rd, Boyle Heights.
  Hourly performance[s] by Gracie DeVito with Indah Dafan, Jake DeVito, Sara Gomez, Luke Harris, Sarah Johnson, Julia Leonard, Jillian Risigari-Gai, Ethan Swan, Joseph Tran (& let’s hope Danny DeVito makes it too).
  11am-6pm
• Nevine Mahmoud & Kathleen Ryan: 2 X 2 X 2, at Favorite Goods, Chinatown.
  Facebook Event
  opening reception 7-10pm | thru Nov 23
• CODA: by Kerry Hyatt aka KHno7, at Gold Haus Gallery, Highland Park.
  New works in paint & collage juxtapose archetypal x pedestrian images with saturated graphics in digital collage x serial paste-ups. Sponsored by The Work Magazine.  Curated by the i-i Will Atkinson & Jb Jones.
  opening reception 7-11pm
• Derek Frech: Secure Document, at Actual Size, Chinatown.
  Works utilize encryption technologies to alter them symbolically & materially— stripping original content to restructure hierarchies of information transmission & reveal hidden mechanics of communication.
  opening reception 8-10pm | thru Nov 29
  

  #tbt visuals by Alex Pelly at BYOB-LA III | see more at Celebrate Everything.

  

  #tbt Twin Braids at Celebrate Everything,  June 2014 | celebrate 1-yr tonight!

• Celebrate Everything: 1 Yr Anniversary Party, at 1205 N Main St, DTLA.  
  The soiree dedicated to showcasing emerging purveyors in live electronics alongside acclaimed musicians celebrates One!  Feat. David Scott Stone, Bandito Overlord, Logreybeam, Twin Braids (Baseck x Joy Through Noise), Standox (WMX x Wet Mango) & KrOn.  Visuals by Alex Pelly.  Early-birds win a modular synth demo with Muffwiggler!!!
  Facebook Event | Tickets | 18+
  9pm-2am

// Sunday, Oct 12 

• soundShoppe, at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
  Monthly FREE unstructured noise jam for experimental musicians & sound artists. Presented by SASSAS & Center for the Arts Eagle Rock.
  doors 12:30pm | 1-4pm
• Maja’s Magic School: The Pyramid & Its Occult Function, at Besant Lodge, Beachwood Canyon.
  6pm

// Tuesday, Oct 14 

Empathy/Relic #2 ( detail), 2013 |David Lucien Matheke at CSUN

• David Lucien Matheke: Interior Void, at CSUN Art & Design Center, Northridge.
  New paintings, sculptures, & a performance from the multidisciplinary visual & sound artist (of Endometrium Cuntplow).
  opening reception 6-8pm performance 6:15pm

// Wednesday, Oct 15 

Suzy Poling | at HRLA

• I IM EYE MY + FILTHY HUNS + Video Art by SUZY POLING, at HRLA, Chinatown.
  Video screening of works by Suzy Poling (Pod Blotz) followed by sounds from Filthy Nuns (Daughters of The Sun members) & I I’m Eye My.
  9pm-12am
• LOST & FOUND FILM CLUB: Our Disgusting Bodies, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  The latest 16mm monthly ‘shorts-tacular’ gives a physical guide through hormonal vintage shorts, with a retro tribute to the repulsive meat of our corpus & more… a night of phys-ed promising to be both gross & enticing.
  10:15pm

// last-looks 

Fay Ray | at Samuel Freeman

• John Knuth: Base Alchemy, at 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica.
  Fly & mylar paintings by the LA artist.  RSVP for address.
  Through Oct 10
• Fay Ray: Part Object, at Samuel Freeman, Culver City.
  Sculpture, painting, photographs, & photomontage spill onto the gallery’s exterior.
  Through Oct 11
• Min Song: Tromp L’oeil Depression, at Young Projects, Hollywood.
  Ea. work comprised of a box atop a photo decal adhered to the floor.
  Through Oct 11
• Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films, at The Getty, Brentwood.
  Through Oct 12
  

  New Gravity | at Overduin & Co.

• New Gravity, at Overduin & Co., Hollywood.
  Group show feat Frank Benson, Judith Hopf, Angie Keefer, Kitty Kraus, Mahony, Oliver Payne, & Chadwick Rantanen. Curated by Olivian Cha & Eli Diner.
  Through Oct 18

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Weekly WOAH | Aug 28 – Sep 3

// Thursday, Aug 28

• Everything Is Festival: The 5th Dimension, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  Everything Is Terrible’s Memory Hole Art Opening feat live performance by Jib Kidder.  Throughout the Everything-Is-Fest catch the Oculus Rift art show presented by Glitch City with mind bending works by Buffalo Vision / Cyborg Dino / kittenjane / Because Games / BLENDO Games / Johnny Woods.
  7:30pm
  Through Sep 1

// Friday, Aug 29 

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry | at DEM Passwords

• Lee Scratch Perry: The Death of Baphhomet, at DEM Passwords, West Adams.
  Opening reception: 6-10pm
  Through Oct 11
• Manufactured in Los Angeles, at Complex, Glendale.
  Day 1: Tearist, Octavius, Pleasures, George Sarah Timelapse Project, & Vogel.
  Doors 7pm
• Glitch City L.A. presents Most Outrageous Video Games 2, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  7:30pm

• Witch Show, at Elephant, Cypress Park.
  Podcast hosted by Kiki Johnson & Alexa Loftus culling local LA witch news & other haunting topics… Where’s the best place to take a centaur to brunch? Do witches really like cats? Are aliens even real? Are you an alien?
  First episode release celebration: 8pm-12am
• Manimal presents: A Night With Manimal, at 560 S Main St, DTLA.
  Acoustic sets by Joel Jerome, Chains of Love & art by Gloria Noto, Danny Gibson, Nathalia Margot, Nick Egan, Hagop Belian, & Pastel.
  8pm-1am
• Folktale presents… Super Secret Surprise (!TBA!), at Human Resources, Chinatown.
  Surprise performance by top-secret special guest… AND performances from Ezra Buchla, Rocho Jet, Whitman, & Corey Fogel.
  9pm
• Animation Breakdown: Beyond The Mind’s Eye – A Tribute, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  Guided virtual reality screening & live score tour with PBDY, Matthewdavid, & special guest.
  10:30pm

// Saturday, Aug 30

John Knuth | at Five car Garage

• John Knuth: Base Alchemy, at Five Car Garage, Santa Monica.
  RSVP for address
  Opening reception: 12-4pm
  Through Oct 10
• KChung TV by KChung Radio at Made In LA, at the Hammer Museum, Westwood.
  This episode feat. video art by Divided Daughters (Swan Moon & Julie Moon), Communist Television (Ken Ehlrich), and an episode of Subject vs. Object #2 with Yelena Zhelezov. Produced by Kchung’s crew & volunteers, Brandt Wrightsman, & Experimental Half Hour.
  12-5pm
• The Meme Machine, at Agency Contemporary Art, Hollywood.
  Group show feat. Veronique d’Entremont, Luis Gispert, Abdul Mazid, & Rimas K Simaitis Spinella.
  Opening reception: 6-9pm
  Through Sep 27
• Manufactured in Los Angeles, at Complex, Glendale.
  Day 2: Silent Servant, Pure Ground, REDREDRED, Continues, & More Ephemorol.
  Doors 7pm
  

  twohundredfiftysixcolors | at Cinefamily

• twohundredfiftysixcolors (w/ live score by YACHT), at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  Crafted of 3,000 animated GIF’s, this experimental feature is both a curated archive & historical document charting the evolution of the GIF.  Accompanied by a live score from YACHT.
  10pm

// Sunday, Aug 31 

Alexander Noice Sextet | at Bluewhale

• Manufactured in Los Angeles, at Complex, Glendale.
  Day 3: High Functioning Flesh, Cervello Elettronico, WMX, Nové Můra, & Xultur.
  Doors 7pm
• Machine Project Pay-Per-View Comedy Special, on Computers Worldwide, Anywhere.
  Tune-in online here to participate & view the first Machine Project Pay-Per-View.
  8pm
• Alexander Noice Sextet, at Bluewhale, DTLA.
  9pm

// Tuesday, Sep 2 

• LA2050 challenge kicks-off today…. Please support our friends Experimental Half-Hour’s proposal to build LA’s first media lab!  Learn more about their vision to create a community audiovisual center & vote for LA MEDIA LAB here.
  Vote now through Sep 16

// Wednesday, Sep 3

• Lost & Found Film Club: Safetytown!, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  This month’s program is a crash course in cautionary 16mm instructional shorts.  Delicious grilled cheeses served on the patio.  
  10pm

// last-looks  

Patrick Nagel at 2A Gallery

• The Cartographer, at Charlie James Gallery, Chinatown.
  Group show extending abstracted ideas of mapping. Works by Charles Gaines, Steve Roden, Joshua Segura, Alise Spinella, Clarissa Tossin, Cody Trepte, and Samira Yamin.  Curated by Alise Spinella.
  Through Aug 30
• Patrick Nagel, at 2A Gallery, DTLA.
  Poster works by Patrick Nagel before his untimely passing in 1984.
  Through Sep 7
• New Painting from Finland and Sweden, at JAUS, Santa Monica/Venice.
  Group show feat. Sini Anttila-Rodriguez (Fin), Emanuel Bernstone (Swe), Eeva-Riitta Eerola (Fin), Ville Laaksonen (Fin), Marjolaine Lombard (Swe), Ivar Lövheim (Swe), Petra Tiisala (Fin), Stephen Parise (Swe/US), Mia Saharla (Fin), Jouni Toni (Fin). Curated by Stephen Parise.
  Through Sep 7

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Weekly WOAH | Aug 7-13

How-to’s alongside Algo-Rhythms at Sonos Studio

// Thursday, Aug 7

• Potential Bodies, at the space, Culver City.
  Works from 14 artists at the intersection between aesthetic & anti-aesthetic practices. Curated by Allison Peck.
  Opening reception: 6-9pm
  Through Aug 15
• No Parents, No Rules, at Machine Project, Echo Park.
  Night of semi-sanctioned pandemonium through performances & INTERNactive entertainment.
  7pm
• How to Create Audio Visual Art, at Sonos Studios145 N La Brea Ave, Hancock Park.
  Artists of UCLA’s Design Media Arts showcase audio-visual softwares with a live performance by Deadelus.  During the Algo-Rhythms show up through Aug 19.
  7-10pm
• Gracie Devito, at The Mountain Bar at Tif Sigfrids, Hollywood.
  Performance feat: Shagha Ariannia, Colin Blodorn, Damien Bray, Jake DeVito, Zander Eckhouse, Joe Fidler, Jessie Franks, Julia Leonard, Heidi Perlman, Rhea Perlman, Tif Sigfrids, Sam Sugarman
  8-10pm
• Unincorporated Trax presents: Silent Servant, Nathan Harrington, Esteban Adame, at Cities, East LA.
  If you wanna dance….
  10pm-2am

Draftpunk

// Friday, Aug 8

• Amanny Ahmad: Perpetual Motion, at Slow Culture, Highland Park.
  A cross-disciplinary artist, this exhibition showcases new photographs, paintings and a site specific installation.
  Opening reception: 7-10pm
  Through Aug 31
• Draftpunk, at Autonomie, Mid-City.
  Group show of contemporary drawing feat: Bridget Beck, Daniela Campins, Mark Dutcher, Rema Ghuloum, Jane Hugentober, Kiel Johnson, Jason Manely, Nadege Monchera Baer, Ali Schmeltz, Marie Thibeault, Dorian Wood.  Curated by Kio Griffith.
  Opening reception: 8-10pm
  

  Throwback Diva Dompe with Experimental Half-Hour at Human Resources | at Sound Sanctuary.

• Sound Sanctuary: Weekend of Healing, at TOP40 HQ, Highland Park.
  Weekend of consciousness expansion with guided meditations, sound baths, sacred sadism, herbal magic, tarot, & … from LA’s best healing arts practitioners.  Feat. Diva Dompe, Future Eyes, & more. Details here.
  Aug 8-10
• Sean Carnage & Kyle Mabson present…, at pehrspace, Echo Park.
  9pm-12:30am

// Saturday, Aug 9 

Blacklisted at Adjunct Positions.

• KChung TV with Experimental Half-Hour at Made In LA, at the Hammer, Westwood.
  Produced through EHH, KChung TV broadcasts live before audiences with episodes streamed & archived online at kchung.tv.  This episode feat Jonathan Pierce, Erin Weber and Mark Rodriquez, Andrew Choate, Lewis M., & Kristy Baltezore.
  12-5pm
• Gridscape, at Space 15 Twenty, Hollywood.
  New works by Ben Medansky & Bradley Duncan explore dichotomies crucial to our manipulated local terrain: grids created by architectural structures and flora-filled desert landscapes.
  Opening Reception 6-9pm
• [M&A] LA Fort Presents: Daedelus (DJ set), Lawrence Lindell, Matt McGuire and Will Walden (StaG), at Materials & Applications, Silver Lake.
  A VIS-Á-VIS performance series with a night of experimental & electronic music.
  7pm
• Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Detention), at Adjunct Positions, Highland Park.
  Works from the artist’s larger umbrella project, a deeply researched, multi-modal project investigating the distinction between native vs. invasive species as determined by California Invasive Species Advisory Committee (CISAC).
  Opening Reception: 7-9pm
  Through Aug 31
• Audrey Woolen + Cali Thornhill DeWitt: Now Open 24 Hours, at Human Resources, Chinatown.
  August 9-10

// Sunday, Aug 10

• soundShoppe, at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.
  Monthly FREE unstructured noise jam for experimental musicians & sound artists.
  Doors 12:30pm
• VIA Publication Issue 03 Release Party, at the Ace Hotel, DTLA.
  Feat. art & articles from Peter Bo Rappmund, Adam R. Levine, Sam Davis, neverhitsend, Erik Benjamins, Emily Anne Kuriyama, Lauren Everett, Christine Wang, Kim Zsebe, Ally Hasche, Maura Lucking, Lowell Heflin, Andrew Veeder, Sandra Burciaga, Jordan Pedersen, Moses Sumney, & Heather Cleary.  Details here.
  4-7pm

// Tuesday, Aug 12

• Show & Tell w/ Larry Flynt, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  Yes you read this right… Larry Flynt (!) presents confrontational news broadcasts, talk show clips, explicit excerpts & more.
  7:30pm

// Wednesday, Aug 13

• Lost & Found Film Club: ZANY MISCELLANY 2, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.
  16mm safari of astonishingly weird shorts from estate sales, auctions, schools, libraries and beyond incl. Isaac Asimov’s The Ugly Little Boy.
  10:45pm | Tickets

// last-looks 

Animal Charm at China Art Objects.

• Animal Charm, at China Art Objects, Culver City.
  First solo show feat. object-and-projection works born from the collaboration of Richard Bott and Jim Fetterley.
  Through Aug 9
• Single Wing Turquoise Bird Collective and Individual Works, at Young Projects at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.
  New & archived works from the video & light collective set in an immersive installation with psychedelic imagery & ethereal sounds.
  Through Aug 9
• 

  Gina Osterloh’s Press and Outline, 16mm film loop | at François Ghebaly

  Gina Osterloh: PRESS ERASE OUTLINE SLICE STRIKE MAKE AN X PRICK!, at François Ghebaly, DTLA.
  The artist presents a series of works for the camera & photographic frame through the lens of a set of applied instructions.
  Through Aug 16

• Ideal Territory, at Cirrus Gallery, DTLA.
  Group show of works obliquely considering ‘territory’ itself—as domain, history, narrative, and site of comparison.  Curated by Elan Greenwald.
  Through Aug 16

Weekly WOAH | July 10-16

// Thursday, July 10 

In The Flesh at Crowded House.

• In The Flesh, at Crowded House, DTLA.
  Catch the final encore of this group exhibition curated by Desirée Pakravan and Michelle Plotkin. Drop-by the new pop-up during Art Walk.
  7-10pm
• Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy, at MOCA Grand Ave, DTLA.
  Paul McCarthy in person(!) to discuss his work with Kelley.  Presented by Filmforum.
  7pm
• LOUIE LOUIE: Two Songs from an Opera, at Human Resources, Chinatown.
  An opera dispersed into an art show.  Organized by the Faustus Group and presented for two nights.
  Performances: Thurs & Fri, 7-10pm
• Daniel Pearce and Teddy Rankin-Parker present…, at the wulf, DTLA.
  Teddy Rankin-Parker (cello) and Daniel Pearce (drums) present a suite of structured improvisations.
  8pm
• 

  Image: Suzy Poling | at Mata.

  There Is No Beginning, There Is No End, at MATA, Mid-City.
  Group show feat. works from Nina Hartmann, Suzy Poling, Reuben Sawyer, Christopher Reid Martin and sounds from Shelter Death, Pod Blotz, & Aurelius Roemer Nappa.
  9pm

// Friday, July 11

• Sue Tompkins, at 356 S. Mission Rd., Boyle Heights.
  Doors 7pm | Performance 8pm.
• Melinda Ring: Forgetful Snow, at The Box, DTLA.
  A triptych of two durational performances and a dance involving nudity, video, and language to investigate the transcendent possibilities of body and mind.
  The Landscape & Memory (of Snow) Machine: Fri-Sun, 4-7pm.  Free.
  Forgetful Snow: Fri-Sun, 8pm.  Free.
• 

  Melinda Ring: Forgetful Snow at The Box.

  Native Strategies: N(enter) S, Issue#4 – Dispersions, at LACE, Hollywood.
  Launch Party with opening performances by Robby Herbst, Addie Tinnell, Matias Viegener, Kate Durbin, Mark Anthony Johnson, & others. In conjunction with Native Strategies’ LACE summer residency.
  8pm

• New works by John Eagle, Todd Lerew, Christoffer Schunk, and Danny Wood, at the wulf, DTLA.
  8pm

Experimental Half-Hour at Made In LA.

// Saturday, July 12

• Experimental Half-Hour’s Experimental Half-Hour, at the Hammer, Westwood.
  A live 30 minute satirical parody of television, presented by EHH as part of KChung TV at the Made In LA biennial.
  2-2:30pm
• Sound. at the Santa Monica Museum of Art: Mark Trayle, at SMMoA, Santa Monica.
  With new multichannel pieces conjuring sonic illusions, this performance takes place inside the immersive exhibition, Robert Swain: The Form of Color. Free with admission.
  3pm
• Caesura: A Transcendent Pause, at The University Art Gallery (UAG), Irvine.
  UC Irvine’s Artists in Residence exhibition presents multidisciplinary, performance informed works from Óscar Castrellón and Selwa Sweidan.
  Opening 4-8pm | Performance 6pm
• 

  Video: Everything Is Terrible | at Other Worlds.

  Other Worlds, at 125 South Ave. 57, Highland Park.
  One night multimedia show feat: Erin Althea, Alexandra Coward, John Cuevas, Guadulesa, Javi Herrera, Judy Zoravje, Kate Laird, Jean Liang, Lindsey Lydecker, Zeque Penya, Paula Peng, Lee Tao, Csenge Molnar, & Everything Is Terrible! Curated by M.A. Olivares.
  5-10pm

• David Horvitz, at Blum & Poe, Culver City.
  Opening 6-8pm | Through Aug 23.
• The Fifth Wall: Tom Friedman, Evan Holloway, Farrah Karapetian, Alice Könitz, Marco Rios, Corinna Schnitt, Artur Żmijewski, at Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena.
  Works on paper, sculpture, painting, video, and photography by seven artists who consider alternate, or “wrong” points of view or perspectives.
  Opening 6-9pm
• Competing Utopias: An Experimental Installation of Cold War Modern Design from East and West in One Context, at Neutra VDL Research House, Silver Lake.
  Objects from the Cold War-era Eastern block are installed in place of those typically installed in the experimental, Richard Neutra-designed VDL Research House.
  Opening 6-10pm | Through Sep 13.
• ck one daily, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  Group show feat. works by Jaya Howey, Shawn Kuruneru, Nevine Mahmoud, Rose Marcus, Shimon Minamikawa, Chadwick Rantanen, Anna Rosen, Kathleen Ryan, and Carter Seddon.
  Opening 7-10pm | Through Aug 2.

// Sunday, July 13

• Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, at 356 S. Mission Rd., Boyle Heights.
  Screening 8pm

// Monday, July 14

• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits: Annie Wharton, at PØST, DTLA.
  Tonight it’s about Annie Wharton among the thirty-one rotating exhibitions on view throughout July.
  7-9pm | Through July 31.
  

// Tuesday, July 15

• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits: Anders Lansing, at PØST, DTLA.
  Works from Anders Lansing marks half-way through the nightly changing exhibitions of the month.
  7-9pm | Through July 31.

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.

• Motion Tracking: CalArts Post-Graduate Exhibition, at Cirrus Gallery / HyperHyper, DTLA.  New works from MFAs maps 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 space, Control Room).  Through July 12.
• 24/7 (still life), at Stephen Cohen Gallery, Mid-City.  Group show of works reinterpreting the ‘still life’ in the post-internet age.  Through July 12.
• Tragedy Plus Time: Ep.2, Ch.2, Set 2., at Public Fiction, Eagle Rock & at the Hammer, Westwood.  Set 2, Neal Bashor, Two Up Eight Down (2014). Visible through the windows nightly in Eagle Rock… And on view at Made In LA at the Hammer.  Through July 13. 
  

  Ch.2, Becket Flannery, Festival at Public Fiction.

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Weekly WOAH | July 3 – 9

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

• Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films, at The Getty, Brentwood.  If you want to get ahead on the art game today… catch the dancer, choreographer and filmmaker’s exhibition at The Getty, open for independence 10am-5:30pm. Through Oct 12th.
• 4th of July Movie Picnic (feat. Davie Allan & The Arrows LIVE!, plus Lost & Found Film Club), at Cinefamily, West Hollywood.  Buffet of ephemeral 16mm oddities from the vaults of Lost & Found Film Club (2-5pm), followed by a live set from David Allan & The Arrows (5pm), and a closing 35mm screening of the infamous motorcycle doc Hell’s Angels Forever (6pm).  Independent patriotism from 2pm.

// Saturday, July 5

• Rachel Lord: Documental, closing reception, at Dem Passwords, West Adams.  Writer and professor Mark Kleiman hosts a closing convo on the artist’s 4 paintings created for Ryan Trecartin’s latest movie production.  Closing reception 4pm.
• Emily Mast: Ende (Like A New Beginning) Again, at Night Gallery, DTLA.  Video, live performance, and installation[s] from the meta-theatrical artist currently feat. in the Hammer’s Made In LA showcase.  8-9pm.
• Dustin Metz: Future One Night Only Show, at PØST, DTLA.  The future translated through paintings in red, yellow and blue. 7-9pm.

// Sunday, July 6 

KChung TV at Made In LA.

• KChung TV with Experimental Half-Hour at Made In LA, at the Hammer, Westwood.  Produced through EHH, KChung Radio launches KChung TV before live audiences. Playing on-site during museum hours, programs are streamed & archived online at kchung.tv.  This episode feat. Christina Gubala, Ian James, and Priscilla Brinshot.  12-5pm.
• INERTIA, at South of Sunset, Echo Park.  A night of chamber music and solo performances organized by Kevin Taylor.  7pm.
• Kio Griffith, Greyghost, Laura Cetilia, Lee Noble, Geoffrey Sexton, Joe Newlin, at Ham & Eggs Tavern, DTLA.  9pm-12am.
• THE HATERS / DELETIST / ARACHNID ARCADE / FRAIL DIGIT LAMB’S TONGUE, at Mata Noise, Mid-City.  Doors 10pm, Sounds10:30pm.

// Tuesday, July 8

Lucky Dragons: Actual Reality at the Hammer

• all things give way, at PØST, DTLA.  Feat. artists: Aaron Brewer, Sarah Bostwick, Vanessa Conte, Jay Erker, and John Pearson as part of the month-long series of one-night Kamikaze exhibitions.  7-9pm.
• Lucky Dragons: Actual Reality, at Made In LA, at the Hammer, Westwood.  Inspired by Bob Miller’s ExploratOrium Light Walks, Lucky Dragons presents a multimedia exploration blurring lines between portrayal and perception, allowing for a debased discovery of objects and sounds in their ‘actual reality.’  7:30-9:30pm.

// Wednesday, July 9

• Native Strategies: N (enter) S, exhibition opening, at LACE, Hollywood.  Installation designed by Tanya Rubbak opens to the public, as part of Native Strategies’ ongoing summer residency at LACE.  Programs through July 31st.  Opening reception 8pm.

// last-looks 

Alex Katz at 356 S. Mission Rd.

• The Motorman, at Richard Telles, Mid-Wilshire.  Group show feat. Alex Hubbard, Mathieu Malouf, Jon Pestoni, Emily Sunblad, and Oscar Tuazon.  Through July 5th.
• Alex Katz, at 356 S. Mission Road, DTLA.  Through July 6th.
• 24/7 (still life), at Stephen Cohen Gallery, Mid-City.  Group show of works reinterpreting the ‘still life’ in the post-internet age.  Through July 12th.

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