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 | Sep 18-25

// Thursday, Sep 18 

Reclaimed Water | at Art Merge Lab

• Multitude Room— Reclaimed Water by Devon Tsuno, at Art Merge Lab, West Hollywood.
  Inaugural Multitude Room event, a project devoted to exploratory artist installations. This series feat Tsuno’s wallpaper work based on patterns of streams & currents, alongside risograph prints and paintings.
  opening reception 5-8:30pm
  

  Substrait (Underground Dailies), 1976 | Gordon Matta-Clark at TMR

• Cities on Screens: Film Works by Gordon Matta-Clark, at The Mistake Room, DTLA.
  Second evening screening of Gordon Matta-Clark’s films marking the launch of Moments—a curatorial initiative focused on historical presentations & new commissions of film, sound, digital, literary & body-based projects.
  7-9:30pm
• Gems from the Archives, at Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park. 
  Film collector Russell Harnden hosts the series devoted to obscure, outdated, & orphaned films, screening gems from his personal collection of cartoons & film ephemera.
  8pm
  

  Cake & Eat It: Strike Halls | at HRLA

• Cake & Eat It: Strike Halls, at Human Resources, Chinatown. 
  Sculpture, text, performance & organizing strategies dominate C&EI’s installation for their HRLA residency— a composite of their ongoing engagement with ‘artistic & anarchist attempts to collectivize commercial, domestic, & public space.’ RSVP
  opening performance x discussion 8pm-12am
• Gob Squad: Western Society, at Redcat, DTLA. 
  Combining performance with impromptu video, the British-German ensemble sublimates the banality of the every day (specifically LA life), into a highly saturated, spectacle-rich multimedia experience.
  8:30pm | Sep 17-20

// Friday, Sep 19 

In Search of Turrell | at JAUS

• In Search of Turrell, at JAUS, Santa Monica.
  Group exhibition exploring the Dutch seacoast through the eyes of 11 artists, commencing in the dunes of  Scheveningen & culminating in Kijkduin at James Turrell’s land artwork Celestial Vault.
  opening reception 6:30-9:30pm
• Insert Blanc Press General Projects Presents, at 2806 1/2 Lincoln Park Ave, Lincoln Heights.
  Reading with Kim Calder, David Hadbawnik, Morani Kornberg-Weiss, Michael Smoler.
  7:30pm
  

  More Pics Bro-The Grindr Ballet | at Highways Performance Space

• Jos McKain: More Pics Bro-The Grindr Ballet, at Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica.
  Ballet conceptualized around GPS applications allowing the ‘hunt’ for sexual transaction.  Through images, sounds, & performance, McKain conceives ‘ritual structures to analyze the relationship between abstraction & reality.’ Info | tickets.
  8:30pm | Sep 19-20

// Saturday, Sep 20 

• Analog Video Art Workshop, at Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park. 
  Video art workshop serving historical examples alongside technological experiments & techniques— including feedback, keying &  colorization, manipulation of found footage & degradation of images. Space limited, RSVP.
  1-5pm
  

  throwback Jennifer Boysen (installation at Night Gallery) | at Cherry + Martin

• Jennifer Boysen: Trans-mutes, at Cherry + Martin, Culver City. 
  New monochromatic paintings & ‘meditative works’ by the multimedia artist.
  opening reception 4-6pm
• Victory Tischler-Blue: Of Beauty and Ruin, at Spot Photo Works, Hollywood. 
  Formerly of the 70’s all-female rockers The Runaways, Tischler-Blue premiers new landscape photos that trace the line between life and ruin.
  opening reception 6-9pm
• Oliver Payne: Chill Out, at 356 S Mission, Boyle Heights.
  Oliver Payne’s performance x sounds by the KLF.
  doors 6pm | performance 7pm
• Young Joon Kwak: Mother Spill, at Commonwealth and Council.
  opening reception 8-11pm
  

  throwback Pod Blotz x EHH |at Lossless Summit

• Experimental Half-Hour presents: Lossless Summit, at dA Center for the Arts, Pomona.
  Experimental music showcase recorded for TV broadcast with live video synthesis presented in front of a studio audience.  Feat: Pod Blotz (Suzy Poling), Eva Aguila, Leah P., Nephila, Telecaves, VRS, Unica, Banetoriko.
  9m
• Cool World x Cake & Eat It: Red Party- A Benefit for Copwatch Activist Network, at Human Resources, Chinatown.
  Red themed [so, you better show-up in red] all nighter with Bedroom Witch, Lisa McNeely, Jeffzilla, Alex Black, Periodbomb.  RSVP
  10pm-4am

// Sunday, Sep 21 

10000 Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid live performance | Art talk: Domnitch x Gelfand

• Evelina Domnitch x Dmitry Gelfand: Quantum Sensitivity, at Pasadena Arts Council, Pasadena.  
  In conversation with the duo discussing their immersive works engaging with the present & perception.  RSVP
  2pm

// Tuesday, Sep 23  

Roya Falahi | at VPAM

• Roya Falahi: Hoy Space at Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park.
  Solo exhibition of the LA artist known for her ambiguous large-format photos synthesizing portraiture with narrative ‘tableaux’ compositions.
  opening reception 6-8pm

// Wednesday, Sep 24 

• Mount Analog presents: MIRA Label Showcase, at Complex, Glendale.
  Missed Nuit Noire IX Saturday?  Mount Analog serves it live again this week with Covered In Sand (Shifted), Silent Servant, Prostitutes, Encapsulate.  Art installation & video by Juan Mendez.
  10pm

// Thursday, Sep 25 – Be Here. 

• BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) – LA, at Werkartz, DTLA.
  WOAH x Experimental Half-Hour x Shelley Holcomb / Werkartz present a one-night showcase of LA video artists, animators, & audio frequency purveyors as the latest local edition of the worldwide series BYOB. RSVP (please).
  8pm-12am

// last-looks 

Steve McQueen’s Drumroll | at MOCA PDC

• Steve McQueen: Drumroll, at MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood.
  Works by the British artist & Oscar-winning filmmaker feat. the 1998 video installation Drumroll as it’s centerpiece.
  Through Sep 21
• The Meme Machine, at Agency Contemporary Art, Hollywood.
  Group show feat. Veronique d’Entremont, Luis Gispert, Abdul Mazid, & Rimas K Simaitis Spinella.
  Through Sep 27
• Trains, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  Works by Marcel Alcala, Annette Kelm, Sarah Conaway, Araki Nobuyoshi, Thea Djordjadze, Jeff Ono, Erik Frydenborg, Melanie Schiff, Piero Golia, Augustus Thompson, Richard Hawkins, and Brenna Youngblood. Curated by Sterling Ruby.
  Through Sep 27

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Weekly WOAH | July 24-30

Tricia Lawless Murray Queen of Hearts at Cohen Gallery.

// Thursday, July 24

• 24/7 (still life) remix, at Cohen Gallery, West Hollywood.
  Group show feat. Kate Johnson, Heather Rasmussen, Karolina Karlic, Katie Shapiro, Siri Kaur, Carly Steward, Tricia, Lawless Murray, Ruth van Beek, Lisa Ohlweiler, David Weldzius, & Vincent Ramos.
  Opening reception: 7-9pm
  Through Aug 30
• Feast of Burden: 2 Year Anniversary, at Night Gallery, DTLA.
  Join the cast and crew for the 2 year anniversary celébration and screening
  of Eugene Kotlyarenko’s webseries ‘Feast of Burden.’ Followed by a Q&A with Keith J. Varadi and director Eugene Kotlyarenko.
  8pm
• TOP40: Gitane Demone, Egrets On Ergot, Mod Pods, Slip Fall Die, at Top40 HQ, DTLA.
  An evening of delightfully abrasive sounds in TOP40’s new, fully decked 2,500+ sq ft home. Endless nooks, crannies and vibes to explore with a full bar.
  9pm-2am
  

  Eyes Without A Face at Mountain Bar.

• Joe Sola presents: Eyes Without a Face, at The Mountain Bar at Tif Sigfrids, Hollywood.
  Screening of George Franju’s 1960 plastic surgery classic at The Mountain Bar’s summer location inside the gallery.
  8pm
• Visions of Concerts Present, at Echo Chamber, Echo Park.
  Seance sound circle at the former Echo Curio space with (VxPxC) and Invisible Path //\\ Celestial Tomes Cassettes.  Hosted by Grant Capes.
  8-10pm

Marshtepper at Complex.
Image: Jane Pain

// Friday, July 25

• Clear, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills.
  Group show feat. works by twenty-three contemporary artists including Richard Artschwager, Larry Bell, Lisa Oppenheim, and James Turrell.
  Opening reception: 6-9pm
  Through Aug 22
• 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.
  Opening reception: 6:30-9:30pm
  Through Sep 7
• New Views: The Landscape Becomes Us x ESXLA Open Studios, at Eastside International, DTLA.
  Morgan O’Hara and Luke Forsyth; Eastside International residents, Min Wong and Yun Shin; and tropical/synth soundscapes from Sha Sha Kimbo.
  7-10pm
• Mount Analog presents: MIKA VAINIO & MARSHTEPPER, at Complex, Glendale.
  10pm

// Saturday, July 26

Ideal Territory at Cirrus Gallery.

• 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 with episodes playing on-site during museum hours, and archived online at kchung.tv.  This week’s episode welcomes: CRYSTALLINE MORPHOLOGIES – Gabie Strong, POWER MALLET – Luke Fischbeck, and OUT OF THIS WORLD – Adam Taylor.
  12-5pm
• Native Strategies: Issue #5 Music Issues, at LACE, Hollywood.
  Native Strategies: N (enter) S at LACE is a Native Strategies issue come to life within three-dimensional space. Throughout their residency, Native Strategies invites over 30 artists to perform in the LACE galleries and enact the process of producing a journal.
  1-2pm – Odeya Nini & Oscar Miguel Santos Boscar Bantos Sister Mantos)
  2-3pm – Dorian Wood & Claire Cronin.
• 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.
  Opening reception: 6-8pm
  Through Aug 16
• 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.
  Opening reception: 7pm
  Through Aug 30
• Instagram Mini-Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist, at Million Dollar Theater, DTLA.
  Panel with artists and insta-purveyors on how the virtual space pace provides for extending ideas and practices.  Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist.  Feat guests: boychild, Simon Castets, Meg Cranston, Michel Gaubert, Alex Israel, Niko Karamyan, Rachel Lor, John Ennis, Kevin McGarry, Ryder Ripps, & Frances Stark.
  7:30pm
• Mike Kelley Closing Party, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, DTLA.
  MOCA and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts celebrate the closing of the exhibition.  Feat. live DJ sets by Psychopop, Friendzone, FUXUS, Dangel xxx, Jason Yates, and mr.imd with food trucks, cash bar & more!  Co-hosted by Opening Ceremony.
  6-10pm
  

  Adam Ferriss, Crystal Display (excerpt),  at Ghosting’s 1-Year.

• Ghosting 1 Year Anniversary!, at Ghosting.tv HQ, DTLA.
  Videos:Andrew Benson, Ian Cheng, Jen Stark, Johnny Woods, Adam Ferriss, & many more; Music: Chrome Canyon, Telecaves, KrOn; Games: LA Game Space; 16mm films: Lost & Found Film Club; Food: Brun’s Creole Soul Kitchen
  8pm-2am

Patrick Nagel at 2A.

// Sunday, July 27

• Native Strategies: Issue #5 Music Issues, at LACE, Hollywood.
  1-2pm – Todd Lerew and Kevin Robinson
  2–3pm – Morgan Lee Gerstmar & Xina Xurner
  3-4pm – Weba Garretson & Ingrid Lee
• Patrick Nagel, at 2A Gallery, DTLA.
  Poster works by Patrick Nagel before his untimely passing in 1984.
  Opening reception: 6-9pm
  Through Sep 7
• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits, at PØST, DTLA.
  Billy Kheel.
  Opening reception: 7-9pm
• Hammond | Trible | Mitchell | Ware | Smith, at Bluewhale, DTLA.
  Bluewhale + Cafemode present ROSS HAMMOND guitar, DWIGHT TRIBLE vocal, NICOLE MITCHELL flute, TREVOR WARE bass, BREEZE SMITH drums/percussion/electronics.  Curated by Kio Griffith.

Mike Kelley, GET THERE!

// Monday, July 28

• Mike Kelley, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, DTLA.
  11am-5pm
  Through TODAY!
• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits, at PØST, DTLA.
  Dani Tull.
  Opening reception: 7-9pm

// Tuesday, July 29

• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits, at PØST, DTLA.
  Shagha Ariannia.
  Opening reception: 7-9pm

David Hendren at 5 Car Garage.

// Wednesday, July 30

• David Hendren: Echo’s Drift, at Five Car Garage, Santa Monica.
  Last day to catch new works by LA artist David Hendren explore concepts of repetition through an expansive architectural installation and painting series in this repurposed five car garage. RSVP for address
  11am-4pm
  Through TODAY!
• 2014 July Kamikaze Exhibits, at PØST, DTLA.
  Mehran Ayati.
  Opening reception: 7-9pm

// last-looks 

• Titans of the Stratosphere, at Patrick Painter, Santa Monica.
  Group show feat. Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, and Andrea Zittel.
  Through July 26.
• Tragedy Plus Time: Set 3, Darren Bader, Milk and Honey, at Public Fiction, Eagle Rock.
  Third installment of two concurrent, changing exhibitions: A Public Fiction at the Hammer Museum as part of Made In LA and Tragedy Plus Time at Public Fiction.
  Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm, visible nightly through the windows.
  Through July 27.
• Openness and Clarity: Color Field Works from the 1960s and 1970s, at Honor Fraser, Culver City.
  Group show feat. works by Josef Albers, Anthony Caro, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frank Stella.
  Through Aug 2
• 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.
  Through Aug 2
• Heather Flood: Punk’d, at SCI-Arc Gallery, Downtown.
  Installation exploring the visual effects produced when two-dimensional graphic patterns are translated into three-dimensional constructions.
  Through Aug 3

2013: a ⅃ook ᗺack + whoa recap

Numerology.
2+0+1+4=7
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 …

>>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.

>>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.

v i s i o n ³

Double Vision is a sensory experience co-created through the collaboration of three unique concept-oriented brands,  VCR (Vintage Contemporary Reconstructed), Futra, and WOAH designed to showcase emerging talent in fashion, art and music. The event will be held from 1PM – 12AM on Saturday, July 27th at Angel City Brewery in the heart of downtown LA’s arts district. Celebrating the continuous change in artistic expression, we are putting a new spin on the typical pop-up marketplace with innovative designers, an anti-fashion show, DJs, video and art installations, food trucks, and one-of-a-kind brand merchandising.

Kicking-off the day-to-night event at 1PM, VCR has curated a fashion marketplace that will feature over 20 local Los Angeles designers and vendors including: Kittinhawk, Jfraiche, Detroit Trash, POP MURDER, Shred Threads, Dolly Bardot, Dope Shit Klothing, Cult Classic, Stone Rush Jewelry, Juliette G, The General Store, SPACE mall, Purp7e, Summer Adeline, Naha Armády, Daniel Moon, Natology, Crybaby Presents, Vie Gemeos Vintage, For Eclectic Souls, Christi Jay, Skipped, LSTN … & with more TBA!

All of the above complete with a listening booth from Mount Analog & Sweating Tapes, our favorite LA record resource & tape label respectively.

In addition to the marketplace, there will be an anti-fashion show presented as part of Galerie De L’Absurde surveying the unique collections of Kittinhawk, Daniel Brent Nieto, MARCELLA DVSI, Omega Collektiv, and Factorylook.

During the evening, the lower level of the 27,000 sq ft. venue will transform into a pop-up boutique nightclub as Futra focuses attention to the dance floor through a sophisticated line-up of diverse and seasoned DJ’s including Zernell (Grimy), Dazz Moov (Futra), Ricky Def (Futra), Reg Xelle (No Sleep, Sunday Pub Sessions), Knyphy (Futra), Phyllis Navidad (A Club Called Rhonda), Genevieve D (VSSL), EEZIR (Futra), and a DJ set by LEECH (100% Silk, Ecstasy).

Video and art installations curated by WOAH, Futra, and VCR will be showcased throughout the entirety of Double Vision, and feature emerging and established artists including Danny Perez, Future Eyes, Jil Stein, Suzy Poling, Drumcell & The Automatic Message, Scott Pagano, Nu Speed, Immanent, and Friendly Integration.

To countdown to the upcoming event, WOAH will be profiling select artists and designers in the week ahead.  But you’ll have to check back to see who’s who…