Expanding Cities via New Media

10.3 performance at Sediment Arts | image: Nicki L BA

A temporary series triangulating multiple cities simultaneously, Expanded Cities hosted telematic events at Sediment Arts in Richmond, Virginia, Mexicali Rose in Mexico, and Curio Studio in Venice, California.

10.4 Suzy Poling x Ian Miyawki at Curio Studio | image: Aaron Farley

Commencing for the week on Friday 10.3, Expanded Cities featured a roster of visual and sound artists spanning geographies through a showcase of new media projects.  The LA incantation included performances from local luminaries Devin Sarno, Suzy Poling, and Elle Mehrmand.

10.10 performance at Mexicali Rose | image: Aaron Farley

For the closing program on Friday 10.10, visual residues from Virginia-based musician Karacell’s performance were live broadcast from Sediment Arts at 10:30pm EST, syndicated with Randy Randall’s performance at Mexicali Rose, while multidisciplinary artist Elle Mehrmand performed within the saturated lights of Curio’s Venice storefront at 7:30pm PST.

10.10 Elle Mehrmand at Curio Studio | image: Elle Mehrmand

A collaboration between London-based video, performance and light installation artist, Ela Boyd, and LA-based abstract light photographer Aaron Farley, Expanded Cities is an ephemeral light x space x time installation excavating new landscapes through explorations in new media.

>Expanded Cities website

>more photos via WOAH’s Tumblr

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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