BESHT spokesperson Professor Padu Paga was recently interviewed on my behalf for Come In, We're Open!
Bringing together a range of voices from and nearby the emerging field of social practice, Come In, We're Open is a growing archive of over sixty video interviews with artists, curators, writers, producers, and participants, organized by Edith Abeyta, Owen Driggs, and Carol Zou.
The five-minute (or so) long interviews are available to see and hear at Los Angeles City College’s Da Vinci Gallery, along with an interactive pillow installation by Yarn Bombing Los Angeles and Smart Gals, and key texts on social practice. Hands-on workshops and events take place throughout the exhibition, led by artists and art collectives that include Edith Abeyta, Chris Cuellar, Ultra-red, and YBLA:
Kim Abeles, Edith Abeyta, Allison Agsten, Rheim Alkadhi, Edgar Arceneau, Marshall Astor, Karen Atkinson, Nicola Atkinson, Sue Bell Yank, Christy Roberts Berkowitz, Public Matters, John Birtle, Anne Bray, Broodwork, Tania Bruguera, David Burns, Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, Chris Cuellar, The Center for Tactical Magic, Sara Daleiden, Joyce Dallal, Joshua Decter, Letitia Fernandez Ivins, JEFF&GORDON, Finishing School, Jocelyn Foye, Mary Cecile Gee, Ghana Think Tank, Elizabeth Hamby, Anne Hars, Robby Herbst, Cynthia Herrera & Tava Tedesco, Michele Hubacek, Lauren Kasmer, Bill Kelley, Jr., Betsy Lohrer Hall, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Sandra de la Loza, Josh MacPhee, Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz, Adam Overton, Owen Driggs, Laurel Paley, Marc Pally, Nancy Popp, Max Presneill, Sal Randolph, Jules Rochielle Sievert, James Rojas, Christina Sanchez, Christen Sperry-Garcia & Brian Dick, Carol Stakenas, Aandrea Stang, Jade Thacker, Addie/Cake and Eat It, Hataya Tubtim, Ultra-red, Matias Viegener, Tricia Ward, Pamela Wells, Jan Williamson, Rosten Woo, Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Austin Young, Carol Zou, Felipe Zuñiga-González
Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism is a manifesto—written by Matador Oven, translated by Adam Overton—proposing a new paradigm in composer/performer relations, wherein the composer is a masochist who uses score-based Cageian indeterminacy in hopes of being humiliated by a willing performer.
Keywords: masochism, scores, work to rule, malicious compliance, consenting adults
Published in February 2013 by The Experimental Music Yearbook 2012 edition online. The lecture was first delivered at Kristi Engle Gallery in January 2012.
Johnnie JungleGuts and Guru Rugu are excited to announce the release of their split KCHUNG Cassette, available February 2013! Edition of 50!
The first 10 copies will be available for purchase at the L.A. Art Book Fair 2013, at the KChung Radio table! The remaining 40 will be available at various locations later in Feb or March 2013.
Side A – Johnnie JungleGuts 1. Panther Meditation
Side B – Guru Rugu 1. Queer Posture Meditation 2. [bad]breath.to.binary
Prof. Padu Paga presents his speech, Welcome to BESHT!!, featuring 4.33% of the speech delivered silently! – 11/01/2012
Padu Paga's Intro to BESHT and the Eternal Telethon, with students from Pitzer IMS – 11/02/2012
Q & A with Prof Padu Paga of BESHT, w/ Mark Allen's Junior/Senior Art Seminar Students at Pomona – 11/08/2012
Mathew Timmons & Padu Paga delivered a Koochie-Kucha for Bill Anthes' Class at BESHT – 11/27/2012
Prof. Padu Paga performs an interpretive dance during Michael Winter's copyedit – 12/14/2012
Kate Durbin reading her Kept Women, with Prof. Padu Paga performing an interpretive dance – 12/16/2012
There were many highlights at the Bureau of Experimental Speech and Holy Theses this past Fall! Here are handful of fun lectures and performances by BESHT's host, Prof. Padu Paga.
A great video by ArtIsArtists.com on Audra Wolowiec's great show, re/spond/re/peat, has just been released, featuring interviews with Audra, Shanti Grumbine, Sal Rudolph, G Douglas Barrett, and Adam Overton.
I'm so very honored/proud/shocked/humbled/thrilled/duuude/OMGah'd to announce that I'm one of a gaggle of artists who have been awarded this year's California Community Foundation 2012 Fellowship for Visual Artists!
Take a look at this incredible list of 2012 recipients:
Stephen Berens
Heather Cassils
Eileen Cowin
Fabian Debora
Mark Steven Greenfield
Sherin Guirguis
Micol Hebron
Olga Koumoundouros
Nick Kramer
Emily Mast
Amitis Motevalli
Alan Nakagawa
John David O’Brien
Adam Overton
James Rojas
Yoshie Sakai
Pascual Sisto
Shirley Tse
Mario Ybarra Jr.
Jody Zellen
And a warm, huge, amazing thanks and hugs to the amazing selection committees!!
Emerging Artist Panel: Aram Moshayedi, Leila Hamidi, Meg Linton, Nancy Meyer, Shizu Saldamando
Mid-career Artist Panel: Rochelle Branch, Sandra de la Loza, Max Presneill, Aandrea Stang, Glenn Kaino
Some very kind thoughts from the beneficent Carol Cheh on her blog, Another Righteous Transfer!, and in the LA Weekly, about the gentle beings benevolent association's Perform WOW! during this year's Perform Chinatown!
Dear friends, we're excited to announce a delightful interview with Signify, Sanctify, Believe written by Catherine Wagley at the LA Weekly!! It's simultaneously a review of the wonderful show, Invoking LA, curated by the visionary Paige Tighe!
I'm excited to announce that I'll be in residence for 2 1/2 months this summer at Cannonball Miami (formerly LegalArt)! More info soon to come...
Based in downtown Miami, Cannonball is a non-profit arts organization known for its advocacy and innovative programs supporting today's artists. Core initiatives include: SeminArt, providing free educational and professional development services to artists; LegalLink, an in-house legal advice and referral service for artists and arts organizations; and the Residency Program, which offers long-term live/work space for local artists and short-term residencies for visiting cultural producers.
Participation in this residency was made possible via the gracious support of the California Community Foundation's CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists.
I'm excited to take part in the Miami Performance International Festival '13 this June. I'll be leading a workshop and performing while in town for a residency at Cannonball. Stay tuned for more details, dates, etc.
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Miami Performance International Festival ‘13 (M/P ’13) will take place in Miami in June 3- 30, 2013. Its purpose is to interrogate time, space and the body through contemporary visual performance while cultivate live work that critically and physically pushes the boundaries of body and space. It aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the realm of performance art, develop a performance art network and to challenge audiences to rethink their concepts of art and think about performance in new ways through live actions, videos, workshops, lectures and artists talks.
Following the great success of last year’s festival Edge Zones will produce a new edition, which will take place in several venues throughout Miami-Dade County. Curated by Charo Oquet and several international guess curators, M/P ‘13 is an exciting four-week program of performances art culminating in an intense 4-day event June 27-30. The festival, organized in collaboration with a consortium of international curators, artists and institutions will provide audiences with an overview of contemporary visual performance art. With more than 70 participating local and guest artists at over five venues, M/P ‘13 will articulate a broad range of ideas and sensibilities across disciplines and media bringing together the most important artists from around the Americas and the Caribbean in the performance art disciplines and new media.
The main strategy of the organization is to activate the entire community with art and ideas and to embrace performance art as an ever-evolving medium, to activate the local scene to participate and to develop the performance art practice in Miami and to create a supportive community and where research and dissemination can occur outside mainstream education and gallery structures. All events were free to the public.
listen to Guru Rugu's Experimental Meditation Hour every 1st Sunday, 10-11pm on KCHUNG Radio AM1630 Chinatown, Los Angeles and online at http://kchungradio.org
After hosting several French artists back in January, now several artists associated with Machine Project (including the experimental meditation center of los angeles) will take up residence in Paris over 2 weeks in May. emcla will appear there for the first of the two weeks, featuring Guru Rugu, Sarah Williams, and Adam Overton.
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In 2013, Los Angeles-based Machine Project and Paris-based Mains d’Œuvres, both cutting-edge alternative art spaces in their respective cities, are pairing up for Los Angeles Chez Vous ! / Paris at Your Home !, an international artist- and gallery-exchange program of public performances in private homes.
Artists:
Emily Joyce, Dawn Kasper, Emily Lacy, Luke Fischbeck, Nate Page, and the experimental meditation center of los angeles
This is the second version of the project, which began in Los Angeles in January 2013.
In May 2013, L.A. will go to Paris, with Machine Project bringing six Los Angeles artists to Parisian homes. A closing party on the last night will bring all of the participating artists and hosts, both from Los Angeles and Paris, together.
Nate Page will arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport on May 1,2013.
The other artists will follow him, arriving on May 13, 2013.
An experiment in curation, context-trading, and the possibilities of public art, Los Angeles Chez Vous ! / Paris at Your Home ! is an unprecedented re-imagining of the home as both a site of cultural production and a locus for public exchange. Domestically and internationally scaled, the project creates a new kind of partnership with its artists and public, through a distinctly 21st-century model of cultural institutional networks.
where: FBAUP Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265, Porto, Portugal
curated by: Maria de Fátima Lambert, Rita Castro Neves, Rita Xavier Monteiro
presented by: Núcleo de Arte Intermédia do i2ADS
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Dear friends, Matador Oven and I will be visiting Porto this FRIDAY to present Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism at the wonderful Sintomas e Efeitos Secundários performance festival. Matador's lecture is at 14:45, and I'll be performing works from the unrelated series, Bits and Pieces, at 18:00! Come!
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A programação Sintomas e Efeitos Secundários nasce do desejo de partilhar a prática
artística nacional e internacional da arte da performance.
Com o objetivo fundamental de promover um intenso encontro convergente de dinâmicas
artísticas, num contexto intergeracional – os Sintomas, pretende também ser um espaço de
reflexão entre criadores, investigadores e o público – os Efeitos Secundários.
Sintomas e Efeitos Secundários surge de uma parceria entre o grupo SINTOMA|
performance, investigação e experimentação [Núcleo de Arte Intermédia do I2ADS
(FBAUP)] e da linha de investigação Educação Estética e Formação de Públicos para a Arte
Contemporânea [Núcleo Estudos Artísticos e do Património do InED (ESE/IPP)]. A construção
conjunta propõe uma mostra de projetos finais ou em curso, nos seus diferentes momentos
de consolidação do grupo SINTOMA e de criadores convidados, interposto com exposições
de trabalhos de investigação e conversas.
Sintomas e Efeitos Secundários quer desenhar um movimento que cruze a experimentação
artística e o pensamento sobre a performance radicada nas artes visuais e suas
problemáticas no âmbito da arte contemporânea.
Sintomas e Efeitos Secundários realiza-se durante dois dias em torno de três eixos
fundamentais: MOSTRAR – PENSAR – REGISTAR
Influenced by the roving preaching practice of Padre Lindoval, Guru Rugu is excited to lead the procession for Festival Tramontana as we wander from site to site in Sul, Portugal. Along the way he will lead a handful of sermons, including The Story of Saint Portugal Telecom at the town pillory; some RiverMouth Sanctification using the sounds of the rivers in Macieira, in combination with some local wisdom; and his newest sermon, Please Accept My Apology—a discussion of spiritual and religious life among artists in Los Angeles—to be delivered at the main church in Sul, with emphasis provided by the Salva Almas gumball machine. Guru Rugu is very thankful for this opportunity, and for the assistance today from Binaural interns Nely Ferreira and Daniela Lopes, as well as Binaural hostess Manuela Barile.
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Divina Sonus Ruris: O Som do Sagrado nas Comunidades Rurais do Maciço da Gralheira
Apresentação pública de obras sonoras e multimédia em espaços sagrados na Paróquia de Sul
Das 15h00 às 18h00 | Ponto de encontro: Largo Central da Aldeia de Sul, São Pedro do Sul
Obras dos seguintes artistas sonoros e multimedia:
David Prior (Grã-Bretanha) & Frances Crow (Grã-Bretanha)
Anne Burke (Grã-Bretanha) & Antony Lyons (Irlanda)
Antje Vowinckel (Alemanha)
Guru Rugu (Estados Unidos)
Manuela Barile (Itália/Portugal)
Los Yokos (Espanha)
Nodar Rural Art Lab is program of in-situ creative labs in sound art developed in connection with landscapes and communities of the Gralheira Mountain Range, namely the rural community of Nodar, a small village in the center of Portugal, located aproximately 150 km from Oporto and 350 km from Lisbon.
The creative labs are presently hold in several villages of the Gralheira Mountain Range, namely Nodar, Covas do Rio, Macieira and Coelheira.
The organization strongly encourage the artists-in-residency to present projects that can establish interaction with the place, its inhabitants, geographic space and memory.
Participation in this residency was made possible via the gracious support of the California Community Foundation's CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists.
Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism [a lecture]
&
Tomb of the Unknown Composer [a brief concert]
featuring Matador Oven, Adam Overton, and possibly others soon to be announced...
Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism is a manifesto—written by Matador Oven, translated by Adam Overton—proposing a new paradigm in composer/performer relations, wherein the composer is a masochist who uses score-based Cageian indeterminacy in hopes of being humiliated by a willing performer. It was published in February 2013 as part of the Experimental Music Yearbook 2012, and was first delivered as a lecture at Kristi Engle Gallery in January 2012. Keywords: masochism, scores, work to rule, malicious compliance, consenting adults, indeterminacy.
Tomb of the Unknown Composer, by Adam Overton (and cited in Matador Oven's Ripe for Embarrassment) is concert featuring performances of re-named and mis-attributed scores. Works, titles and performers are tbd.
where: the wulf.
presented by: the experimental music yearbook
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Experimental Music Yearbook presents...
Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism [a lecture]
&
Tomb of the Unknown Composer [a brief concert]
featuring Matador Oven, Adam Overton, and possibly others soon to be announced...
Ripe for Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism is a manifesto—written by Matador Oven, translated by Adam Overton—proposing a new paradigm in composer/performer relations, wherein the composer is a masochist who uses score-based Cageian indeterminacy in hopes of being humiliated by a willing performer. It was published in February 2013 as part of the Experimental Music Yearbook 2012, and was first delivered as a lecture at Kristi Engle Gallery in January 2012. Keywords: masochism, scores, work to rule, malicious compliance, consenting adults, indeterminacy.
Tomb of the Unknown Composer, by Adam Overton (and cited in Matador Oven's Ripe for Embarrassment) is concert featuring performances of re-named and mis-attributed scores. Unknown titles and composers are soon to be determined, and may feature a number of performers, also soon to be determined.
Listen to March 2013's broadcast online, featuring Steven L. Anderson!
Now Online: Guru Rugu’s March 2013 edition of Guru Rugu’s Experimental Meditation Hour!! Featuring special guest Steven L. Anderson of Ecstatic Energy Consultants Inc, who brought along the meditation tapes of Guru Rusty McKenzie. PLUS while praying for all the artists who applied this week for the 2013 CCF fellowship, three angels joined us out of the blue to hellp sing some prayerful karaoke!!
where: KCHUNG Radio, AM 1630
facilitated by: Guru Rugu & Luke Fischbeck
with: Solomon Bothwell, John Berdel, Luke Fischbeck, Johnnie JungleGuts, Guru Rugu, Stephen van Dyck, Sarah Williams, and Davide & Michaelangelo
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