On May 2nd, 2010 (the day after the Dream-In), from 11am to 2pm, Gawdafful Theater performed dream reenactments in various locations around the Hammer Museum. The performers used dreams donated by Dream-In participants as the foundation for their ecstatic interpretations, and could be seen re-dreaming these dreams, communicating them to each other through telepathy.
Gawdafful Theater is a collective of psychonautic actors who attempt to liberate emotion from language and perform this dislocation. Members performing at the Dream-In are Mariel Carranza, Claire Cronin, Simone Gad, Candice Lin, and Asher Hartman, and is directed by Hartman.
On May 2nd, 2010 (the day after the Dream-In), from noon to 5pm, museum patrons encountered this Nap-In with Musical Accompaniment in the Hammer's Lindbrook Terrace. The Nap-In was organized by Mark Allen and featured the following schedule of music:
12 to 1:00pm // Jaeger Smith
1 to 2:00pm // Emily Lacy
2 to 3:00pm // Nap Break – no music
3 to 4:00pm // Ambient Force 3000
4 to 5:00pm // Yvette Holzwarth, Daniel Corral, and Ryan Tanaka
Part listening party, part discussion, new music for a new age will focus on experimental music created by prominent figures of experimental religion and the new age in America starting around 1940. Listenings will include the music of eden ahbez, Alan Watts, John Cage, Anton LaVey, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, the Ya Ho Wa 13, and others.
Dream-In Dream Interviews – a beautiful video by Amanda Law and Jesse Fleming, shot the morning of the Dream-In at the Hammer, is now available for viewing!!
At specific date and time in 2011 that cannot yet be revealed, Eliot Eidelman will be performing for 1 hour as part of the subtle bodies series. A random date was recently selected (an expiration date from a water bottle), and between now and then Eliot will try to forget when he's supposed to perform. The date will not be publicly announced until afterward to ensure that he's not reminded. As soon this time has passed, he will be immediately contacted in order to find out what he was doing during the prescribed performance-hour, and his actions during that time will constitute his performance. Stay tuned for further details.
The Festival of New Music comprises four resident ensembles, 96 composers, 350+ new works, and over 400 concerts inside a coatroom, under the stairs in the lobby of the Hammer Museum (the Little William Theater). All works have been commissioned for this festival, and are under two minutes in length. Concerts are every Saturday from August through November from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Hammer Museum starting on August 7. All as part of the Machine Project residency at the Hammer Museum.
WORD THE WORD, Part 1: Meta Psych A Guided Listening Session facilitated by Anna Mayer
Sunday August 22, 2010
7-9 pm
Join us for the first of three guided listening sessions intended to initiate and affirm the connections between exploration and language, consciousness and articulation. We will gather in a Lincoln Heights apartment for this approximately one-hour, non-silent meditation on the following: limitlessness myths, infectious sound, and editorialized flow. Facilitator Anna Mayer will present examples of psychedelic pop and rock that reference in their lyrics language and/or the experience of tripping itself. These songs, interspersed with lateral ruminations on observation, perspective, and awareness narratives, will serve as opportunities to rhythmically reflect and project on what role language serves in facilitating transformation. Please RSVP to annawmayer@gmail.com by Sunday morning for location and directions.
August 21 – Sept 18, 2010 Collection of personal items and Opening August 21, 7–10pm Performance and Closing Reception September 18, 7–10pm Claire Cronin Disquiet Objects
Disquiet Objects brings Claire Cronin’s psychic songwriting to the visitors of Monte Vista by inviting the public to share their personal items as source material for her work. Based on a belief that the objects we live with are alive with an invisible charge, Cronin began to experiment with Psychometry – the intuitive art of reading the energy held in things.
For each week of her residency at Monte Vista, the artist will select one of the borrowed objects and channel a song based on the impressions she gathers. At the end of the residency, on September 18th, there will be a performance of the four finished songs and a closing reception, when all items will be returned to their owners.
Parallels between the creative process and psychic channeling have been explored by many artists. Cronin’s exploration of Psychometry began while staying at a haunted artist residency, Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, in North Carolina, where she wrote songs for the spirits residing in the space. Cronin’s practice emphasizes channeling – rather than authoring – as a deliberate strategy to soften her mark as an individual and draw from a collective history.
Along with her songwriting residency at Monte Vista, Cronin will exhibit a series of portraits of deceased strangers in the gallery, painted from photographs found on internet memorial sites. Each portrait is displayed with its “double” cut from black thrift store dresses, referencing the Victorian practice of covering mirrors with black cloth during times of mourning, so that the spirits of the departed won’t get trapped in the glass. One mirror will be displayed alongside the paintings in this way, as part of an “energy installation” to contain energy that collects in the gallery. Four quartz crystals will also be placed in the corners of the gallery, forming a “crystal matrix” that will protect and ritualize the space.
Claire Cronin is an artist and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between psychic and creative processes. She recently composed a series of songs about the vibrations in the Hammer Museum as part of the Machine Project residency, and taught a class on “Art as a Magickal Practice” at Telic’s Public School. Cronin practices her psychic skills in Asher Hartman’s experimental theatre group, Gawdafful, and in other small performances across Los Angeles. Cronin was born in 1985 in Los Angeles, where she continues to live. In her past life, she was an ascetic in a strict order of Catholic nuns.
Monte Vista
5442 Monte Vista St
Los Angeles, CA 90042
www.montevistaprojects.com open Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 pm
Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 10PM.
Revolving loosely around the meeting of post-conceptual and discursive practices with those developed by the experimental music tradition, A Few Silence, A Place or Two, Some Applause is an evening-length program of performance works which considers the concert situation as technologically mediated site for embodied, social and institutionalized listening. The program contains works by G. Douglas Barrett, John Cage, Bill Dietz and Adam Overton, performed by G. Douglas Barrett, Kara Feely, Francesco Gagliardi, David Kant, Aaron Meicht, Travis Just and Quentin Tolimieri.
Performance of A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010). June 29, 2010, Milan.
Program: Some Applause for Doug (2010), Dietz
A Few Silence (Incubator Arts Project, New York, August 20, 2010, 7PM) (2007), Barrett
Place Feed-forward (Spiegelgasse 14, Zürich, Switzerland) (2010), Barrett
A Few Museum-Goer Transcriptions (2010), Barrett
4’33” (1952), Cage / Touch ensemble petting zoo (no. 1) (2006), Overton
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Presented as part of the Incubator Arts Project Music Program,
Organized by Travis Just
At the invitation of Mathew Timmons, Adam Overton subtly performed a program of partial pieces in tandem with Timmons' CREDIT launch and artist talk at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood. The performed works were truncated in accordance with the performance overlay, Percentage Piece (for Elana Mann), using several ratios calculated between pieces (% of cash from a few days ago still in my wallet ... % of time spent thinking about sex in the last 24hrs ... % of protein Steven van Dyck consumes per meal ... % of time awake/asleep in the last 24hrs ... etc).
From the comforts of your own home you can get intimate with a wide variety of exceptional artists. These artists will be performing from underneath a cozy blanket, as we try to get a little closer to acquiring a place to rest.
Participating Artists Include:
Adam Overton
Alexis Disselkoen
BYOFF
CamLab
Michael Decker
Miggie Wong
Stephen Van Dyke
And Super Special Surprise Guests!
The Eternal Telethon is a fundraiser for the creation of the Eternal Convalescent Home for Retired Artists, or ECHRA. A retreat for weary artists at the Salton Sea, ECHRA will be a free-form residency program open to all supporters of the Eternal Telethon.
Please Visit http://www.eternaltelethon.com/ to view the LIVE broadcast. Simply click on the "WATCH" tab located on the lower left hand corner of the screen.
Torrance Art Museum is pleased to present this second incarnation of the Zoom series: ZOOM 2. For three consecutive Saturdays, beginning on June 26, the entire museum will be host to experimental sound installations, performance works, and light/video projects.
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 12pm - 5pm
VOLUME is pleased to present "Presence," an afternoon of immersive sound, video, and durational performance work. Presence plays with multiple meanings of the title to contextualize divergent practices by a unique selection of artists all working across a spectrum of time based media, whether it is video, sound, performance, or installation. There will be a collection of gestures, words spoken, interplay of light and sound, moments of silence, focus, transgressions, layered meanings and experiences, noises, the sound of breathing and bodies performing tasks, a deeper awareness of the passage of time.
Artists include Jen Boyd, Frank Bretschneider (screening), Jeff Cain & Mark Steger, Heather Cassils & Kadet Kuhne, Richard Chartier (sound dispersion), i8u and Cédrick Eymenier, Monique Jenkinson (screening), Marc Manning, Mem1, A.B. Miner (screening), Yann Novak, Adam Overton, Taisha Paggett, Semiconductor (screening), and Sublamp.
mp3 | for any stolen instrument, performed/premiered by Gerhard Schultz
(the windows were open, and if you listen closely you can hear Germany winning a World Cup game in the background)
Going to Vons tomorrow Tuesday evening and will be freeballing (going commando) and doing my grocery shopping. Don't e-mail, just show up! It'll be more exciting that way. I hope you will show up and we can spot each other. I'll be there at 6:30 PM, the Vons at Vermont and 3rd.
W 6/2, 2pm, The Wild Beast (Calarts)
Th 6/3, 8pm, The Wild Beast
Sa 6/5, 8pm, the wulf.
Su 6/6, 3pm, The Compound
Tu 6/8, 8pm, The Wild Beast
W 6/9, 9am, Vasquez Rocks
Th 6/10, 2pm, The Wild Beast
Sa 6/12, 6pm, the wulf.
1: Wednesday, June 2, 2pm, The Wild Beast Casey Thomas Anderson: processional / Danny Holt, piano/percussion
André Cormier: marabout de ficelle / Laura Cetilia, Jessica Catron, cellos
Joe Lake: This is one small stone in an entire city of monuments I am building for you / Katie Clark, piano
Jessica Catron, Michael Pisaro (improvisation)
Antoine Beuger: coelinblau / Michael Pisaro, guitar
Mari: Happy (Un)Birthday Party
2: Thursday, June 3, 8pm, The Wild Beast Ronit Kirchman: Seven String Suites Michael Pisaro: new tombstones / Voices: L. Tolentino, J. Holter, L. Steenberge, Ensemble: Pisaro, Esler, Lamb, Tavolacci, Eric KM Clark., K. Clark, Klopfleisch, So
Laura Steenberge: Lucifer in the Shadowland (a collection of 5 pieces performed by the orchestra)
3: Saturday, June 5, 8pm, the wulf. Singing by Numbers Ensemble
Jessica Basta, Jessica Catron, Mari Garrett, Sascha Goldhor, Julia Holter, Emily Lacy, Catherine Lamb, Heather Lockie, Laura Steenberge, Cassia Streb, Christine Tavolacci, Adrian Tenney, Lisa Tremain
4: Sunday, June 6th, 3pm, The Compound John Lely: Symphony in e James Klopfleisch: Landscape #3 Samuel Vriezen: 10 readers Adam Overton: general impression piece Adam Overton: get just a little bit closer piece(a surprise performance, occurring during general impression piece) evening finale: Wolfgang von Schweinitz: JUZ / Matt Barbier, trombone
5: Tuesday, June 8th, 8pm, The Wild Beast Sam Sfirri: for Dan Flavin Travis Just: Fabric for Jim Jason Brogan: sheet music Derek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel (after 12 weeks) / Eric Klerks, guitar
John P. Hastings: Vibrations Carolyn Chen: Walk for 3n legs / Eric KM Clark, Christine Tavolacci
6: Wednesday, June 9th, 9am, Vasquez Rocks Mark So's Landscapes (a collection of 6 works performed by the ensemble)
includes also: Adam Overton: instead piece
7: Thursday, June 10th, 2pm, The Wild Beast Morton Feldman: Palais de Mari / Katie Clark, piano
Manfred Werder: 2009(4) Elisabeth McMullin: Polarity Michael Pisaro: fields have ears (2) / Katie Clark, piano + Cazan, Anderson, McMullin and Hastings
8: Saturday, June 12th, 6pm, the wulf. 20 microscores / Jessica Catron, cello, Orin Hildestad, violin
Music by: Chiyoko Szlavnics, Greg Rosenthal, Kathy Pisaro, Andre Cormier, Pauline Oliveros, Zachary Watkins, Matt Davignon, Carol Sawyer, Johnny Chang, Leung Xiao-Lan, Jonathan Zorn, Kraig Grady,Phillip Brownlee, Eric KM Clark, Raven Chacon, Sean Clute, Matthew Lee Knowles, Michael Pisaro, Zachary Scott, Jennifer Butler
Jonathan Marmor: Dog Star Music / Clark, Klopfleisch, Tavolacci, So, Winter, Nilsson, Fraser
Mike Winter: approximating omega (performed by The Orchestra)
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The Orchestra (2010): Adam Overton, April Guthrie, Beth McMullin, C.T. Anderson, Cassia Streb, Cat Lamb, Christine Tavolacci, Colin Wambsgans, Danny Holt, Dicky Bahto, Emma Nilsson, Eric KM Clark, Eric Klerks, James Klopfleisch, Jason Grier, Jessica Catron, John Hastings, Julia Holter, Katie Clark, Laura Cetilia, Laura Steenberge, Lisa Tolentino, Mari, Mark So, Matt Barbier, Michael Pisaro, Michael Winter, Nathan Brown, Ori Barel, Orin Hildestad, Paul Fraser, Paul West, Rob Esler, Ronit Kirchman, Scott Cazan, Sepand Shahab, Tashi Wada
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locations: The Wild Beast, CalArts 24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355
the wulf. 1026 South Santa Fe Avenue #203
Los Angeles, CA 90021
The Compound 33628 Lancaster Road - Hwy 138
Lancaster, CA 93536
Vasquez Rocks 10700 Escondido Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91390-4896