Performing Economies
14 May - 26 July 2009
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artSpa project description:
artSpa plans to host a series of free artist-led workshops and events geared toward expanding and enhancing local artists' visionary and healing abilities. Artists are invited to come deepen their meditative and psychic skills in the safe, comfortable environs of FOCA in Chinatown, as facilitated by local artist/practitioners during short evening and weekend intensives.
hosted by the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
970 North Broadway, Suite 208, Los Angeles, 90012
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Performing Economies
curated by Elana Mann
hosted by the Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
May 14 - July 26, 2009
Presented as part of
The Fellows Of Contemporary Art
Kitty Chester Series of Curator's Laboratory Projects
970 North Broadway, Suite 208, Los Angeles, 90012
Hours: Wed.–Fri. 10 a.m.–6p.m. & Saturdays 12–4 p.m. and by appointment
The Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) announces the second exhibit in our recently rededicated Kitty Chester Series of Curator’s Laboratory Projects entitled Performing Economies curated by Elana Mann. The artists and collectives involved in the exhibition aim at exploring alternative economies of activism and intimacy in this time of global political and economic crises. The exhibition presents visual artwork and events by Los Angeles based artists and collectives, including Artists for Social Justice, John Barlog and John Burtle, CamLab, Dorit Cypis, Karla Diaz, Liz Glynn, Marc Herbst, Ashley Hunt and Taisha Paggett, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective (Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke), Elana Mann, Adam Overton, and Vincent Ramos. Performances, panels, workshops and discussions will occur throughout the run of the exhibit.
For a full schedule of events please see the website: http://focala.org/project_detail.php?id=10
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Upcoming artSpa Events:
Saturday June 13th, 7 - 9pm
artSpa presents: an experimental meditation group open-mic event
Is just-sitting-there not working for you anymore? Are you tired of dead legs and mystical hyperventilation? Within the experimental meditation group we believe that the notion of "experimental meditation" is in fact redundant, that meditation is fundamentally an experimentation with reality, belief, and with its very definition and form(s). So, rather than invite you out to just another night of chanting the night away in yogic tongues (which is totally alright), we instead invite you to join us for an experimental meditation open-mic, to propose and lead your own 1-second-to-10-minute homemade meditations. All meditations will be added to the experimental meditation database, an online resource for all experimental seekers.
For those who might like to prepare their meditations ahead of time (don't worry, you can improvise too), here are a handful of parameters to consider for this iteration of the experimental meditation open-mic:
1) there will be a sign-in sheet for proposing and leading meditations - first-come-first-served!
2) tonight's meditations will all take place inside the FOCA gallery space
3) tonight's meditations can persist for anywhere between 1-second to 10-minutes
4) tonight's meditations cannot be messy or dangerous (if there's sufficient demand, a future messy meditation nite may be arranged at a suitable site)
5) participation is completely voluntary - in fact, meditative multi-minded rebellion is encouraged
If you'd care to see some of the 100+ experimental meditations already in circulation, please visit:
http://uploaddownloadperform.net/ExperimentalMeditationDatabase
Note: If you're unable to attend the open-mic but would still like to contribute an experimental meditation, please feel free to visit the database to add yours - the password is "expmedz" - or send your meditation directly to a@plus1plus1plus.org and I will add it for you.
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Sat July 18th, 3 - 6pm
artSpa presents: a free aura reading workshop with Krystal Krunch (aka Asher Hartman & Haruko Tanaka)
note: the workshop was actually led by Asher Hartman, as Haruko Tanaka undertook an unexpected journey to Tibet that weekend...
Holla! Holla! All you krystal ballas! Krystal Krunch, your real psychic bfs, are hosting a free aura reading workshop, teaching their anyone-can-do-it method of uncovering the soul’s highest potential. Amaze your friends by pointing out their true paths, their stubborn blocks and challenges! Help them to see the shining self within without bitching or giving advice! By taking a snapshot of the sensory symbols in the body’s energy field, we can remind ourselves of who we really are and move into our lives with greater assurance, energy, and calm. You don’t need to be Nostradamus to see that this going to be a fun, easygoing day of psychic exploration and personal growth. Come alone, bring a friend, chant for parking.
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tags: artSpa, event, elana
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