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The Temperaments
a reading and screening
Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
This event is presented by Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell as part of A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation at Kristi Engle Gallery. It’s also presented as part of Liz Glynn’s Spirit Resurrection, a 2-month platform for performance inspired by the historic 1980 Public Spirit festival.
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The Temperaments
Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
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“A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation”
In this series, arists/curators Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell look at the ideas of conversation and performance to ask simply, 'what are people thinking?" Artists in this series are invited to perform, converse, and listen with singular purpose of circulating new ideas through the lens of performance.
The pairing of artists asks us to look in between art works, at the electric space of gaps and connection. Listening can be like scavenging, collecting facets of thought-- concerted statements and unplanned segues--detailing what the speaker is conscious of (or not). meshing with and advancing our own ideas.
As performance practitioners, we're curious about the nature of what we do, its exigencies, and how it responds or recedes from the larger cultural landscape. We invited people who are simply interesting to watch, to listen to, whose ideas give us ideas. We hope you'll join us in the spirit of exploration and discovery.
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Spirit Resurrection is a platform for performance inspired by the historic 1980 Public Spirit festival. A series of new performances and re-inventions of historic works will be organized through a calendar structure based on the original. This website offers an archive of the original festival combined with an open source platform for artists to participate in the project and the larger Pacific Standard Time festival. Performances will be staged at artist-run spaces, non-profits, and other sites in Los Angeles and beyond.
Spirit Resurrection was commissioned by LACE as part of Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 an exhibition and performance series that explores the histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 70s and early 80s. Los Angeles Goes Live is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
iCI (Independent Curators International) is currently featuring a 2005 email of mine – in response to a cease-and-desist letter from Marina Abramovic – on their research blog, Dispatch. The curators – Mariana Azevedo, Sakina Namazi, Shannon Ryan, Keeli Shaw – have put together a nice selection of responses to and ideas on the theme of "Performance and Reperformance".
http://curatorsintl.org/posts/re_seven_easy_pieces_adam_overton
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updatePrumsodun Ok has written a very interesting response to my post on the TedFellows blog:
A series of posts, on Sue Bell Yank's Social Practice blog, about artists & Occupy LA has just commenced, and the first post is a Q&A with me: http://suebellyank.com/2011/11/06/occupy-laaaaaa-artist-voices-from-the-front-lines-adam-overton-edition/
Plus, there are more interviews with other fabulous and engaged artists slowly popping up every-other-day here: http://suebellyank.com
3 scores of mine have been published as part of this wonderful collection!
Can't Environment, Buried Alive (for Katie Clark), and sensation, for sound (for jason brogan and taylan susam)
published in Deep Listening Anthology II, May 2011
The Deep Listening Anthologies are collections of work by musicians and artists from around the world who have embraced the ideas of Deep Listening in their own ways. Inspired by DL's tenets of listening, openness and play, these volumes contain a wonderful variety of interpretations and integrations of global ideas into individual practices. This volume is the second Deep Listening Anthology, containing mostly instructional scores by composers, along with scores in traditional notation, poetry, visual art, and other writings. Over 45 contributors are represented in this collection for 2010. This book can be enjoyed as a resource for performers and ensembles interested in experimental music, as a statement of community among followers of DL practice and admirers of Pauline Oliveros, and as material for musicians thinking about possibilities.
Contributing Composers include Ximena Alarcon, Jacki Apple, Nancy Beckman, Gelsey Bell, Anne Bourne, Patricia Bullitt, Micahel Bullock, Jonathan Chen, Viv Corringham, Alan Courtis, Sharon Cheslow, Stuart Dempster, Steven Dunning, Steven Eiler, Adam Fong, Dexter Ford, Joel Ford, Gigi Gamble, Ron Herrema, Matthew Hettich, Holland Hopson, Brenda Hutchinson, Marc Jensen, Ryan Keebaugh, Guy Klucevsek, Elaine Lillios, Anthony Martin, Roozbeh Nafisi, Ron Nagorcka, Adam Overton, Paul Pinto, Laurie Polster, William Roper, Andrea La Rose, Edward Schocker, Brian Schorn, Francis Schwartz, Sepand Shahab, Una Ni She, Dorothy Sinclair, Anna Stein, Sharon Stewart, Katharina Von Ruette, Sarah Weaver, Glenn Weyant and Jennifer Wilsey.
Scores For The City features a manifesto/call for work for the subtle bodies series!!
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Social Choreography and Imagination For Southern California
This two sided guide maps locations that have supported oddball behavior in LA, including freeway puppet shows, civic dance pageants, riots, and the gatherings of witches. The front of the map is an archive of documents relating to four events. The backside is an exploration of the way non-comformist behavior in LA has helped shape collective consciousness. The guide contains contributions by Llano Del Rio, Joel Kyack, Sandra de la Loza, Adam Overton, Nancy Popp, Jonah Schwartz, and Julia Wallace.
There are two ways to get the guide for free if you live in LA County:
1) For county residents simply email us your postal address and we’ll drop one in the mail for you free (till postage $ runs out) Contact llanodelrio(at)gmail.com
2) Maps will be dropped of at the following and ever-expanding distribution nodes. Pick up a copy at these locations:
If you do not live in LA County the map will soon be available through Half Letter Press. http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/
Scores For The City was funded in part by grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
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