the subtle bodies series

presented by adam overton and friends, wherever and whenever

 

the subtle bodies series is a sporadic investigation involving artists, performers, choreographers, and sound artists working to facilitate subtle, barely-noticed experiments in sound, movement, action, and energy within public spaces. Ranging from performances and workshops to activities and rumors, these subtle occurrences are lightly announced, barely present, and open to any who might care to notice or participate. The series invites those involved to explore more fully the range of motion to which we're entitled in the various public spaces and governed environments we regularly inhabit, while striving to live in peaceful parallel with the everyday activity of our surroundings.

 

follow the subtle bodies series:

 

 

Update: the subtle bodies series is currently expanding out of the institutional framework of the Machine Project residency at the Hammer, into the various environments we inhabit every day in Los Angeles and beyond. We plan to continue exploring the range of freedoms we have to act spontaneously, creatively, and peacefully as subtle visitors, wherever we are. Stay tuned for more in this series...

 

 

participating artists (so far):

Samantha Gregg, Paul Pescador, Paige Tighe, Mark So, Mariel Carranza, Kadet Kuhne, Johanna Reed, Gerhard Schultz, Eliot Eidelman, Anonymous, Akina Ruth Cox, Adam Overton, adam overton

... and many more to come ...

 

 

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ongoing this month...

 

 

no entries found...

 

 

 

 

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coming up...

Thu,  2 Sep 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

 

Today, Thursday September 2, 2010
No one is listening here
between 8-9pm at this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

sometime in 2011
Eliot Eidelman: a 1-hour performance, sometime in 2011

 

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.


more info...

 

 

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past events...

Sun,  8 Aug 2010, 2-4pm
adam overton: mathew timmons' CREDIT launch

 

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).

 

Program

 


more info...

Thu,  5 Aug 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

 

Today, Thursday August 5, 2010
No one is smelling here
between 8-9pm at this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

Thu,  1 Jul 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

 

Today, Thursday July 1, 2010
No one is watching here
between 8-9pm at this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

Wed, 30 Jun 2010, 11-11:30am
Paige Tighe: meditating on femaleness

 

Please join Paige wherever you are to take thirty minutes to meditate on your femaleness.

There are the details, now let's see what it feels like.

more info...

Tue, 22 Jun 2010, 6:30pm
Freeballing

 

from Anonymous:

 

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.


more info...

Thu,  3 Jun 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

 

Today, Thursday June 3, 2010
No one is eating here
between 8-9pm at this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

sometime in early May
Paul Pescador: The Viewer

 

The Viewer

Paul Pescador

 

As part of the subtle bodies series, Paul Pescador will hire an actor to sit on a bench in the Norton Simon museum from the time the museum opens till it closes. The actor will sit quietly and stare at the painting in front of them and will not get up from his/her seat unless to use the restroom or quickly eat. By forcing someone to sit with an art object for an extended period of time, The Viewer attempts to understand the relationship the viewer can have with an artwork.

 

documentation coming soon...

 

 

for more of Paul and his work, visit http://paulpescador.com

more info...

Thu,  6 May 2010, 6:30pm
Paige Tighe

 

Starting at 6:30pm, the night of May the 6th, Paige Tighe will be in subtle dialogue with art objects at the Hammer.

Especially interested in objects made by females and the experience of feminine bodies communing with this work. How does one speak to objects through movement?
No object will be touched or harmed in this process but possibly a feeling will be passed from participant to piece and back again.

 

Others are welcome to join or try this dialogue whenever they can get to the museum. Feedback is welcome from these experiences.

more info...

Thu,  6 May 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her next monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

Today, Thursday May 6, 2010
No one is sleeping here
between 8-9 pm on this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

April 30th thru May 28th, 2010
Akina Ruth Cox: Stratemeyer's Shadow

 

From April 30th through May 28th, Akina Ruth Cox will spend each Friday following a stranger.  Alternately using film, photo, audio, drawings, and object collection to document her surveillance, "Stratemeyer's Shadow," is ultimately an exercise in manipulating the choreography of social spaces.

 

documentation coming soon...

 

for more of Akina and her work, visit http://www.akinacox.com

more info...

Thu, 15 Apr 2010, 5:58 p.m. to 7:24 p.m.
Samantha Gregg: Similar Arrangements

 

"Similar Arrangements"

 

On April 15th, Samantha Gregg stretched in the Hammer Courtyard from 5:58 p.m. to 7:24 p.m., and used the given architecture as a basis for acclimating her body to the space around herself. By the end of the performance, several museum visitors also participated by adapting their bodies to the structures and furniture in the plaza.



more info...

Thu,  1 Apr 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her next monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

Today, Thursday April 1, 2010
no one is walking
between 8-9 pm on this spot
at the Hammer Museum

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010, sometime
Mark So: small change

 

mark so will make a small change in macarthur park sometime on thursday, march 11, 2009
anyone may perform a small change at any place and time

 

score: small change (2009)

 

 

 

for more on Mark and his work, please visit http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion/mark_so/


more info...

Thu,  4 Mar 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will continue her next monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

Next Thursday from 8 to 9 pm
I will sit holding the statement:
Today, Thursday March 4, 2010 no one is sitting
here between 8-9pm at this spot
at the Hammer Museum.

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com

more info...

every Wednesday from 2-3pm,
March 3 thru March 17

Johanna Reed: Interactions (Scent)

 

Johanna Reed will be available to smell at the Hammer Museum, every Wednesday, March 3 - March 17, from 2-3 pm. In the performance Interactions (Scent), Johanna asks you to observe her through scent and then, immediately afterward, document your observations in writing. How you gather your data and the form your record takes is up to you. (In exchange for your document, you will be given a small booklet to take home.)

 

 

for more on Johanna and her work, please visit http://johannareed.net

 

 

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Interactions (Scent) at the Hammer, March 3, 2010.

johanna-scent-week1-2010-03-03-1 johanna-scent-week1-2010-03-03-2

 

 

Interactions (Scent) at the Hammer, March 11, 2010.

johanna-scent-week2-2010-03-10-1 johanna-scent-week2-2010-03-10-2 johanna-scent-week2-2010-03-10-3




more info...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010, midafternoon
Gerhard Schultz: Specific Action

 

Gerhard Schultz and Adam Overton will perform a specific, intra-oral action at the Hammer sometime midafternoon, Wednesday, February 17th.

 

a video excerpt of our specific, intra-oral action...

video by Jim Fetterley

 

we performed this again in the evening, but as two solo intra-oral actions.

more info...

Sat,  6 Feb 2010, 1-2pm
Kadet Kuhne: (Not) Recording the Hammer

 

Kadet Kuhne: (Not) Recording the Hammer Saturday February 6, 1-2PM

 

Kadet Kuhne will be staging a listening exercise which aims to draw the attention of the eyes to the ears of those that notice her. While she slowly traverses the grounds with a shotgun microphone in hand, the illusion of recording inspires an active engagement with the sonic subtleties of the Hammer museum.

 

for more about Kadet and her work, visit http://www.tektonicshift.com



more info...

February 2010
disappear

 

this month visitors of the Hammer (or any other institution) are invited to perform the following instructions:

 

 

disappear

 

try to disappear, or turn invisible - without actually leaving.
do whatever it takes

 

 

the original score was contributed to : open to all levels :
http://uploaddownloadperform.net/OpenToAllLevels/Disappear
(feel free to contribute more actions there - the password is 'moveitbuddy'...)


more info...

Thu,  4 Feb 2010, 8-9pm
Mariel Carranza

 

Mariel Carranza will begin a monthly performance somewhere on the premises of the Hammer Museum:

 

Next Thursday from 8 to 9 pm
i will stand holding the statement:
Today, Thursday, February 4, 2010 no one is standing here between
8-9 pm at this spot at the Hammer Museum.

 

 

for more of Mariel and her work, visit http://marielcarranza.com



more info...

 

 

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