Art Los Angeles Contemporary
January 24–27, 2013 | The Barker Hangar
Programming & Events
For reference our Programming & Events from 2012 is listed below. Please check back in the fall for an updated list of events for the next edition.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Pacific Standard Time
Disappearing Environments by Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications
5:30pm, Thursday
ALAC
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
pacificstandardtimefestival.org
Judy Chicago's Disappearing Environments installation kicks off the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival at Art Los Angeles Contemporary. Disappearing Environments, a public art installation performed by Judy Chicago, Lloyd Hamrol, and Eric Orr in 1968, will be recreated and reinterpreted by Materials & Applications in collaboration with internationally renowned artist Judy Chicago and participants from the local community. Throughout the day of January 19, the artists will install 25 tons of dry ice into formations that will shroud the environment in fog.
At dusk Judy Chicago will illuminate the installation with a flare performance.
ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY
Opening Night Public Reception
7-9pm, Thursday
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Art Los Angeles Contemporary celebrates its third year with over 70 exhibiting galleries, an independent publishers section including Printed Matter, and a flare performance by Judy Chicago. On the opening night of Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012 guest musical curators Jesse Peterson and Carlos Niño of dublab launch the ALAC Music Space. Various musical performers will take up residence in the bar throughout the fair. As a non-profit web radio collective, recording and film production company, dublab has been at the forefront of the Los Angeles music scene since it's inception in 1999.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Black Box
8pm-2am, Thursday
Black Box
830 North Highland Ave.
Los Angeles 90038
Liz Glynn's Black Box is a space where anything can and will happen unannounced. Running the length of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Black Box will be the place to meet, drink, talk, and enjoy exciting programming and performance. It is also a bar.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Performance
GB (Gifted and Blessed)
11am, Friday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
giftedandblessed.com/home.html
GB (Gifted and Blessed) is an analogue electronic artist. Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker is the principal composer, producer and director of GB. Although his music ranges widely stylistically, he classifies his work under the umbrella term technoindigenous studies, a sound that emphasizes the integration of modern analog electronics with the spirit and sometimes the aesthetic of the music of his ancestors.
Conversation
Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
11:30am, Friday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
pacificstandardtimefestival.org
Curators Glenn Phillips, Lauri Firstenberg and artist Liz Glynn offer a preview of the Getty's 11-day Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. Phillips and Firstenberg of LA><ART, are the co-organizers of the festival which celebrates art in Los Angeles from 1945-1980. The festival examines this history through a contemporary lens, with a series of adaptations, re-inventions, and commissions that are inspired by the installation and performance artists working in Los Angeles.
Glenn Phillips is Principal Project Specialist and Consulting Curator in the Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. His exhibition California Video won the International Association of Art Crtics award for best exhibition of digital media, video, or film in 2008.
Founded by Lauri Firstenberg in 2005, LAXART is an independent, non-profit art space in Culver City which has made important contributions to LA’s art scene by focusing its program on commissioning new work by emerging artists and organizing an array of public art initiatives.
Screening
Sean Dack, Double Exposure
1pm, Friday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
fitzroygallery.com/artist/sean_dack
In Double Exposure, Sean Dack contrasts two worlds: Expo 2000 in Hannover (or rather, its relics); and the recently concluded World Expo in Shanghai. A duality forged over a decade. A decade that has seen immense change within the ever increasing globalized society, from the vast... sweeping changes within online and media culture to the rising specter of international terror networks and lastly, the emergence of China as the newly predominant force of trade and economics, usurping the West's tight control of this sphere of influence.
Sean Dack lives and works in New York. He received his M.F.A. from Columbia University in 2002, and exhibits in galleries and museums in the United States and internationally. His work was recently featured in The Shape We're In at the Zabludowicz Collection in both New York and London. Sean Dack is represented in collections worldwide including De La Cruz Collection, The Saatchi Collection, Henry Art Gallery and Zabludowicz Collection.
Performance
Turn On The Sunlight
3pm, Friday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
kcrw.com/music/programs/tu/tu101130carlos_nino_and_jess
Turn On The Sunlight is an explorative journey through sound, feeling and dimension. It is the new folk duo collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Jesse Peterson, and producer, visionary Carlos Niño (Build An Ark, Dublab.com, The Life Force Trio, The Sound Of L.A., Spaceways Radio, Suite For Ma Dukes . The two collaborated on the much acclaimed Carlos Niño & Friends record HIGH WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM (Kindred Spirits 2009,) delivered a stellar ambient remix of Build An Ark on the DAWN REMIXES 12" (Kindred Spirits 2009,) and most recently joined forces for Carlos Niño's OCEAN SWIM MIX (Art Union Japan 2010.)
Performance
Dean Spunt from NO AGE
3pm, Friday
Ooga Booga booth B25
ALAC
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Dean Spunt will be performing live music in the Ooga Booth booth B25 at the ALAC fair. No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt.
Performance
Superdeluxe
6pm, Friday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
davidkimelman.com/2011/05/frohawk-two-feathers/
A performance by Superdeluxe, an experimental Hip-Hop duo from Micah James and Frohawk Two-Feathers.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Hirokazu Kosaka, Kalpa
7-9pm, Friday
The Getty Center, Arrival Plaza
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049
*Reservations are required
getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/kalpa.html
This major new site-specific commission by Hirokazu Kosaka will transform the Getty Center’s Arrival Plaza into a sculptural and performative installation. In Sanskrit, kalpa means eon—a long period of time. Once every hundred years, an angel comes down from heaven and swipes the surface of a stone with her silk sleeves until the rock disappears. Kosaka builds a symbolic parallel between kalpa and the inevitable passage of time that slowly transforms our lives, our histories, and our memories.
This event is free but reservations are required at (310) 440-7300 or on the website.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Performance
Contact Field Orchestra
11am, Saturday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
The new cinematic improvisation beat project of singer-songwriter Damon Arron, frequent contributor to Dublab and Hit+Run. In 2007 Damon Arron came across a box of 7" tapes at an estate sale in Altadena that turned out to be "field recordings" of a turn-of-the century orchestra. Apparently having given-up after the gold boom, these folks stayed in what would later become Upper Mallard Canyon in Altadena -- living in the old Dawn's mine shaft, and crafting their own instruments from discarded mining equipment and whatever small guitars and banjos they had brought with them. The resulting music itself is full of opposites -- hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring.
Performance
The Action Bureau
11:30am, Saturday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
Presented by the curatorial collective THE ACTION BUREAU, Los Angeles artist Paul Waddell will perform his new piece, Quick start camping trip urbane sim revision: a system for showing results (2012). Developed specifically for Art Los Angeles Contemporary, this performance will loosely take the form of an intuitive camping trip, instructing the audience on survival in casual and urbane environments.
Paul Waddell is a painter and performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He recently presented his performance work at the 10th annual Open Performance Festival in Beijing, China. Paul Waddell’s performance work has been written about in the Boston Dig, Art Papers, Beijing Today and TimeOut Boston.
THE ACTION BUREAU is a L.A.-based curatorial collective dedicated to furthering the discourse connecting contemporary and historical performance art. Comprised of artists Parker Davis and Paul Waddell, and writer Catherine Taft, THE ACTION BUREAU insists on a kind of performance art that maintains a rigorous engagement with the rich history and basic fundamentals of the medium. The collective seeks to promote this discourse, both locally and abroad, through the production of live-art events, exhibitions, lectures, print and multimedia publications.
Conversation
David Wojnarowicz: a definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side
1pm, Saturday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
Sylvere Lotringer and Jennifer Doyle on artist David Wojnarowicz. In February 1991, the artist David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) and the philosopher Sylvere Lotringer met in a borrowed East Village apartment to conduct a long-awaited dialogue on Wojnarowicz's work. Wojnarowicz was then at the peak of his notoriety as the fiercest antagonist of morals crusader Senator Jesse Helms—a notoriety that Wojnarowicz alternately embraced and rejected. Already suffering the last stages of AIDS, David saw his dialogue with Lotringer as a chance to set the record straight on his aspirations, his personal history, and his political views.
Sylvère Lotringer is a literary critic and cultural theorist. A younger contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and Michel Foucault, he is best known for synthesizing French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements through his work with Semiotext(e) ; and for his interpretations of French theory in a 21st century context.
Jennifer Doyle teaches American literature, gender studies, and visual studies. In her book Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (Minnesota, 2006), Doyle shows how the declaration that a work of art is “about sex” reveals surprisingly little about the work, the artist, or the spectator.
Reading
Chris Kraus, Where Art Belongs
2pm, Saturday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
Chris Kraus will read from her 2011 book WHERE ART BELONGS, that examines recent artistic enterprises that reclaim the use of lived time as a material. Expanding the argument begun in her earlier book, VIDEO GREEN, Kraus argues that "the art world is interesting only insofar as it reflects the larger world outside it." The Glasgow Review of Books describes WHERE ART BELONGS as "an incitement to find art, to read in a heroic way, and to create a moment;" Bookforum has praised its "poeticism and daunting theoretical undercurrents." "In WHERE ART BELONGS," Alina Astrova writes, "art theory becomes political philosophy ... a means of establishing a way of life outside capitalist conventions."
Chris Kraus is the author of four novels and two books of art essays. The recipient of a Frank Mather Award in Art Criticism and a Warhol Foundation art writing grant, she has been described by Holland Cotter in the New York Times as "one of our smartest and original writers on art and culture."
Performance
Francis Stark DJ set
2pm, Saturday
Ooga Booga B25
ALAC
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Artist Frances Stark will perform a DJ set in the Ooga Booth B25 at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair.
Frances Stark (°1967, Newport Beach, California) is based in Los Angeles, California. She received her MFA from Art Center College of Art and Design (Pasadena, California), and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts (Los Angeles, California).
Through both writing and visual art, Frances Stark addresses the conditions of creative labor, producing candid and affecting work about the nature of artistic practice and the corresponding yet integral banality of the everyday. The artist’s body of work stands as a self-reflexive inquiry into the process of artistic production, and the often-elided demands of daily life.
Screening / Conversation
Halsted Plays Himself
3pm, Saturday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
Semiotext(e) presents acclaimed artist and filmmaker William E. Jones who will read select sections from his new book, Halsted Plays Himself. He will also screen segments of L.A. Plays Itself: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering "new information for me." Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished Los Angeles, a city at once rural and sleazy. In Halsted Plays Himself, Jones documents his quest to capture the elusive public and private personas of Halsted--to zero in on an identity riddled with contradictions.
William E. Jones is an artist and filmmaker who teaches film history at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has made two feature length experimental films, Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997), several short videos, including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998), the feature length documentary Is It Really So Strange? (2004), and many video installations. His films and videos were the subject of retrospectives at Tate Modern, London, in 2005, and at Anthology Film Archives, New York, in 2010.
Semiotext(e) known for its introduction of French theory to American readers has been one of America’s most influential independent presses since its inception more than three decades ago.
Performance
Farmer Dave Scher
3pm, Saturday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Farmer Dave Scher is an artist from Southern California who specializes in the music / sound design / DJ / visual arts mediums. In addition to his involvement with Beachwood Sparks, All Night Radio, West Coast Dream Sequence, and his self-titled work, Scher has worked as a producer and touring / session musician with Elvis Costello, Interpol, Jenny Lewis, Jonathan Rice, Will Oldham, Vetiver, and many others.
A multi-instrumentalist, Scher is known for his textural steel guitar playing and creative use of waveform editing, deriving themes and inspiration from forms and patterns existing in Nature. He has a particular love for the ocean and its creatures, and often emulates the sound and feel of the Sea with his music.
Performance / Screening
Brian Butler, Union of Opposites
5pm, Saturday
ALAC
Ruskin Theatre
Santa Monica Airport
Los Angeles-based artist Brian Butler will debut Union of Opposites, his most ambitious work to date, at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 5pm in conjunction with Annie Wharton Los Angeles.
Union of Opposites is an experiment in ritual magick, combining the use of sound and light with the intent of creating a collective out-of-body experience. A film screening will transform into a live performance in which the artist and his team execute an occult rite inspired by Aleister Crowley’s mysterious Ritual of the Mark of the Beast. In this incantation, Butler explores ideas of reversal and the use of geometric figures as channels of occult power. The work will feature a spontaneously improvised soundtrack that experiments with the effects of sound frequencies and rhythmic chanting on our chakras and mental state.
Brian Butler is an artist and musician living in Los Angeles. He has been included in: “Projections” curated By Aaron Rose at Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles; “Bright Morning Star” curated by Natxo Checa at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal; “Onedreamrush” at Today's Art Museum, Beijing; and the 2nd Athens Biennale. His films have screened at the Tate Modern and the Cannes Film Festival. He is currently a collaborator with Kenneth Anger in both Technicolor Skull as well as numerous film and exhibition projects. Butler's recent writing has centered extensively on the occult, publishing in Disinformation's Book of Lies as well as working on numerous documentaries and experimental films exploring the subject.
He recently had his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles at LA><ART, a solo gallery show at Annie Wharton Los Angeles (www.anniewhartonlosangeles.com), and a performance in collaboration with Kenneth Anger at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Performance
The Americans
6pm, Saturday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
theamericansmusic.bandcamp.com/
Classic rockabilly dance quartet The Americans perform an evening concert in the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Music Space at the Barker Hangar.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Judy Chicago, A Butterfly For Pomona
6pm, Saturday
Merritt Football Field
Pomona College Football Field
6th St. & Amherst Ave.
Claremont, California
91711
This new pyrotechnic performance by Judy Chicago is inspired by her 1970 Atmosphere performance at Pomona College. This new work returns to the series of environmental/performance works, called Atmospheres, that she staged around California between 1969 and 1974. These works combined commercial fireworks and road flares in ephemeral “paintings” of colored smoke that hovered and dissipated in air currents. Chicago explained the work as a way to soften and feminize the environment. These works may be seen as a bridge between earlier conceptual minimalist work and her later socio-political figurative work.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Black Box
8pm-2am, Saturday
Black Box
830 North Highland Ave.
Los Angeles 90038
Liz Glynn's Black Box is a space where anything can and will happen unannounced. Running the length of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Black Box will be the place to meet, drink, talk, and enjoy exciting programming and performance. It is also a bar.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Performance
Yaakov Levy
11am, Sunday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Legendary multi-instrumentalist Yaakov Levy of the Build An Ark collective will be playing a solo set of Acoustic Meditations. Yaakov Levy is a professional musician and poet from Los Angeles who plays saxophones, bamboo/metal flutes, kalimba, and alto-clarinet. Yaakov has played at venues such as Royce Hall, The Getty, Disney Hall, the Wiltern, Rose Bowl and Pasadena Playhouse.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Spine of the Earth 2012
11am-1pm, Sunday
Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook
6300 Hetzler Rd.
Culver City, CA
90232
(main entrance off Jefferson Blvd.)
Lita Albuquerque’s Spine of the Earth 2012, performed in the hills above Culver City at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, will offer a striking large-scale performance in the fissure of the landscape. Often visible from the I-10 and I-405 freeways, the Overlook has views from downtown to the ocean, setting the stage for a dramatic re-interpretation of Albuquerque’s original 1980 Mojave Desert earthwork Spine of the Earth, and celebrating Los Angeles and the ephemeral.
Publication Preview
Public Fiction #2 : The Gold Rush / Manifest Destiny Issue
1pm, Sunday
ALAC
Night Gallery Booth B21
The Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
Public Fiction is a quarterly based in Los Angeles and with Los Angeles as subject. Public Fiction takes form in print and space. The physical space, a storefront in Highland Park, gives a site to experiment with the topic at hand in real-time.
This issue includes the work of: Lisa Anne Auerbach / Scott Benzel / Andrew Berardini / Jessica Ciocci / Zoe Crosher / Victoria Dailey / Trinie Dalton / Cali DeWitt / Michael Dopp / Hedi El Kholti / helga Fassonaki / Shannon Flaherty / Matt Fishbeck / Eve Fowler / Paul Gellman / David Hendren / Patrick Jackson / Dawn Kasper / Brian Kennon / Joel Kyack / Annie Lapin / Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer / Anthony Lepore / Cybele Lyle / Christopher Michlig / Davida Nemeroff / Alee Peoples / Gala Porras-Kim / Ry Rocklen / Amanda Ross-Ho / Allison Schulnik / Kate Wolf / Bobbi Woods / Eric Yahnker
With a poster insert of work by Allen Ruppersberg and a newsprint insert curated by Workspace with work by Alexis Disselkoen / MAL IDEA
Performance
El Haru Kuroi
3pm, Sunday
ALAC Music Space
Barker Hangar
Santa Monica Airport
blogs.kcrw.com/musicnews/2012/01/el-haru-kuroi-local-band-we-love/
ALAC presents a performance by El Haru Kuroi, a unique mix between the smooth soulful sound of Brasilian Bossa Nova and gritty East L.A. Garage Rock.
Since the Spring of 2004 East Los Angeles trio El- Haru Kuroi has developed a powerful, unique style as rooted in Mexican, South American and African melodies and rhythms, as it is influenced by Fugazi and Gang of Four. The rhythm section of Drummer/Percussionist Dominique Rodriguez and Upright Bassist Michael Ibarrra deliver with relentless urgency and swagger, while the Voice and Guitar of Eddika Organista enfold the music with labyrinthine grace and beauty.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Richard Jackson, Accidents in Abstract Painting
4pm, Sunday
Rose Bowl Stadium, Area H
Seco St. and N. Arroyo Blvd.
Pasadena 91103
In this outdoor spectacle, Richard Jackson will fly and crash a remote-controlled, ultra-lightweight, battery powered, model military jet plane with a 15-foot wing span, and filled with paint, into a 20-foot canvas wall that reads “accidents in abstract painting.” On January 22, 2012, at 4:00 p.m. Jackson’s plane will take off and circle the field directly south of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for approximately 30 minutes. The climax will occur when the plane is aimed toward and flown into the canvas wall; the plane, made of balsa wood, will splinter on impact. Its contents—brightly colored paint—will splash onto, and then drip slowly down the canvas, making an “accidental” painting.
Following Jackson’s spectacle, video footage and photographic documentation will be shown with the wall and the plane debris, along with other work, at the Armory Center for the Arts in an exhibition entitled Richard Jackson: Accidents in Abstract Painting, the Armory, on display from February through May 2012.
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
Black Box
8pm-2am, Sunday
Black Box
830 North Highland Ave.
Los Angeles 90038
Liz Glynn's Black Box is a space where anything can and will happen unannounced. Running the length of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival, Black Box will be the place to meet, drink, talk, and enjoy exciting programming and performance. It is also a bar.