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Main | Artists | Images | Curatorial Statement
Performing EconomiesCurated by Elana Mann
May 14 - July 26, 2009
Presented as part of
THE FELLOWS OF CONTEMPORARY ART
KITTY CHESTER SERIES OF CURATOR’S LABORATORY PROJECTS
Thirty-Four Years of Support for Contemporary Art in California
Opening reception: May 14 from 7-9 PM.
On view through July 26, 2009
at the FOCA space
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 below.
Schedule of Events
Schedule subject to change please check back here on our website for the most current information.
* events will occur at the FOCA space unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, May 14, 7-9pm Opening of exhibition and performances by Karla Diaz as well as Brian Getnick and Leopold Nunan. Exploring multiple narrative strategies between sound and text, Karla Diaz will be reading a series of poems and stories based on the experience of growing up in Los Angeles. In particular, Diaz will explore the neighborhood of Boyle Heights and parts of it that were destroyed to build a bigger Police Station. Brian Getnick and Leopold Nunan will be performing in a garment made by CamLab for thier piece Clongloberation. This performance is the first in a “chain” of engagements and propositions that attempts to create a collective body regardless of distance.
Saturday, May 16, 4-8pm A Free Free Market with the Artists for Social Justice. Participating artists include: Yanira Cartagena, Carmina Escobar, Carribean Fragoza, Anne Hars, Matt Lucero, Gil Omry, Astra Price, Evelyn Serrano, and Elizabeth Wild. Free Free Market is a forum for sharing and gifting and its intention is to validate giving and exchange models. FFM is a market of free resources, and a space for non-transactional experiences. Everything in the market is free and bartering does not enter the market dynamics. The Artists for Social Justice Collective invite you to share in a wide range of aesthetic gestures, tangible and intangible learning, performative actions and playful exchange.
Sunday, May 17, 12pm * Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Editorial Collective (Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst and Christina Ulke) will be facilitating a panel around the emotionality of collectivities and social change in collaboration with The Public School at Telic Arts Exchange in Chinatown (972B Chung King Road). Confirmed participants include Fallen Fruit (Matias Viegener), The Echo Park Time Bank (Autumn, Rooney and Manny), Jessica Fleischmann (Journal of Aesth. and Pro. designer), Michael Wilson (artist researching alt Economies) and The Public School.
Saturday, May 30, 11am-1pm: Healer Heal Thyself with Dorit Cypis. Healer, Heal Thyself is a performative presentation weaving aesthetics, conflict resolution and somatic reflection to engage us in exchanges of another kind.
Saturday, June 6, 2-3pm: Fashion 2012, A one hour performance and workshop related to Marc Herbst’s comic book included in the Performing Economies exhibition. The comic book, Fashion 2012, a relational style guide for the next decade begins to define the emotional needs and social possibility that opens up in this gap of global warming and a new round of intense economic turmoil. Come on down, we will be acting out the future.
Saturday, June 13, 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.
Sunday June 14, 2-4pm A round table discussion with Performing Economy’s artists and curator. Participants include John Barlog and John Burtle, Dorit Cypis, Liz Glynn, Ashley Hunt and Taisha Paggett, Anna Mayer and Jemima Wyman (CamLab), Elana Mann, Adam Overton, Evelyn Serrano (Artists for Social Justice).
Wednesday, June 17, 7-8pm CamLab will perform in the courtyard of Mandarin Plaza with their Swoon Soon Suit. Premiered last year at Wildness at the Silver Platter, this three-chambered suit is designed to be occupied by CamLab and 1-2 other people at a time. Viewers are invited to zip themselves into the middle section of the suit in order to participate in a "non-verbal exchange". The internal walls are quilted with tactile fabrics incorporating slits and tubes which facilitate the exchanges between chambers.
Friday, June 26, 8–10pm: Call Me Lightning with Vincent Ramos and friends
Saturday, July 11 Panel discussion with Liz Glynn and LA sculptors
Saturday, July 18, 3-6pm artSpa presents: a free aura reading workshop with Krystal Krunch (a.k.a. Asher Hartman & Haruko Tanaka) 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.
Saturday, July 25, 2-4pm Performing Economies closing reception. Light refreshments to be served.
