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June 29–Aug 26
Renata Lucas
REDCAT: Responding to REDCAT’s location in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex and its central location in the fast-developing downtown Los Angeles, São Paulo-based artist Renata Lucas presents her first solo exhibition in the United States: a site-specific installation that considers the dynamics of the city.
Gallery at REDCAT, Tues-Sun, noon-6 pm or curtain. Opening reception: Fri June 29, 6–9 pm. Artist’s talk: Fri June, 6:30 pm.
http://redcat.org/gallery/0607/lucas.php
Renata Lucas
Closing August 26
Renata Lucas’s practice is a critical interpretation of how our built environment determines actions, behavior and social relationships, and by extension, society’s dependency on the preservation of prescribed definitions of space, property and order.
For more information: http://redcat.org/gallery/0607/lucas.php
Gallery at REDCAT
12-6 pm or curtain
Closed Mondays
Always free
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New student orientation and in-person class sign-up take place September 4-7
New student orientation and in-person class sign-up take place September 4-7
New student orientation and in-person class sign-up take place September 4-7
New Century Players: The Dartington Program
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
MUSIC: Performing under the direction of Mark Menzies, the CalArts New Century Players—the School of Music’s resident new music ensemble—gives a concert featuring pieces by Elliott Carter, Igor Stravinsky and Andrew McIntosh.
The Other Project
CalArts, Fire Valley, 8–11 am and 4–8 pm each day
Nina Menkes: Phantom Love
CalArts, Bijou Theater
20th-Century Spectrum: Virtuoso Piano Music from Australia
CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall
The Other Project
COMMUNITY: Taking a global view on issues of “otherness,” this four-day series of conversations, forums, performances, workshops and readings takes place inside a refugee tent—a temporary shelter used at emergency sites in various parts of the world—emplaced in an undeveloped part of the CalArts campus. Organized by Evelyn Serrano, The Other Project features dozens of artists, performers, writers and educators. For a complete schedule of events and directions to the project venue, go to theotherproject.blogspot.com.
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Opening Reception
ART: Perhaps best known for his site-specific wall paintings that feature satirical figurative imagery, decorative script, floating heads, and simple tags, Barry McGee presents a newly commissioned installation at REDCAT that draws upon the attitudes and processes of unsanctioned acts of expression. This exhibition remains on view through Nov 25, 2007. See
http://redcat.org/gallery/0708/mcgee.php
MUSIC: New York avant-garde stalwarts Ikue Mori (laptop) and Zeena Parkins (electric harp) team up with legendary guitarist Fred Frith for a first-ever joint appearance in Los Angeles. The longtime collaborators are international icons of contemporary improvisation, regularly performing with artists such as John Zorn and Ensemble Modern. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/mus/sound.php. ($)
ART: Presentation by the San Francisco-based artist whose installations, videos and posters draw from folktales and modern cult doctrines. Patton currently has a show on view at Machine Project in Los Angeles. See http://machineproject.com/2007/06/14/kamau-patton.
FILM/VIDEO: The second night of the sound. at REDCAT program is devoted to a rare screening of Werner Penzel and Nicholas Humbert’s Step Across the Border, an award-winning documentary on Frith’s music. This “celluloid improvisation” features performances by Frith and appearances by Zorn, Arto Lindsay and the late Tom Cora, among other luminaries of the international avant-garde. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/mus/sound.php. ($)
ALUMNI: The second in this series of experimental works-in-progress by CalArts alumni will be held at the New York Theatre Workshop’s 4th Street Theatre and produced by the New York Chapter of the CalArts Alumni Association. Dance, music, theater, and art works are curated by CalArtian Dan Joseph (Music 94). For more information: http://calarts.edu/alumni/events
MUSIC: Susan Allen, associate dean of the School of Music, teams up with visiting artist Killick Erik Hinds to give a concert of improvised music for harp, H’arpeggione and Big Red harp guitar.
INSTITUTE: CalArts celebrates Constitution Day with a presentation by UC Davis professor James Smith, who gives a talk about immigrant rights and the criminalization of immigrant workers in Los Angeles. Students, faculty and staff are all invited. Presented as part of the CalArts’ First-Year Experience, whose theme this year is Stopping and Thinking: Los Angeles and the Arts.
MUSIC: Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg, working through the medium of two pianos, explore the range of 20th-century trends by using the music of the late CalArts faculty member James Tenney as a key nexus. Combining elements of serialism, minimalism and one of the oldest contrapuntal techniques in Western music, Tenney’s Chromatic Canon exemplifies his ability to effortlessly fuse disparate and almost ideologically opposed musical threads—all in his uniquely personal voice.
FILM/VIDEO: The first comprehensive North America retrospective of work by the Portuguese filmmaker opens with a work that explores the mysteries of cinema as practiced by the team of Jean-Marie Straub–Danièle Huillet. This film has been hailed as one of the best portraits of the filmmaking process ever made. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
ART: Presentation by the Los Angeles-based artist. To see her recent work, go to http://www.lisaanneauerbach.com/index.html.
FILM/VIDEO: In this first installment of the Vanda Trilogy shot in Fontaínhas, a Lisbon slum inhabited by immigrants from Portugal’s former African colonies, Costa chronicles the desolate fate of an unwanted newborn baby. Preceded by the short Ne change rien. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
FILM/VIDEO: The Pedro Costa retrospective continues with the second installment of the filmmaker’s Vanda Trilogy. “As Fontaínhas is being demolished, we see Vanda and her friends smoking smack, shooting up, and talking trash. There are also moments of astonishing tenderness in which they seem even more defenseless, recalling the most mysterious encounters of the greatest fiction films,” notes Film Comment. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
FILM/VIDEO: “Shot in splendid black-and-white, this prodigious debut film bursting with visual and narrative ideas, homages, and a desperate romanticism, is a thrilling movie for cinephiles,” says James Quandt about this work. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
FILM/VIDEO: Mariana, a nurse from Lisbon, travels to Cape Verde, at the foot of the Mount Fogo volcano, to bring back an immigrant worker in a comatose state. Preceded by the short Tarrafal. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
FILM/VIDEO: The Pedro Costa concludes with the filmmaker’s most widely celebrated work, Colossal Youth, a nominee for the Golden Palm at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. In this astonishing sequel to In Vanda’s Room, fictional and documentary sequences alternate, all held together by the commanding presence of Ventura, who wanders from one encounter to another and from one temporality into another—as he embodies the aspirations of his immigrant community. See http://redcat.org/season/0708/fv/costa.php. ($)
THEATER/COMMUNITY: The School of Theater holds a three-day gallery presentation of documentation from an exchange this summer between a delegation of CalArts faculty and students and a group of artists, scholars and activists in Rwanda and Uganda. Taking place for the second consecutive year, these ongoing exchanges aim to explore the ways in which art contributes to social healing and peace-building in the wake of violent conflict.
CRITICAL STUDIES/COMMUNITY: Following the publication of its latest issue, Black Clock, the flagship literary journal of the MFA Writing Program, hosts an afternoon of provocative readings by six exciting Los Angeles writers: Janet Fitch, Seth Greenland, Tara Ison, Grace Krilanovich, Geoff Nicholson and Rachel Resnick. The new edition of Black Clock focuses on writing about sex and the erotic. For more information about the reading, see http://www.moca.org/museum/event_calendar.php?&m=9&day=23#23. For more info about Black Clock, see http://blackclock.org/open.html.
ART: REDCAT hosts a celebration marking the West Coast launch of a new anthology of writings and art projects from Real Life, the influential 1980s magazine edited by Thomas Lawson—now dean of the School of Art—and Susan Morgan. The volume includes writings by Lawson, Morgan, Eric Bogosian, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner, to name a few, as well as visual projects by Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Group Material, among others.
FILM/VIDEO: The CalArts faculty members, both from the Program in Experimental Animation, show recent animated films. Screening followed by Q&A.
ART: Presentation by the London-based artist and co-editor of Afterall, the international art journal published by the CalArts School of Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
