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REDCAT: Haegue Yang’s practice stems from her interests in the subtle irregularities and minute possibilities that destabilize conventional order. Through deliberate acts of erasing, misplacing, or rearranging the ordinary, Yang’s work directs attention to the underlying structures that regulate perception and experience.
See http://redcat.org/gallery/0708/yang.php
REDCAT: Haegue Yang’s practice stems from her interests in the subtle irregularities and minute possibilities that destabilize conventional order. Through deliberate acts of erasing, misplacing, or rearranging the ordinary, Yang’s work directs attention to the underlying structures that regulate perception and experience.
See http://redcat.org/gallery/0708/yang.php
REDCAT: Haegue Yang’s practice stems from her interests in the subtle irregularities and minute possibilities that destabilize conventional order. Through deliberate acts of erasing, misplacing, or rearranging the ordinary, Yang’s work directs attention to the underlying structures that regulate perception and experience.
See http://redcat.org/gallery/0708/yang.php
CRITICAL STUDIES: Falling immediately after the Democratic and Republican conventions, CalArts’ acclaimed literary magazine Black Clock celebrates the launch of the politically-themed Black Clock 9 with a reading at the Hammer Museum. The journal’s ninth edition offers political allegory, subversive satire and secret presidential histories. The reading will feature Black Clock 9 contributors--Seth Greenland, Anthony Miller, David L. Ulin, and Black Clock editor Steve Erickson. Entry is free of charge.
FILM/VIDEO: Maureen Selwood, long-time faculty member of Experimental Animation, will present a selection of recent and older films, installation work and fine art in the Bijou Theater. Maureen is returning from a one year leave, so this will be an opportunity to see what she has been working on. Admission is free.
THEATER: The meeting includes a 2008-2009 Season Round-Up and "A History of American Minstrelsy," a brief talk on BLACKFACE MINSTRELS in the U.S. by alumni artist Jason Christophe White.
THEATER: Award-winning performance by Jason Christophe White and Aaron White - 100 years of minstrelsy packed into one explosive hour of historical and contemporary images, intellectually fearless and comedic performance.
MUSIC: Curated by CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro, this concert features performances and compositions by CalArts alumni Catherine Lamb (composer) and Kathryn Pisaro (oboe). Lamb will present three recent works: Diffraction (a septet from 2007/8), Dove (2006/7) for solo viola, and Splitting (Imagination Piece) (2008) for English horn, guitar and harmonium.
REDCAT:
Opening reception Sep 17: Special musical performance by The Sibleys.
ART:
Mungo Thomson
"In the words of artist Margaret Morgan, Mungo Thomson is a “polymorphous, bastard
conceptualist”—a designation hard to improve on, given the artist’s promiscuously
wideranging art. By turns deadpan and caustically sly—he has manufactured
Styrofoam antenna balls emblazoned with John Baldessari’s bearded visage and
bumper stickers bearing Bruce Nauman’s doxa “The True Artist Helps the World by
Revealing Mystic Truths”—Thomson’s inherently conversational practice both gamely
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
CRITICAL STUDIES: Vocalist, poet, sound artist, and writer Latasha N. Nevada Diggs explores sound through a myriad of macaronic verse, language, and electronic vocal processing. Her literary and sound works have been published and recorded in various publications and for music projects ranging from jazz to house. She is the author of two chap-books, Ichi-Ban: from the files of negríta muñeca linda and Ni-ban: Villa Misería and the producer and writer for the conceptual audio project, Televisíon.
DANCE: Mitchell Rose, dance school faculty, presents his one-man show in a film/performance mashup. Not only does Mitchell present his hilarious, innovative films, but he also leads several comic audience participation performance pieces.
For reservations, please call 661.291.3046.
ART:
Mungo Thomson
"In the words of artist Margaret Morgan, Mungo Thomson is a “polymorphous, bastard
conceptualist”—a designation hard to improve on, given the artist’s promiscuously
wideranging art. By turns deadpan and caustically sly—he has manufactured
Styrofoam antenna balls emblazoned with John Baldessari’s bearded visage and
bumper stickers bearing Bruce Nauman’s doxa “The True Artist Helps the World by
Revealing Mystic Truths”—Thomson’s inherently conversational practice both gamely
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
REDCAT: "Wadada Leo Smith spans everything. He is lyrical, intense, soaring, powerful, meditative, hard, soft, deep..." All About Jazz
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
REDCAT: "Wadada Leo Smith spans everything. He is lyrical, intense, soaring, powerful, meditative, hard, soft, deep..." All About Jazz
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
MUSIC: Concert featuring Lorna Eder (piano), Marc Lowenstein (tenor), Andrew McIntosh (violin) and Dane Little (cello), performing Die Schöne Müllerin and Piano Trio No. 2 in E♭, Op. 100 by Franz Schubert.
FILM/VIDEO: A three-day performance project by Hyowon Shim which asks about the meaning of art with global capitalism in the 21st century.
REDCAT: California Company Town, the much-anticipated essay film by Lee Anne Schmitt, casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them—onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise. A versatile multidisciplinary artist whose practice extends from film and performance to photography and writing, Schmitt is a member of the faculty of CalArts’ graduate Film Directing Program.
FILM/VIDEO: Day two of a three-day performance project by Hyowon Shim which asks about the meaning of art with global capitalism in the 21st century.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
FILM/VIDEO: Day two of a three-day performance project by Hyowon Shim which asks about the meaning of art with global capitalism in the 21st century.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
FILM/VIDEO: Final day of a three-day performance project by Hyowon Shim which asks about the meaning of art with global capitalism in the 21st century.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
MUSIC: An evening of eeping with the 80% brass, including contributions from Gorecki, Penderecki, Scelsi, Erickson, Caleb Burhans, your mom and others.
REDCAT: The concert version of the Robert Een’s opera tells the tale of a desperado who goes on the run to flee his wicked past, only to find that there is no locale so remote that it cannot be found — nor heart so dark that it cannot be redeemed. Spanning the globe from the American Wild West to the mountains of Tibet, Een’s escapologist encounters a series of unlikely teachers who appear in the guises of laborers, lovers and thieves, and eventually lead him to one definitive, life-changing event.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
ART:
Mindy Shapero’s work comes from a rich fantasy world or constructed mythology that
has a significant basis in the literary. The titles of her works are often paragraphs long
and can accompany the work in the form of self-published black and white zines that
serve as a descriptive and informative textual component to the artwork. William Blake
and Henry Darger share a commonality with Shapero in the invention and maintenance
of complex theistic hierarchies and their supporting myths and histories rooted in their
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
ART:
Mindy Shapero’s work comes from a rich fantasy world or constructed mythology that
has a significant basis in the literary. The titles of her works are often paragraphs long
and can accompany the work in the form of self-published black and white zines that
serve as a descriptive and informative textual component to the artwork. William Blake
and Henry Darger share a commonality with Shapero in the invention and maintenance
of complex theistic hierarchies and their supporting myths and histories rooted in their
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
MUSIC: Curated by CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro, this concert features music by CalArts alumni Tashi Wada (composer, harmonium) and Kathryn Clark (piano). Wada will present two recent works for three musicians using field recordings and live performance: Two Places Within Another (2008) and Lands End (2008). Kathryn Clark will play Alvin Lucier's rarely heard Still Lives (1996) for piano and sine tones, and CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro's recent work for piano and field recordings, noise and sine tones fields have ears (2008).
REDCAT: Two of California’s most notorious underground filmmakers unleash a pair of deliriously subversive visions of Los Angeles culture — past and present — as poverty-row sci-fi thrillers. Bricolage wizard Craig Baldwin, of Tribulation 99 (1991) fame, takes his culture-jamming to a new orbit with Mock Up On Mu (2008, 109 min., color and b/w). This new work is a frenzied collage narrative following the far-flung exploits of L.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film.
REDCAT: REDCAT and its neighbors invite all of Southern California for this lively annual day of art for the whole family. Visit the Gallery at REDCAT, have a caricature drawn by a CalArts animation artist, and enjoy live performances on stages up and down Grand Avenue.
More info: www.grandavenuefestival.com
