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News

Wed, 21 Mar 2012
Lisa Anne Auerbach's Art21 Guest Blog

 

Lisa Anne Auerbach has just filed a report on the Art21 Blog covering Guru Rugu's first ever DJ set, along with HerbJ Amanda Ackerman, at the Steam Womb.

 

Steam Season blog.art21.org/2012/03/21/steam-season/

Mon, 20 Feb 2012
Machine Project & Hammer Museum Public Engagement Residency Report

 

In 2010 Machine Project spent a year at the Hammer Museum acting as a kind of Public Engagement consultant. it was a learning experience all around, and a lot of satisfying experiences were had!

 

There's now a PDF report about the experience, including a couple dozen interviews with the Machine artists (including myself), and the Hammer admin, staff, and curators:

 

machineproject.com/projects/hammer/machine-project-hammer-museum-public-engagement-artist-in-residence-report/

 

 

As a reminder, here are some of the fun things I got to put on, participate in, etc, along with an incredible batch of beautiful friends.

 

plus1plus1plus.org/artSpa-energy-assessment
plus1plus1plus.org/dream-in
plus1plus1plus.org/subtle-bodies-series
machineproject.com/projects/hammer/little-william-theater-festival-of-new-music/listen-lwt-fest/
lvl5.org

released 2/18/2012 + emcla
a kitten-breath meditation with Guru Rugu

facilitated by:  SPACES
with:  Machine Project
presented by:  the experimental meditation center of los angeles
produced by:  Emily Lacy

 


a kitten-breath meditation with Guru Rugu video by Emily Lacy

 

a kitten-breath meditation with Guru Rugu, produced by Guru Rugu

The experimental meditation center of los angeles
2011

 

Video shot near Buttermilk Falls
Emily Lacy

 

Machine Project
Camp Cleveland at SPACES, 2011

Thu, 15 Dec 2011, from Summer 2011
recently surfaced

where:  BellyFlop Gallery

 


Lotion Dripping Lathering Massage Sun Tan

Scenes from Cocoon

 

recently surfaced video from the Eternal Telethon at BellyFlop Gallery, Summer 2011

more info: plus1plus1plus.org/event/Eternal-Telethon-BellyFlop-Forevereverevereverer

 

 

WORDS SURFACING

082: Mar 2012
081: Feb 2012
080: Jan 2012
079: Dec 2011
078: Nov 2011

more...

Upcoming

5/11/20125/20/2012
Signify, Sanctify, Believe: Xhurch Pilgrimage

where:  LA to Portland, OR, via SF and Mt. Shasta
hosted by:  Xhurch

 

more details and full schedule coming soon!!

Signify, Sanctify, Believe (SSB) is a semi-secular artist collective invested in the gentle, temporary, playful exploration of [semi-]fictional religious technologies. On Friday May 11, 2012, SSB will begin its much-anticipated pilgrimage to the holy city of Portland, Oregon. During this journey up the coast, SSB Pilgrims plan to visit various holy creative sites in San Francisco, Mt. Shasta and elsewhere, communing with each location through artist-led rites.

 

Upon arriving in Portland around Tuesday May 15th, and lasting through Sunday May 20th, SSB Pilgrims will embark upon a week of artist-facilitated services, sermons and workshops while in residence at Xhurch, a repurposed church and arts venue in NE Portland. These events will be led by LA-based SSB artists as well as Portland locals and other travelers, creating an etheric cross-pollination of thought and invention. At Xhurch we will temporarily initiate any visitors or seekers, inviting them into our order of creative spiritual experimentation and sanctified dabbling.

 

Xhurch will also host SSBs Library of Sacred Technologies reading room, a collection of dozens of found and newly-created pamphlets, including over 20 designed and published by SSB that feature the sacred works of Los Angelenian artists, performers, and writers.

 

SSBs week in Portland will lead up to and last through the Open Engagement Conference at PSU (5/18-5/20), where SSB PerMissionaries will be spreading the gospel of creative religious experimentation, and informing conference-goers of the magical activities occurring after-hours at Xhurch over the weekend.

 

Xhurch (pronounced: church) is a small arts venue operated by Matt Henderson at a repurposed church in NE Portland.  Xhurch is best known for its ongoing lecture series, its documentation efforts re: 'repurposed churches' (xhurches.org), and its recent Alien Nativity, which garnered national media attention. Matt Henderson is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and musician.

more info...tags: event, ssb, xhurch, pilgrimage
 

Sat,  7 Jul 2012, 39pm
Signify, Sanctify, Believe: SLAPF !!

where:  The Salt Lake City Public Library

 

Signify, Sanctify, Believe will visit the Salt Lake Alt Press Festival this Summer to present our Library of Sacred Technologies. We will be joined on our journey by The AutoSanctification Bureau, who will host a workshop at SLAP Fest!

 

Stay tuned for more details, and some possible sermons, services, and PerMissionary work elsewhere in Salt Lake City.

more info...tags: event
 

 

 

Ongoing

there are currently no events ongoing...

 

 

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Sun,  1 Apr 2012, 10-11pm
Guru Rugu on KCHUNG!! Nature Boy Covers!!

hosted by:  KCHUNG Radio

 

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www.kchungradio.org/archive/2012-04-01/guru_rugu-04.01.2012.mp3
April: a full hour of covers of eden ahbez's Nature Boy!

 

Guru Rugu's Meditation Hour on KCHUNG for April now online!

Tune in every 1st Sunday from 10-11pm on AM1630 for more!

more info...tags: event, gururugu, kchung, natureboy
 

Tue, 20 Mar 2012, 9pmmidnite + emcla
DJ Guru Rugu & HerbJ Ackerman @ the SteamWomb

where:  the Steam Womb, los angeles
with:  HerbJ Amanda Ackerman

 

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DJ Guru Rugu spun some New Music for a New Age.

HerbJ Amanda Ackerman steamed some SageBrush.
9-midnite at Michael Parker's Steam Womb.

more info...tags: event, emcla, gururugu, steamwomb, michaelparker, nmna
 

Sat, 10 Mar 2012, 8pm
Omoi For Japan, "One for All"

where:  the wulf., 1026 south santa fe avenue #203, los angeles, california 90021 (entrance on sacramento st.)
organized by:  Mari

 

03.10.2012 8:00 pm
Omoi for Japan, "One for All"

A tribute concert dedicated to all the victims and sufferers of 3.11 earthquake/tsunami in Japan. Performed by: Michael Pisaro, Sara Roberts, Ulrich Krieger, Adam Overton, Mark So, Julia Holter, Alex Sramek, Christine Tavalocci, Ezra Buchla, Alan Nakagawa, Carmina Escober, Archie Carey, Paul Fraser, Colin Wambsgans, Chaz Underriner, Stephen Touchton, James Klopfleisch, Ingrid Lee, Donald Gialanella, Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir, Justin Asher, John Hagen-Brenner, Eric Mayron, Mari and more...

more info...tags: event, thewulf, marigarrett
 

10 March 3 May 2012, opening: 710pm
The Eternal Telethon @ Cirrus Gallery: Open Network

where:  Cirrus Gallery, 542 South Alameda Street  Los Angeles, CA 90013
curated by:  Aaron Wrinkle
presented by:  Pacific Standard Time

 

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Donate to the Eternal Telethon, video by Niko Solorio, Alexis Disselkoen, and Adam Overton of the Eternal Telethon, a re-make of Chris Burden's Send me your money

 

Cirrus is very pleased to announce Open Network, the final installment of its Once Emerging, Now Emerging series. Hinged to the website oncenowexhibition.com, the exhibition presents itself with gestures on technology, community, innovation and performance. A comment on networking, the exhibition and website highlight important examples of artists bringing ideas of collaboration and presentation to the forefront of contemporary art. A great example is found in UK artist Alan Dunn's The sounds of ideas forming, CD editions, 2008-date; a listening station compiled from over 200 tracks put together by the artist retrieved through artists varying from Lydia Lunch to a German audio transcribed from a letter by Gerhard Richter. Envisioned by  Cirrus founder Jean Milant, Open Network and oncenowexhibition.com propose a context built on a history that expands upon the future of where and how art is exhibited. Cirrus has also invited the gallery Actual Size to mount an exhibition that presents several artists in the gallery's lead up to a book exhibition at their Chinatown location later this year.

 

 

Artists and Groups Include: Artobjectculture.net (Lucy Chinen and Emilie Gervais), Chris Burden, Andrew Cox, Allen Dunn, Michael Decker, Eternal Telethon, Corey Fogel, Jack Goldstein, Peregrine Honig (Bravo's Work of Art), Human Resources and Geoff Tuck (Notes On Looking)

more info...tags: event, eternaltelethon, ex
 

Sun,  4 Mar 2012, 68pm
new performances at Monte Vista with Nathan Bockelman, Megan May Daalder, and Adam Overton

where:  Monte Vista, 5442 Monte Vista St
organized by:  John Burtle
performers:  Nathan Bockelman, Megan May Daalder, and Adam Overton with Tanya Rubbak, Robby Herbst, Claire Cronin, and Ezra Buchla

 


Seven Meditator Transcriptions (2011)

 

Sunday, March 4, 2012
6:00pm until 8:00pm
Monte Vista, 5442 Monte Vista St

 

New Performances by
Nathan Bockelman, Megan May Daalder, and Adam Overton

 

. . .

 

Nathan Bockelman is a silly guy, who installs 'art work' and does 'performance' and eventually feels good about doing it. He offers an array of awkward moments and shrill advice for those who listen and watch him.

 

Megan May Daalder is a self-styled guinea pig using video, performance, and science to investigate life on earth. She has a BA from UCLA's Design Media Arts department, but most of what she knows has been passed down from her radical Dutch ancestors and a pinball wizard from Tennessee.

 

Adam Overton likes John Burtle a lot. He also really likes Megan May Daalder and Nathan Bockelman.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/331138950266401/

more info...tags: event, montevista, nathanbockelman, meganmaydaalder
 

Sun,  4 Mar 2012, 1-4pm + emcla
a Massage Basics Workshop for Artists

where:  emcla [Lincoln Heights] (rsvp for exact location)
facilitated by:  Adam Overton

 

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14pm, a Massage Basics Workshop for Artists

facilitated by Adam Overton
$0, please plan to be prompt and to attend the entire workshop no latecomers, please
space is limited to 16 folks, so please rsvp at least a day in advance
rsvp for the Massage Basics Workshop a@plus1plus1plus.org
please indicate in your email whether you're coming solo or with a guest

 

Some very basic training will be provided to develop your rudimentary massage skills, where we'll explore some simple strategies for the use of hands, fingers, forearms and elbows, and for listening through touch. Massage will occur while seated in folding chairs, and won't involve any extra equipment, nor any creams or oils, and participants will remain clothed throughout. Arriving solo is totally fine, but if rubbing strangers or semi-strangers seems odd, feel free to bring a partner you trust.

 

All participants in Massage Basic Workshops with Adam Overton are invited to practice their newfound massage skills during any future experimental music & massage events!

 

Adam Overton is an artist, performer, and certified massage therapist (since 2007)...

 

Some tea and water will be provided, but please BYOSnacks.


more info...tags: event, emcla, DIYmassage
 

Sun, 29 Jan 2012, 4:00pm until 10:00pm
Welcome Inn Time Machine

where:  The Welcome Inn, Eagle Rock, 1840 W. Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
produced by:  SASSAS

 

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I'm very lucky to be performing a bunch of Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations with Jessica Catron, Jeremy Drake, and Jessica Basta, all afternoon and into the evening!!

 

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The full schedule is now online: www.sassas.org/welcomeinn

 

SASSAS transforms Eagle Rocks Welcome Inn into a venue for live performances creating a free, six hour event featuring experimental music originating in Southern California, 1949 - 1977. Micro concerts take place in individual rooms allowing key moments in sound and music history to be experienced simultaneously and sequentially in a single location. Among the more than 40 works presented: Bruce Naumans Violin Tuned D.E.A.D., Pauline Oliveros Sonic Meditations, LAFMS Pyramid Headphones, and James Tenneys Postal Pieces.

 

Presented as a part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival

 

List of works as of Dec 12:
Arnold Schoenberg, Entwrfe zu einem Streichquartett [Draft of a String Quartet] (1949)

 

Los Angeles Free Jazz tribute featuring Ornette Colemans Something Else (1958)

 

John Cage, Variations IV (1963) including
Merce Cunningham, Field Dances (1963)

 

Bruce Nauman, Violin Tuned D.E.A.D., (1969)

 

James Tenney, Postal Pieces (1965 1971)

 

Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations (1971)

 

CURRENTS at Theatre Vanguard (1973-1978)

 

The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), Pyramid Headphones, (1975)

 

Robert Wilhite, Bob Wilhite In Concert (1977)

 

List of performers as of Dec 12:
David Ornette Cherry
Kamau Daaood
The Calder Quartet
Anita Pace
Melinda Rice
Andrew McIntosh
Andrew Tholl
Ben Jacobson
Jessica Catron
Julia Holter
Adrian Tenney
Nick Terry
Jane Grothe
Danny Holt
Eric Byers
Dave Tranchina
Jeremy Drake
Adam Overton
Jessica Basta

 

Welcome Inn Time Machine is produced by Cindy Bernard in collaboration with Jessica Catron and the SASSAS Board of Directors. Project curators are Cindy Bernard, Scott Benzel, Gregory Lenczycki, Renee Petropoulos, Joseph Potts, and Dawson Weber.

 

The Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival is organized by LA><Art and the Getty Research Institute; support provided by the Getty Foundation.

 

Additional support received from The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

more info...tags: event
 

Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 89:30pm
Alison D'Amato & Adam Overton at Kristi Engle Gallery

where:  Kristi Engle Gallery, 5002 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90042
with:  Spirit Resurrection & Liz Glynn
curated by:  Asher Hartman & Carol McDowell
presented by:  Kristi Engle Gallery

 

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photo by Grace Fitzpatrick

 

The Temperaments

a reading and screening
Alison D'Amato

 

Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
a lecture
Adam Overton

 

 

This event is presented by Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell as part of A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation at Kristi Engle Gallery. Its also presented as part of Liz Glynns Spirit Resurrection, a 2-month platform for performance inspired by the historic 1980 Public Spirit festival.

 

more info:
kristienglegallery.com
www.spiritresurrection.org

 

 

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The Temperaments
The Temperaments features six New York City art handlers re-interpreting male solo choreography from Balanchine's classic ballet, The Four Temperaments. Prior to the filming, these performers had never learned or rehearsed choreography in any setting. No movements were shown to them instead, they were asked to create material of their own in response to specific verbal directions transcribed from video footage of the ballet. The film screening will be preceded by a reading of the score. Conception and choreographic direction by Alison D'Amato, videography by Grace Fitzpatrick.

 

 

Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
Having finally realized that scatological belittlement as a performance strategy is sooooo 2011, its becomes clear that the performer shall now work-to-rule their grateful composer. In this proposal, we look back to Cage one last, bitter time to find the composers boringly sublime, new musical, masochistic future.

 

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A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation
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