Hi Class: I'm participating in a show that should be fun this weekend.
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PERFORM! NOW! is a performance night in Chinatown. The first event of new visual and sound art performances to be held in Chinatown by Los Angeles artists, will be held on and around Chung King Road, Los Angeles on the 25th of July from 6pm-12am.
Featuring approximately 20 performances, including performances by Nao Bustamante, Marcus Civin, Simone Forti, Micol Hebron, Dawn Kasper, Simon Leung, Dani Tull, and Aaron Sandnes, PERFORM! NOW! will be Chinatown’s first collaborative performance event hosted by resident galleries. The galleries participating include China Art Objects, Chung King Project, David Patton Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, Jancar Gallery, Parker Jones, Mihai Nicodim, David Salow, Sister Gallery, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Solway Jones, The Box, and The Company.
Participating Artists: Maura Brewer; Nao Bustamante with Ashland Mines; Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy; Joe Deutch; Alexis Disselkoen and Performers; F-Stop Serenade (Mark Cosmo Segurson, Pilar Diaz, James King, Heather Lockie, Noah Smith, Michael Uhler); Simone Forti and Performers; Liz Glynn and Performers; Gold Cobra; Micol Hebron; Kathleen Johnson with Stephanie Taylor, Dominique Cox, John Gold, Jennifer Patton; Dawn Kasper; John Kilduff; Joel Kyack; Simon Leung; Lucas Murgida; Vanessa Place; Aaron Sandnes; Dani Tull; Margo Victor; Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway.
The entire program of performances will provide the audience with an exciting interactive exploration of the world-renowned Chinatown community of galleries. For one evening, the gallery spaces and surrounding outdoor areas will present various performances engaging viewers from a broad range of interests. Breaking down barriers with a variety of performative materials from new visual art, dance, film, theatre, and music. Including new commissions and re-creations of seminal performances, PERFORM! NOW! will utilize the historic Chinatown neighborhood as a backdrop for work by artists at 12 different venues.
Programming will include a schedule of live performances and parallel exhibitions that will provide critical and historical contexts for the new work produced.
PERFORM! NOW! is made possible by the generous support of ForYourArt.
This event will feature performances of 2 important dances: Simone Forti’s Dance Construction, “Huddle,” will begin at 6pm at The Box; and the artist Simon Leung will dance Yvonne Rainer’s “Trio A,” at 10:30pm, on the pavement of Chung King Road.
Simon Leung learned “Trio A” from Rainer in ten easy lessons last fall, after wanting to dance it for twenty years. Rainer suggested the title of this performance, “Simon Leung dances Yvonne Rainer.”
Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, first performed in the loft studio of Yoko Ono in 1961, create circumstances for the performers’ direct, non-stylistic actions. “Huddle” is comprised of a tightly-massed group of seven or eight people who take turns climbing over the top.
The Company, 8PM: Margo Victor will create a performance that will act as a live trailer for her future experimental film project. Similar to her re-interpretation of the western genre with her film "The Rotten, Riotous West," Victor will reference Shakespeare's "Macbeth," using live iconography from the story.
The Company, 9PM: Dawn Kasper will create a live action visual poem entitled "fuck you and your goat too...or something" using words, movement, objects and sound. Activating the space around her, Kasper formulates experiments within which to prove or disprove everyday life and its many emotions via acknowledging the exposure of process.
At 7:30pm, at Jancar, host John Kilduff presents (live!) his A.D.D. cable access television show “Let’s Paint TV.” John Kilduff doesn't just paint. He paints while jogging on a treadmill, cooking food, mixing drinks, taking calls from the public and hosting a psychadelic TV show.
Starting at 8:00pm, Chung King Project will present a program of performances by Nao Bustamante, Maura Brewer, Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy, Liz Glynn, Vanessa Place, Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway.
In Nao Bustamante’s performance event, “Silver & Gold,” Bustamante transports between live action and video narrative. Stirred by legendary filmmaker Jack Smith, Bustamante interprets Smith's muse: 1940s Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez. Bustamante will embody Miss Montez, taking the spectator on a bizarre and radical journey finding a new bejeweled body part, which is at once her curse and oracle.
Maura Brewer’s “Face Transplantation and Depression,” a synchronized video and live performance, tells the story of the world's first face transplant operation. The performance is styled after a self-help seminar, and addresses issues of identity, kinship, and depression.
Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy will present a new collaboration, titled “Johnny Angel,” a romantic comedy with a seedy underbelly. Civin will perform a duet with de Lissovoy’s sculpture. Tormented by holes and a by a string of balls, Civin will agitate a table, and convince that table to revive itself as a sandwich board.
In other performances on the Chung King Project program, Liz Glynn will amass a band of torch-bearers, and Vanessa Place will read a Statement of Facts from a sex offense case: a narrative account of the evidence for the prosecution and for the defense. Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway will give a lecture/presentation about actions with iron pipes, and dream funeral actions about a dead mouse.
Starting at 8:30pm, David Patton will present a performance by Kathleen Johnson, “Brainchild Saturday.” This performance will be a song poem, with musical arrangement by Stephanie Taylor, sung by Dominique Cox, with accompanist John Gold and Jennifer Patton.
On-going and durational performances by Alexis Disselkoen, Micol Hebron, Joel Kyack, Lucas Murgida, and Aaron Sandnes will take place throughout Perform! Now!.
Alexis Disselkoen will gather volunteers in singles, couples and triples, and connect them to make the art viewer into art themselves. Performers will be connected to themselves and others, by costumes: holding hands, arms at the sides, arm in arm, and arms around each other’s shoulders.
As part of an ongoing, intermittent series of performance pieces that recuperate iconic gestures of her modern and postmodern male predecessors, Micol Hebron’s “Wall Whore” will revisit Warhol's commentary on Pollock's action paintings at David Salow Gallery.
Joel Kyack will be running back and forth, and back and forth, across Hill street, in Chinatown, for days. Lucas Murgida’s participatory installation at Charlie James Gallery will examine our sense of taste in order to dismantle the future.
Aaron Sandnes will perform “Flying False Colors,” which employs a huge flag to invoke romantic sentiments of freedom and also thoughts about nihilism and destruction.
Joe Deutch will perform at 11pm at Parker Jones.
Music will round out the Perform! Now!. Sister will present F-Stop Serenade (Mark Cosmo Segurson, Pilar Diaz, James King, Heather Lockie, Noah Smith, Michael Uhler) and Gold Cobra will spin records for “Single Nights by Club Records.” In a rare solo performance at Solway Jones, Dani Tull will use vintage organs and synthesizers, guitars, modern technologies and hand-made instruments, to create exotic ambient, polyphonic sound works that intertwine pre-recorded and improvised live musical performance.
The entire program of performances will provide the audience with an exciting interactive exploration of the world-renowned Chinatown, Los Angeles community of galleries. For one evening, the gallery spaces and surrounding outdoor areas will present various performances engaging viewers from a broad range of interests, breaking down barriers with a variety of performative materials from new visual art, dance, film, theatre, and music, including new commissions and historic reconstructions using the historic Chinatown neighborhood as the backdrop for work by over 30 artists at approximately 12 different venues.
Programming will include a schedule of live performances and parallel exhibitions that will provide critical and historical contexts for the new work produced. All the events will be free and open to the public with an expected attendance of over 500 guests.
Featuring approximately 20 performances, including performances by Nao Bustamante, Marcus Civin, Simone Forti, Micol Hebron, Dawn Kasper, Simon Leung, Dani Tull, and Aaron Sandnes, PERFORM! NOW! will be Chinatown’s first collaborative performance event hosted by resident galleries. The galleries participating include China Art Objects, Chung King Project, David Patton Gallery, Charlie James Gallery, Jancar Gallery, Parker Jones, Mihai Nicodim, David Salow, Sister Gallery, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Solway Jones, The Box, and The Company.
Participating Artists: Maura Brewer; Nao Bustamante with Ashland Mines; Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy; Joe Deutch; Alexis Disselkoen and Performers; F-Stop Serenade (Mark Cosmo Segurson, Pilar Diaz, James King, Heather Lockie, Noah Smith, Michael Uhler); Simone Forti and Performers; Liz Glynn and Performers; Gold Cobra; Micol Hebron; Kathleen Johnson with Stephanie Taylor, Dominique Cox, John Gold, Jennifer Patton; Dawn Kasper; John Kilduff; Joel Kyack; Simon Leung; Lucas Murgida; Vanessa Place; Aaron Sandnes; Dani Tull; Margo Victor; Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway.
The entire program of performances will provide the audience with an exciting interactive exploration of the world-renowned Chinatown community of galleries. For one evening, the gallery spaces and surrounding outdoor areas will present various performances engaging viewers from a broad range of interests. Breaking down barriers with a variety of performative materials from new visual art, dance, film, theatre, and music. Including new commissions and re-creations of seminal performances, PERFORM! NOW! will utilize the historic Chinatown neighborhood as a backdrop for work by artists at 12 different venues.
Programming will include a schedule of live performances and parallel exhibitions that will provide critical and historical contexts for the new work produced.
PERFORM! NOW! is made possible by the generous support of ForYourArt.
This event will feature performances of 2 important dances: Simone Forti’s Dance Construction, “Huddle,” will begin at 6pm at The Box; and the artist Simon Leung will dance Yvonne Rainer’s “Trio A,” at 10:30pm, on the pavement of Chung King Road.
Simon Leung learned “Trio A” from Rainer in ten easy lessons last fall, after wanting to dance it for twenty years. Rainer suggested the title of this performance, “Simon Leung dances Yvonne Rainer.”
Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, first performed in the loft studio of Yoko Ono in 1961, create circumstances for the performers’ direct, non-stylistic actions. “Huddle” is comprised of a tightly-massed group of seven or eight people who take turns climbing over the top.
The Company, 8PM: Margo Victor will create a performance that will act as a live trailer for her future experimental film project. Similar to her re-interpretation of the western genre with her film "The Rotten, Riotous West," Victor will reference Shakespeare's "Macbeth," using live iconography from the story.
The Company, 9PM: Dawn Kasper will create a live action visual poem entitled "fuck you and your goat too...or something" using words, movement, objects and sound. Activating the space around her, Kasper formulates experiments within which to prove or disprove everyday life and its many emotions via acknowledging the exposure of process.
At 7:30pm, at Jancar, host John Kilduff presents (live!) his A.D.D. cable access television show “Let’s Paint TV.” John Kilduff doesn't just paint. He paints while jogging on a treadmill, cooking food, mixing drinks, taking calls from the public and hosting a psychadelic TV show.
Starting at 8:00pm, Chung King Project will present a program of performances by Nao Bustamante, Maura Brewer, Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy, Liz Glynn, Vanessa Place, Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway.
In Nao Bustamante’s performance event, “Silver & Gold,” Bustamante transports between live action and video narrative. Stirred by legendary filmmaker Jack Smith, Bustamante interprets Smith's muse: 1940s Dominican movie starlet Maria Montez. Bustamante will embody Miss Montez, taking the spectator on a bizarre and radical journey finding a new bejeweled body part, which is at once her curse and oracle.
Maura Brewer’s “Face Transplantation and Depression,” a synchronized video and live performance, tells the story of the world's first face transplant operation. The performance is styled after a self-help seminar, and addresses issues of identity, kinship, and depression.
Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy will present a new collaboration, titled “Johnny Angel,” a romantic comedy with a seedy underbelly. Civin will perform a duet with de Lissovoy’s sculpture. Tormented by holes and a by a string of balls, Civin will agitate a table, and convince that table to revive itself as a sandwich board.
In other performances on the Chung King Project program, Liz Glynn will amass a band of torch-bearers, and Vanessa Place will read a Statement of Facts from a sex offense case: a narrative account of the evidence for the prosecution and for the defense. Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway will give a lecture/presentation about actions with iron pipes, and dream funeral actions about a dead mouse.
Starting at 8:30pm, David Patton will present a performance by Kathleen Johnson, “Brainchild Saturday.” This performance will be a song poem, with musical arrangement by Stephanie Taylor, sung by Dominique Cox, with accompanist John Gold and Jennifer Patton.
On-going and durational performances by Alexis Disselkoen, Micol Hebron, Joel Kyack, Lucas Murgida, and Aaron Sandnes will take place throughout Perform! Now!.
Alexis Disselkoen will gather volunteers in singles, couples and triples, and connect them to make the art viewer into art themselves. Performers will be connected to themselves and others, by costumes: holding hands, arms at the sides, arm in arm, and arms around each other’s shoulders.
As part of an ongoing, intermittent series of performance pieces that recuperate iconic gestures of her modern and postmodern male predecessors, Micol Hebron’s “Wall Whore” will revisit Warhol's commentary on Pollock's action paintings at David Salow Gallery.
Joel Kyack will be running back and forth, and back and forth, across Hill street, in Chinatown, for days. Lucas Murgida’s participatory installation at Charlie James Gallery will examine our sense of taste in order to dismantle the future.
Aaron Sandnes will perform “Flying False Colors,” which employs a huge flag to invoke romantic sentiments of freedom and also thoughts about nihilism and destruction.
Joe Deutch will perform at 11pm at Parker Jones.
Music will round out the Perform! Now!. Sister will present F-Stop Serenade (Mark Cosmo Segurson, Pilar Diaz, James King, Heather Lockie, Noah Smith, Michael Uhler) and Gold Cobra will spin records for “Single Nights by Club Records.” In a rare solo performance at Solway Jones, Dani Tull will use vintage organs and synthesizers, guitars, modern technologies and hand-made instruments, to create exotic ambient, polyphonic sound works that intertwine pre-recorded and improvised live musical performance.
The entire program of performances will provide the audience with an exciting interactive exploration of the world-renowned Chinatown, Los Angeles community of galleries. For one evening, the gallery spaces and surrounding outdoor areas will present various performances engaging viewers from a broad range of interests, breaking down barriers with a variety of performative materials from new visual art, dance, film, theatre, and music, including new commissions and historic reconstructions using the historic Chinatown neighborhood as the backdrop for work by over 30 artists at approximately 12 different venues.
Programming will include a schedule of live performances and parallel exhibitions that will provide critical and historical contexts for the new work produced. All the events will be free and open to the public with an expected attendance of over 500 guests.
SCHEDULE...
8:00PM
Performance Program @ Chung King Project, 936 Chung King Road
8:00PM “Face Transplantation and Depression” Maura Brewer
8:30PM "Sparkling bays, glistening glaciers, the midnight sun" Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway
9:00 “Silver & Gold” Nao Bustamante, guest staring Ashland Mines
9:40 “Statement of Facts” Vanessa Place
10:00 “Johnny Angel” Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy
10:20 Liz Glynn and Performers
Performance Program @ Chung King Project, 936 Chung King Road
8:00PM “Face Transplantation and Depression” Maura Brewer
8:30PM "Sparkling bays, glistening glaciers, the midnight sun" Lisa Williamson and Sarah Conaway
9:00 “Silver & Gold” Nao Bustamante, guest staring Ashland Mines
9:40 “Statement of Facts” Vanessa Place
10:00 “Johnny Angel” Marcus Civin and Sandy de Lissovoy
10:20 Liz Glynn and Performers
