As a complement to the College Art Association's 2009 Annual Conference program sessions, Afterall hosts a series of 30-60 minute conversations offering insights into Los Angeles and its cultural history, present and future. Scheduled events include interviews with local artists, roundtable discussions, and talks by critics, curators and scholars that bridge the distance between early artistic developments and current practice.
Location: CAA Book and Trade Fair Los Angeles Convention Center 1201 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90015
Erik Frydenborg's Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary (read at themagla.com) For his first solo exhibition, Erik Frydenborg assembled appropriated imagery and multicolored cast sculptures, which he displayed on modular pedestals. These presentation modules, made of stained wood and based on a found prototype, strike a high modernist look but are more reminiscent of a natural history museum than of a gallery setting. Frydenborg's smaller-scale sculptures, made of polyurethane plastic, foam, pigments, and latex rubber, seem casual and approachable on a human scale. They suggest castoffs from the process of fabricating much larger work. The arrangement of objects in pieces like Sotto Voce and Selected Region, in which smaller cast objects are cut in half and set next to other halved objects in mismatched pairs, creates uncanny relationships among the elements.
Rather than each sculptural element being a work in itself, Frydenborg curates a collection of his objects into a single piece. In Legend, Frydenborg presents his base materials as one small sculpture resting on a pedestal plus a collection of images (including a food pyramid and various underwater creatures) that are altered and repeated throughout the rest of the installation. Works such as Untitled (Young Group) and Sleeper present bits and pieces put together to present a semblance of, well, bits and pieces. Instead of the building blocks of a holistic universe, these deformed fragments resemble the pottery shards of an entirely synthetic world, unable to evoke any sort of complete picture.
Frydenborg's parallel world isn't simply a direct reflection or critique of ours. In Untitled (Refrain), as in the rest of the show, he makes no claim on a privileged position of judgment within the piece. There is only a metonymic chain of elements set next to each other. Frydenborg is neither an optimist nor a pessimist, directing our attention without bias towards the chaos of deterioration, fragmentation, and reassembly as his various objects create a rhythmic chorus of forms. --Mathew Timmons
Ron Rudlong, founder of such bands as Arson Plus, Mike and the Machinists, The 12 Rons, The Bright Side of Death, Dolphins of Tomorrow, Your Demolition Band, Mouth Babies, Sexy Uncle, Zap, Rosdower, Real Canadian Girlfriend, The Marshall Fucker Band, Rape Door and We are Awesome returns to Los Angeles to play his very last show in Los Angeles before he dies of complications due to Narcolepsy.
≡≡≡≡≡ Stephanie Rioux Co-hosts and Co-Produces LA-Lit with Mathew Timmons. Stephanie graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Writing in Spring 2005. Her writings have appeared in the literary journals nocturnes (re)view, Trepan, Black Clock, and Primary Writing, and are self-published on the internet at tinyorganism. Stephanie teaches English and writing to middle school kids in Diamond Bar, California.
Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself.
To listen to interviews, you can find links to all the files below. All of LA-Lit's interviews are also hosted on Penn Sound. You can also visit LA-Lit's website.
LA-Lit 1: Ara Shirinyan LA-Lit interviewed Ara Shirinyan in late August 2005. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 1 Part a & LA-Lit 1 Part b
LA-Lit 2: Stan Apps LA-Lit interviewed Stan Apps in early September 2005. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 2 Part a & LA-Lit 2 Part b
LA-Lit 3: Julien Poirier LA-Lit interviewed Julien Poirier on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 5pm. Download the audio file here: LA-Lit 3
LA-Lit 4: Doug Kearney LA-Lit interviewed Doug Kearney on Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 4 Part a & LA-Lit 4 Part b
LA-Lit 5: Jen Hofer LA-Lit interviewed Jen Hoffer on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 5 Part a & LA-Lit 5 Part b
LA-Lit 6: Amarnath Ravva LA-Lit interviewed Amarnath Ravva on Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 6 Part a & LA-Lit 6 Part b
LA-Lit 7: Jane Sprague LA-Lit interviewed Jane Sprague on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 7 Part a & LA-Lit 7 Part b
LA-Lit 8: Diane Ward LA-Lit interviewed Diane Ward on Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 8 Part a & LA-Lit 8 Part b
LA-Lit 9: Guy Bennett LA-Lit interviewed Guy Bennett on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 9 Pta & LA-Lit 9 Ptb
LA-Lit 10: José Alvergue LA-Lit interviewed José Alvergue on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 10 Part A & LA-Lit 10 Part B
LA-Lit 11: Anthony McCann LA-Lit interviewed Anthony McCann on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 11 Pta & LA-Lit 11 Ptb
LA-Lit 12: Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis LA-Lit interviewed Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 8pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 12 Pta & LA-Lit 12 Ptb
LA-Lit 13: Bruna Mori LA-Lit interviewed Bruna Mori on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 2pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 12 Pta & LA-Lit 12 Ptb
LA-Lit 14: Will Alexander LA-Lit interviewed Will Alexander on Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 2pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 14 pt a & LA-Lit 14 pt b
LA-Lit 1 Yr Anniversary LA-Lit celebrated its 1 Year Anniversary at Betalevel with a discussion of the experimental literary scene in Los Angeles on Sunday October 15 at 3pm. Download the audio files here: Discussion & Readings
LA-Lit 15: Chris Kraus LA-Lit interviewed Chris Kraus on Friday, November 3rd at 7pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 15 pt a & LA-Lit 15 pt b
La-Lit 16: Teresa Carmody LA-Lit interviewed Teresa Carmody on Sunday, November 19th at 3pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 16 pt a & LA-Lit 16 pt b
LA-Lit 17: Bay Poetics On Saturday, December 2 at 1pm, writers Del Ray Cross, Susan Gevirtz, Suzanne Stein, Stephanie Young and Magdalena Zurawski (whose work appears in the new anthology Bay Poetics edited by Stephanie Young) were our guests. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 17 Discussion & LA-Lit 17 Readings
LA-Lit 18: Sawako Nakayasu LA-Lit interviewed Sawako Nakayasu on Sunday, December 10th at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA Lit 18 part a & LA Lit 18 part b
LA-Lit 19: Mark Wallace LA-Lit interviewed Mark Wallace on Saturday, February 3 at 3pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 19 pt a & LA-Lit 19 pt b
LA-Lit 20: Vanessa Place LA-Lit interviewed Vanessa Place on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 3pm and Sunday, March 16, 2008. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 20 pt a & LA-Lit 20 pt b
LA-Lit 21: Maggie Nelson LA-Lit interviewed Maggie Nelson on Sunday, March 11 at 3pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 21 pt a & LA-Lit 21 pt b
LA-Lit 22: Mark von Schlegell LA-Lit interviewed Mark von Schlegell on Sunday, April 15 at 3pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 22 pt a & LA-Lit 22 pt b
LA-Lit 23: Lee Ann Brown LA-Lit interviewed Lee Ann Brown on Sunday, June 24 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 23 pt a & LA-Lit 23 pt b
LA-Lit 24: Christine Wertheim LA-Lit interviewed Christine Wertheim on Sunday, September 23 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 24 pt a & LA-Lit 24 pt b
LA-Lit 25: WeHo Book Fair-LA Avant Underground Panel Discussion LA-Lit moderated the LA Avant Underground Panel at the WeHo Book Fair on Sunday, September 30 at 11am with panelists Harold Abramowitz, Teresa Carmody, and Ara Shirinyan. Download the audio file here: LA-Lit 25 complete recording
LA-Lit 26: Demosthenes Agrafiotis LA-Lit interviewed Demosthenes Agrafiotis on Thursday, October 18 at 8pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 26 pt a & LA-Lit 26 pt b
LA-Lit 27: Masha Tupitsyn LA-Lit interviewed Masha Tupitsyn on Friday, October 19 at 8pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 27 pt a & LA-Lit 27 pt b
LA-Lit 28: Eileen Myles LA-Lit interviewed Eileen Myles on Sunday, November 4 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 28 pt a & LA-Lit 28 pt b
LA-Lit 29: Catherine Daly LA-Lit interviewed Catherine Daly on Sunday, November 11 at 5pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 29 pt a & LA-Lit 29 pt b
LA-Lit 30: Nada Gordon LA-Lit interviewed Nada Gordon on Sunday, December 2 at 1pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 30 pt a & LA-Lit 30 pt b
LA-Lit 31: Thérèse Bachand LA-Lit interviewed Thérèse Bachand on Sunday, March 9 at 7pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 31 pt a & LA-Lit 31 pt b
LA-Lit 32: Dan Machlin LA-Lit interviewed Dan Machlin on Saturday, April 12 at 2pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 32 pt a & LA-Lit 32 pt b
LA-Lit 33: Kristin Palm LA-Lit interviewed Kristin Palm on Sunday, June 1 at 3pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 33 pt a & LA-Lit 33 pt b
LA-Lit 34: Vincent Dachy LA-Lit interviewed Vincent Dachy on Monday, October 27 at 8pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 34 pt a & LA-Lit 34 pt b
LA-Lit 35: Lisa Samuels LA-Lit interviewed Lisa Samuels on Sunday, November 23 at 8pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 35 pt a & LA-Lit 35 pt b
LA-Lit 36: Harold Abramowitz LA-Lit interviewed Harold Abramowitz on Saturday, April 18 at 2pm. Download the audio files here: LA-Lit 36 pt a & LA-Lit 36 pt b
LA-Lit: Clouds :: November 21+22, 2008 at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
LA-Lit celebrated its three year anniversary on Friday November 21 at Betalevel and on Saturday November 22 at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. For over three years, LA-Lit has developed a new space for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles, LA-Lit has conducted well over thirty interviews with poets and writers who have lived in LA all their lives as well as writers who have visited LA for only a few days. Please join us for LA-Lit: Clouds :: a two day conference in Los Angeles connecting the de-centered literary culture of LA in an effort to investigate it’s current manifestations and to develop a sense of LA’s inherent literary spontaneity.
LA-Lit: Clouds :: Schedule Friday November 21: 8:00pm-11:00pm: Perform and Celebrate at Betalevel LA-LitCloudsDay1a (audio coming soon!) Stephanie Rioux, Mathew Timmons, Amarnath Ravva. [break] LA-LitCloudsDay1b (44:30): Intro comments by Mathew Timmons, (1:43) special introduction by Sawako Nakayasu, (5:39) Teresa Carmody, (14:10) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (15:03) Lisa Samuels, (29:04) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (32:03) Stan Apps.
Saturday November 22: Confer at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 12:00pm-1:30pm form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass -condensation-structure-elements-foreground-background Moderator: Mathew Timmons. Panelists: Stan Apps, Guy Bennett, Christine Wertheim, Ara Shirinyan LA-LitCloudsDay2Panel1 (1:32:09): Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (2:41) Stan Apps, (17:56) Guy Bennett, (30:24) Ara Shirinyan, (42:01) Christine Wertheim, (1:00:12) Q&A.
2:00pm-3:30pm atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents- groundless-textured-visible-droplets-interstellar-crystalline Moderator: Stephanie Rioux. Panelists: Will Alexander, Teresa Carmody, K. Lorraine Graham, Amarnath Ravva, Mark Wallace LA-LitCloudsDay2Panel2 (1:42:13) Introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (6:23) Teresa Carmody, (16:42) Amarnath Ravva, (26:11) Mark Wallace, (37:27) K. Lorraine Graham, (49:18) Will Alexander, (1:06:36) Q&A.
4:30pm-6:00pm Perform at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Will Alexander, Guy Bennett, K. Lorraine Graham, Sawako Nakayasu, Ara Shirinyan, Mark Wallace, Christine Wertheim LA-LitCloudsDay2Rdng1 (45:28) Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (1:53) Christine Wertheim, (10:40) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (12:07) Ara Shirinyan, (30:28) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (31:56) Guy Bennett [break] LA-LitCloudsDay2Rdng2 (1:06:39) Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (2:00) Sawako Nakayasu, (13:29) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (14:56) Mark Wallace, (27:15) Introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (28:55) Demosthenes Agrafiotis, (35:56) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (37:00) K. Lorraine Graham, (45:30) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (47:50) Will Alexander
≡≡≡≡≡ Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is the General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs Danielle Adair Friday, March 6 from 7 to 10 pm Saturday, March 7 from 7 to 10 pm at workspace Time Lapse documentation
Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.
Danielle Adair’s work utilizes performance, video, sound, text, and multi-media installation to address current events in phenomenological ways. The subject matter of her recent projects include mental illness within current diagnostic understanding, systems of education, and wartime experience. Adair is based in Los Angeles. Most recently she has performed and/or exhibited work at The Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, UC Santa Cruz, Beyond Baroque, and Track 16 Gallery. Currently she is at work on a performance-essay based on one female officer’s experience while stationed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs: Dan Richert Thursday, November 13 from 7 to 10 pm Friday, November 14 from 7 to 10pm at Marmion Way Photo documentation
*sc3gzr* is an interactive gamepad-controlled text stream filter designed around pattern-based text filtering functionality similar to that found in the UNIX tools grep and sed. Filtering patterns are determined by control messages sent from the gamepad. *sc3gzr* is an experiment in non-linear text presentation.
Dan Richert is a programmer and digital artist. His work primarily focuses on computerized text and audio generation, recombination and breakage.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs: Marcus Civin & Candice Lin Thursday, October 23 from 7 to 10 pm Friday, October 24 from 10pm to late at Betalevel
When the wind got too rough, and the ship was pitching, sailors took an axe to the mast, so the lighting wouldn’t catch. We were at the top, in the crow’s nest, tangled in the nets and in the tatters of the sails. When it was all over, we climbed out and found we had washed upon a beach of graphite sand. Shipwreck! Enormous Crow’s Nest built to reach the ceiling, stuck in and consuming the underground space at Betalevel.
Candice Lin and Marcus Civin both attended Brown University at the same time but never really met there. They both lived in San Francisco but never met there, though they had friends in common. A mutual friend, Maggie Foster, encouraged them to meet up in LA. As a result, they have been exchanging ideas for the last 2 years. Candice is planning an exhibition for Chung King Projects. Marcus is almost finished his MFA in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs: Marcus Civin & Candice Lin Thursday, October 23 from 7 to 10 pm Friday, October 24 from 10pm to late at Betalevel
When the wind got too rough, and the ship was pitching, sailors took an axe to the mast, so the lighting wouldn’t catch. We were at the top, in the crow’s nest, tangled in the nets and in the tatters of the sails. When it was all over, we climbed out and found we had washed upon a beach of graphite sand. Shipwreck! Enormous Crow’s Nest built to reach the ceiling, stuck in and consuming the underground space at Betalevel.
Candice Lin and Marcus Civin both attended Brown University at the same time but never really met there. They both lived in San Francisco but never met there, though they had friends in common. A mutual friend, Maggie Foster, encouraged them to meet up in LA. As a result, they have been exchanging ideas for the last 2 years. Candice is planning an exhibition for Chung King Projects. Marcus is almost finished his MFA in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs: Pablo N. Molina Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 7-10 pm Friday, September 26, 2008 from 7-10 pm at Betalevel
Continuing an exploration of human-media interaction, Pablo N. Molina’s newest work uses digital projection and custom software to create a dynamic spatialized interface where human movement is processed and extended. An immersive and responsive video display and digital sensory framework will track both presence and movement to produce an intricate and reactive environment. Meaningful conversations between human stimuli and data processing are temporarily registered as visual and auditory output. Viewers should feel free to explore and discover new modes of action and reaction. The purposely open-ended coding framework allows for completely unexpected, though never random, modes of feedback.
Pablo N. Molina is a Los Angeles and New York City based video, lighting and sound artist. His work has appeared in several galleries and numerous theatrical, music and dance performances including pieces by Carl Hancock Rux, Neil Denari, Karin Coonrod, Bebe Miller, Aimee Michelle, Lars Jan, Mira Kingsley, Sam Gold, Chi-wang Yang, Benny Sato Ambush, Cloud Eye Control, Rachel Boggia and High Jinks Dance Co. His digitally generated video content was prominently featured in Linkin Park’s recent Projekt Revolution world tour. He is currently collaborating with MODE Studios in Seattle to develop a large scale interactive video and sound installation commissioned by a prominent Fortune 500 company. Pablo teaches video design and programming at CalArts.
≡≡≡≡≡ The Ups & Downs At Betalevel & Workspace September 2008 – September 2009
The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…
Brian Kim Stefans Scriptor 1.0 Friday, June 5 from 7 to 10 pm Saturday, June 6 from 7 to 10 pm with a short artist's talk each night at 8pm at workspace Time Lapse Documentation
Liz Glynn 65 | 77 | 03 | - Friday, September 4 from 7 to 10 pm Saturday, September 5 from 7 to 10 pm at workspace Time Lapse Documentation
The Audience Reacts by Julia Sherman On television and film productions featuring a live audience, there comes a time when the extras are asked to cycle through all possible reactions to the actual show. This footage will be edited into 2 second segments later on, but the shoot turns into a kind of endurance test of artifical emotion. This strange excercise is a much-anticipated moment for extras to act on-camera, and the result is some kind of super-audience, with endless stamina and unparalleled enthusiasm. In The Audience Reacts, we never catch a glimpse of what the audience may or may not be watching on stage/screen. They dart back and forth between extreme reactions, booing, clapping, laughing and hissing in an infinite loop, suddenly becoming the stars of their very own movie. See an example here.
Bio: Julia Sherman mines folk traditions, canonical art history, feminist theory and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy and interrogation. Her formal compositions and finely wrought images cannot conceal her attraction to the homemade, the experiment and the discovery. Although documented in photographs and video, Sherman's work must be understood as performance and is often translated best through elaborate installations. In recent work, Sherman reflects on artifice and entertainment in the film industry, the theatre and pornography.
≡≡≡≡≡ Movie Reel Project: at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Ainsi fon fon fon les petites demoiselles… and that’s why I’m not a Lesbian is a series of video works developed about the many facades women put on and discard throughout the various roles they play. Video was projected and framed in various sculptural totems from a cardboard peep show booth to a hair sculpture, to a coffin-like table.
Self Portrait explores Montblanc’s ancestry by deconstructing the nature of portraiture. Concentrated Milk investigates the power structures confronting older women as they renegotiate behavioral paradigms proper to younger women.
Masculinihilist is an attempt to represent sex as seen from the perspective of women living in a masculinihilist world, a state of being in which masculine power has been erased from a previously victorious collective history. The video struggles to untangle the grotesque drama of male-dominated porn by redistributing the sexual fiat of perversion into the hands of female performers.
The Old Lady and the Milkmaid is a deliberately nonsensical attempt to delve into the dramatic undertones of an everyday interaction of women of equal status. WatchThe Old Lady and the MilkmaidNow.
Janne Larsen: Janne Larsen is a practicing artist and set designer. She received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from Cal Arts. Janne has exhibited at Telic Art Exchange, Workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, Beta Level, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. Janne has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts.. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster’ and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled ‘Tea Parties’ with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
The Ups & Downs Janne Larsen Friday, February 6 from 7 to 10 pm Saturday, February 7 from 7 to 10 pm at workspace Time Lapse documentation
This installation is about elbows, the least friendly part of the body; elbows on the freeway, the least social social-interaction. Let’s face it: In the freeway it is You or Them. Body parts are at high risks, morphing into the space of the car, you maneuver and try to out-strategize Them. The last figure in the installation is the hopelessly ideal. The one that is the Other. The unused body part, the dreamer, the drifter, the asleep at the wheel, the one no one talks about.
Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne translates text and spatial dimension into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Her strategy is like that of Brancusi or Meyerhold: “to create an event that transforms the stage, it’s objects and the entire material space of the auditorium - including the audience members - into the work.” Through social experiments in art, Janne breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. Janne is a Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer. Janne’s most recent project is an installation in a cave in Greece, sponsored by the Greece Ministry of Culture. Her work has been seen at Telic, CalArts, BetaLevel, UCLA, CalPoly, Cal State LA and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.
≡≡≡≡≡ Movie Reel Project: at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Ainsi fon fon fon les petites demoiselles… and that’s why I’m not a Lesbian is a series of video works developed about the many facades women put on and discard throughout the various roles they play. Video was projected and framed in various sculptural totems from a cardboard peep show booth to a hair sculpture, to a coffin-like table.
Self Portrait explores Montblanc’s ancestry by deconstructing the nature of portraiture. Concentrated Milk investigates the power structures confronting older women as they renegotiate behavioral paradigms proper to younger women.
Masculinihilist is an attempt to represent sex as seen from the perspective of women living in a masculinihilist world, a state of being in which masculine power has been erased from a previously victorious collective history. The video struggles to untangle the grotesque drama of male-dominated porn by redistributing the sexual fiat of perversion into the hands of female performers.
The Old Lady and the Milkmaid is a deliberately nonsensical attempt to delve into the dramatic undertones of an everyday interaction of women of equal status. WatchThe Old Lady and the MilkmaidNow.
Frederique de Montblanc: Born and raised in an international community in Brussels, Frederique then moved to Montreal to complete her BFA in Theatre at Concordia University. During her stay in Quebec she worked as a theatre designer for Imago Theatre and participated to the ‘Festival du Monde Arabe’. She also performed in various projects including Simon Donger’s adaptation of Hamletmachine. She was then accepted at Calarts and moved to Los Angeles to complete her MFA. Her artwork has been shown at Beta Level, Highways Performance Space, Redcat and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Throughout her last year Frederique had the privilege to be ORLAN's personal assistant at the Getty Research Institute. She has now moved to Texas and has recently designed set and costumes for Dominic Walsh’s adaptation of Titus Andronicus. Some of her artwork has recently been featured at Artstorm and the Lawndale Art Center. She is currently designing video and set for A Convenient Women, a dance show taking place at Diverseworks in April, and will be Art Directing the international production of Armide showing at the Wortham Center in May. Past Collaborations with Janne Larsen include the dance theatre pieces: Laundry Room Extravaganza (I, II & III) and the writing of Deadlips, a play about exorcism, dinner parties and wrestling.
General Projects happen all over the place, generally speaking. Most of the General Projects spoken about here will primarily take place in Los Angeles or nearby. Generally, General Projects are run by General Projects General Director, Mathew Timmons, in collaboration with other artists, writers & curators.
Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is the General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His work may also be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.
