Category: Frame Rate

Russia Restaurant
1714 Ivar Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90028
7-10pm

For this Frame Rate, Kon Trubkovich presented his work in progress, tentatively entitled, what did we destroy to get here. The video work depicts Trubkovich’s relatives in Russia singing their favorite popular American songs from their youth; however, since none of them speak English, all of the songs were learned solely on a phonetic basis. The work investigates the relationship between time and memory, and the complexities of mediated translation in our society.

This event took place at Russia Restaurant, where the work was accompanied by live performers, who sang select songs from the video. A Russian dinner and libations were served.

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Kon Trubkovich is a New York-based artist whose paintings and video works use old VHS video as the foundational source. Trubkovich extrapolates from the digital static created by pausing and splicing the film to create nostalgic glimpses into the past. His work has been exhibited at the MoMA PS1, Long Island City; the Macro Future Museum, Rome; and Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern.

Frame Rate is a programming series with an eye toward film, video, and the moving image in general.

This Frame Rate is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
7000 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
7-10pm: Lobby
8-10pm: The Spare Room (Mezzanine Level)

Using the lobby and The Spare Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, artist Drew Heitzler presented a new video work, L.A. Music Part I. This video appropriates a scene from Art Clokey’s Gumby in which Gumby is seated playing the piano, though Heitzler has edited and altered the scene to have Gumby play a selection of atonal music from Los Angeles music history. Gumby thus functioned as the hotel’s lounge player for the evening, supplying guests and visitors with music from notable artists such as Black Flag, John Cage, The Doors, Frank Zappa, Slayer, La Monte Young, and Megadeth, among many others.

Drew Heitzler is a Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker who creates installations that combine pre-existing films with various media (drawing, sculpture, photography, etc.) to confuse and investigate the role of time, site, and history. Heitzler’s work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; MoMA/PS1, New York; and the Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, among other notable institutions. His work is part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Frame Rate is a programming series with an eye toward film, video, and the moving image in general.

This Frame Rate was made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs.

LAND Offices
6775 Santa Monica Boulevard (corner of Highland)
Los Angeles, CA 90038
6-9pm

Frame Rate: Vishal Jugdeo included the premiere of Jugdeo’s newest video work, The Meeting, the Trap, the System and the View, conceived in part via LAND’s artist residency project, Come as you are…

The evening also included a celebration of LAND’s new Hollywood office location, including a toast to our future projects.

Vishal Jugdeo is a Los Angeles-based multimedia artist whose video works integrate sculpture and props, emphasizing theatricality and revealing process while enabling and encouraging a participatory interaction and viewing of the work.

Jugdeo’s video was also shown as part of a larger installation of his work at Thomas Solomon Gallery from June 22 – August 3, 2013.

Frame Rate is a programming series with an eye toward film, video, and the moving image in general.

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Soho House West Hollywood
9200 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Utilizing the intimate and plush setting of the Soho House West Hollywood’s Screening Room, New York-based artist Jen DeNike presented her own version of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita with the presentation of both a video and performance that dialogs with the film’s allure of the character Lolita. The performance transformed the room into a live theater, activating not only the screen but also the aisles, corners, and physical space created for each viewer in their seats. The event involved participation from the audience, live music, actors, and choreographed sequences. Using a montage of reconstructed film stills taken directly from Kubrick’s Lolita, DeNike created a narrative that collided and intersected with the performance. Senses were tantalized on all fronts – from the lushness of the screening room, to the actors and actresses that interacted with the audience, to the original piano score, performed live by composer Jay Israelson, which punctuated the film and performances.

Special thanks to Helen Brown, Anat Ebgi, Marjorie Ornston, Dennis Riordan, Jay Stuckey, and Laurie Ziegler.

Hyperion Tavern
1941 Hyperion Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Screenings begin at 9pm and continue throughout.

Video Projections By:
Bobbi Woods

Music By:
Matthew Clifford Green
Jan Tumlir

In Collaboration With:
No Vex

Dinner House M
1263 W. Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
January 25, 2011
jazzclubm.com

For the second Frame Rate, Harry Dodge presented a new video: Unkillable (2011), a perverse, black comedy that investigates the potency of images made from language. Performing alone, in a mask, Dodge renders in obsessive detail – shots, cuts, audio – a would-be film, a “text-story” made up of progressively appalling events. While critiquing conventional film grammar and tropes, Unkillable also manages to explore the queasy coexistence of tenderness and brutality, the nature of momentum (narrative and otherwise), and the often incomprehensible wretchedness of irreversibility itself.

Cole presented a lecture, field recordings, and photographic documents that illuminate the rich musical history of Detroit. Focusing specifically on 1967, Cole told the story of The Algiers Motel, the epicenter for the city’s recording studios and clubs, where soul musicians The Dramatics were sequestered during the height of the ‘67 riots. The lecture was followed by Cole’s recreation of some hits from Motown and a DJ set culled from the city’s extensive musical output.

Justin Cole is a Los Angeles-based artist working in drawing, photography, sculpture, and audio – his multi-disciplinary practice addressing the complexities of the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, Cole’s native Detroit, and the United States in general. Cole’s work has been exhibited at Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles; The Project, Los Angeles; Lizabeth Olivera Gallery, Los Angeles; Co-Lab, Copenhagen; LA><Art, Los Angeles; Queens Nails, San Francisco; and Centre Pour l’Art et le Culture, Aix-en-Provence, among others. Most recently, Cole presented a solo exhibition, entitled Historical Impulse, at Pepin Moore, Los Angeles. Additionally, Cole performs as part of the collaborative art and music group OJO.

Harry Dodge is a Los Angeles-based visual artist, writer, and director whose videos, sculptures, and installations focus around the exploration of materiality, the unnamable, between-ness, and post-binary possibility. Dodge’s work has been exhibited at Elizabeth Dee, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Getty Institute, Los Angeles; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and at the Sundance Film Festival, among others. Other recent activities include a talk and video program at Light Industry in Brooklyn and a curated room at the Hessel Museum in upstate New York.

Dinner House M
1263 W. Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
jazzclubm.com
10:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Brendan Fowler is a Los Angeles-based artist with a multidisciplinary practice focusing around sculpture and performance. For this Frame Rate he presented a selection of videos (below) and an audio performance by Stephen/Steven.

Misha Mengelberg & Han Bennick Duo – Improvisation (4:18)
Misha Mengel: Piano, Han Bennick: Drums
Live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2004.

Susie Ibarra Drum Solos (0:43)
Avant-garde percussionist Susie Ibarra demonstrates innovative techniques for solo drumset performance. This was from a clinic at Musicplayer Live in 2005.

Autechre Live 26.4.2008 Osaka Japan (3:28)
bits of footage (of a band that plays in complete darkness…) the red lights are sean’s seqencer/drum machines. he did beats and rob did melodic stuff from what i could tell. a quick bit of massonix too, but he was thoroughly rubbish. some (very blurry) shots of said drum mchines too, pretty sure they were by elektron.

The English Language In 24 Accents (8:14)
Me attempting to do 24 different accents from my own country and from other countries around the world. Hopefully I got most of them right but I may have made mistakes and I can do some better than others. However, I made this video for my friends because I promised them I would do an accent video. I mean no offence to anyone and please don’t be upset if I have not included your specific accent or got it wrong.

BARR The B-Side Is Silent (4:26)
b-side to the song is the single

BARR at Rhinoceropolis (0:52)
barr performing live inside of rhinoceropolis in denver colorado

BARR First (2:32)
Video for the BARR song First. Directed by David Horvitz

Guyton \ Walker (6:08)
The team Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker (Guyton \ Walker) is presented and showing their work in the Ladonia Biennial 2009. http://www.ladonia.net

Sexy Thoughts – Tomtomtime Season 1 Episode 2 (2:24)
Sexy Thoughts (Kevin Shea) – Talibam! from Tomtomtime Season 1 Episode

The inaugural Frame Rate foregrounded the opening of The Secret (Still) Knows with videos from nine of the exhibition’s artists:

Brody Condon, Summer Solstice
Sue de Beer, Untitled
Luis Gispert, Pony Show and Turbo Burbo
Skylar Haskard, Five And a Half Foot Room
Drew Heitzler, Dream Hole
Barry Johnston, Untitled
Robert Melee, This Is For You
Matthew Ronay, Cloak 3 and Forest

And selections by Eve Fowler:
Math Bass, Wrecking Wall
Extreme Mature Respect (Math Bass and Dylan Mira), Somethings Gonna Soon