Category: Nomadic Nights

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LAND is pleased to present Nomadic Nights: There Was There, organized by Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. on the occasion of the closing of his exhibition at Matthew Brown Gallery. Gonzalez presents a one-day group exhibition welcoming audiences to familiarize themselves with Gonzalez’s artistic community.

Featuring artists Rikkí Wright, Sonya Sombreuil, Savannah Claudia Levin, Lizette Hernández, Diana Yessenia Alvarado, and Mario Ayala, the project amplifies how artists’ networks are crucial to their personal and professional lives and thus, emphasizing the collective spirit behind Gonzalez’s work.  ⁠ ⁠ Alongside the group exhibition there will be a set of DJ’s and a musical performance by Brainstory, one of the subjects of Gonzalez’s fictitious concert poster series. ⁠ This Nomadic Night will take place on Sunday March 20 from 3-6pm, in the parking lot adjacent to Matthew Brown Gallery at 712 N. La Brea Avenue. ⁠Special thanks to Matthew Brown Gallery. ⁠

Photos by Bradley Hale.

About Nomadic Nights:
Nomadic Nights are salon-style events, in roaming locations throughout the country, which reflect the diverse ways in which contemporary artists engage and present visual culture. As a departure from conventional formats, Nomadic Nights invites artists to present work, performances, and ideas that comprise the constellation of influences informing the overall creative practice.

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

LAND’s 2022 exhibitions are made possible with lead support from the Offield Family Foundation and the Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation. 

Additional support is provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the LA Arts Recovery Fund, Abby Pucker, the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust, the Poncher Family Foundation, Brenda Potter, and LAND’s Nomadic Council.

FEBRUARY 18 – APRIL 16, 2022

4859 FOUNTAIN AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90029

UPCOMING PROGRAMS + PERFORMANCES

Saturday, April 9, 2022
4-5pm
Final Performance
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Anat Ebgi
4859 Fountain Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90029

In celebration of the fifty-year anniversary of Womanhouse, Anat Ebgi in partnership with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) has organized a final performance reimagining the students of Fresno State’s Feminist Art Program Cunt Cheerleaders performance, a critical foundation to the inception of Womanhouse.

Reimagining and extending the Cunt Cheerleaders mission of celebrating women’s sexuality and rights in a light-hearted and humorous way, the artists Kayla Tange, Megan Rippey, and Holly Harrell will tailor this performance to speak to our current cultural moment. Their performance will expand and complicate ideas of gender, sexuality, and power with humor to welcome a more inclusive and generous understanding of what it’s like to experience the world as a woman.

Join us on Saturday, April 9th from 4-5pm at Anat Ebgi’s Gallery located at 4859 Fountain Ave, Los Angeles, for this final performance!⁠

PREVIOUS PROGRAMS

Friday February 18, 2022
5-9pm
Opening reception
Performances by Holly Harrell & Karen LeCocq begin at 6:30

LeCocq will reprise her seminal performance ‘Leah’s Room,’ while Harrell will reinterpret Faith Wilding’s 1972 ‘Waiting’ performance.

Saturday, February 19
2-4PM
Zine release and reading of ‘Dream House’ from Hexentexte Press

The event will include readings by contributors Claressinka Anderson, Sarah Green, Jennifer Pilch, Jessica Dillon and Karolina Lavergne.

Saturday, March 5
2pm
Waiting erformances by Holly Harrell and Kayla Tange

Faith Wilding’s 1972  ‘Waiting’ is a performance of endurance and contemplation where she waits for people, things, events, and the phenomena of a changing world to arrive. Originally performed within the walls of the monumental art installation and performance space of  Womanhouse, Wilding’s ‘Waiting’ became a key point for generations of artists drawn to how performance art could be a vehicle to discuss, critique, and apply foresight to local and global concerns.

Later in 2007 performed at the Contemporary Art Space in Geneva, Wilding delivered ‘Waiting With,’ an addendum to her 1972 performance expanding on the original ‘Waiting’ performance. Wilding’s couplet of ‘Waiting’ performances are presented together for the first time illustrate the continuity between her two performances.

The artists Holly Harrell and Kayla Tange will reinterpret these two performances tailored to our current cultural moment. This intergenerational endeavor between Wilding, Harrell, and Tange aim to introduce this feminist art history to newer generations to learn from the monumental significance of Womanhouse and it’s participants.

Saturday, March 19
4pm
Maintenance Performances by Sebastian Hernandez, Gabriela Ruiz, and Karla Ekatherine Canseco

In 1972 Sandra Ogel and Christine Rush as a part of the installation performance-space Womanhouse performed 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 pieces respectively titled Ironing and Scrubbing. These performances emphasized the monotonous and endless qualities of housework which women are often subjected to not only execute but to find enjoyment and fulfillment. Ogel and Rush’s performances reliant on repetition slowed down these mundane acts to grid and critique essentialist ideas of gender. For Ogel’s 𝘐𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, the artist irons what appears to be a never ending bedsheet while Rush’s 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 finds the artist scrubbing the floor with a brush until she tires out. The two performances underline the patriarchal mandate of domestic work still present today. ⁠
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Reimaging and reinterpreting these acts of domestic work the artists Sebastian Hernandez, Gabriela Ruiz, and Karla Ekatherine Canseco will fashion these performances to speak to our current cultural moment. The three artists share an interest in reconsidering what maintenance means in our current day. Their performances expand and complicate ideas of gender and power contingent on domestic labor to emphasize how patriarchal ideas of maintenance rule over the physical and psychological lives of women. This intergenerational endeavor between Ogel, Rush, Hernandez, Ruiz, and Canseco aim to introduce this feminist art history to newer generations to learn from the monumental significance of Womanhouse and it’s participants. ⁠

Sunday, April 3, 2022
1pm
Womanhouse Now: Films and Experimental Shorts
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2220 Arts + Archives
2220 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90057

Co-presented with LA FilmForum + Anat Ebgi Gallery

Join us for an afternoon of films including Johanna Demetrakas 1974 documentary on the Womanhouse home alongside a set of experimental shorts from participating artists like Shawnee Wollenman, Judith Dancoff, Judy Chicago, and Cheri Gaulke.

After the screening there will be a conversation moderated by Anat Ebgi Senior Director, Stefano di Paola. Guest panelist to be announced at a later date.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary and expand upon narratives surrounding the historic environmental art installation and performance space, LAND is partnering with Anat Ebgi Gallery to present a dynamic performance and events series in support of the upcoming exhibition WOMANHOUSE. This exhibition will examine the spirit of experimentation and collaboration that defined west coast Feminist Art and trace the period that immediately preceeded and succeeded Womanhouse from 1970 to 1976.

Instead of recreating original installation works, which could serve to retrench what is already known, this exhibition looks at the larger practices of these artists—what was made before, during, and coming out of this experience. Tracing the narratives, origins, and legacy of this historic period through Fresno Feminist Art Program, Womanhouse, Womanspace, and The Woman’s Building allows for a multi-facited conversation about the energy and trajectories that this underexamined period of art history unleashed. We will present works of the period alongside ephemera and photographs from the original Womanhouse installations that explore the roots of central core imagery, collaborative practices, and performance and costuming.

The programs will include a restaging of historic performances, consciousness-raising sessions, and film screenings. These performances and events will include participants from the original Womanhouse alongside younger and emerging artists in order to reimagine and complicate ideas relevant to our contemporary moment.

This exhibition is organized by Stefano Di Paola, Senior Director and Partner of Anat Ebgi and planned in close collaboration with the many artists participating. It is being held at 4859 Fountain Avenue, not far from the original East Hollywood mansion.

For press inquiries please reach out to Barret Lybbert, barret@anatebgi.com.

Special thanks to Anat Ebgi Gallery for their support of this performance and program series.

LAND’s 2022 exhibitions are made possible with lead support from the Offield Family Foundation and the Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation. 

Additional support is provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the LA Arts Recovery Fund, Abby Pucker, the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, Jay and Deanie Stein Foundation Trust, the Poncher Family Foundation, Brenda Potter, and LAND’s Nomadic Council.

Philosophical Research Society

3910 Los Feliz Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90027

1:11 PM – 2:22 PM

the galactic wave, co-facilitated by Nate Mercereau & Josh Johnson

the galactic wave is a participatory music and movement performance, to awaken the innate awareness of our fundamental interconnectedness, tipping the scales towards our continuous evolution into unity consciousness. 

To RSVP please click here.

Lani Trock is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Through archival research, audiovisuals, movement, sculpture, and immersive, participatory installations, she works to facilitate planetary evolution into unity consciousness. With a practice centered in world-building, she frequently utilizes fragile, evolving and ephemeral materials, exploring non-attachment, slowness and deep patience. With an awareness of this universe as a fundamentally interconnected, symbiotic organism, all aspects are honored as equally essential for their unique contribution to the collective whole. Her work envisions alternative future paradigms that embody a cultural shift away from scarcity, commodification and competition, in favor of abundance, collaboration and mutual benefit. The primary objective of her practice is to advocate for the peaceful evolution and spiritual elevation of humankind.

Josh Johnson is a saxophonist, keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has performed extensively with the likes of Jeff Parker, Kiefer, Makaya McCraven, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Leon Bridges and Marquis Hill. Johnson can be heard on records by all of these artists, as well as records from the Chicago Underground Quartet, Jeremy Cunningham, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Dawes, Dexter Story, Louis Cole and Joshua White. Since 2018, Johnson has been the musical director, keyboardist, and saxophonist for Leon Bridges, which has taken him to Europe, Asia and Australia. Highlights of his time with Bridges include sold-out performances at Radio City Music Hall, Greek Theater, and the Hollywood Bowl. As a composer, Johnson has written music for many of his own projects, including the bands Snaarj and Holophonor, in addition to writing music for commercial use. He recently contributed arrangements to Sara Gazarek’s album “Thirsty Ghost”, which was nominated for two Grammy awards. In 2015 Johnson was commissioned to compose an hour-long piece by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. His resulting multi-media work “UNREST” takes an unflinching look at the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest, and was premiered at the Angel City Jazz Festival. Johnson currently resides in Los Angeles.

Listening to Nate Mercereau’s music feels like staring down a kaleidoscope. The songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist surveys the fractured borders between sounds, and celebrates the beautiful moments where they collide. And when he’s not making his own music, he’s looking at the world of pop through his prismatic perspective —he’s produced or played on records by Jay-Z, Shawn Mendes, Lizzo, and The Weeknd, just to name a few. Moreover, Mercereau has learned that no matter what sounds he’s working with he needs to lean in close, to focus on the details. “When you keep zooming in on something, it keeps getting more detailed,” says the Los Angeles-based artist.

About Nomadic Nights:
Nomadic Nights are salon-style events, in roaming locations throughout the country, which reflect the diverse ways in which contemporary artists engage and present visual culture. As a departure from conventional formats, Nomadic Nights invites artists to present work, performances, and ideas that comprise the constellation of influences informing the overall creative practice.

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

LAND’s 2021 exhibitions are made possible with lead support from the Offield Family Foundation and the Jerry and Terry Kohl Foundation. Additional support is provided by the the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, the California Community Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Trust Foundation, Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, the Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation, the Poncher Family Foundation, Brenda Potter, and LAND’s Nomadic Council.

We recommend viewing the film in full screen and wearing headphones. 

Online presentation of Channel Flip, Meet Me at the Edge of the Sun

Featuring artists Nao Bustamante, Zackary Drucker, rafa esparza, MPA, and Guadalupe Rosales

LAND presents Channel Flip, Meet Me at the Edge of the Sun, a new commission created by Guadalupe Rosales. In the artist’s words: “I am interested in how violence and micro-politics are embedded in our bodies in contemporary society and how artists channel this social energy in their artwork. How do we release the violence we are exposed to every day? There are nuances within this question that I continue to wrestle with. Our bodies collect memory, positive and negative, and, increasingly so, due to common social and political conditions.” Rosales engaged artists MPA, Zackary Drucker, Nao Bustamante and rafa esparza – friends from different chapters of Rosales’ life – to activate these nuances and to experiment on the notion of bodies as archives. Viewers are invited to think alongside the artists about the power of our voices, our bodies, and breaking through our common boundaries: in sweat, blood, tears, rage, grief and releasing any embodied violence and emotions.

The broadcast also coincides with a solar eclipse and summer solstice, as a meditation on returning health and revolution.

This program, and all LAND programs, are free and open to all. If you are able we invite you to make a donation to the following nonprofits chosen by the artists.

LGBTQ Freedom Fund
https://www.lgbtqfund.org/ 

The Bail Project
https://bailproject.org/

Black Visions Collective
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ 

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund
https://www.naacpldf.org/ 

Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org/

The TransLatinCoalition
https://www.translatinacoalition.org/

Protect Trans Health
https://protecttranshealth.org/

Trans Legal Services
https://transequality.org/issues/resources/trans-legal-services-network-directory

LGBTQ Freedom Fund
https://www.lgbtqfund.org/

Immigration Equality
https://immigrationequality.org/

SAGE USA
https://www.sageusa.org/

SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
https://srlp.org/

Human Rights Campaign
https://www.hrc.org/

The Solutions Not Punishment Coalition
https://www.snap4freedom.org/

GLSEN
https://www.glsen.org/

ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/

GLAAD
https://www.glaad.org/

The Trevor Project
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/#sm.0001fvp5tl1n4ekbvcm14vvntmdx3

Somos Familia Valle
https://www.somosfamiliavalle.org/

Forge Forward
https://forge-forward.org/about/

Gender Diversity
http://www.genderdiversity.org/

GLMA
http://www.glma.org/index.cfm?nodeid=1

Trans Lifeline
Translifeline.org

About the artists

Los Angeles-based Guadalupe Rosales received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and was the 2019 recipient of Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship and 2020 USA Artist Award Fellow. She is the founder and operator of Veteranas & Rucas and Map Pointz, two digital archives accessible through Instagram with over 250k subscribers. The archive is built on an archive of vernacular photographs, objects and ephemera connected to Latinx youth culture in Los Angeles. Guided by an instinct to create counter-narratives, Rosales tells the stories of communities often underrepresented in public record and official memory. By preserving artifacts and memorabilia, Rosales’ reframes marginalized histories, offering platforms of self-representation. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Aperture Foundation, The Vincent Price Art Museum, Commonwealth and Council, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Spazio Maiocchi, the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, and others. She has lectured at numerous museums and art institutions, including UCLA, Museum of Contemporary Art LA, the Getty Museum, the New Museum, NYU, and Yale.

Nao Bustamante’s performance art encompasses video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing to and explore issues of ethnicity, class, gender, and the body. Bustamante has exhibited, among others, at the Vincent Price Art Museum, ICA London, MoMA, The San Francisco MoMA, Sundance International Film Festival, Outfest International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio, the Kiasma Museum. In 2014-15 Bustamante was the Queer Artist in Residence at UC Riverside. In 2015 she was a UC MEXUS Scholar in Residence. Bustamante is a Professor and Director of the MFA Program at the USC Roski School of Art.

Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-series This Is Me, as well as a Producer on Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning Transparent.

rafa esparza is a multidisciplinary artist whose work uses live performance as inquiry into specific sites, materials, and memory. What he calls (non)documentation investigates ideologies, power structures, and binary forms of identity. Recent projects are grounded labor, land and adobe-making specifically, a skill learned from his father, Ramón Esparza. rafa esparza is a Rema Hort Mann Foundation, California Community Foundation, and Art Matters Foundation grants recipient. Solo exhibitions include MASS MoCA, ArtPace, Ballroom Marfa, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA (2013); group shows and performances include the Institute of Contemporary Art LA, Museum of Contemporary Art LA, the Whitney Museum, the Hammer Museum, GAMMA Galeria, Bemis Art Center, LA><ART, the Armory Center, and Human Resources.

MPA has explored a range of meditative, durational, theatrical, and actionist modes of performance to engage “the energetic” as a potential material in live work. Enriched with ritual, her performances and installations critically examine behaviors of power. She has proposed questions on the global arms race, patriarchy as governance, and the dysfunctional union of art with capitalist commodity. MPA’s work has been widely exhibited, including the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hammer Museum, MassMOCA, Stedelijk Museum, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca. A frequent collaborator, MPA is a visible muse for many contemporary photographers, painters, and filmmakers. After receiving a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant in 2013, MPA relocated from New York City to the Mojave Desert to continue her research of somatic practices. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, and since 2013 has been a visiting professor in The New Genres Art Department at UCLA.

This program is curated by Matthew Schum.

LAND thanks Vishal Jugdeo and Chelsea Knight for their collaboration.

LAND’s programming series, Nomadic Nights, is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Exhaust Fruit

LAND HQ
6775 Santa Monica Boulevard #5
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Event opens at 7pm
Sunset performance at 8pm

Exhaust
Finger painting
The burning bush
Fog machines
Bass
Sleepwalking
Drumming
Wireless speakers
Juice fresh juice
Humping

Featuring:
Dent Dog
Caleb Lyons
Rachel Blomgren
Sophie Weil
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Walker Tate
Daniel Luis Pineda NA
Miles Martinez
Shoot the Lobster
Ghengis Khan Fabrication Co.

Special thanks to Shoot the Lobster. 

Nomadic Nights are salon-style events, in roaming locations throughout the country, which reflect the diverse ways in which contemporary artists engage with and present visual culture.  As a departure from conventional formats, Nomadic Nights invites artists to present work, performances, and ideas that comprise the constellation of influences informing the overall creative practice.

Los Angeles, CA
June 10, 2014

READING AND SCREENING
Doheny Memorial Library
USC Campus
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, CA 90089
6:30 – 7:30pm

RECEPTION
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90007
7:45 – 8:30pm

This program consisted of a salon-style reading of excerpts from Gertrude Stein’s Many Many Women by Math Bass, Zoe Crosher, Shannon Ebner, Anna Sew Hoy, Lauren Mackler, Dylan Mira, Litia Perta, Rachelle Sawatsky, Erika Vogt, and Kate Wolf. A screening of Dylan Mira’s Untitled (Agua Viva) was be presented as well. A reception followed at ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives from 7:45-8:30pm.

This Nomadic Nights reading and screening was presented in conjunction with The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project: a series of artist-produced billboards and activations that will unfold along Interstate 10 Freeway from Florida to California through spring 2015. Fowler’s chapter of billboards, it is so, is it so – launched in Houston, TX on June 21, 2014 – expands upon a body of work she began in 2010, in which she reproduces excerpts of text from seminal 20th century author Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons.

Space is limited. RSVP by Sunday, June 8, 2014 below.

About Nomadic Nights:
Nomadic Nights are salon-style events, in roaming locations throughout the country, which reflect the diverse ways in which contemporary artists engage and present visual culture. As a departure from conventional formats, Nomadic Nights invites artists to present work, performances, and ideas that comprise the constellation of influences informing the overall creative practice.

About ONE Archives:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries is the largest repository of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records, and personal papers. ONE Archives has been a part of the University of Southern California Libraries since 2010 and is supported by the ONE Archives Foundation, an independent non-profit and the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the United States. More on the collections at ONE, as well as public programs and exhibitions, at http://one.usc.edu/.

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

Mount Lowe, San Gabriel Mountains
Angeles Crest Highway (Hwy 2) and Mount Wilson Red Box Road
3:00 – 5:00 PM

Nomadic Nights: Jamie Ross took place on Sunday, January 19, 2014 from 3-5pm in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Ross’ site-specific performative project, Gabriel, was based around his intimate written communications with a prisoner named Gabriel, who was housed in a California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi, CA. In one of his letters to Ross, Gabriel wrote about a fantasy he had in which they are both lifted into the air from their respective homes and unite in his namesake mountains that he can see from his cell window: the San Gabriel Mountains. Using this site, Ross employed elements of Western ritual magic to invoke the Archangel Gabriel’s spirit and explored their sexual unification through collective fantasy and desire.

Jamie Ross (b. 1987, Canada) is a Montreal-based artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work blurs the lines of fact and fiction in its exploration of history and preoccupation with societal projections into the future. Personal psychogeography and senses of place are abiding interests, along with creating and documenting queer community based on a sincere engagement with magic and ceremony.

Human Resources
410 Cottage Home Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
6:00 – 8:00 PM

On Sunday, March 17, 2013 LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) presented Nomadic Nights: Anna Sew Hoy, Math Bass, and Claire Kohne from 6-8pm at Human Resources. The multimedia performance consisted of Anna Sew Hoy and Claire Kohne rolling clay balls on a large canvas tarp placed on the floor of the gallery space, while Math Bass used amplified sound and her voice to narrate the performance and read her poem, “Holes,” which she wrote in 2010. Sew Hoy and Kohne were joined at the waist by a long piece of rope which snaked around the floor, creating an undulating line as the artists moved.

Guests were encouraged to contribute to the performance by bringing miscellanea (such as pennies, chains, beads, string, costume jewelry, phone cords, old cables, rope, shoe laces, etc.) to place on the floor to be picked up by the ball of clay that was rolled around the gallery space during the performance.

The clay left marks tracing the artists’ movements on the canvas tarp which functioned as the performative residue at the conclusion of the performance.

Special thanks to Human Resources.

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PLANETS MAKING PLANETS

When I am making my clay orbs, I’m like a determined coach, punishing headmistress, and construction worker, rolling, smacking, whacking and coaxing the ball into shape. It’s exhausting work. I have to put my back into it. When Claire is around, we become a two-headed hydra, working the clay together. The ball is like the world, encompassing everything. Math vocalizes, reports on what we are doing, and sends commentary from her position in the room. Our positions in the room continue to revolve. We are like planets making planets.

Chateau Marmont
Penthouse Suite
8221 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90046
6:00 – 7:30PM

Transgressions series and recipes

Information on Eve Babitz:
L.A. Woman

Oral history interview with Eve Babitz, 2000 June 14

Zoe Crosher Reads:
Eve Babitz’s Slow Days, Fast Company: the World, the Flesh, and L.A.Oral History Interview with Eve Babitz<, 2000, June 14, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Original interview by Paul Karlstrom.

Oral History Interview with Eve Babitz, 2000, June 14, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Original interview by Paul Karlstrom.

This Nomadic Night centered around Crosher’s Transgressions series – a set of photographs focusing on the site of disappearance of iconic Los Angeles figures. As a continued investigation into the idea of “site-specific disappearance” of her subjects, Crosher collaborated with artist and chef Caitlin Williams Freeman to create recipes based on the locations of disappearance, a means of “ingesting” the site. For this event, pastry chef Mariah Swan of bld Restaurant developed four desserts from these recipes.

In addition the the Transgressions series, Crosher had recently begun to consider a significant cultural absence, the prolific author Eve Babitz. Though Babitz still lives in Los Angeles, all of her books are out of print and Crosher hopes to bring attention to her contributions to the myth of Los Angeles from the 1960’s. Crosher recorded parts of Babitz’ novels, which played through the evening on phones provided by HTC, and are available at the links above.

Zoe Crosher is a Los Angeles-based artist born in 1975 whose multifaceted practice uses the Los Angeles cityscape and Hollywood celebrity culture as the basis for fictional documentaries as she explores the fantasy of expectations and the false promise of travel, identity, and transience. Crosher has recently begun to work with food and elixirs to further her investigations in Hollywood personas and unsolved mysteries. In addition to her exhibition practice, she has a monograph, Out the Window (LAX), examining space and transience around the Los Angeles airport, and an upcoming publication series of her newest project, The Michelle duBois project, published by Aperture Ideas. Crosher served as Visiting Professor at UCLA and Art Center, and was Associate Editor at the journal Afterall after receiving her MFA from CalArts. She was recently awarded the prestigious Art Here and Now Award by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the CCF Mid-Career New Photography Award. Her work was included in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, California; the Dallas Contemporary Biennial, Dallas; and she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. She will take part in MoMA’s annual New Photography series this fall and is represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery.

This Nomadic Night was made possible by HTC.

Special thanks to Chateau Marmont and bld Restaurant.

R.M. Schindler’s Buck House
805 S. Genesee Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
6:30 – 9:00 PM

The October Nomadic Night took place on Thursday, October 7th from 6:30-9pm at Jonah Freeman’s and Justin Lowe’s installation, Bright White Underground, at R.M. Schindler’s Buck House and featured a special performance by Dead Meadow.

7pm
Jonah Freeman reprised his slide lecture about the history of The San San International, the mega-convention that overtakes the southern province of The San San metroplex every May, and his experience as a two-year attendee.

8pm
Special performance by neo-psychedelic band Dead Meadow with video accompaniment by Justin Lowe.

8822 Cynthia Street
West Hollywood, CA 90069
petitermitage.com
6:00 – 9:00 PM

Using pop culture references and the genre conventions of Hollywood cinema as a starting point, the videos of Los Angeles-based artist Michele O’Marah explore the socio-political subtexts present in popular narratives. Both reverent and critically deconstructive, her work reflects on the pleasures of popular film with an exuberant sense of style – one that does not hide its low-tech handcrafted illusion. At a time of ever-present sequels and remakes, O’Marah shows us how to revel in the pleasures of remaking and re-watching.

For this Nomadic Night, O’Marah presented excerpts from an ongoing project, based on the Warhol Screen Tests, comprised of three-minute portraits of artists from the Los Angeles art community. The artist also shot Screen Tests of this evening’s attendees on site.

Michele O’Marah received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and currently resides in Los Angeles. O’Marah has had Solo Exhibitions at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, Sister, Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, as well as two person exhibitions at Rental, New York and Peres Projects, Berlin. Her work has been featured in Exhibitions at the CCAC Wattis Institute in San Francisco, White Columns, New York, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and The Station, Art Basel Miami Beach.

7463 Mullholand Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90046
6:30 – 9:00 PM

This Nomadic Night took place at the John Lautner Garcia House. Built in 1962 by influential American architect John Lautner, the Garcia House combines progressive engineering, humane design, and a dramatic, space-age flair. Lautner approached architecture with the notion of a building as a “total concept,” his constructions rooted in the idea that a “home” should be integrated completely into its particular site. The translation of this idea is direct when observing the Garcia House, and Lautner’s other work in Southern California: an organic flow between in- and outdoor space that links both elements inseparably.

The evening featured artists Lisa Anne Auerbach and Karl Haendel:

Lisa Anne Auerbach invited guests to “pattern their enemies,” a collective effort to create the pattern for a knitted blanket inscribing the names of personal adversaries within. A nod to Madame Defarge, the villain in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities that relentlessly knits the names of those to be executed in the French Revolution, Auerbach sees the process of transforming language into fabric as one of a strengthening of resolve, a battle cry, a means to harbor a host of metaphysical “bad energy,” and, perhaps on that specific day, an action in parallel to the inscription of the “righteous” in the “book of life.”

Karl Haendel demonstrated how to cook beef bourguignon, a traditional French recipe often thought to be a major achievement for a chef-in-training. Haendel sees the gesture not just as a kind of educational effort, but as a way to share a communal activity with his guests, something he describes as more “about other people than the way making art often feels.”

4161 Sea View Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90065

8:00 – 10:00 PM

The inaugural Nomadic Night took place at the home of Veronica Gonzalez, a Jorge Pardo-designed structure that was “exhibited” by the Museum of Contemporary Art for five weeks in 1998.

The evening featured a series of performances and readings, the location of the action rotating throughout the home to create a sort of “orchestral sense”:

Scoli Acosta performed Levitating of the Pentagon: Infrathin Blake-ian Presence in Three-parts.

Ben Ehrenreich read a short piece about the moon entitled The Sky Goes Dark 12 Times a Year.

Matt Greene read a text conceived as a dialogue between a cross dressing alchemist and his inner feminist critic, or vice versa.

Jed Ochmanek and helpers employed unused baking molds, given to Piero Golia for his wedding, to make concrete cakes.

Alexis Teplin read an excerpt from Rachel Kushner’s first play: The Party.