Stephen Neidich
David Zuttermeister
Sarah Beadle
Heber Rodriguez & Curator Amanda Hunt
Nikhil Murthy
Jeremiah Day
Yvette Brackman
FINAL ART IN THE PARKING SPACE
Stephen Neidich
David Zuttermeister
Sarah Beadle
Heber Rodriguez & Curator Amanda Hunt
Nikhil Murthy
Jeremiah Day
Yvette Brackman
FINAL INSTALLMENT OF ART IN THE PARKING SPACE: JULY 26
LAXART is pleased to announce the final installation of Art in the Parking Space to be held on Thursday, July 26th at LAXART, commencing at 7pm. This event will be guest curated by Amanda Hunt, Curator at LAXART and will bring to a close this year long project initiated by artists Elena Bajo and Warren Neidich. Over the course of the past year, artists have been invited to create temporary and ephemeral artworks in parking spaces across Los Angeles. For the final rendition, seven artists will create site-specific projects in the parking lot and environment surrounding the gallery. In order to de-emphasize the hermetic conditions of the white cube, these artists will expand boundaries of presentation, and encourage the contemplation of aesthetic production to other sites of cultural production and play.
Participating Artists: Sarah Beadle, Yvette Brackman, Jeremiah Day, An Te Liu, Nikhil Murthy, Stephen Neidich, David Zuttermeister
Sarah Beadle is a Los Angeles-based artist, curator, and writer. She works with photography, architectural intervention, and event production to challenge discourses of pleasure, power, and consumption. Testing notions of public and private ethics, her work is site-sensitive, process driven, and narrative based. Her recent work examines the cultural regulation of acts of reciprocity, especially around food and service labor. Currently, she is the invited artist at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture’s Artists + Institutions series where she is directing a sequence of culinary investigations into Laurel Canyon’s social history with the collaborative ensemble Notch.
Yvette Brackman is an American artist who has shown in exhibitions around the world. Her work has undertones of Russian Constructivism and is influenced by the history Soviet Union, from which her family immigrated in 1959. Through the use of crafted elements and time-based media, Brackman creates work that explores the ideas of social responsibility and relations.
Jeremiah Day graduated from University of California at Los Angeles in 1997 and lived and worked in Los Angeles until moving to Holland in 2003 to attend the Rijksakademie. From 2000 to 2002 he was artist-in-residence at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Recent exhibitions and performances of Day's work have been at Ludlow 38 in New York and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as the upcoming Shanghai Biennial.
An Te Liu's installations and sculptures explore issues of function, dysfunction and cultural coding in our built and hypothesized environments. He was the Canada Council's Artist in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 2008 and has recently exhibited at MOCCA, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the EV+A in Ireland, and SFMOMA. His work has been widely published and is included in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He lives and works in Toronto and is represented by MKG127.
Nikhil Murthy lives and work in Los Angeles CA. He received his MFA in Art from Calarts in 2006 and his BA in Fine Arts and BS in Physics from UCSD in 2001. He works in video, painting, sculpture and collage. The work is interested in the production of empathy and dignity through the subject matter of money, hip-hop, still life and antagonism. He has shown nationally including Cirrus Gallery, Armory Center for the Arts, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and the Dependent Art Fair.
Stephen Neidich is a New York artist based in Los Angeles who works in installation, sculpture and performance. He currently attends the CalArts MFA program and will graduate in 2013. Neidich has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Vienna, at, Loop-Raum fur Aktuelle Kunst, Tape Modern and HBC gallery in Berlin, and the Kunsthalle Galapagos and 211 Elizabeth Street in New York. His work is in the Speyer Collection and Taubman Collections in New York.
David Zuttermeister is a Los Angeles artist and recent recipient of an MFA from UCLA. He is looking for a studio.
Yvette Brackman is an American artist who has shown in exhibitions around the world. Her work has undertones of Russian Constructivism and is influenced by the history Soviet Union, from which her family immigrated in 1959. Through the use of crafted elements and time-based media, Brackman creates work that explores the ideas of social responsibility and relations.
Jeremiah Day graduated from University of California at Los Angeles in 1997 and lived and worked in Los Angeles until moving to Holland in 2003 to attend the Rijksakademie. From 2000 to 2002 he was artist-in-residence at Beyond Baroque in Venice. Recent exhibitions and performances of Day's work have been at Ludlow 38 in New York and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as the upcoming Shanghai Biennial.
An Te Liu's installations and sculptures explore issues of function, dysfunction and cultural coding in our built and hypothesized environments. He was the Canada Council's Artist in Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin in 2008 and has recently exhibited at MOCCA, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the EV+A in Ireland, and SFMOMA. His work has been widely published and is included in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He lives and works in Toronto and is represented by MKG127.
Nikhil Murthy lives and work in Los Angeles CA. He received his MFA in Art from Calarts in 2006 and his BA in Fine Arts and BS in Physics from UCSD in 2001. He works in video, painting, sculpture and collage. The work is interested in the production of empathy and dignity through the subject matter of money, hip-hop, still life and antagonism. He has shown nationally including Cirrus Gallery, Armory Center for the Arts, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum and the Dependent Art Fair.
Stephen Neidich is a New York artist based in Los Angeles who works in installation, sculpture and performance. He currently attends the CalArts MFA program and will graduate in 2013. Neidich has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Vienna, at, Loop-Raum fur Aktuelle Kunst, Tape Modern and HBC gallery in Berlin, and the Kunsthalle Galapagos and 211 Elizabeth Street in New York. His work is in the Speyer Collection and Taubman Collections in New York.
David Zuttermeister is a Los Angeles artist and recent recipient of an MFA from UCLA. He is looking for a studio.
ERIC ANGLES, OPEN EDITION BPY
Documentation of one of the encounters set up by Eric Anglès as a part of Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time. Placed on a street in Venice, CA, this piece was set up on the side of the street unoccupied by parked cars due to street cleaning.
Three benches placed in various public parking spots caused three-way conversations to ensue on the following topic: What is public space? These conversations were recorded, transcribed, anonymized, lightly edited for fluency and printed as separate booklets. As with all of the artist’s work, the booklets will be available as unlimited editions. Every participant received at least one booklet. Participants were passers-by as well as anyone who wished to schedule an appointment.
Please join us for the final installment of Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time tomorrow at 8 pm in the REDCAT Parking Structure. Norwegian artist Tori Wrånes will be orchestrating SPIN ECHO, a moving sound sculpture in the form of a choir on bicycles.
JOIN US ON MARCH 31 FOR BETTINA ALLAMODA: BAUHAUS PERFORMANCE
Saturday, March 31st at LAXART (2640 S. La Cienega Blvd)
LAXART and the Office of Aesthetic Occupation (officeofaestheticoccupation.blogspot.com) are pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space. Entitled Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time, it will focus on several ephemeral performances occurring at various times and locations across Los Angeles over the course of two weeks.
A projected film collage is a study of urban planning in the Third Reich and its connections to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Bettina Allamoda’s video reflects images and details of architecture from the 1920s and 1930s up to the present. The “Haus am Horn,” the “Halle der Volksgemeinschaft,” and Oskar Schlemmer’s frescoes in the Bauhaus building by Henry van de Velde are intercut with less well-known monuments such as Nazi-era administrative buildings or garden fence posts originally found at concentration camps. The artist projected this film collage onto a wall, then recorded herself performing in front of, and together with, the moving picture. Allamoda at times becomes part of the projection - even part of the architecture itself. Each frame in this documentary-style video incorporates related bits of news, text, and quotes from Bauhaus masters culled from the artist’s extensive research. An accompanying soundtrack suggests a link to postwar Californian model homes, featuring 1960s psychedelia, ’70s Krautrock and ’90s British electronic instrumentals.
Bettina Allamoda is a Chicago-born artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. Her wide-ranging body of work encompasses sculpture, relief, installation, collage, photography, video, performance, artist’s books, and curatorial projects. Allamoda’s interest lies in the politics of the surface, the body, and physical and public space. Her work attempts to display and present how history is written, excavated, reinterpreted and rebuilt – and sometimes exploited by future generations.
SPECIAL ACTIONS IN VARIED PARKING LOTS IN VARIABLE TIME
LAXART PRESENTS ART IN THE PARKING SPACE: SPECIAL ACTIONS IN VARIED PARKING LOTS IN VARIABLE TIME
LAXART and the Office of Aesthetic Occupation (officeofaestheticoccupation.blogspot.com) are pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space. Entitled Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time, it will focus on several ephemeral performances occurring at various times and locations across Los Angeles over the course of two weeks. Please check the Art in the Parking Space blog site for specific dates and times. As with each project before, each work will renegotiate the meaning, context, and cultural specificity of the parking space.
Participating Artists: Bettina Allamoda, Eric Anglès and Tori Wrånes
ABOUT THE PROJECTS
open edition Bpy (2012 - ongoing)
Conversations: Tuesday, March 20th and Wednesday, March 21st, locations variable (please check website: http://artintheparkingspace.blogspot.com)
Three benches are placed in various public parking spots and three-way conversations ensue on the following topic: What is public space? These conversations will be recorded, transcribed, anonymized, lightly edited for fluency and printed as separate booklets. As with all of the artist’s work, the booklets will be available as unlimited editions. Every participant will receive at least one booklet. Participants can be passers-by as well as anyone who wishes to schedule an appointment. Please RSVP to info@laxart.org if you wish to join the artist.
Eric Anglès lives in Berlin and New York.
Performance Collage: Bauhaus Performance
Screening: Saturday, March 31st at LAXART (2640 S. La Cienega Blvd)
A projected film collage is a study of urban planning in the Third Reich and its connections to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Bettina Allamoda’s video reflects images and details of architecture from the 1920s and 1930s up to the present. The “Haus am Horn,” the “Halle der Volksgemeinschaft,” and Oskar Schlemmer’s frescoes in the Bauhaus building by Henry van de Velde are intercut with less well-known monuments such as Nazi-era administrative buildings or garden fence posts originally found at concentration camps. The artist projected this film collage onto a wall, then recorded herself performing in front of, and together with, the moving picture. Allamoda at times becomes part of the projection - even part of the architecture itself. Each frame in this documentary-style video incorporates related bits of news, text, and quotes from Bauhaus masters culled from the artist’s extensive research. An accompanying soundtrack suggests a link to postwar Californian model homes, featuring 1960s psychedelia, ’70s Krautrock and ’90s British electronic instrumentals.
Bettina Allamoda is a Chicago-born artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. Her wide-ranging body of work encompasses sculpture, relief, installation, collage, photography, video, performance, artist’s books, and curatorial projects. Allamoda’s interest lies in the politics of the surface, the body, and physical and public space. Her work attempts to display and present how history is written, excavated, reinterpreted and rebuilt – and sometimes exploited by future generations.
SPIN ECHO
Opening: Wednesday, April 4th, location TBD
SPIN ECHO is a moving sound sculpture in the form of a choir on bicycles. Working with the voice and body as multifaceted instruments, a cast of performers will explore possibilities of range, timbre, gesture, resonance, character, landscape and rhythm in this roving orchestrated yet improvisatory performance.
Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway, and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2009. The artist works mainly with voice, and identifies as a sculptor primarily based in the performative. She has exhibited in venues such as Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka; Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Palais de la Découoverte, Paris; Human Resources and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SXSW, Texas and Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Denmark among others. Wrånes received grants from Art Council Norway and the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, and to complete this project in the States.
ABOUT LAXART
Founded in 2005, LAXART is a leading independent nonprofit contemporary art space in Los Angeles, committed to the production of experimental exhibitions and public art initiatives. Responding to Los Angeles’ cultural climate, LAXART produces and presents new work for all audiences and offers the public access to the next generation of artists and curators. LAXART supports challenging work, reflecting the diversity of the city and stimulates conversations on contemporary art in Los Angeles, fostering dynamic relationships between art, artists and their audiences. LAXART produced and commissioned over 100 projects in its first five years.
In 2012, LAXART will launch its Vision Campaign including The Occasional – a city wide exhibition and public art initiative. This platform for LA continues the organization’s ongoing commitment to supporting artistic and curatorial freedom while focusing on commissioning new work in experimental contexts.
Image courtesy of Bettina Allamoda | SPIN ECHO, sketch by Monika Lyko
LAXART and the Office of Aesthetic Occupation (officeofaestheticoccupation.blogspot.com) are pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo’s Art in the Parking Space. Entitled Special Actions in Varied Parking Lots in Variable Time, it will focus on several ephemeral performances occurring at various times and locations across Los Angeles over the course of two weeks. Please check the Art in the Parking Space blog site for specific dates and times. As with each project before, each work will renegotiate the meaning, context, and cultural specificity of the parking space.
Participating Artists: Bettina Allamoda, Eric Anglès and Tori Wrånes
ABOUT THE PROJECTS
open edition Bpy (2012 - ongoing)
Conversations: Tuesday, March 20th and Wednesday, March 21st, locations variable (please check website: http://artintheparkingspace.blogspot.com)
Three benches are placed in various public parking spots and three-way conversations ensue on the following topic: What is public space? These conversations will be recorded, transcribed, anonymized, lightly edited for fluency and printed as separate booklets. As with all of the artist’s work, the booklets will be available as unlimited editions. Every participant will receive at least one booklet. Participants can be passers-by as well as anyone who wishes to schedule an appointment. Please RSVP to info@laxart.org if you wish to join the artist.
Eric Anglès lives in Berlin and New York.
Performance Collage: Bauhaus Performance
Screening: Saturday, March 31st at LAXART (2640 S. La Cienega Blvd)
A projected film collage is a study of urban planning in the Third Reich and its connections to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Bettina Allamoda’s video reflects images and details of architecture from the 1920s and 1930s up to the present. The “Haus am Horn,” the “Halle der Volksgemeinschaft,” and Oskar Schlemmer’s frescoes in the Bauhaus building by Henry van de Velde are intercut with less well-known monuments such as Nazi-era administrative buildings or garden fence posts originally found at concentration camps. The artist projected this film collage onto a wall, then recorded herself performing in front of, and together with, the moving picture. Allamoda at times becomes part of the projection - even part of the architecture itself. Each frame in this documentary-style video incorporates related bits of news, text, and quotes from Bauhaus masters culled from the artist’s extensive research. An accompanying soundtrack suggests a link to postwar Californian model homes, featuring 1960s psychedelia, ’70s Krautrock and ’90s British electronic instrumentals.
Bettina Allamoda is a Chicago-born artist who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1982. Her wide-ranging body of work encompasses sculpture, relief, installation, collage, photography, video, performance, artist’s books, and curatorial projects. Allamoda’s interest lies in the politics of the surface, the body, and physical and public space. Her work attempts to display and present how history is written, excavated, reinterpreted and rebuilt – and sometimes exploited by future generations.
SPIN ECHO
Opening: Wednesday, April 4th, location TBD
SPIN ECHO is a moving sound sculpture in the form of a choir on bicycles. Working with the voice and body as multifaceted instruments, a cast of performers will explore possibilities of range, timbre, gesture, resonance, character, landscape and rhythm in this roving orchestrated yet improvisatory performance.
Tori Wrånes (b.1978 in Kristiansand, Norway) lives and works in Oslo, Norway, and graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo in 2009. The artist works mainly with voice, and identifies as a sculptor primarily based in the performative. She has exhibited in venues such as Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka; Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Palais de la Découoverte, Paris; Human Resources and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; SXSW, Texas and Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art, Denmark among others. Wrånes received grants from Art Council Norway and the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway, and to complete this project in the States.
ABOUT LAXART
Founded in 2005, LAXART is a leading independent nonprofit contemporary art space in Los Angeles, committed to the production of experimental exhibitions and public art initiatives. Responding to Los Angeles’ cultural climate, LAXART produces and presents new work for all audiences and offers the public access to the next generation of artists and curators. LAXART supports challenging work, reflecting the diversity of the city and stimulates conversations on contemporary art in Los Angeles, fostering dynamic relationships between art, artists and their audiences. LAXART produced and commissioned over 100 projects in its first five years.
In 2012, LAXART will launch its Vision Campaign including The Occasional – a city wide exhibition and public art initiative. This platform for LA continues the organization’s ongoing commitment to supporting artistic and curatorial freedom while focusing on commissioning new work in experimental contexts.
3RD EVENT AT THE STANDARD HOLLYWOOD FOR PACIFIC STANDARD TIME
LAXART and The Standard, Hollywood present
Art in the Parking Space, a Project by Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo, for Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival Project.
Tuesday Jan 24th 7-9 pm at The Standard, Hollywood
Featuring work by artists: Ron Cooper, Sydney Cooper, Krysten Cunningham, Ania Diakoff with Tova Carlin and Katerina Llanes, Gracie DeVito, Melissa Gordon, Nicoline van Harskamp, Lindsay Lawson, Theo Lithgart, Johanna Read with Marc Horowitz, Société Réaliste, Mathilde Ter Heyne with Mathilde Rosier, Georgia Sagri, Gabriele Stellbaum, Untitled Collective, Ruben Verdu
Special project Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal by Ron Cooper who will offer tastings from 7-9 pm.
Art in the Parking Space, a year-long project by Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo, invites artists to create temporary and ephemeral artworks, in parking spaces across Los Angeles. The Standard Hotel, Hollywood has generously offered the second floor of their three story parking garage for this third iteration of the project. Artists' works will be situated in a dynamic flow of cars being parked, cars being used as projection screens and cars and parking spaces being used as stages.
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