MARCH 2010
+ Official closing for Casa Del Tunel's Peforming Public Space. However, Portable City Project's engagement, The Portable City Cafe Radio, is ongoing. Also, starting in June 2010 through June 2011, look for us at Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exihibition's (aka LACE) show in conjunction with LA Goes Live. Web presence for this city-wide celebration of history-making performance art is yet-to-be completed. I'll be sure to post when it's all up.
Related to that, Suzanne Lacy and Jennifer Flores Sternad are contributing a retrospective for LA Goes Live, including many interviews with which I've volunteered to help along with about 10-15 LA artists.
+ Pedestal & the Gals are hard at work on a proposal for Santa Monica's 2010 Glow festival in September. We're very excited at what we've got so far & hope that you'll get to see it!
FEBRUARY 2010
+Co-founded Pedestal & the All-Girl Band with Hataya Tubtim & Tighe. An open collective of anybody who says their in the band dedicated to Pop as a unifying force and the dance/karaoke party as the transcendental moment.
Our first event was at the LA Municipal Arts Gallery. Pictures can be found here. We were asked to return for a second round- more info to come!
+ Joined the Portable City Projects collective, founded by Jules Rochielle Sievert & participated in the Performing Public Spaces exhibition at Case Del Tunel in Tijuana, Mexico.
More info on For Your Art...
JANUARY 2010
+ Otis Public Practice's Laton Live! included in Actions, Conversations, and Intersections at the LA Municipal Arts Gallery.
from the Otis website...
Otis MFA Public Practice was invited to do an installation as part of the Actions, Conversations, and Intersections, an exhibition of participatory-based art at Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery
The installation represents “Laton Live! REUNION REUNIÓN”, a complex project that spanned over a year and engaged over 100 students and faculty at Otis College of Art and Design with residents of a small farming community in the San Joaquin Valley.
Otis MFA students visited the town repeatedly over nine active months. They worked with residents, cultural and community leaders to re-energize the tiny main street and its merchants, to engage public school students of all age levels, and to support cross-cultural conversation between the town’s diverse ethnic cultures.
The artists took up part time residence and created a series of projects—painting the town, establishing a free store, creating a mural design program for elementary students, leading a sculpture workshop for high school students, making a new town sign, developing portraits and video projections and advertising to promote the community regionally.
The feature event was a performance on Main Street with video projections on the store walls, merchant interviews, live music, stage lighting, and barbeque with over 1,000 in attendance.
Also participating with MFA Public Practice students are guests artists Raul Vega and Otis faculty Andrea Bowers, Dana Duff, Kate Johnson, Suzanne Lacy and Consuelo Velasco.
As part of the installation, a video by Sara Morton produced by the Otis Library will be screened periodically.
Funded in part by the Ford Foundation with Otis College of Art and Design.