REDCAT Fall 2013 Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2013
Media Contact: Kelly Hargraves 213-237-2873 [email protected]
REDCAT ANNOUNCES ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY SEASON
The Radar L.A. International Festival of Contemporary Theater Launches the Fall 2013 Season of Performances, Film, and Literary Series
Featuring: Cynthia Hopkins, Gregory Maqomba, Faifai, Tiger Lillies, Charlie Haden, Angel City Jazz Festival, Now Hear Ensemble, Morton Subotnick, Reinier van Houdt, Nicolas Rey, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jodie Mack, Bruce Baillie
(Los Angeles, CA) – REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, under the direction of Mark Murphy, announces its Tenth Anniversary Season, opening in September with the second Radar L.A. International Festival of Contemporary Theater, a one-week event with over 100 performances by 18 companies from Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Los Angeles highlighting the vibrancy of new theater works at historic downtown theaters and venues throughout Los Angeles, produced in association with Center Theatre Group and a consortium of local and national partners.
The Gallery at REDCAT launches a new season under the direction of new Curator Ruth Estevez, hosting a series of inspiring international visual artists who are creating new work especially for the gallery. September 21st marks the start of the new installation, Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool by Andrés Jaque and his influential Office for Political Innovation, based in Madrid.
REDCAT Executive Director Mark Murphy says, “The fall program offers you a range of experiences that exemplify the unique role and contributions of REDCAT and CalArts to the vibrancy of the region’s cultural ecology.”
REDCAT opened as CalArts’ downtown center for contemporary arts at the inception of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003. Envisioned as a downtown extension of CalArts’ unique interdisciplinary mission,
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REDCAT introduces Los Angeles audiences to influential artists from around the world and is a laboratory for the development of new work by Los Angeles-based artists. REDCAT quickly established itself as an important national and international catalyst for the evolution of contemporary culture, and is widely respected for a decade of innovative programming in a variety of disciplines.
The Tenth Anniversary season continues in October with a number of events ranging from a series of enticing film/video presentations, contemporary music and jazz events, stimulating conversations and symposia, and a mix of dance, theater and interdisciplinary performances from Los Angeles and around the world.
A full calendar of events and exhibitions is below. A chronological calendar with links to each event is located at www.redcat.org.
THEATER & DANCE
Tuesday, September 24 – Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Radar L.A. Festival 2013, An International Festival of Contemporary Theater
“A glorious convergence of contemporary performance." —Los Angeles Times
Some of the world’s most influential performing ensembles are featured alongside innovative Los Angeles artists in this vibrant festival highlighting interdisciplinary approaches and new forms. Using multiple venues, the program features work from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand and Japan, and includes premieres of local and international collaborations.
Curated by Mark Murphy, Executive Director of REDCAT, Diane Rodriguez, Director of New Play Production at Center Theatre Group, and Mark Russell, Director of the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater in New York, the festival includes 18 productions with an emphasis on work from Latin America, the Pacific Rim and Los Angeles.
Radar L.A. is presented by REDCAT and CalArts in association with Center Theatre Group and a consortium of partners including the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Public Theater (New York), LA Stage Alliance, Los Angeles Theatre Center and Theatre Communications Group. Additional partners include the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Thursday, October 24 – Sunday, October 27, 2013
Cynthia Hopkins: This Clement World
“When she wraps her big, rich, soulful voice around an anthem to the beauty of the natural world,
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or the folly of our disregard for it, the show transcends.” —The New York Times
West Coast Premiere This Clement World, a new work by the refreshingly original, Alpert Award-winning multidisciplinary artist Cynthia Hopkins, emerged from her three-week journey through Arctic waters where she documented stunning landscapes from aboard a century-old, double-masted Dutch ship. The result is a soulful musical performance that poetically but urgently speaks to Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Performed live with a 15-member chorus and band, the alluring production blends outlandish fiction and original folk songs with Hopkins’ own sublime footage from her Arctic expedition, infusing the global climate crisis with humor, artistry and immediacy. Hopkins’ mastery of multiple media yields a unique approach, allowing her to construct a charismatically personal and fiercely creative tribute to the world’s fragility.
Thursday, November 7 – Sunday, November 10, 2013
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre: Exit/Exist
“Maqoma has always been expert at conjuring the visionary and the magical.” —The Guardian
Choreographer Gregory Maqoma returns to REDCAT with the exceptional South African vocal ensemble Complete, blending theater and dance in a new production inspired by Maqoma’s ancestral past. Through his powerful performance, Maqoma reveals the history of a 19th–century Xhosa warrior who fought to maintain cultural traditions in the face of colonial dispossession. Integrating traditional and contemporary dance from both Africa and Europe, Maqoma fuses storytelling with his own dynamic dance vocabulary and spirited live music. As supporting characters in the narrative, the musicians are interwoven in Maqoma’s vibrantly kinetic world, creating rich visual scenes that punctuate his exploration of race and political power, cultural tradition and personal legacy.
Thursday, November 21 – Sunday, November 24, 2013
Faifai: Anton, Neko, Kuri
In the multidisciplinary performance of Anton, Neko, Kuri, the experimental Tokyo-based theater company Faifai transcends a story about basic human relationships through an exuberant pop aesthetic. The action springs from encounters among residents in a housing block who come together around Anton, a stray cat suffering from leukemia. With pop visuals, energetic movement and a polyphonic soundscape, Faifai creates a rousing theatrical experience. Words and sentences spoken by performers are cut up, sampled and turned into music, complemented by an animated visual backdrop of English surtitles. With both sensitivity and humor, Faifai combines movement and technology to create a hybrid form of theater that draws from Kabuki, Noh and manga.
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In Japanese with English surtitles.
Saturday, December 7 – Sunday, December 8, 2013
Studio Fall 2013
Original, ambitiously inventive performances inspire L.A.’s most adventurous audiences for each edition of REDCAT’s Studio series. The program invites guest curators to join in crafting an interdisciplinary evening of experimental new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles performing artists. Since its inception in 2003, Studio has brought 180 short works to the stage and featured an incredible array of artists and companies, including Mecca Vazie Andrews, Kathy Carbone and Vinny Golia, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Brian Getnick, Los Angeles Electric 8, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Now Hear Ensemble, Emily Mast, Miwa Matreyek, Melinda Sullivan Dance Project, Hana van der Kolk, Peres Owino, Poor Dog Group, Jordan Saenz, Waewdao Sirisook, Roxanne Steinberg and Steve Lockwood, Wu Tsang, Kristina Wong and many more.
Friday, December 13 – Saturday, December 14, 2013
CalArts Winter Dance
The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents its annual Winter Dance Concert. This evening of new dance features works by 2013 Alpert-Award winning choreographer Julia Rhoads and CalArts faculty members Julie Bour and Colin Connor.
MUSIC
Friday, October 11, 2013
Angel City Jazz Festival 2013 Co-presented with The Jazz Bakery as part of the Angel City Jazz Festival
FEATURING JIM BLACK, TIM LEFEBVRE, CHRIS SPEED TRIO & JOHN HOLLENBECK AND THE CLAUDIA QUINTET
"Rich with ambition and empathetic...the Claudia Quintet doesn’t entirely sound like anybody else. Which is exactly what makes them worth seeking out." —Los Angeles Times
The world premiere of the trio of Jim Black on drums, Tim Lefebvre on bass, and Chris Speed on saxophone opens this concert and brings together three of the most exciting and innovative improvisers of our time.
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The Claudia Quintet has walked a unique path in contemporary jazz since their founding in the late 1990s. Unlike most jazz ensembles where the particular musicians may come and go, drummer, composer and leader John Hollenbeck always wanted Claudia to be a ‘band’ with a sound not only determined by the compositions and the instrumentation, but by the players who perform the music. Over the last 16 years the exceptional artistry and individuality of each musician has been skillfully revealed through Hollenbeck’s stunning original compositions. John Hollenbeck – drums, percussion | Chris Speed – reeds | Matt Moran – vibes | Red Wierenga – accordion | Chris Tordini – bass
7:30 PM Ticket Price includes a FREE PRE-CONCERT PANEL DISCUSSION "Metamorphosis: New Technologies in Jazz and Jazz Journalism"
Jazz musicians and journalists have experienced both boons and challenges in the age of new technology. Music journalist Greg Burk moderates a multidisciplinary panel co-sponsored by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Angel City Jazz Festival 2013 Co-presented with The Jazz Bakery as part of the Angel City Jazz Festival
FEATURING DAFNIS PRIETO SEXTET
“Emotionally charged and stylistically diverse, carried along not just by rhythm, but through lovely harmonized passages, horn fanfares, and powerfully conjured moods.” —The Wall Street Journal
Cuban-born composer and drum virtuoso Dafnis Prieto performs movements of his award- winning Chamber Music America commission The Emotion Series: Taking the Soul for a Walk, with his adventurous sextet: Peter Apfelbaum, saxophones and flute; Felipe Lamoglia, saxophones; Ralph Alessi, trumpet; Manuel Valera, piano; and Johannes Weidenmueller, bass. Prieto has served on the Music Faculty at NYU since 2005, toured Europe with the groundbreaking group Columna B and was the recipient of a 2011 MacArthur “genius grant.” He received a Latin Grammy Nomination for “Best New Artist” in 2007.
7:00 PM Ticket price includes FREE PRE-CONCERT FILM SCREENING Icons Among Us; Jazz in the present tense, Episode 4: Everything Everywhere
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Reinier van Houdt
“Able to pull off any number of technical highwire acts…[van Houdt has]
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a remarkable evenness of tone and touch.” —Toronto Star
World Premiere Frequently chosen by experimental composers to premiere works around the world, Reinier van Houdt is a pianist with astonishing technique who developed an early fascination for matters that escape traditional notation: physicality, space, memory, noise, environment and the points where interpretation touches improvisation. For this concert, van Houdt performs several pieces, including the world premiere of pioneering music legend Walter Marchetti’s Per La Mano Sinistra for umbrella and piano; Chimanzzi by Jerry Hunt, one of the most original composers of the last century; and Luc Ferrari’s sound journal 36 Enfilades for piano and magnétophone, in which the composer’s reluctance to process natural sounds into unrecognizability for musique concrète allows the mental associations provoked by the sounds to create narrative drama.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Tiger Lillies
“One of the weirdest and most disconcerting bands of all time... The prudish and the squeamish should avoid this show like the plague.” —Daily Telegraph, London
The deranged British cult band The Tiger Lillies serves up its sinister blend of corrosive lyrics, astonishing vocals and Brechtian cabaret for this wonderfully gruesome concert. Led by the fierce falsetto of vocalist Martyn Jacques, known as the “criminal castrati,” the Grammy-nominated three-piece band unflinchingly unfurls savage tales of prostitutes, drug addicts and other desperate souls. With a unseemly passion and a dark theatrical flair, The Tiger Lillies squeeze the vice out of their instruments—as Jaques growls and squawks with passionate love for the damned—to create a musical experience that is a little bit opera, a little bit vaudeville and very-very Weimar.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Now Hear Ensemble: Made in California
The innovative new music quintet Now Hear Ensemble presents Made in California, an exciting collaborative concert series of works by 11 composers located throughout the state. The program features music by Eoin Callery, Carolyn Chen, Todd Lerew, Mateo Lugo, Daniel Miller, Jon Myers, Iván Naranjo, Nick Norton, Dan Van Hassel, David Werfelmann and Kevin Zhang—composers with ties to legendary institutions, including CalArts, Mills College, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and USC. Scheduled to be performed in San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, Made in California serves as a statewide dialogue among audiences, performers and composers, complemented by documentary videos on the collaborative process.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Morton Subotnick with Lillevan: From Silver Apples of the Moon to A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur IV: LUCY
“When the electronic composer Morton Subotnick released Silver Apples of the Moon, he seemed to be exploring a limitless world.” —The New York Times
Electronic music legend Morton Subotnick performs his seminal work Silver Apples of the Moon (1967), the first album of all-electronic music featuring exotic timbres and dance-inspiring rhythms. Subotnick performs this piece accompanied by his frequent collaborator, video artist Lillevan, along with another groundbreaking work, A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur IV (1977), a playful piece made with a mix of Buchla synthesizers and tape recorders. More than a generation ago Subotnick helped to create a new music genre, one that still resonates with contemporary audiences. Seeming simultaneously composed and spontaneously improvised, this immersive performance wraps audiences in a sonic swell of surprising distortions, energetic rhythms and moving meditations.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners
In the 100th anniversary year of Futurist Luigi Russolo’s manifesto, The Art of Noises, The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (Luciano Chessa, Director) performs on the only complete reconstruction of Russolo’s earliest Intonarumori Orchestra, commissioned by Performa. Hand-cranked instruments designed to produce “noises”—the first instruments capable of creating and manipulating sound through entirely mechanical processes—generate sounds of whirrs and buzzes, clangs, scrapes, sirens and mechanically plucked strings. The program includes historical compositions by Russolo and Paolo Buzzi, as well as newly composed works by Chessa, Ulrich Krieger, Joan La Barbara, Annie Lewandowski, Theresa Wong (all also performing) and others, and features tenor Timur Bekbosunov, soprano Carmina Escobar and 16 players operating the instruments under Chessa’s baton.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Charlie Haden’s CalArts Liberation Music Orchestra
“No other bass player since Charles Mingus has seemed so thoroughly joined to the instrument.” —The Atlantic
NEA Jazz Master and Legendary Bassist Charlie Haden who founded the Jazz Studies program at CalArts in 1982 conducts CalArts musicians in compositions from Haden’s groundbreaking Liberation
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Music Orchestra, a large jazz ensemble that he formed in 1969. With innovative and dynamic arrangements by Carla Bley, the orchestra features experimental harmonies and improvisation for a wide palette of brass instruments and piano, bass, guitar, percussion and drums. The ensemble’s body of work has reflected Haden’s political concerns, including juxtaposing music from the Spanish Civil War, African National Congress and other folk music while exploring the realms of free jazz.
FILM/VIDEO-JACK H. SKIRBALL SERIES
Monday, October 7, 2013
The Black Radical Imagination
“A carefully selected body of work responding to what it means to be black in the 21st Century.” —CCH Pounder
Presented following a recent U.S. tour and an installation in Basel, Switzerland, The Black Radical Imagination is a visually rich collection of shorts—from video art to experimental and narrative films— inspired by a futurist aesthetic that explores issues of identity in our postmodern society. The program features Golden Chain (2013) by Adebukola Bodunrin and Ezra Clayton Daniels; Afronauts (2013) by Cristina De Middel; Mae’s Journal (2013) by Amir George; Quiescence Interrupted... Adumbrate (2013) by Anansi Knowbody; Split Ends, I Feel Wonderful (2012) by CalArts alumnus Akosua Adoma Owusu; Reifying Desire 2 (2012) by Jacolby Satterwhite; and The Changing Same (1998) by Cauleen Smith, whose experimental work was presented at REDCAT last spring. In addition, Pumzi (2009) by Wanuri Kahiu is screened as part of the evening. In person: Amir George and Erin Christovale
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Henri-Georges Clouzot and the Aesthetics of the Sixties: Reflections on La Vérité
“Clouzot made his name as a daring iconoclast through a series of hugely influential, often controversial, films.” —Harvard Film Archive
In conversation with the joint exhibitions La Fin de la Nuit at Palais de Tokyo in Paris and The End of the Night at LACE in Los Angeles, this panel discussion on the controversial French auteur Henri- Georges Clouzot and his contribution to the aesthetics of the 1960s centers around a screening of his intriguing film, La Vérité (1960 Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film). A showcase for the alluring physical presence of the biggest French star of the time, Brigitte Bardot—who transforms from pouting sex kitten to grand tragedienne—La Vérité is loosely inspired by a notorious “crime of passion” case. With his stern and masterful direction of Bardot, Clouzot creates another unforgettable, yet contradictory, sexual icon for the Swinging Sixties.
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In person: Martha Kirszenbaum, Bérénice Reynaud, Janet Bergstrom, William E. Jones and Christine Wertheim
35mm print courtesy of Sony Pictures. Curated by Martha Kirszenbaum and Bérénice Reynaud.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Let Your Light Shine: Handmade Films by Jodie Mack
“With a self-deprecation and a charm that is matched only by the keen precision of her art, Mack could be just what the avant-garde needs.” —CinemaScope
Combining formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation, Jodie Mack’s handmade films explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Questioning decoration in daily life, Mack brings overlooked and wasted objects to vivid cinematic life. Mack presents Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013), her most ambitious project to date, in addition to several recent films. Dusty Stacks is a 40-minute stop-motion animation that pays homage to her mother’s defunct poster shop, offering a whirlwind visual tour of pop music with a live, karaoke-style accompaniment that uses a popular rock album as a backdrop for her own lyrics. Vibrant and unpredictable, Mack’s tactile work skirts the edges between animation, collage, autobiography and music video. In person: Jodie Mack
Monday, October 28, 2013
Jane Gillooly: Suitcase of Love and Shame
“Alternately sweet, sad, and steamy…hearing the voices of the lovers on their private tapes, viewers become voyeurs.” —The Boston Globe
Guggenheim Fellow Jane Gillooly introduces her mesmerizing and original Suitcase of Love and Shame, a tender, erotic and heartbreaking collage woven from 60 hours of reel-to-reel audiotapes discovered in a suitcase purchased on eBay. In the 1960s, on the cusp of the sexual revolution, a Midwestern woman and her lover become reliant on recording devices to document and memorialize their adulterous affair. The tape recorder serves as a confidant, witness, and participant—creating a welcome ménage-à-trois. Voices give rise to a sad world, building “love and shame” little by little, as technological tools serve up a calm, continual hell. In person: Jane Gillooly
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Sunday, November 3 – Monday, November 4, 2013
Bruce Baillie: Two Nights of 16mm Treasures
“A metaphysical poet of film’s postwar avant-garde.” —Artforum
Co-presented with Los Angeles Filmforum Bruce Baillie is one of the great figures in American avant-garde filmmaking. Since 1960, he has produced a body of films unsurpassed for their lyrical sensuality, expressive honesty and formal inventiveness. An artist and film visionary, Baillie founded Canyon Cinema in collaboration with Chick Strand in 1961, and influenced generations of filmmakers and experimental artists, ranging from George Lucas to Jennifer Reeves to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Two nights of rarely projected, beautiful 16mm films celebrate Baillie’s artistry with vintage prints and the premiere of a previously unreleased work. Sunday’s screening features Here I Am (1962), Tung (1966), All My Life (1966), Castro Street (1966), Valentin de las Sierras (1968), Little Girl (1966, premiere, preserved by the Academy Film Archive), and others. Monday’s program includes Quick Billy (1970, 60 min.), an ode to both Eastern philosophy and “horse operas,” plus other rare, later films. In Person: Bruce Baillie
Monday, November 11, 2013
Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill: “Live Screening” of Empire: The Unintended Consequences of Dutch Colonialism
“Short-circuits conventional conceptions of a history long laid to rest… These deceptively calm sketches are micro-portraits of hate, hope, and everything in-between.” —Film Comment
West Coast Premiere Having travelled 140,000 kilometers through Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas to film this award- winning documentary, and fresh from the New York Film Festival, transatlantic artist duo Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill invite audiences into the sensory overload of Empire’s interactive digital adaptations, consisting of a series of overlapping vignettes designed for an immersive experience. Focusing on minute details and underrepresented populations, Empire reveals the gaps, lapses and contradictions of a sprawling colonial history which lasted from the 17th to the 20th century, and stretched from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indonesian archipelago, from New York City to South America’s Wild Coast. In person: Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill
Monday, November 18, 2013
Rakhshan Banietemad: The Hidden Cost of Violence
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“An unforgettable picture of women in today’s Iran, emphasizing their indomitable determination to have a voice in politics.” —Variety
World Premiere Iran’s most celebrated female filmmaker, Rakhshan Banietemad, screens two passionate and fascinating explorations of the impact of the recent electoral processes in her country. We Are Half of Iran’s Population (Ma Nimi Az Jameiate Iranim, 2009) shows a diverse coalition of women’s rights activists engaged in the political debate. In the world premiere of See You Tomorrow Elina! (Farda Mibinamet Elina, 2013), Banietemad returns to the kindergarten where she had enrolled her daughter, Baran—now an actress and activist who has appeared in many of Banietemad’s narrative films. The film compares the violence witnessed by Iranian kindergarten students during the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s with that of the recent political protests following the country’s 2009 elections. In person: Rakhshan Banietemad
Monday, November 25, 2013
The Real and the Hyper-Real: Films and Videos by Scott Stark
“This is a magisterial composition, the work of a visionary artist, a true poet, who is in complete command of his medium.” —Gene Youngblood
Scott Stark’s films, videos and installations are kinetic revelations that can be shocking, mesmerizing and narratively rich. Each is a distinctive cultural and aesthetic adventure with its own conceptual rigor. His films include the mysterious and delightful Hotel Cartograph (1983); More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda (2001/06), Stark’s witty response to this American icon; Speechless (2008), a visceral collision of anatomy with rough-hewn surfaces; Traces (2012), a flickering play of fragmented objects; and his masterful The Realist (2013), a “doomed love” melodrama peopled with department store mannequins and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows. In person: Scott Stark
Monday, December 9, 2013
Nicolas Rey: autrement, la Molussie (differently, Molussia)
“Few works so perfectly combine cinesensuality and Marxist dialectics: here, beauty is praxis and agitation becomes thought.” —Film Comment
Based on fragments from Günther Anders’ novel The Molussian Catacomb, written between 1932 and 1936, Nicolas Rey’s captivating nine-part film presents allegorical stories and musings by political prisoners sitting in the pits of an imaginary fascist state called Molussia. Shown in random order
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whenever it is screened, the film’s sections ruminate on capitalism, imperialism and resistance —accompanied by gritty, unsettling self-processed images of undefined landscapes. A haunting and moving meditation on brutality and control, autrement, la Molussie has galvanized audiences at festivals throughout the world. Since 1993 Rey has been making films that hover between photography, documentaries and the avant-garde. He is one of the founders of the Paris-based artist film lab L’Abominable. In person: Nicolas Rey
CONVERSATIONS AND LITERARY EVENTS
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Michael Chow, Jeffrey Deitch and Steven D. Lavine
CalArts President Steven D. Lavine’s ongoing investigation of the role of creativity in contemporary culture continues with this lively discussion exploring the intersections of art and entrepreneurship. For this evening, Lavine is joined by two visionary and influential figures in the world of contemporary art: Michael Chow and Jeffrey Deitch. After studying architecture and painting, Michael Chow became a central figure in the London art scene in the 1960s, went on to build a international profile at the intersection of art, fashion and business, and today concentrates on painting. Jeffrey Deitch is the founder of Deitch Projects, and has served as a gallerist, curator and as the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). This discussion explores the application of creative work in a variety of sectors, an approach reflected in each of the speaker’s wide-range of successful endeavors.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Lydia Davis
“[Davis] blows the roof off of so many of our assumptions about what constitutes short fiction.” —Dave Eggers
Presented in association with the Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence Program at CalArts The CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program hosts an intimate evening with MacArthur Fellow and Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis, a remarkable writer and a true innovator known for her very short fiction. “Should we simply concur with the official title and dub them stories?” Man Booker International panel chairman Christopher Ricks asks. “Or perhaps miniatures? Anecdotes? Essays? Jokes? Parables? Fables? Texts? Aphorisms, or even apophthegms? Prayers, or perhaps wisdom literature? Or might we settle for observations?” Lydia Davis’ work includes the novel The End of the Story and seven story collections. She has also translated a number of works of French philosophy and literature, most notably Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.
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Friday, November 15 – Saturday, November 16, 2013
The Politics of Parametricism DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND THE FUTURE(S) OF SOCIALITY
Presented in association with the Master’s Program in Aesthetics & Politics at CalArts This two-day conference organized by Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg brings together a range of international experts from architectural practice and theory to explore urgent questions that concern the social and political ramifications at stake in the evolution of design. Parametricism has been heralded as the new avant-garde in the fields of architecture and design—the next “grand style” in the history of architectural movements. Parametric models enable digital designers to create complex structures and environments, as well as new understandings of space, both real and virtual. Tools for democratic action or tyrannical spectacle; self- and community-building capabilities; a post-humanistic subject; and the mediatized politics of our desired futurisms—all these themes are figured within the Parametricist discourse. In person: Benjamin Bratton, Christina Cogdell, Teddy Cruz, Peggy Deamer, Laura Kurgan, Neil Leach, Reinhold Martin, Jane Rendell, Patrik Schumacher and Phil Bernstein
GALLERY
Sept 21 – Nov 4, 2013
Opening: Saturday, September 21, 6-9pm Artist Talk 6 PM | Reception 7-9 PM
Andrés Jaque/Office of Political Innovation: Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool
Architect Andrés Jaque’s installation Different Kinds of Water Pouring Into a Swimming Pool includes a selection of domestic products from big-box stores together with elements culled from the history of planned, self-contained communities known as gartenstadts, or garden cities. These elements are assembled in accordance with their functions of bringing people and communities into the political arena. Jaque interviewed a number of Los Angeles residents for the project, discussing the use of various architectural and household elements in their back yards. Highlighting the use of water, the project consumes the exhibition space in the form of a model garden-city home, as a contemporary iteration of a gartenstadt. Currently a visiting professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Jaque is the director of Madrid-based Andrés Jaque Architects and the Office for Political Innovation. He and his associates explore the potential of post-foundational politics and symmetrical approaches to the sociology of technology to rethink architectural practices.
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Andrés Jaque (Madrid, 1971) is the director of Andrés Jaque Arquitectos and the Office for Political Innovation. He is currently Visiting Professor at GSAPP Columbia University (Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) and also teaches at the School of Architecture at the UE Universidad Europea de Madrid.
Andrés Jaque Arquitectos’s IKEA Disobedients was recently acquired by Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2012, the group presented PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona. In 2011, the research and prototype-making project SWEET PARLIAMENT HOME was presented at the Gwangju Biennale and, FRAY HOME HOME was presented in 2010 Venice Biennial. Their work TUPPER HOME was a finalist in the European Award Mies van der Rohe and Casa Sacerdotal Diocesana de Plasencia received the Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize and was a finalist in VIII Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo.
Saturday, December 7 – Sunday, December 22, 2013
Yael Davids Opening reception: Saturday, December 6, 6-9pm
For her first U.S. solo exhibition, Amsterdam-based artist Yael Davids develops a new performance/exhibition exploring how, through reading, a text is written and composed. Considering the possibilities of performance documentation, Davids addresses the relationship between historical and political contexts and the construction of social and personal subjectivities. She treats the elements, narratives and objects of her past performances as components of an artistic palette that reappear in different configurations, experimenting with the multiple possibilities of the material in an evolving body of work. Besides her interest in the documentation of her exhibitions, Davids explores the performative presence of the body and how it defines space and the relationships between things, places and temporalities. In her work, Davids attempts to turn her own existential experience and the memories of ephemeral, fleeting presence into a definitive shape—a shape that can be comprehended as an art work and thus become a voice in public discussion, rather than remain an intimate and personal story only.
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Born in kibbuz Tzuba/Jerusalem, Israel in 1968, Yael Davids lives and works in Amsterdam. Davids studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam), Sculpture at the Pratt Institute (New York) as well as Choreography and Dance Pedagogy at the Remscheid Academie (Remscheid). A selection of her solo exhibitions include Learning to Imitate in Absentia I, Picture This, Bristol (2011); Learning to Imitate, Picture This, Bristol (2010); If I Can’t Dance Tonight, Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam (2009); Project Mechelen, organisiert von MuHKA als Teil von All that is Solid, Mechelen (2008), Learning to Imitate, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen (2008); Yael Davids: End on Mouth, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam (2007); Performance Section Venice Biennale (2005), If I Can’t Dance, Utrecht, Den Bosch and Leiden (2005); Yael Davids Performances, Platform Garanti, Istanbul (2004); Yael Davids 1994–2003, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (2003). Her work has been featured in group exhibitions at Kunsthal
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Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen; Kunsthalle Basel (2011); Sheffield Biennial 2010; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2010); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (2010); MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (2009); Tate Modern, London (2008) among others.
Saturday, January 18 – Saturday, March 15, 2014
Pablo Bronstein Opening reception: Saturday, January 18, 6-9pm
For his first solo show in Los Angeles, Pablo Bronstein produces an installation and a series of performances in the gallery space and theater. Based in London, Bronstein explores public spaces and architectural styles through the study of the social protocols and lifestyles of their time. His work often combines references to the history of architecture—from Roman antiquity and the Baroque to Neo-classicism and Post-modernism—with hints to art history—from the Renaissance to the Modern period. Examining choreographic and architectural elements within a critical framework, Bronstein's projects transform the exhibition space into a semblance of a stage, in the manner of a tableau vivant, where he explores links between classical architecture and contemporary urbanism, between settings and decors, and between art and dance.
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Pablo Bronstein lives and works in London. His works have been presented at The Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (2013), the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (2011), The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (2009), and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich (2007). His work was also featured in numerous group exhibitions including Tate Live: Performance Room at the Tate Modern, London (2012); MOVE: Choreographing You Hayward Gallery, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich and K20, Dusseldorf (2010-2011);The Garden of Forking Paths at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Pablo Bronstein participated in Manifesta 8 (2010-2011), Performa 07, The Second Biennial of Visual Arts, New York (2007) and the Tate Triennale, Tate Britain, London (2006). His books Postmodern Architecture in London (2007) and Ornamental Designs (2008) are published by König Books.
ABOUT REDCAT | THE ROY AND EDNA DISNEY/CALARTS THEATER REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for contemporary arts, presents a dynamic and international mix of innovative visual, performing and media arts year round. Located inside the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles, REDCAT houses a theater, a gallery space and a lounge. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings, and literary events, REDCAT introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in this region the creative support they need to achieve national and international stature. REDCAT continues the tradition of the California Institute of the Arts, its parent organization, by encouraging experimentation, discovery and lively civic discourse.
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GENERAL INFORMATION For current program and exhibition information call 213-237-2800 or visit www.redcat.org. Location/Parking: REDCAT is located in downtown Los Angeles inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex with a separate entrance at the corner of West 2nd and Hope Streets. Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking structure. $9 event rate or $5 for vehicles entering after 8:00 pm on weekdays. Street Address: 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles CA 90012
THE LOUNGE | Open to the public six days a week, the Lounge is a great place to spend an afternoon or grab a drink pre- and post-performance.
Lounge Hours: Tuesdays–Fridays from 9am until 8 pm or post-show; Saturdays from noon until 8 pm or post-show; Sundays from noon until 6pm or post-show
THE GALLERY | REDCAT's Gallery presents five major exhibitions each year, and publishes artist books and catalogues. Admission to the Gallery is FREE.
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays–Sundays from noon until 6 pm and through intermission
THE THEATER | Tickets for programs held in the theater are available through the REDCAT Box Office, by phone 213-237-2800 or online at www.redcat.org. Group, member, student and CalArts faculty/staff discounts available.
Box Office Hours: Tuesdays–Saturday from noon until 6 pm or two hour prior to curtain
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