Winter/ Spring 2012 Songs at the End of the World CAL ARTS PRESENTS Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater Wunderbaum, CalArts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts in The Walt Disney Concert Hall complex REDC: AT Winter/ S RYO AND EDNA pring 2012 DY ISNE /CALARTS TRheATE REDCAT is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts center for innovative visual, performing and media arts located in downtown Los Angeles January inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Through performances, exhibitions, screenings, and literary events, REDCAT introduces diverse Theater–Music–Alpert Award Artist audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments January 25–29 in the arts from around the world, and gives artists in this region the RINDE ECKERT: creative support they need to achieve national and international AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES stature. REDCAT continues the tradition of California Institute of the Arts, its parent organization, by encouraging experimentation, February discovery and lively civic discourse. Theater–Multimedia REDC. AT ORG February 2–4 EARLY MORNING OPERA: ABACUS Art CALT: AR S February 5–April 1 MING WONG: MAKING CHINATOWN CAL IFORNIA Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series February 7 MUSIC + IMAGE INStitute Presented as part of Pacific Standard Time Conversations–Film/Video of the ArtS February 8 CHOUINARD: AN OVERTURE California Institute of the Arts educates professional artists in a unique learning environment founded on the principles of artmaking Music–Multimedia excellence, experimentation, critical reflection and independent February 10–11 inquiry. Throughout its history, CalArts has sought to advance the CEAIT FESTIVAL practice of art and promote its understanding in a broad social, Conversations cultural and historical context. CalArts offers students the knowledge February 12 and expertise of leading professional artists and scholars and a THE MAGIC OF SOLIDARITY: full complement of artmaking tools. In return, it asks for the highest SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR artistic and academic achievement. Reflecting its long-standing AND SUHEIR HAMMAD commitment to new forms and expressions in art, CalArts invites creative risk-taking and urges active collaboration and exchange Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series February 13 among artists, artistic disciplines and cultural traditions. LEE ANNE SCHMITT: CT ALAR S.EDU THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT LCIOO AT N TICKETS 631 WEST 2ND Street REDC. AT ORG LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 213.237.2800 Housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall AT the box office complex, REDCAT has a separate entrance at The REDCAT Box Office is open Tuesday– the corner of West 2nd and Hope Streets. Saturday, noon–6 pm, and two hours prior to curtain. Seating at REDCAT is unassigned, and late seating is not guaranteed. Programs, Music schedules, prices and artists subject February 15–16 to change. JOHN CAGE CENTENARY FESTIVAL Music–Theater February 17–19 MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: LOW DOUBLE STANDARDS: PARKING AN ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM Parking is available in the Walt Disney Theater Concert Hall parking garage. February 23–26 MARIANO PENSOTTI: ONLY $5 AFTER 8 PM ON WEEKNIGHTS. THE PAST IS A GROTESQUE ANIMAL $9 FLAT RATE ALL DAY ON weekeNDS. (EL PASADO es un animal grotesco) March A pril June Theater–Multimedia Music–Theater Music–Multimedia March 2–11 A pril 14–15 June 14 MARTÍN ACOSTA: TIMBOCTOU MY BARBARIAN: PARTCH POST-LIVING ANTE-ACTION THEATER Dance Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia March 9–11 Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series June 24–25 RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE A pril 16 STUDIO SPRING 2012 Part of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance AWAKENING AND SEEING: at the Music Center NEW FILMS BY NATHANIEL DORSKY Music A pril 18–19 NEW ZEALAND IN L.A. Art A pril 22–June 17 RIGO 23: AUTONOMOUS SPACE PROGRAM Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series A pril 23 BILL MORRISON: Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series MINERS, BRIDGES, LOST LOVE AND March 22 OTHER RETRIEVED TREASURES DANIEL EISENBERG: Theater–Multimedia THE UNSTABLE OBJECT June 28–July 1 NTARE GUMA MBAHO MWINE: Music A MISSIONARY POSITION March 23 FRANCES-MARIE UITTI Music March 24 CALIFORNIA E.A.R. UNIT: FROM SILVER APPLES TO A SKY OF CLOUDLESS SULPHUR: REVISITED Featuring Morton Subotnick Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia March 31–April 1 Music–Theater STUDIO SPRING 2012 A pril 28–29 Art WUNDERBAUM: July 8–September 2 SONGS AT THE END OF THE WORLD JAY CHUNG & Q TAKEKI MAEDA A ril Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series p A pril 30 A pril 2 THE IMAGINARY VOYAGES SP ECIAL CALARTS eveNTS AT REDCAT NARRATIVE BODIES: OF MAUREEN SELWOOD FILMS AND VIDEOS BY ABIGAIL CHILD Film/Video May 2–5 May Music–Film/Video CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES May 1 The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series TRANSPARENT CITIES May 11–12 Film/Video–Family THE NEXT DANCE COMPANY May 5–13 Conversations REDCAT INTERNATIONAL May 13 CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series Family–Theater May 7 May 25–26 CINE POVERA: CAP/PLAZA DE LA RAZA YOUTH THEATER The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Theater MEXICAN EXPERIMENTS IN 16MM A pril 5–8 DAYNA HANSON: The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series GLORIA’S CAUSE May 16–20 ARCANE COLLECTIVE: S TAY CONNECTED Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series COLD DREAM COLOUR Sign up to receive our brochures and weekly A pril 9 email updates for the latest information on SHARON LOCKHART: Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series REDCAT events, special offers and more. DOUBLE TIDE May 21 NEW DAY AT 40: REDC. AT ORG Music–Multimedia A COMMUNITY’S CELEBRATION A pril 12–13 Find us online at: CALARTSREDCAT KARMETIK MACHINE ORCHESTRA: SAMSARA “One is overwhelmed by the power of quest and loss and by the beauty of the music.” TWhe NE YORK Times January 25–29 Theater–Music–Alpert Award Artist RI NDE ECKERT AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES Hailed as “total magic” by The New York Times, this Obie Award-winning work of groundbreaking music- theater is a morbidly funny and deeply moving operatic journey into the psyche of an eccentric composer as he desperately tries to complete his final opus: an opera based on Melville’s Moby-Dick. Alpert Award- winner Rinde Eckert’s tour de force performance draws the audience into the haunted world of Nathan, whose struggle against mental deterioration forces him to rely on a tape recorder worn around his neck h Courtesy the artist in place of a working memory, as his obsession with the opera becomes as total as Ahab’s quest for the white P Wertenbaker Caleb by oto whale. Masterfully directed by David Schweizer and featuring the vocal magic of original cast member Nora Cole, these performances mark the return of Eckert’s seminal 2000 off-Broadway production, which prompted critics to cite such diverse references as Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Tom Waits. WEDN JA 25–SAT JAN 28, 8:30 PM SUN JAN 29, 3:00 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12] “It made me feel alive at a time when little in the musical theater does.” V ILLAGE Voice T ICKETS: 213.237.2800 redcat.org “Changing the world one multimedia performance at a time.” M ODERN PAINTERS February 2–4 Theater–Multimedia E ARLY MORNING OPERA ABACUS Fresh from performances at the Sundance Film Festival, award-winning director and media artist Lars Jan and his company Early Morning Opera employ the latest in high-tech wizardry to explore the seductive power of multimedia persuasion, including TED-style presentations and video- enhanced megachurch events. Abacus introduces media visionary and cult icon Paul Abacus, who is given a platform to expound on such theories as a re-imagining of Buckminster Fuller’s fabled Geoscope as a new “data cathedral” for the masses and a call for a world without national borders. Part pitchman and part sermonizer, Abacus is magnified by a team of live video Steadicams and large-scale projections in this genre-defying, visually immersive production that was first staged at REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival and has since won national praise. THUR FEB 2–SAT FEB 4, 8:30 PM $20–25 [STUDENTS $16–20, CALARTS $10–12] Courtesy the artist “Mind-bendingly creative.” Philadelphia CITY PAPER February 5– Art Ming Wong, Making Chinatown (study), 2011, courtesy the artist A MING WONG: pril 1 MAKING CHINATOWN OPENING recePTION: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 6–9 PM Ming Wong, Four Malay Stories, 2005, Berlin-based Singaporean artist Ming Wong has been regarded internationally for his four-channel video installation, 25 min, ambitious performance and video works that engage with the history of cinema and popular courtesy the artist forms of entertainment. Working through the visual styles and tropes of such iconic film directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wong Kar-wai and Ingmar Bergman, Wong’s practice considers the means through which subjectivity and geographic location are constructed by motion pictures. For his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Wong creates a series of video sculptures and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown, with the artist cast as two of the film’s central characters. Filmed on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Making Chinatown transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language, performance and identity. Funded in part with generous support from Alan Hergott and Curt Shepard. SUN FEB 5–SUN APR 1 TUES–SUN, NOON–6 PM OR INTERMISSION FREE Ming Wong, Angst Essen / Eat Fear, 2008, single-channel video installation, 27 min, courtesy the artist TICKETS: 213.237.2800 redcat.org Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series February 7 “What happened with pop videos is pathetic: mu Sic + imAGE they could have become a really interesting new field of cinematic activity.” Gilles Deleuze Pre SENTED AS PART of PACIFIC StANDARD TIME In the early 1980s, many artists were excited by the possibility of showing video art on television— a promise that was broken by commercialism.