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Dawn and Nancy this weekend!

Dawn and Nancy at 18th St. Arts Center this weekend!!

THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 8PM - 2AM
A Benefit at and for 18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street (& Olympic)
Santa Monica, 90404

18 ARTS & THE PANDEMONIUM COLLECTIVE
honor the Day of the Dead with a STIMULATING celebration of BEING
NIGHT OF THE LIVING!

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    This November, Crazy Space will feature two one-night only durational performances from two of LA’s most intriguing durational performance artists, Nancy Popp and Mariel Carranza. On November 5th, Popp will perform an excerpt from her daring pole climbing series and on November 12th Carranza will undertake a durational performance rocking in a chair of broken glass. Both artists are known for their brave use of the body and for their continued exploration of endurance and perception.
    

    Posted by Elizabeth at 08:16 PM | Comments (0)

    October 18, 2005

    Holy Shifting Paradigm Batman

    

    Check this shit out. Download the quicktime presentation.

    
    

    I can be a curmudgeon about the limitations of technology but this looks like an amazing idea. What I especially like about it is that it seems to be starting to address the lack of physicality in other computer driven imagery. (They still need to make the bristles part of the act by turning them into a touch activated effect tool in order to distort, blur, blend etc.) I think one of the reasons painting can be remarkable and peculiar is that it is a document of an encounter between and an idea and a physical reality, never totally one or the other, sometimes evidence of how far apart the two are at any given time. I still wouldn’t make paintings with it myself but if they could take it to the next level and turn the “ink” into a physical substance with nuanced color, 3-D texture and real time movement I would be all over that shit. (Maybe I am just wishing for a souped up holodeck.) Anyway, the implications are kind of staggering.
    

    Posted by Butter Gun at 04:06 PM | Comments (1)

    October 14, 2005

    not a corn field-- what's not to like?

    THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS @ 6am-8pm
    Not A Cornfield Public Hours

    FRIDAY OCTOBER 14 @ 7:30pm
    Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield - Salon
    "Beyond Sustainability"
    Permaculture expert Larry Santoyo discusses Not A Cornfield's ecological principles and design tools

    SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 @ 3-7pm
    Sundays @ Not A Cornfield
    "Struggle for the Cornfield: The real story of how a community coalition won 32 acres of public space in downtown LA"
    Drum Circle + Story Series finale featuring Lewis MacAdams

    Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.

    Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.

    "Sundays @ Not A Cornfield" brings people together into a hand-planted "eye" within the mechanically planted cornfield in order to work, talk and make music together, thereby bringing a communal energy to the project and allowing the handmade versus mechanically-made edge to hum.

    Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.

    Not A Cornfield
    1201 North Spring Street
    Phone: 323.226.1158
    Always Free to the Public, Handicapped Accessible
    Free Parking

    
    DIRECTIONS (NORTHGATE): From the intersection of North Spring and College (Gold Line - Chinatown stop) take North Spring north 2 blocks to the northern end of the project site. The entrance is on the left, co-located at 1799 Baker Street.
    

    Posted by mechanicaljelly at 09:20 AM | Comments (2)