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WEEKLY WRAP UP | AUG. 18-22, 2014

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1961 photograph by Ralph Crane documenting “Black Cat Auditions in Hollywood.” For Tales of Terror (1962) by Roger Corman

1961 photograph by Ralph Crane documenting “Black Cat Auditions in Hollywood”
For Tales of Terror (1962) by Roger Corman

This week we started off with some documentation of Another Cats Show at 356 Mission, Los Angeles, announced an evening of powerpoint presentations at Machine Project by the Los Angeles Seminary for Civic and Embodied Art (LASECA), shared photographs from the Peter Hujar exhibition at Maureen Paley in London, watched the 1959 film The Savage Eye, shared images of the Lucio Fontana exhibition at MAM, announced Margaret Lee’s exhibition at The Green Gallery in Chicago, and announced the performance building: a simulacrum of power at Clockshop this weekend.

 

BUILDING : A SIMULACRUM OF POWER

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Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

This Sunday August 24th at 6:45pm, Clockshop presents building: a simulacrum of power on the site of The Unfinished.

The performance takes place at Bowtie Project, 2800 Casitas Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90039 (see map)

Please join us for building: a simulacrum of power, a performance by Rafa Esparza with artist Rebeca Hernandez on the site of Michael Parker’s The Unfinished. For this new work Esparza has held with his parents and siblings a collaborative, labor intensive residency prompted by the historical precedents of power and labor dynamics referenced in Parker’s The Unfinished.

In a continuation of working both with his family and with adobe brick making, Esparza invited his 4 brothers, his sister, and his parents to assist in making enough adobe bricks to cover the entire 137’ long obelisk. For apprx. 3 weeks the bricks have been molded and dried onsite using water from the L.A. river and resources made available by the Esparza family, Clockshop, California State Parks and Michael Parker. Once completed the bricks will be laid atop The Unfinished, where Esparza and Hernandez will stage movement-based performances engaging the bricked surface, the LA River and the sun.

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman Courtesy of Clockshop

Photo Credit: Jeny Amaya and Mackenzie Hoffman
Courtesy of Clockshop

THE SAVAGE EYE

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photo-The-Savage-Eye-1960-1Last week, the summer film series, My Atlas, presented by The Clockshop, screened the 1959 film The Savage Eye.

The Savage Eye is a gorgeous black and white film that is part docu-essay, part drama. It was shot on weekends over the course of three years. The film follows a divorced woman as she wanders around the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, to burlesque shows, parties, wrestling matches, and beauty parlors, all the while conversing with the male voice of her conscious. It is a wonderful film.

The series, My Atlas, ends this Friday, Aug. 22, with a screening of Vagabond introduced by Vanessa Veselka. 7:30pm at elysian: 2806 Clearwater St., Los Angeles, CA 90039  ($10)

Savage-Eye.2

Savage-Eye.1

WEEKLY WRAP UP | JULY 7-11, 2014

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This week we spent a day at the New Museum, announced the book launch for Queer Zines at Pro qm in Berlin, gave you a tour of le Chateau de Vaux-Le-Vicomte just outside of Paris, announced ‘My Atlas’ – an outdoor summer screening series in Los Angeles about women travelers, toured Heimo Zobernig’s new exhibition at Mudam in Luxembourg, announced a screening of the new documentary Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists at 356 Mission in L.A., spent a cloudy Paris day at Martial Raysse at Centre Pompidou, and gave you a sneak peak of Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films at The Getty.

What a great week!

MY ATLAS

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Morvern Callar (2002) dir. Lynne Ramsay

Morvern Callar (2002) dir. Lynne Ramsay

This summer, the Clockshop presents a series of films, My Atlas, curated by Julia Meltzer, Sasha Archibald and Courtney Stephens. On Thursday July 10th at 7:30PM, outside in the Elysian courtyard, at 2806 Clearwater St., Los Angeles, CA 90039, the series begins with the film Morvern Callar (2002) introduced by Tisa Bryant. 

This is a rare and special opportunity to see some great films shown outdoors. The theme of the series is women travelers, and each film is introduced by a speaker who will talk about travel and self-discovery. From the website –

My Atlas is a summer event series that pairs films with live travelogues to explore the varied experiences of women travelers. Women take to the road for reasons of escape and pleasure, ambition and aimlessness, privileged choice and coercion. Feature films by male and female directors, spanning sixty years of cinema history, will focus on atypical representations of the female traveler in narrative cinema—as divorcees, drug mules, exiles, and drifters. Each film screening will be preceded by a speaker who will recount a specific travel story and/or discuss travel as a mode of self-understanding. 

All films at 7:30PM; $10 (students $7) available on the the website.

My Atlas

July 10: Tisa Bryant & Morvern Caller

July 17: Karolina Waclawiak & I Know Where I’m Going!

July 24: Natasha Singh & Maria Full of Grace

July 31: Andrea Richards & Thelma & Louise

August 7: Dolores Dorante & Stromboli

August 14: Lynell George & Savage Eye

August 22: Vanessa Veselka & Vagabond

Savage Eye (1959)

Savage Eye (1959)