August 2014
Dreamscape
August 8, 2014 by Rickerby M. Hinds Dreamscape depicts the death and inner life of a young woman, “Myeisha Mills,” who dreams through the impact of the twelve bullets that killed her. A meditation and reimagining of the night of December 28, 1998, when nineteen-year-old Tyisha Miller was shot and killed by four Riverside Police Department officers while she laid unconscious in a car; the play takes a powerfully clear-eyed look at the relationships between race, the body, and violence.…
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Beyond Environment
Opening reception: Thursday, September 4, 2014 Exhibition Dates: September 4, 2014 – November 9, 2014 Curator Talk: September 5, 2014 Featuring works by Gianni Pettena, Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, UFO, 9999, Gordon Matta-Clark. Beyond Environment explores the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena’s idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Captivated by a journey to Salt Lake City in 1972, Pettena created Tumbleweeds Catcher,…
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Touch Presents…Live in Los Angeles: Hazard, Mark Van Hoen & Pinkcourtesyphone
21 January 2015 8 pm VOLUME presents an evening of performances by Touch related artists curated by Mike Harding. Wednesday January 21, 2015 - 8PM Purchase tickets here! $10 advanced, $15 at the door THE ARTISTS Hazard is a Swedish composer and sound artist based in Berlin and London. His work is primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effects on humans. His two latest solo albums released by Touch Eye Of The Microphone (2013) – a personal…
Find out more »Parts and Labor Redux
Heidi Duckler Dance Theater Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 8pm Friday, January 23, 2015 - 8pm Approximate runtime is 90 minutes Its most inspired passages qualify as pure junkyard art: abandoned objects and even buildings transformed into integral components of uproariously inventive music and dance. – Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times, 1992 on Parts and Labor 23 years after the original, Heidi Duckler will completely re-imagine Parts and Labor with choreography that explores America’s love affair with the automobile. In addition to…
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Dorian Wood: comadreada
26 August 2015, 7 – 9 pm Dorian Wood will present a new vocal performance in direct relation to Rafa Esparza's i have never been here before. Dorian Wood is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work seeks to glorify both the sanctity and irreverence of intimacy. Through the use of his corpulent body and booming voice, Wood revels in challenging the artist-audience separation, using subject matter informed by his own position in society as a queer man of color and…
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