August 2010
DIY LA with Jen Smith and Mark Allen
Join Mark Allen and Jen Smith as we explore DIY culture in Los Angeles along with other special guests. Mark Allen will be speaking about the basics of starting your own (art/music/literature/whatever) space using Machine Project as an example. Jen Smith will lead a pickling workshop where you can create your own pickled sensations. Mark Allen is an artist, educator and curator located in Los Angeles. He is the founder and director of Machine Project (www.machineproject.com), a non-profit performance/installation space…
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Workshop with Owen Driggs, Evelyn Serrano, and Felipe Zuñiga In his revolutionary essay The New Art of Making Books (1965, Mexico City), Ulises Carrion states that: “the introduction of space into poetry (or rather of poetry into space) is an enormous event, literally of incalculable consequences”. Inspired by this powerful statement Economy of Gesture appropriates Sign Spinning – a contemporary advertising practice popular in southern California – to open a platform for experimentation and inquiry that asks who is authorized to speak in the…
Find out more »April 2011
Portable City Projects
Portable City Projects, led by artist Jules Rochielle, conceives of itself as an urban survival kit, a tool box for social interaction. Using an arts-based approach to building human connection while ending the silence that exists between us, Portable City Projects is a study on creating dialogue amongst those who experience urban alienation and isolation. LACE has invited Portable City Projects to stage a series of interactions with Hollywood community members throughout the year. www.portablecityprojects.org 24 April 2011, NOON - 2…
Find out more »September 2015
Resonant Forms
September 11-13, 2015, 8PM-11PM nightly/ workshop 12pm-4pm VOLUME and LACE present the second Resonant Forms festival for three days from September 11 through 13, 2015. This year’s festival will present unique performances by a range of artists in the emergent fields of experimental electronic music, sound, and performance art. The artists featured in this festival represent varied approaches to the interplay of artistic mediums, and take risks not frequently observed in traditional creative modalities. Resonant Forms will take place inside…
Find out more »March 2016
A new job to unwork at?
A new job to unwork at? Organized by Clara López Menéndez and Andrew Kachel in the LACE Project Room Opening reception March 9, 2016 – 7PM-10PM Exhibition dates: March 9, 2016 - April 17, 2016 A new job to unwork at is an interdisciplinary research platform involving a core working group of Los Angeles-based artists and curators. The project takes shape in a series of private meetings and public programs. These events will examine the role of work as a dominant life-structuring…
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