Analog: Among Nations (Mostly) by Renée PetropoulosFebruary 10, 20127-9 PM
Schindler House
835 N. Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
$7 General - Tickets may be purchased through PayPal below
Free for Friends of the MAK Center with RSVP to office@makcenter.org
Seating is extremely limited and the event may sell out
Performed by five women, this piece is a sound work composed of spoken word, recorded songs, voice, and various other composed recordings both found and created. Image, color, and projected text use the architecture of the Schindler House as the frame for the performance and the improvisation occurring within.
The work considers national anthems, a form of music that Petropoulos describes as heralding the exhibition of strength and power while also creating a willingness to go to the limit for one's 'love'. Her interest is in the didactic and emotional elements inherent to anthems, which not only prompt fervor and allegiance (with the undercurrent of militaristic pomp), but also reflect individual and group passions. Petropoulos has transcribed and recorded various voices describing, singing, and remembering pasts and histories that call forth the specificity of place. Through sound, the cacophony of feeling intertwined with faith can reveal the constructions of our societies of nations.
Renée Petropoulos, Marya Alford, Sojung Kwon, Manjulika O'Rourke, and Elena Rosa will be performing.
Fundraiser for Rehearsal / RecordingFebruary 17, 20127-9 PM
Schindler House
835 N. Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Admission
$25 General
$15 Students and Friends of the MAK Center
Tickets available at the door and at kickstarter.com
To gather support for artist Ann Trondson's sound performance Rehearsal/Recording at the Schindler House on September 15, 2012, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture will host a fundraising event on February 17.
The evening will feature arts writer Jan Tumlir presenting a lecture on the relationship between black and white monochrome painting and noise music, artist and magician Ross Moreno delighting and confounding with roving magic tricks, and the recorded music of first violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Rehearsal/Recording participant Mischa Lefkowitz, playing throughout the house.
About Rehearsal/Recording
When the Schindler House was built in 1922, in what was a yet to be-developed area of Los Angeles, it must have been an exotic encounter for passersby. Trondson's work is an inquiry into how this radically different building may have been experienced. What would it have been like to come upon such an extraordinary house-particularly at night? Unable to access, attempting to see inside through the narrow window slits, it must have bewildered one's senses.
Rehearsal/Recording is a sound performance. Renowned composer Claudio Vena will be commissioned to compose a music piece on site prior to September 15. On that night, musicians from the L.A. Philharmonic will gather together with Vena for the first time to rehearse and record the newly composed music inside the Schindler House. The audience will experience the performance like unsuspected wanderers stumbling upon the residence, unable to watch, but enticed to listen to what is happening inside.
To learn more about the project, how to contribute and what other exciting opportunities there are to help support Recording/Rehearsal, go to kickstarter.com
(FC) Two Cabins by JB: A publication on the recent work of filmmaker James BenningFebruary 21, 20126:30-8:30 PM
Conversation at 7 PM sharp
Schindler House
835 N. Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Suggested donation of $7
Free for Friends of the MAK Center
The MAK Center and A.R.T. Press celebrate the launch of (FC) Two Cabins by JB, a project-based publication that documents and analyzes a recent body of work by critically acclaimed filmmaker James Benning, edited by Julie Ault.
Benning reconstructed Henry David Thoreau's and Ted Kaczynski's iconic cabins, and uses these structures to reflect on utopian and dystopian versions of social isolation, practices of dissent, nonprescriptive ways of living, and the politics of solitude. The book includes photography by Benning, essays by Ault, Benning, and Dick Hebdige, and extracts from both Thoreau's and Kaczynski's writings.
A conversation with Julie Ault, James Benning, and Dick Hebdige will begin at 7 PM.
For more information about (FC) Two Cabins by JB please visit artresourcestransfer.org
Duchamp the MessengerFebruary 25, 2012 - April 30, 2012Beginning Saturday, February 25, 3-5 PM
Then running every Monday evening from March 10 - April 30, 7-9 PM
Mackey Garage Top
1137 S. Cochran Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
A free form, ten-session seminar with Art Historian Thierry de Duve on the passage from the Fine Arts system to the contemporary art world, which de Duve calls the Art-in-General system. Each lecture will focus on a particular episode in this passage and its theoretical interpretation, ranging from the 19th century French Salon to the birth and death of ‘non-art’, or from theories of the avant-garde to opposing readings of minimal art.
