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ART: Ted Purves is a writer and artist based in Oakland, CA. His public projects and curatorial works are centered on investigating the practice of art in the world, particularly as it addresses issues of localism, democratic participation, and innovative shifts in the position of the audience. His two-year project, Temescal Amity Works, created in collaboration with Susanne Cockrell and based in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce and finished its public phase in winter 2007. His collaborative project Momentary Academy, a free school taught by artists over a period of 10 weeks, was featured in Bay Area Now 4 in 2005 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He is the Chair of the MFA program at CCA in San Francisco and founder of the school's MFA in Social Practice program. His book, What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, was published by State University of New York Press in 2005.

• Check out Ted's farm project in Oakland: http://fieldfaring.wordpress.com/
• And his book, What We Want is Free: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4036-what-we-want-is-free.aspx
• Read an interview with Ted on DailyServing: http://dailyserving.com/2010/07/summer-of-utopia-interview-with-ted-purves/

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

THEATER: An open mic event with performers from every métier.  Performances will include music, dance, spoken word and monologues.

Various venues throughout Los Angeles—see below for locations

FILM/VIDEO / COMMUNITY: The 4th Annual Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival runs November 2-4, 2012. The CalArts School of Film/Video is a community collaborator at the Festival, and will co-present "Surrealness" on Saturday, November 3 (see schedule below). 

CalArts artists who have work in this year's festival include:

• Student Adelaide Windsome has a film in the Nov 4 shorts program titled WORK OF ART.
• Alum Rhys Ernst wrote & directed THE THING, which screens Nov 3 in the shorts program SURREALNESS and was also a 2012 Sundance selection. The film features current Film/Video MFA-3 Ruthie Doyle, was produced by FV alum Logan Kibens, and the assistant director was alum Ian Samuels.
• BY HOOK OR BY CROOK (2002, Sundance selection and winner of SXSW audience award) screens Nov 3, and was written by, directed by and stars Silas Howard and Critical Studies/Art School Faculty Harry Dodge. Silas Howard, along with the film's producer Steak House, have each made several guest artist visits to CalArts in recent years. Howard will receive the Festival's second annual Trans Luminary Award on Nov 3 in conjunction with this special revival screening.

For more information and complete festival schedule, please see the Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival website.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Renberg Theatre
(The Village at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center)
1125 North McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

4:30 pm Surrealness short films (short films program 86 mins)

What do androids, funerals, tourist traps, kung fu, matchmaking, saints, outlaws, and roommates have in common? In this surreal collection of transgender, intersex, and genderqueer short films...everything!

Trandroids dir Britt Dunn 18 min.
When a stranger brings them the key to Master Control, the Trandroids must choose between the safety of hiding or the start of a revolution.

Remember Me in Red dir Hector Ceballos 15 min.
When tragedy strikes a tight-knit group of transgender Latina women in Los Angeles, Fidelia plans her dear friend Alma Flora's funeral as a tribute to her life as a woman. Her parents, however, unexpectedly arrange to bury their son as a man. Fidelia must find a way to respect the parents' memory of their child and honor the way her friend would want to be remembered.

La Santa dir Mauricio Lopez 14 min. (Chile, in Spanish with English Subtitles)
María (13) is intersex and being forced by her father to incarnate the Holy Virgin Mary at their town’s procession, because he thinks this is the only way she can “get fixed.”

The Thing dir Rhys Ernst 15 min.
A couple with a stale relationship and a reluctant cat are on a road trip to "The Thing,” a remote roadside attraction.

Robin Hood is so Gay dir Broch Bender & Oscar McNary 7 min.
This film recovers the legacy of Robin Hood's faggotry, recounting the story of how Robin Hood and the Merry Men fought the Sheriff of Naughtyngham's homophobic policy in 1269.

Lee dir Roland Wiryawan 6 min.
Lee is no ordinary warrior, he has a secret love. When his secret is revealed, Lee must face the hardest battle of her life: to gain respect.

Make a Mate dir Jennifer Jordan Day 3 min.
What makes a perfect mate? All the right ingredients go into this lighthearted animation about finding true love.

Roommates dir Caitlin Parker  8 min.
In this playful romp, Pablo struggles with having a crush on his roommate.

Venues

Echo Park Film Center
1200 North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

The Renberg Theatre, The Village, LA Gay & Lesbian Center
1125 North McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

The Workmen's Circle Cultural Center
1525 S. Robertson Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90035

REDCAT: The quarterly series devoted to experimental performance offers adventurous audiences an interdisciplinary mix of new works and works-in-progress by some of the city’s freshest voices. This edition of Studio was curated with guest curators Charles O. Anderson and Deborah Oliver, and features works by Brandon Alter, Karen Anzoategui, Emily Beattie and Jonathan Snipes, Moira Macdonald, Gabriela Garcia Medina and Jordan Saenz.  Read more

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CalArts, The Wild Beast

MUSIC: Ensembles from Junior Chamber Music will present a concert of their chamber music works.

D300 Gallery: "notes on being a person" by Natalie Hon BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

D301 Gallery: EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION CLASS EXHIBITION- SCHOOL OF FILM/ VIDEO

L-SHAPE Gallery: "My Land of Israel is Beautiful and Blooming" by Lillian Gottlieb BFA ART

MAIN Gallery Perimeter: QUEER ARTS COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION- GROUP

A402 Gallery: Daniel Bernard BFA ART

LIME Gallery: Johanna Deeb BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

MINT Gallery: Margaret Pratt BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

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ART: Martine Syms is a conceptual entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a degree in Film, Video, New Media. Her work focuses on the relationship between commercialism, identity and experience. From 2007-2011, she was the founder and director of Golden Age, a project space focused on exhibitions, performances and printed matter.  

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Spiderman's One-Man Boy Band: Indie Acoustic Folk Pop Worldbeat.

CalArts, Bijou Theater

FILM/VIDEO: Influential Experimental Filmmaker Rose Lowder will show and discuss parts of her oeuvre.

Rose Lowder is one of Europe’s most influential and celebrated cinematic treasures – a filmmaker and scholar who first trained as a painter and sculptor, then later studied with filmmaker Jean Rouch. Since 1977 Lowder has made more than 50 films that create complex single-frame matrices, bordering eerily on the edge of animation. Whether filming the view from her Avignon window, the French countryside, or centuries-old structures, Lowder composes highly charged, multiple-perspective mosaics that explore nature’s visual wonders and the underlying ecology of specific places. She investigates the world around her with a scientist’s precision, and exalts it with a singular vibrancy of form and color.

“If you put a camera in front of a scene and let it run normally, what you get is something that is visually poorer than if you you'd been sitting looking at the scene yourself. You've got two eyes, so you experience volume; and you're aware of a lot of things which would normally be outside of the film frame: when you're seeing a film, you're in a dark room where all your other sensory input is cut off, and you're looking at one isolated little rectangle out of all there is to see. It seemed to me that if you wanted to create, not reality – that’s not interesting at all; you might just as well see reality – but if you want to make a work of film art that is as rich as what one is used to in reality, you have to enrich the film image somehow.” (Rose Lowder)

PROGRAM:

Certaines observations (1979, 14 min, film for 1 screen but 2 projectors)

Les tournesols (Sunflowers)  (1983, 3 min)

Quiproquo (1992, 13 min)

Voiliers et coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats) (2001, 2.6 min)

Bouquets 21-30 (2001-2005, 14 min)

Jardin du soleil/Sun Garden (2010, 2 min)

Rien d’extraordinaire – Nothing Special (2010, 1.45 min)

Fleur de sel/Sea Salt Flower (2010, 32 min)

For more information: http://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-199-rose-lowder.html

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: The graduate students of the MTIID program present an exciting evening of multimedia performance, incorporating the most cutting-edge technologies in digital media.

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

MUSIC: Live music and dj, featuring music from free jazz to hip hop.

CalArts, XBOX (Main Gallery Conference Room)

INSTITUTE / MUSIC: CalArts professor Randy Gloss will be presenting the class which is open to the campus.

Tabla is the primary percussion Instrument found in North Indian (Hindustani) Classical Music.  During the workshop students will be introduced to the techniques, language (bols), rhythmic structures (tala), and concepts (such as tihai, chakradhar, and more) found in this highly developed rhythmic art form.

Links:
http://randygloss.com
http://directory.calarts.edu/node/1978

CalArts students of all disciplines are welcome to attend.  Interested students are free to drop in but are encouraged to RSVP at annie@culturehub.org to ensure space.

Randy Gloss

“Randy Gloss's maneuvering of his frame drum had to be seen to be believed…”
-Mina Silverstone, salamworldwide.com

"Randy Gloss' work on pandeiro (Afro-Brazilian tambourine) was one of the most amazing demonstrations of concentrated virtuosity I've ever seen."
-Greg Burk, metaljazz.com

“Bergamo was successful at creating his own pool of students that went on to professional careers, most notably Randy Gloss who remains a highly innovative frame drummer.”
-Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume II Performance and Production

Randy Gloss, a percussionist whose background performing several modalities of hand drums, contemporary percussion, and drum set has led to his involvement in many innovative ensembles that fuse world music with new music and jazz.  Most notable is Hands On’Semble, a percussion group devoted to the art of hand drumming founded by percussion vanguard John Bergamo.

Winner of Drum! Magazine Reader’s Poll Award for Best Percussion Ensemble in 2003, 2002, and first runner up award in 2001.

"A Stellar percussion group with extraordinary soloing, and extensive palette of sounds"
(Modern Drummer Magazine)

Hands On’Semble has performed and lectured at many of the world’s premier percussion and world music festivals, music schools and conservatories, and have collaborated with a wide array of highly esteemed percussionists including: Swapan Chaudhuri, Adam Rudolph, Poovalur Sriji, Houman Pourmehdi, Glen Velez, Brad Dutz, Jamey Haddad, Steve Shehan, Mark Nauseef, Pete Lockett, Ed Mann, Abbos Kosimov, Carlos Stasi and Guello, and have released four widely acclaimed CDs to date.  Hands on’Semble was also featured extensively on the film soundtracks to Cowboys and Aliens in 2011, and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time in 2010.

In addition to his work with Hands On’Semble, Randy Gloss has also been involved in numerous other projects fusing world music with new music and jazz, including Adam Rudolph’s: “Go: Organic Orchestra” and world percussion group Vashti; The Lian Ensemble, including the Pangea Project with Djivan Gasparyan and Swapan Cahudhuri and the 2009 UCLALive production of Medea starring Annette Bening with Angus Macfadyen directed by Lenka Udovicki with music by Lian Ensemble and Nigel Osbourne.  Randy has also worked with slide veena master Chitravina Ravikiran, Brazilian pianist Jovino Santos Neto; a Balkan/Indian collaboration with maestros Aashish Khan, Swapan Chaudhuri, Miroslav Tadic, Vlatko Stefanovski; pianist Larry Karush; Romanian pan-flutist Damian Draghichi; overtone singer David Hykes to name only some.  Randy Gloss has also contributed percussion for film soundtracks by composers Danny Elfman, Gary Chang, and Harry Gregson-Williams; recorded music for the American Conservatory Theater and Southwest Chamber Music; several extensive percussion sample libraries for software companies such as: Apple (Garage Band), Ilio, and Native Instruments; as well as television shows such as Fear Factor; and video game soundtracks such as Uncharted 3 for Sony PlayStation.  

Randy teaches at CalArts where he has been on the percussion and world music faculty since 1999.  Randy Gloss endorses Remo world percussion and drumheads, and Paiste cymbals and gongs.

CalArts, Bijou Theater
 Free and open to the entire Institute

FILM/VIDEO: Film at REDCAT & The School of Film/Video in collaboration with Intercultural Arts Project Committee (ICAP), The Office of the Provost & The Master of Aesthetics and Politics Program proudly present Trinh T. Minh-ha 3 screenings/presentations, Nov 7, 8 & 9.

Shoot for the Contents

(USA, 102 mins, 16mm, 1991)

The title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game, a maze of allegorical naming and storytelling. The film ponders questions of power and change, politics and culture, stemming from events at Tiananmen Square. While juggling with documentary concepts of getting to the truth, the title simultaneously inquires into the process of filmmaking. The multifaceted layering of images and sounds (Chinese popular songs, classical music, sayings of Mao and Confucius, women's voices, words of artists, philosophers, and other workers) once again touch on the multiplicity of identity, and the politics of representation, in this case, re-presentations of China.

Shoot for the Contents won the Jury's Best Cinematography Award at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival and the Best Feature Documentary Award at the Athens International Film Festival, and toured internationally with the 1993 Biennale of the Whitney Museum.

Trinh T. Minh-ha

Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and composer. She has traveled and lectured extensively-in the States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand-on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80); at universities such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, and Harvard, Ochanomizu (Tokyo), Ritsumeikan (Kyoto), Dongguk (Seoul); and is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

The recipient of numerous awards and grants (including the "Trailblazers" Award at MIPDOC, Cannes; AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, The Japan Foundation, and the California Arts Council), her films have been given over forty two retrospectives in the US, the UK, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, and were exhibited at the international contemporary art exhibition Documenta 11 (2002) in Germany. They have shown widely in the States, in Canada, Senegal, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as in Europe and Asia (including in Italy, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Japan, India, Taiwan, Jerusalem, etc.

Her works include:

Films

• Night Passage (98mins, Digital, 2004) (fiction)
• The Fourth Dimension (87 mins, Digital, 2001)
• A Tale of Love (108 mins, 1995) (fiction)
• Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991)
• Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989)
• Naked Spaces - Living is Round (135 mins, 1985)
• Reassemblage (40 mins, 1982)

 Books

• Elsewhere, Within Here (Routledge 2010)
• The Digital Film Event (Routledge 2005)
• Cinema Interval (Routledge 1999)
• Drawn from African Dwellings (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Indiana University Press 1996)
• Framer Framed (Routledge 1992)
• When the Moon Waxes Red. Representation, gender and cultural politics (Routledge 1991)
• Out There: Marginalisation in Contemporary Culture (Co-editor with Cornel West, R. Ferguson & M. Gever. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art and M.I.T. Press, 1990)
• Woman, Native, Other. Writing postcoloniality and feminism (Indiana University Press 1989)
• En minuscules (book of poems, Edition Le Méridien 1987)
• African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Holmes & Meier 1985)
• Un art sans oeuvre (International Book Publishers, Inc. 1981)

Installations

• Old Land New Waters, Okinawa Fine Arts Museum (opening) November 2007; (exhibition) 2009 and Guangzhou Art Triennial, China (Sept 6 to Nov 16, 2008).
• L' Autre marche (The Other Walk) In collaboration with Jean Paul Bourdier, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France 9 June 2006 -2009
• The Desert is Watching (in coll. with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale)
• Nothing But Ways (in coll. with L. M. Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco)

Music

• Poems. Composition for Percussion Ensemble. Premiere by the Univ. of Illinois Percussion Ensemble, Denis Wiziecki, Director. 09 April 1976.
• Four Pieces for Electronic Music. 1975 Performances at the Univ. of Illinois.

CalArts, Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater

DANCE: The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts presents it annual BFA II Solo Dance Concert, comprised of solo works created by the second year undergraduate dance students, under the direction of Stephanie Nugent. The works are presented in two different programs on separate evenings; half of the pieces will be featured on November 8, and the other half on November 9.

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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Friday, November 9, 2012

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

STUDENT COUNCIL: Student Council hosts this Open Mic night featuring various acts.

Image: Warren Neidich, Neuropower, 2008, magic marker on paper

Goethe-Institute
5750 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

West Hollywood Public Library
626 N. San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles

CRITICAL STUDIES: Hosted by Arne De Boever (MA in Aesthetics and Politics, CalArts), Warren Neidich (The Delft School of Design, TU Delft School of Architecture), and Jason Smith (Art Center).

More information and schedule

The conference begins on Friday, November 9th, 7:30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institute (5750 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles) with a keynote address by Franco “Bifo” Berardi (introduced by Sylvère Lotringer) and continues on Saturday, November 10th and Sunday, November 11th beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the West Hollywood Public Library (626 N. San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles).

Speakers will include: Jonathan Beller, Jodi Dean, Tiziana Terranova, Patricia Pisters, and Bruce Wexler.

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part 1 will bring together philosophers/critical theorists, media theorists, scientists and artists to discuss the state of the mind and brain under the conditions of contemporary capitalism in which they have become the new focus of laboring. How do the transformed conditions of labor--more specifically the fact that so much contemporary labor is immaterial, affective, and cognitive--transform the role of emancipatory politics and education today? When cognitive labor, the work of the mind in the new economy as it participates in social media, web browsing and crowd sourcing, becomes the source of power and wealth, what effects and constraints might that have on the conditions of contemplation itself. The conference will mine the subjects of Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Literary Studies, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Media and Art History just to name a few.

No registration is required and the public is invited for free.

The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part 2 will be held at the ICI-Berlin, March 8-10, 2013.

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater (D212)

THEATER: An evening of improvised songs and music, culminating in a one-act improvised musical.

REDCAT: External constructions and interior depths map this evening of new writing. Bridges and secret passageways, couplings and customs, private speech and public gestures and the multiple biomythic “I,” all collude to create affective and spectral relations between place and persona. The program celebrates the structure of city and self with readings from Matias Viegener’s recently published new book, 2500 Random Things About Me Too; a preview of the next volume in Renee Gladman’s Ravicka series; and new stories from Amina Cain, author of I Go to Some Hollow—all with an awareness that the map is not the territory.  Read more

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Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow (Les Figues Press, 2009) and CREATURE (Dorothy, a publishing project, 2013). Recent stories have appeared in publications such as Dear Navigator, Dewclaw, LRL, and The Encyclopedia Project; as a chaplet through Belladonna*; and in Polish and French translation in MINIMALBOOKS and Jet d'encre. She is also a curator, most recently for the literary/performance/video festivals Both Sides and The Center (with Teresa Carmody) at the MAK Center/Schindler House in Los Angeles, and When Does It or You Begin? Memory as Innovation (with Jennifer Karmin) at Links Hall in Chicago.

In an aesthetic statement, Cain writes, I sit, feeling as if the air is a part of my body. I sit in front of a fire, blazing and warm. Whose hands die when they sit in front of a fire? It snows and the snow covers a wire. Who looks at a wire?

Poet, novelist, and publisher Renee Gladman was born in Atlanta and earned a BA in philosophy at Vassar College and an MA in poetics at the New College of California. Gladman, whose work has been associated with the New Narrative movement, composes prose and poetry that tests the potential of the sentence with mapmaking precision and curiosity. Author of the poetry collection A Picture-Feeling (2005), Gladman has also published several works of prose, including The Ravickians (2011), Event Factory (2010), To After That (2008), Newcomer Can’t Swim (2007), The Activist (2003), Juice (2000), and Arlem (1994). She edits Leon Works, a press for experimental prose, and produced the Leroy chapbook series.  Gladman lives in Massachusetts and teaches at Brown University. When asked if she considers the reader when writing, Gladman responded, It’s bewildering enough trying to grasp “the person” in space and time; imagine trying to think about the reader as you write. For me, writing is a kind of pursuit of company that never comes.

Matias Viegener is a writer, artist and critic who works solo and collaboratively in the fields of writing, visual art, and social practice. He is a co-founder of Fallen Fruit, a participatory art practice focusing on fruit, urban ecology and public space, which has shown work internationally in museums and galleries. Viegener is the author of 2500 Random Things About Me Too.  Neither memoir nor diary but with aspects of each, his new book is an experiment in the construction of identity in a Facebook-drenched world of self-manufacturing and short attention spans. Possibly the first book to have been composed entirely on Facebook, 2500 Random Things About Me Too is a text-cloud raining art, dogs, sex, death and fruit.  Viegener has also co-edited two books, The Noulipian Analects and Séance in Experimental Writing with Christine Wertheim. He is the editor and co-translator of Georges Batailles’ The Trial of Gilles de Rais. About creativity and protest, Viegener says, Frankly, I am quite puzzled as to how to make work about the moment in which we find ourselves.  This feels like nothing else.  The velocity is enormous.  There is far too much information to absorb.  Everything feels immediate and highly mediated; the reaction is often one of intense engagement and also alienation. We need new forms to express this.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: The Jazz program presents visiting artists Kris Tiner & Mike Bagetta, as part of the Jazz Forum class.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: The first of three concerts featuring new music by CalArts graduate composers and performed by the the CalArts New Century Players, under the direction of David Rosenboom.

Upcoming concerts in this series:

• March 4, 2013
• April 15, 2013

CalArts, A300

MUSIC: The Percussion program presents visiting artist Harris Eisenstadt, as part of the Percussion Workshop class.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: An evening of dynamic vocal music.

CalArts, Main Gallery

MUSIC: The second in a series of concerts featuring two extended "works" by two different composers.

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

MUSIC: A two-day exhibition featuring the music of Gavin Bryars and the artwork of Zachary Aronson.  Directed by Ryan Bancroft, performed by musicians of the Herb Alpert School of Music & Quintet "River Song."

CalArts, F200

ART: Pradeep Dalal is a Mumbai-born artist and writer based in New York. Recent exhibitions include: “Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora” in San Francisco, "Exchanging Glances" at Chatterjee & Lal in Mumbai, and  "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic," Murray Guy in New York.  His work is included in Blind Spot 43 and he is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship.  Pradeep has an MFA from ICP/Bard College and a MA in Architecture from MIT. He is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography and the Bard College MFA Program, and he also directs the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.

• http://www.pradeepdalal.com/ 
• For more information on the Creative Capital I Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program: http://artswriters.org/home.html 

Joshua Lutz's large-format photographs of urban sprawl and suburban portraiture capture intimate details of places and their inhabitants in a soft, moody palette. The subtle tension in Lutz's photographs between natural and man-made structures expands upon themes of the New Topographics.  Meadowlands, Lutz's debut monograph, was published by powerHouse Books in 2008.  Breaking down the structure of the photograph as truth and the book as narrative, Lutz's second monograph, Hesitating Beauty, is an intimate portrait that rethinks how photographs and text can function.  Lutz blends family archives, interviews, and letters with his own photographic practice into a precious, fictitious experience of a life and family consumed by mental illness.  Lutz is currently on the faculty of the MFA program at Bard College, The International Center of Photography, and Pratt Institute.

• http://www.joshualutz.com 
• Hear an interview on NPR about his latest book, Hesitating Beauty: http://thestory.org/archive/The_Story_71612.mp3/view 

REDCAT: This powerful re-staging of THEM, an incendiary work of dance theater that premiered in 1986,won a coveted Bessie Award for “bringing an intensely visceral exploration of male identity in the time of AIDS to life with beauty, power, conviction and passion.” Conceived and directed by Ishmael Houston-Jones.  Read more

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CalArts, A300

MUSIC: A non-required mid-residency World Music recital featuring ensemble folk singing and music from different parts of the world.

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater

THEATER: A fundraiser for the graduating showcase class, this night of comedy features My Favorite Unkle sketch comedy troupe and a showcase of revolving stand-up comics and headliners.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Hyung Kyu Lee Jazz Quartet, featuring music by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Dave Holland.

CalArts, Main Gallery

MUSIC: Drumming and dance from Ghana, West Africa, featuring visiting artist Sulley Imoro.

Langley Hall

ART: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is a graphic designer, artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles, user participation in graphic design, and diverse local community issues. Since 1990 she has been the director of the Yale University Graduate Program in Graphic Design, one of the oldest and most important design programs in the country.

De Bretteville studied art history at Barnard College, and chose graphic design at Yale University School of Art, thinking that it would satisfy her thirst to connect with people in regular situations, and her love of what is thoughtfully made.

In 1971 she founded the first design program for women at the California Institute of the Arts, and two years later co-founded both “The Woman's Building,” a public center for female culture, and its Women's Graphic Center in Los Angeles. In 1981 she initiated the communication design program at the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design.

REDCAT: With Reconversão (Reconversion), Thom Andersen opens another fascinating chapter of his ongoing investigation of architectural landscapes, their filmic representation, and their relation to history, by focusing on 17 buildings and projects by the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.  Read more

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CalArts, Bijou Theater

FILM/VIDEO: "His reputation rests on a quite unique sensibility which has successfully married three traits - humour, documentary and formal ingenuity - into an indissoluble whole."
Michael O'Pray, Art Monthly, 2002

Program

• Om    1986, 4 mins
• Associations    1975, 7 mins
• Gargantuan    1992, 1 min.
• The Girl Chewing Gum    1976, 12 mins
• The Black Tower    1985-7, 24 mins.
• Blight    1994-6, 14 mins.
• The Kiss    1999, 5 mins.
• Flag Mountain    2010, 8 mins.
• Dad’s Stick    2012, 5 mins.

John Smith has been a leading figure in the British avant-garde film scene for more than three decades. Inspired by conceptual art and the structural materialist ideas that dominated British experimental filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work that deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction. Drawing upon the raw material of everyday life, Smith's meticulously crafted films rework and transform reality, playfully exploring and exposing the language of cinema.

Since 1972 John Smith has made over fifty film, video and installation works that have been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television around the world and awarded major prizes at many international film festivals.

John Smith was born in Walthamstow, East London in 1952 and studied film at the Royal College of Art. He lives and works in London and teaches part-time at the University of East London, where he is Professor of Fine Art. He is represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.

For more information: http://www.johnsmithfilms.com/texts/sf8.html

CalArts, Coffeehouse Theater (D212)

THEATER: An evening of improvised songs and music, culminating in a one-act improvised musical.

D300 Gallery: Kevin Smith BFA ART

D301 Gallery: Alexander Woods BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

L-SHAPE Gallery: "Foma et situs agri" by Shahrzad Nikzad BFA ART

MAIN Gallery Perimeter: Camila Romero BFA ART

A402 Gallery: Vanessa Sioufi BFA ART

LIME Gallery: Madeline Becket BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

MINT Gallery: Nebras Hoveizavi BFA PHOTO/MEDIA

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: The Jazz program presents visiting artist Andy Milne with Snakes and Serpents, as part of the Jazz Forum class.

CalArts, Roy O. Disney Music Hall

MUSIC: Concert featuring performances of chamber works by students and faculty.

CalArts, Bijou Theater

FILM/VIDEO: Charles Burnett, filmmaker and faculty member in the School of Film/Video, Film Directing program, will present his legendary film Killer of Sheep (1979).

"I don't think I'm capable of answering problems that have been here for many years. But I think the best I can do is present them in a way where one wants to solve these problems." — Charles Burnett

The Film

Writer/Director Charles Burnett submitted his first feature, Killer of Sheep, as his thesis for his MFA in film at UCLA. The film was shot on location near his family's home in Watts in a series of weekends on a shoestring budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money.

With a mostly amateur cast (consisting of Burnett's friends and acquaintances), much handheld camera work, episodic narrative and gritty documentary-style cinematography, Killer of Sheep has been compared by film critics and scholars to Italian neorealist films like Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief and Roberto Rossellini's Paisan. However, Burnett cites Basil Wright's Songs of Ceylon and Night Mail and Jean Renoir's The Southerner as his main influences.

In 1981, Killer of Sheep received the Critic's Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1990, the Library of Congress declared it a national treasure and placed it among the first 50 films entered in the National Film Registry for its historical significance. In 2002, the National Society of Film Critics selected the film as one of the 100 Essential Films of all time.

Charles Burnett

Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 13, 1944, Charles Burnett moved with his family to the Watts area of Los Angeles at an early age. He describes the community of having a strong mythical connection with the South as a result of having so many Southern transplants, an atmosphere which has informed much of his work.

Burnett first studied as an electrician but soon became bored with the idea of making this his career and went to UCLA, where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts in Filmmaking. There, he was greatly influenced by professors Elyseo Taylor—creator of the Ethno-Communications department—and Basil Wright—the English documentarian famous for Night Mail and Songs of Ceylon. He became fast friends with fellow future greats like Haile Gerima (Sankofa), and Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust), collaborating with them and others on a number of projects. Burnett cites Jean Renoir, Satyajit Ray, and Sidney Lumet (The Pawnbroker) as important influences.

Burnett has been awarded grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the J. P. Getty Foundation. He is also the winner of the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, and one of the very few people ever to be honored with Howard University's Paul Robeson Award for achievement in cinema. The Chicago Tribune has called him "one of America's very best filmmakers" and the New York Times named him "the nation's least-known great filmmaker and most gifted black director."

Burnett has even had a day named after him—the mayor of Seattle declared February 20, 1997 as Charles Burnett Day. Burnett recently directed a documentary on Nat Turner and one chapter of the six-part documentary, The Blues, a production of Martin Scorsese's CPA Productions with Off-Line Entertainment. His latest feature is Nujoma: Where Others Wavered, shot in Namibia.

Charles Burnett lives west of Watts with his wife, costume designer Gaye Burnett. They have two sons.

For more information: http://www.killerofsheep.com/

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