See: http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/everyday-miracles-extended

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/james-benning ($)

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/wooden-floor ($)

ART:

D300 Gallery: RELOCATION by: Jinyoung Koh MFA

D301 Gallery: Rafael Hernandez BFA

L-Shape Gallery: Vacancy by Madeline Wright BFA

Main Gallery: Character Animation Exhibition

A402 Gallery: H1N1: The Xenophobic Spread Takes a Hard Hit to the Head by: Monique Villaneuva BFA

Lime Gallery: Jordan Johnson BFA

Mint Gallery: Babyness by Sarah Merkle BFA

FILM/VIDEO: The first Tuesday night Structuring Strategies presentation will be James Benning's 16mm feature-length portrait of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, Casting A Glance. This will only be the film's second screening in the Los Angeles area, and James will be on hand to introduce and discuss the film. James' most recent film, Ruhr, premiered January 11th at REDCAT and was the subject of several critical appreciations, including in Artforum on line.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/grupo-de-rua ($)

ART:

Dylan Fracareta will be presenting Monday, January 25

www.pinupmagazine.org

Dylan Fracareta runs an independent design practice in New York, focusing on design for fashion and cultural sectors. Prior to founding his own firm, he worked with AR New York, as the art director for Flair and Elle Accessories magazines. He is the designer of PIN–UP magazine, an adjunct professor in graphic design at the City College of New York, Fordham University, and the University of Connecticut. Dylan, a guest lecturer/critic atColumbia University, Queens College and Yale University, holds an MFA from Yale and studied graphic design in The Netherlands.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Paul LaFarge is the author of three books, The Artist of the Missing (1999; winner of the California Book Award), Haussmann, or the Distinction (2001; a New York Times Notable Book) and The Facts of Winter (2005). Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Bard Fiction Prize, LaFarge also works as a journalist, historical researcher, and editor. He contributes regularly to magazines such as McSweeney's, and has edited for the New York Review of Books series. He currently lives in upstate New York, where he is at work on two new novels.

MUSIC: A recital of original compositions—acoustic and electroacoustic with dance (one piece).

MUSIC: New works from Concert Theater: Jingle Couch, Chain, Heart Ritual #2 and others.

ART:

D300 Gallery: Submerged by Sean Tully BFA

D301 Gallery: UNWIND by Ariane Roesch MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Dear Darling, by Andy Robert MFA

Main Gallery: La the Belly of a Shanla by Christian Montoya-Flores BFA

A402 Gallery: Christopher Velasco vs. Rickthorn: Barb-Wire Death Match by Christopher Velasco BFA

Lime Gallery: Janell Hughes BFA

Mint Gallery: REMOTE SENSING: The Piety of the Actual by Thomas Macker MFA

MUSIC: A concert of Bill's music with participation by faculty members, students and alumni.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/chris-langdon ($)

ART:

Kianga Ford
Tuesday, January 26th at 7pm in F200

Kianga Ford holds a BA from Georgetown University in 1994; an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003 and is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has had solo exhibitions at Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, and Occidental College, Los Angeles, both in 2005. Ford has been included in group exhibitions including Brown vs. Board of Education at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles, 2004, Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, 2005, the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art and has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, and The Brooklyn Institute for Contemporary Art.  She has collaborated on sound and music projects with composers and performance companies in Canada, the United States, and Europe. 

FILM/VIDEO: Faculty member Raffaello Mazza will screen his new feature-length documentary film, Having Never. Having Never is based on Mazza's discovery of a James Tenney composition as it was performed by Danny Holt at a CalArts Tenney music festival. It includes interviews with a number of Tenney's associates and family and ends with a full-length performance of Having Never Written a Note for Percussion performed by Danny Holt on the tam-tam. Raffaello will also show another short piece, Liquid Dancer.

MUSIC: Concert for winds and electric guitars featuring Ulrich Krieger, Vinnie Golia, Brian Walsh (winds); Chas Smith (pedal steel guitar); and Antony De Gennaro, Michael Jon Fink (electric guitars).

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/scream-festival ($)

ART:

Michael Webster
Thursday, January 28th at 7pm in F200

Michael Webster is an LA-based opera composer, producer and sound and recording artist .  His operas (most recently HELL, with Eileen Myles) have been widely performed: in Southern California at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, UCLA Hammer Museum, MAK center, LACE and LACMA, as well as in New York, San Francisco, Mexico, and Europe.  He has also worked on installations, performances, and films with or for many visual artists, including Sharon Lockhart,  Mungo Thomson,  Jeff Koons , Stephen Prina, Simon Leung,  Kerry Tribe, and Joe Sola; collaborated with poets such as Eileen Myles and Diane Ward; and worked in the studio with musicians like Van Dyke Parks, Tracy Chapman, The Circle Jerks, Luke Stoneham, and Winnie the Pooh.  He was a member of the seminal LA psychedelic group "The Native Shrubs of the Santa Monica Mountains", and is currently  half (with Joe Sola) of the performance-art duo "Shakeys".

INTEGRATED MEDIA: Please join the Center for Integrated Media for an evening with New Media artists, Keith and Mendi Obadike. Keith and Mendi are visiting from NYC, and will be discussing music, art, and literature. To learn more about their work, check out http://www.blacknetart.com/.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Fence, Bomb, The Believer, Grand Street, the New York Times, and Artforum. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a second novel.

MUSIC: A concert of music for piano and piano AND.

MUSIC: Making a Mess & Cleaning It Up: An evening of Bergamo, Bardales and Dagomba grooves, and featuring a performance by Modern American Theatre.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/steve-horowitz-and-code-ensemble ($)

MUSIC: Violin and piano recital presented by Laura Roelofs and Robert Conway, musicians from Detroit.

The MFA 3 Experimental Animation Class of 2009

is proud to announce a screening of their works at REDCAT

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

7 pm to 9 pm

Reception following 

This first time event represents independent and adventurous artists exhibiting their thesis projects together. Their regard for animation as a highly dynamic, ever evolving art form using Stop Motion, CGI, Drawn Animation, Performance and hybrid forms of these techniques are well represented in digital media. 

The following graduates are showing works.

Sahar Al-Sawaf

Danielle Ash

Donna Golden

Jesse Gregg

Meredith Harris

Ke Jiang

Seon Young Kil

Bo Sul Kim

Michael Kline

Nandita Kumar

Una Lorenzen

Dillon Markey

E. Y. Park

Beomsik Shimbe Shim

Andrew Zimbleman

Please come and help celebrate the completion of their work. We look forward to your being there and meeting the filmmakers at the reception following the event. Please RSVP and consult the attachments for more information.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

ART:

D300 Gallery: Máu Nhuóm Bén Thúóng Hái (Blood Dyed Wharf of Shanghai) by Lam Vuong MFA

D301 Gallery: It's Breaks, Innit Luv by Rohini Kapil MFA

L-Shape Gallery: 3.5 Miles on Valley Blvd. by Vivian Lin MFA

Main Gallery: I Understand There is Great Passion and Discontent Amongst Those of You Who Gather Here Today by Amy Chapman MFA

A402 Gallery: New Work by Ian Hokin MFA

Lime Gallery: I Can't Believe I Am Still Fucking Protesting This Shit by Monica Rodriguez MFA

Mint Gallery: Great Expectations by Abel Gutierrez MFA

ART:

Antoine+Manuel will be presenting 
Monday, Feb. 1
7pm
F200

http://www.antoineetmanuel.com/

In the early 1990s, Antoine Andiau and Manuel Warosz morphed into the two man studio Antoine+Manuel. Like cartoon characters discovering super strength, this transformation gave the designers a new identity and changed the way they practiced their craft. With their powers combined as Antoine+Manuel, the pair lives, works, designs, and creates together. Influenced by television, music, architecture, and children's books, Antoine+Manuel create a rich world of stylish daydreams that is both whimsical and elegant, cartoonish, and sophisticated, retro and fresh. They think of their projects as playgrounds and have been fortunate that clients like Christian Lacroix, Domestic, and the Collection Lambert en Avignon have given them absolute freedom to experiments with special materials and printing techniques. their elaborate and detailed work are rich with meaning. It's easy to spend hours following every curve and pattern, finding a seemingly endless web of mischievous little details.

(extracted from Area 2, published by Phaidon )

MUSIC: A mid-residency recital featuring all original music on bass, trombone and piano.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/paul-chan ($)

ART:

Please join us for a visiting artist lecture with Paul Pfeiffer, the
2009 recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts, on Tuesday, February
2nd at 7pm in F200.

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966, but spent most of
his childhood in the Philippines. Pfeiffer relocated to New York in
1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent
Study Program. Pfeiffer’s groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and
photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that
mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In a series of video works
focused on professional sports events—including basketball, boxing,
and hockey—Pfeiffer digitally removes the bodies of the players from
the games, shifting the viewer’s focus to the spectators, sports
equipment, or trophies won. Presented on small LCD screens and often
looped, these intimate and idealized video works are meditations on
faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity.
Many of Pfeiffer’s works invite viewers to exercise their imaginations
or project their own fears and obsessions onto the art object. Several
of Pfeiffer’s sculptures include eerie, computer-generated recreations
of props from Hollywood thrillers, such as “Poltergeist,” and
miniature dioramas of sets from films that include “The Exorcist” and
“The Amityville Horror.” Pfeiffer is the recipient of numerous awards
and fellowships, most notably becoming the inaugural recipient of The
Bucksbaum Award given by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2000). In
2002, Pfeiffer was an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and at ArtPace in San Antonio, Texas, and most
recently won the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts. He has exhibited
internationally in solo and group exhibitions including recent solo
shows at BAIBAKOV art projects, Moscow, Hamburg Bahnhof, Berlin, and
Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

FILM/VIDEO: Paul Chan is a celebrated multimedia artist and recipient of last year's Herb Alpert Award in Film and Video.  Mr. Chan will lecture and present examples of his recent gallery installations that involve animation and shadows.

MUSIC: Vocal recital featuring piano, violin and harpsichord.

ART:

CRITICAL STUDIES: D. A. Powell is the author of four books of poetry, Tea (1998); Lunch (2000); Cocktails (2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Chronic (2009). His subjects range from movies, art, and other trappings of contemporary culture to the AIDS pandemic. Powell has received a Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Center, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America, among other awards. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Sonoma State University, San Francisco State University, and served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University. He currently teaches at the University of San Francisco, and edits the online magazine Electronic Poetry Review.

MUSIC: Matty Harris and friends present an evening of original music and covers.

MUSIC: Original compositions and world premieres by BFA Performer/Composer Louis Lopez.

MUSIC: Sounding Out is a student-run concert series that provides an open platform for the performance of works by CalArts composers.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/yamaha-pianos-all-star-revue ($)

MUSIC: A recital with music from some of your favorite fairy tales!

INSTITUTE: Organized by Student Council, the Haiti Benefit Concert will bring artists together to raise awareness of the crisis in Haiti. We will honor those who have lost their lives, as well as raise money to help the survivors of the devasting earthquake. Performances will include the spoken word, dance, gospel and monologues, with an open mic for anyone who would like to contribute or say a few words. We will accept donations of cash and clothing, and baked goods will be available for purchase. Please join us for this worthwhile cause and a fun evening.

MUSIC: Jazz drums recital.

ART:

Christopher Pullman will be presenting 
Monday, Feb. 8
7pm in F200


Chris is living graphic design history as well as a thoughtful, reflective, and articulate observer who enables us to better understand the constantly shifting and permutating discipline of graphic design.

From 1973 until 2008, Chris served as Vice President for design and branding at WGBH, public broadcasting in Boston. He and his staff were responsible for the visual personality of WGBH, through its titles, credits and animation, promotional and sales support, classroom materials and interactive media. From 1982 to 1987 he had additional responsibility for the numerous trade books, publications and products the station produces in conjunction with its programming. In 1986, WGBH was awarded the Design Leadership Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts recognizing the station's contribution to “the advancement of design by application of the highest standards, as a matter of policy, to all its visual communications.” 
 
Chris was also the design client for WGBH’s new studio and headquarters facility, working with the architect, Polshek Partnership. 
 
As a reflection of his interest in design and business, Chris has served on the boards of the Design Management Institute and the Corporate Design Foundation.  In 1993 he was included in the first list of the I.D. Forty, from ID Magazine. In 2002 he received the AIGA Medal.  
 
Chris receive his BA in History from Princeton University in 1963 and his MFA in Graphic Design at Yale in 1966. He still serves as Senior Critic at Yale, teaching the fundamentals of time-based media.

ART:

D300 Gallery: Cathode Ray Blues: Amongst Zombies and Cyborgs by Anthony Banuelos MFA

D301 Gallery:  George Geiger BFA

L-Shape Gallery: Origins by Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle MFA

Main Gallery: Together Again by Melodie Mousset MFA

A402 Gallery: As Measured Against by Nicole Yamagawa MFA

Lime Gallery: Africa is Real 1995/2010 by Michala Nautrup-Hansen MFA

Mint Gallery: Far and Away by Keaton Macon MFA

MUSIC: An acoustic concert and lecture demonstration by Grey Larson, Irish flutist.

MUSIC: Chamber music and solos by this experimental pioneer of Polish music. Works were written between 1960-1985 and research the sound of instruments in many new ways.

FILM/VIDEO: Film editor, restorer and archivist Claudine Kaufmann will introduce two silent films by Jean Renoir, restored by la Cinémathèque française—La Fille de l’Eau (1925) and Sur un Air de Charleston (1927). Claudine will also lecture on film restoration and the relationship between early cinema and the avant-garde.

MUSIC: Concert featuring students and faculty from Performance, Jazz, World Music and MAP.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/wooster-group-1 ($)

CRITICAL STUDIES: A workshop on many aspects of publishing by independent publisher Richard Nash (formerly of Soft Skull Press and Counterpoint).

CAP: Come celebrate CAP's 20 years of award-winning youth arts education programs and collaborative community partnerships! CAP thanks the CalArts commmunity for 20 years of support!

INSTITUTE: Please welcome new faculty member Alice Tuan, Head of Writing for Performance. The evening will include a reading of Alice's play Hit, with a reception following in Tatum. Hit is a severly contemporary play about Los Angeles. Mank, an out-of-towner, hits Korean adoptee Kim in a car accident and gets pulled into her perverse world. Caution: this play is not for squeamish people with weak stomachs.

DANCE: Dance concert of student selected works; first BFA choreography and performances of the spring season.

Reserve tickets

CRITICAL STUDIES: Publishing event with independent publisher Richard Nash (formerly of Soft Skull Press and Counterpoint), literary agent Elise Capron (of the Sandra Dijkstra Agency), and CalArts MFA alum Cheryl Klein.

FILM/VIDEO: Single channel video projection and sound installation by Francisco Janes.

FILM/VIDEO: Two of John Greyson's feature films will be screened in advance of his visit; introduction by Abigail Severance. 

ZERO PATIENCE, 1993, 100 min, Canada. A fanciful, exuberant and audacious gay musical that skewers the theory of "Patient Zero," the French-Canadian flight attendant thought to have brought the AIDS virus to North America.

UNCUT, 1997, 92 min, Canada. Uncut satirically compares and contrasts the issues of censorship and circumcision in the story of three Peters: a writer obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, a college student who ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision, and an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own.

MUSIC: Cathlene Pineda performs with special guests and friends.

DANCE/MUSIC/THEATER: Musical performances

MUSIC: Piano recital featuring Beethoven's Opus III, Carter's 90+, Rachmaninov's Moment Musical No. 4 and Crumb's Voice of the Whale (miked for piano, flute and cello).

See: http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/brinkmanship-park-chan-kyong-and-sean-s...

MUSIC: Concert of piano music and soprano.

MUSIC: An afternoon of original works and soulful vocal music.

STUDENT AFFAIRS: A performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues. Proceeds benefit the SCV Domestic Violence Center.

MUSIC: This Valentine's Day, spend an hour listening to songs about death and misery. Featuring works by Schubert, Mozart, Janáček , Franck and Charpentier.

MUSIC: Terry Riley's landmark minimalist piece, performed by Alex Sramek.

ART:

D300 Gallery:  Jacob Jones MFA

D301 Gallery:  David Jovel BFA

L-Shape Gallery: The Sky a Wall and a Tree by Fiona Conner MFA

Main Gallery: Work by Eric Staniford & Patrick Columbo by Enrique Urrutia BFA

A402 Gallery: Yo Queiro Mucho by Zachary Sharrin MFA

Lime Gallery: Claire Nereim MFA

Mint Gallery: Chickashwah by Cammie Staros MFA

ART:

Arthur Ou is a Taiwan-born artist whose concerns include the legacy of modernist art and photography’s predominant role in visual culture. Although Mr. Ou earned an MFA in photography at Yale in 2000, he is perhaps best described as a multi-media artist rather than a photographer per se. He studied civil engineering at the University of California at Irvine between 1992 and 1995, before receiving a MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2000, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1997. Selected solo exhibitions include To Preserve, To Elevate, To Cancel at Hudson Franklin in New York (2007), On Every New Thing There Lies Already the Shadow of Annihilation at IT Park Gallery in Taipei, Taiwan (2005), and Faces at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2000). His work has also appeared in exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, Vancouver, Dresden and Beijing. His work has been featured in publications including Blind Spot, Art On Paper, and Art in America. He is currently an Assistant Professor in photography at Parsons the New School for Design. He lives and works in New York

FILM/VIDEO:  Berenice Reynaud introduces and hosts John Greyson. Open to the Institute with priority seating for students enrolled in F 153 Structuring Strategies with Steve Anker.

“Fig Trees is an extremely challenging work, absolutely innovative, both politically and aesthetically. The film scene needs this urgently: to develop the language of film, to give it a foundation and a background.” Wieland Speck, Berlinale.

FIG TREES, (2008, 104 min, Canada.)

FIG TREES is a masterful indictment of the pharmaceutical industry and AIDS policy in Canada and South Africa. Using a whirlwind of biting opera, a perverse countdown of Top-40 AIDS songs, a singing squirrel, and the patron saints of amputees, leather and soldiers, Greyson weaves together the true stories of two prominent AIDS activists, Canadian Tom McCaskell and South African Zackie Achmat. In this breathless, fantastical melange, the activists sing opera, Gertrude Stein celebrates the completion of her 1928 play Four Saints in Three Acts, and as always, Greyson turns a wicked, sharp eye on the intersection of politics, history and community. A lyrical, profoundly effective film, FIG TREES won the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Berlinale.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Brent Hayes Edwards is a Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His areas of expertise include African American literature, theories of diaspora, the history of colonialism, surrealism, 20th-century poetics, and jazz. He is the author of the award-winning The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. He is currently working on a cultural history of “loft jazz” in downtown New York in the 1970s.

MUSIC: Recital featuring Bach, Wieniawski, Brahms, Pärt and Beethoven, with a few special guests!

MUSIC: Trio Kobayashi (Anna Robinson, horn; Matt Barbier, trombone; and Luke Storm, tuba) performs works by Ori Barel, Larry Polansky and Ulrich Krieger.

INSTITUTE: Performance and fundraiser for V-Day! Stop the Violence Campaign.

FILM/VIDEO: LILIES, 1996, 96 minute, Canada. Q&A with John Greyson to follow. Open to the Institute. In LILIES, winner of the six Canadian Genie Awards, Greyson makes full use of a broad, cinematic canvas and demonstrates his signature wit and sensual theatricality at full force. A stunning cast explores repressed passion and boundary-crossing gender representations in a 1950’s era Quebec prison. A lush tale of love, betrayal and sexual panic, based on the play Les feluettes Michel Marc Bouchard.

“Lilies catapults over gay cinema ghetto walls and into the front ranks of international filmmakers… Incorporating theatrical devices from Shakespeare, Wilde, Genet and Peter Weiss, Greyson and Bouchard have structured Lilies like a set of Chinese boxes. Challengingly, but always coherently, they have created plays within plays, emphasizing the idea that gender itself is a kind of performance… Not since the ‘60s masterpieces by Bertolucci and Coppola has there been such an exquisite display of voluptuous, virtuoso filmmaking.” Joel E. Siegel, Washington City Paper

MUSIC: A blending of Tina Raymond's favorite things—yoga and jazz.

MUSIC: A concert of voice and piano.

ART:

Chris Kraus is the author of the novels Torpor, Aliens & Anorexia, and a collection of essays about the Los Angeles art world, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. She is also a video artist and filmmaker  and has produced several films and performances including,  Gravity & Grace, How To Shoot A Crime, and The Golden Bowl, or, Repression. She has written on art, poetics, and theory for academic anthologies and art magazines. Kraus is the founding editor of Semiotext(e)’s Native Agents imprint.

INSTITUTE: DVD presentation

CRITICAL STUDIES: Peter Gadol is the author of six books: Coyote (Crown, 1990), The Mystery Roast (Crown, 1993), Closer to the Sun (Picador, 1996), The Long Rain (Picador, 1997; nominated for a prize from PEN West), Light at Dusk (Picador, 2000), and Silver Lake, to be published by Tyrus Books in September 2009. Currently Gadol is writing an epic novel about twentieth-century design titled American Modern. His short fiction has appeared in Story and Tin House, and he has taught at UCLA and CalArts. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing Program at Otis College of Art and Design.

MUSIC: Solo violin recital; one piece has a small percussion set-up.

MUSIC: Concert of electronic music and media.

FILM/VIDEO: Guest lecture on MEDIA ACTIVISM AND HUMOR. Includes short films by Greyson, as well as clips from other filmmakers’ work. Abigail Severance introduces and hosts John Greyson. Open to the Institute with priority seating for students enrolled in FD 518 Guest Artist Workshop.

MUSIC: Live scoring of Menilmontant, a film by Dimitri Kirsanoff, by Duodenum (Carmina Escobar, voice and loops; Scott Collins, guitar and electronics).

MUSIC: Steve Blum and friends present a night of original jazz and improvisational music.

MUSIC: An overnight concert of music suitable for both the conscious and unconscious mind.

INSTITUTE: An open mic night to share your work/art (music, dance, poetry, lip-synching).

MUSIC: Recital, n.,: the act or process or an instance of reciting

MUSIC: Performer-composer clarinetist Alex Sramek and friends perform music by Sramek and others for this MFA mid-residency recital. Attendees may win fabulous prizes!

MUSIC: BFA graduation piano preview recital featuring works by Brahms, Griffes, de Falla, Esenvalds and Saint Saëns, with guests Juris Zvikovs and Breanna Sinclaire.

MUSIC: Danny Holt celebrates the launch of his new CD Release, performing piano music by Mike Garson, Nico Muhly, Michael Jon Fink, Radiohead and more.

MUSIC: Recital of works by J.S. Bach, George Crumb, and a pint of traditional Irish tunes, featuring Greg Byers, Aaron Chavez, Sarah Hodges, Joaquin Gallegos, Max Mendoza, Jake Rosenzweig, Joe Santa Maria, Leo Tolkin and Lesley Wheeler.

ART:

D300 Gallery:  The Taxidermists Daughter by Melissa Wilson BFA

D301 Gallery:  Axis Mundi by Marilyn Lowey MFA 

L-Shape Gallery: Arjuna Neuman MFA

Main Gallery: Amendment XIV, Section 1 by Clifford Pun MFA

A402 Gallery: We Are Rudolf Steiner by Alexandra Sachs BFA

Lime Gallery: Wipeout by Ryan McGuffin BFA

Mint Gallery: Limping in the Rust Belt by Candace Lewis BFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: Louise O'Donnell, Sofia Arreguin, Riley Reasor, and Kyle Leeser

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MUSIC: The third of a four-concert series in the School of Music, featuring the music of undergraduate Music Composition majors at CalArts.

Additional Undergraduate Composers' Concert on April 5, 2010.

Join us in this gathering of people who want to learn, share, find support for, act on and engage in dialog about:

Art for social change + Art and social responsibility + Strategies for community engagement and social change through the arts +Context-based and collaborative artistic practices + Presentations by visiting artists, activists and civic leaders + Self-empowerment strategies for artists and their communities + Alternative or minority histories +Practices outside institutional and mainstream venues

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Join us in this gathering of people who want to learn, share, find support for, act on and engage in dialog about:

Art for social change + Art and social responsibility + Strategies for community engagement and social change through the arts +Context-based and collaborative artistic practices + Presentations by visiting artists, activists and civic leaders + Self-empowerment strategies for artists and their communities + Alternative or minority histories +Practices outside institutional and mainstream venues.

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FILM/VIDEO: As part of a three-day celebration of African-American arts on campus, we are showing Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000), the director's outspoken critique of racism in the entertainment industry. Melissa Shepherd, Douglas Kearney, and others will be on hand to lead a discussion on the complex issues raised within the film.

MUSIC: Come join Argenta in her happy place for a night of songs of nature, death, and silliness.

MUSIC: A performance workshop given by the multi-cultural Los Angeles-based Balkan/Romanian/Flamenco/Gypsy jazz ensemble Fishtank Ensemble.

THEATER: CalArts’ absorbing production of Henry V is a brash and visceral interpretation of William Shakespeare’s historical play.  Directed by Head of BFA Acting Mary Lou Rosato, Henry V weaves the tale of young Henry as he ascends the throne of England after a series of bitter civil wars have left the English populace dissatisfied and skeptical of authority.  In addition to winning his people’s confidence, Henry must overcome the stain left on his character by an adolescence spent in the company of thieves and drunkards.  In an attempt to encourage national pride, Henry lays claim to parts of France, spurring an insulting message from the Dauphin of France.  Offended, Henry gathers an army and invades France, determined to claim not only his birthright, but also the hand of the French princess, Catherine.

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MUSIC: A musical concert highlighting living composers, as part of a three-day festival.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Reading of work by MFA Criticial Studies students.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/teatro-en-el-blanco ($)

ART:

Susan Sellers
Thursday, Feb. 25
7:00 PM
Graphic Design Grad Crit Room

www.2x4.org

Susan Sellers is founding partner and creative director at 2x4 and a lecturer at Yale University School of Art. At 2x4, she leads diverse projects from large-scale identity and branding projects to exhibition and set design for major cultural institutions nation-wide. Recent projects include comprehensive positioning for the Museo Picasso Málaga and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, exhibition design for Tricia Brown Dance Company, and several major book projects with the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Berlin. She has been a visiting design critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ohio State University School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin and SCI-ARC. Her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues and Visible Language. She has held positions in several studios including Total Design and UNA in Amsterdam. Sellers holds a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.A. in American Studies from Yale University.

ART:

Brian Bress is an LA based  artist who works primarily as a video artist nut employs sculpture and drawing skills in the building of his sets and characters. Since receiving his MFA from UCLA in 2006, Bress has participated in a string of group shows and more recently, solo shows in New York at Zach Feuer Gallery and LA at Angstrom gallery and Cherry and Martin, where he is currently represented. 

BrianBress.com

MUSIC: Two piano improvisations, part of a concert tour for Where is Pannonica? SACD.

DANCE: MFA-1 Dance concert with choreography by Rachel Boyajian, Lisa Long and Natalie Metzger.

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MUSIC: Recital featuring music by Taraf de Haidouks, Django Reinhardt, a newly commissioned work by Casey Cangelosi, Béla Bartók, and traditional folk music from Eastern Europe.

THEATER: Adrienne Kennedy's June and Jean in Concert, directed by Nataki Garrett, explores the past and present relationship between twins June and Jean. Through the sisters' fractured memories of growing up in the South, June and Jean explore their family relationships.

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See: http://www.redcat.org/event/2010-RICFF-01 ($)

MUSIC: Guitar recital featuring classical guitar trio music, flamenco, and Afro beat.

MUSIC: Gerardo F. Pacheco performs works by Ricardo Benitez, Pedro Eustache, David Roitstein, Vinny Golia, Juan Luis de Pablo Enriquez, Michaël Lévinas and Roger Marcelo.

MUSIC: Fun-time jazz music performed by students.

MUSIC: A concert of world premieres and original songs featuring performances by Matt Barbier, Fliiktet, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, David Johnson, Mark Menzies, William Powell, Allan Vogel, Bob Clendenen and Matt Cook.

MUSIC: An evening of music with Will Marsh and friends, featuring original compositions, as well as performances of North Indian classical music on sitar and tabla.

ART:

D300 Gallery:  My Mother, Myself  by Vivian Joyner MFA

D301 Gallery: This Does Not Belong to You by Sage Paisner MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Ramak Fazel MFA

Main Gallery: Encounters by Marisa Sciabarrasi MFA

A402 Gallery: Thank you for the Sweaters, Grandma Great by Christine Regan BFA

Lime Gallery: Nuance, Nuisance and Blood Before Water by Lindsay Tunkl BFA

Mint Gallery: A City Upon a Hill by Tomas Mickiewicz-Seidita BFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: Virtually Monumental by Jon Merritt BFA

MUSIC: Concert featuring student performances of chamber music.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/don-levy ($)

FILM/VIDEO: Experimental and documentary filmmaker and CalArts faculty Adele Horne will be screening her work, including her newest piece And Again which is work in progress.

Adele Horne makes documentary, essayistic, and experimental films and videos. Her film The Tailenders was broadcast nationally on the PBS program P.O.V. in July 2006 and won Film Independent’s “Axium Truer than Fiction Award” in the 2007 Spirit Awards.

Horne's film and videos have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Morelia International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Images Festival, Flaherty Film Seminar, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles FilmForum, PDX Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, the Mix Festival, Women in the Director's Chair, and Mad Cat Women's Film and Video Festival, among other venues.

MUSIC: A piano concert featuring works by Granados, Garuta, Bach and more.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/kyong-park ($)

MUSIC: Recital featuring the works of James Brandon Lewis, John Coltrane and others. Great music, great time, great musicians.

MUSIC: BFA graduation piano recital featuring works by Brahms, Griffes, Poulenc, de Falla, Ešenvalds and Saint Saëns, with guests Breanna Sinclaire, Sydne Sullivan and an orchestra of peers led by Drake Peterson.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/antonio-damasio ($)

ART:

Adam Michaels of project projects

Thursday / March 4, 2010 / 7:30P
Location: E11 (Photography Dept.)

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Adam Michaels is co-founder and principal of Project Projects, a studio in New York focusing on design for art and architectural clients. The studio also produces independent curatorial and publishing projects. Recently, Project Projects was selected as Finalists in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Adam Michaels studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and worked at design studios in Los Angeles and Minneapolis before becoming the Associate Art Director of Architecture magazine in New York. In 2002, he began his own studio, also collaborating with David Reinfurt's studio O-R-G Inc. He has lectured at the Walker Art Center and has been a critic at Columbia GSAPP, Parsons School of Design, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Yale School of Art. He edits the Inventory Books series for Princeton Architectural Press, self-publishes books and music recordings, and teaches in the graduate graphic design program at the RISD.

Art:

ART: Once described as "the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull
and Crazy Horse" by the LA Times, and pop-rendered by Warhol himself,
Means has been a part of public demonstrations, activist interventions
and performances, and continues to be a controversial figure in
American politics, art, and culture. Means is also a printmaker and
painter, most famously known for his lithograph series titled "Indian
Killers" (2004). In an act of "political performance" part satire-part
political statement, Means ran for office as V.P. to Larry Flynt in
1984. In Hollywood, his was the voice of Chief Powhatan in Disney's
Pocahontas (1995) and he acted in Natural Born Killers (1994) and Last
of the Mohicans (1992). Most recently, he starred in "Palestine, New
Mexico,"  a work by Richard Montoya of Culture Clash which premiered
in LA last month.

Some of his most famous actions include the occupations of Alcatraz,
Mount Rushmore, and Plymouth Rock, which he painted red, all in the
1970s. Means joined “The Longest Walk” in 1978 to protest anti-Indian
legislation including the forced sterilization of Indian women, which
led to the passing of a resolution to protect Indian rights. As a
leader of AIM (American Indian Movement) and one of the frontmen
during the 71-day armed occupation of the sacred ground at Wounded
Knee in 1973, Russell has fought for indigenous people and human
rights across the globe. Today, he continues to be at the forefront of
the struggle for the sovereignity of the Lakota Nation against the
State's inflitration.

MUSIC: A tenor recital featuring works by Schumann, de Falla, Contreras, and selected arias.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/ceait-festival-1 ($)

MUSIC: An evening of music by Bach, Brahms and Dimitrov!

COMMUNITY / INSTITUTE / FILM/VIDEO: Organized by Nancy Buchanan, Christine Wertheim and students from CalArts ID 517. For further information: buchanan@calarts.edu, wertheim@calarts.edu. This event is free of charge and open to the public.

This symposium focuses on social, geographical and conceptual arenas where the power of women to speak on behalf of themselves and their peers is strongly, radically asserted through works of art and activism.

12.00-12.30 - Introduction by artist Andrea Bowers

12.30- 2.30 - Lourdes Portillo will discuss the making of her film, Senorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman, a documentary examining the mystery of the hundreds of young women murdered in Juarez, Mexico.

+ Claudia Bernardi will talk about a collaborative mural, Tapestry of History, which she organized with Guatemalan survivors of the massacres that took place during the long attacks on indigenous villagers. These women came from Chajul, Nebaj, Chimaltenango, Ixil, Ixcan and Rabinal to share their stories.

3.00- 5.00 - Andrea Liss, Art Historian/Cultural Theorist and author of Feminist Art and the Maternal will discuss the radical mother-artists featured in her book.

+ Activist Margaret Prescod will discuss the work of  grassroots women in her presentation, Women, Haiti and the Struggle for Democracy.

There will be additional short presentations by the organizers.

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Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles artist whose work focuses primarily on direct action and non-violent civil disobedience enacted though the lives of women. Working mainly in video, drawing and bookmaking, her work explores the intersections between art and archival processes, and between aesthetics and political protest.

Claudia Bernardi is an internationally renowned artist who works in the fields of human rights and social justice. She has witnessed monstrous human tragedies, yet speaks of these horrors in ways that communicate the persistence of hope, undeniable integrity, and necessary remembrance. In 2004, Bernardi was awarded grants to support her project to create an Art School/ Open Studio in Perquin, a rural community in El Salvador.

Andrea Liss is The Contemporary Art Historian and Cultural Theorist at California State University, San Marcos, where her teaching focuses on feminist art and theory, photographic theory and representations of memory and history. In addition to Feminist Art and the Maternal (2009) she has published Trespassing through Shadows: Memory, Photography and the Holocaust (1998).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way. Over three decades, she has completed more than a dozen films, including Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1986), La Ofrenda: The Days of the Dead (1988), The Devil Never Sleeps (1994) and Señorita Extraviada (2001), that have received awards around the world.

Margaret Prescod, a community activist for women's rights and against racism for three decades, hosts the morning show “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK Radio.  An immigrant from Barbados in the Caribbean, Margaret spearheads work in support of grassroots people in Haiti. The author of “Black Women: Bringing It All Back Home,” Margaret co-coordinates the Global Women's Strike (GWS) in the US under the anti-war theme "Invest in Caring not Killing.” Margaret led the lobby efforts that won the UN decision that governments should measure and value women's unwaged work, and works in support of mothers' right to welfare and of mothers' reuniting with children unjustly taken by officials who confuse poverty with neglect.  

MUSIC: Archie Carey's MFA bassoon recital with music by J.S. Bach, Gubaidulina, Vivaldi, Cage, Archie Carey, and improvisation to video.

MUSIC: A recital featuring piano, harp, vocal and chamber music performed by CalArts faculty, students and alumni.

MUSIC: Improvised music, fun and compositions by Andrew Conrad. Featuring Kate Conklin, Vinny Golia, Brandon Sherman, Colin Woodford, Steve Blum, Mike Lockwood and What's A Chord Fo(u)r?

MUSIC: A concert of Balinese ceremonial music with Gong Burat Wangi, featuring special guest I Made Lasmawan, and a solo masked dance-drama performed by I Nyoman Wenten.

MUSIC: Jazz recital

ART:

D300 Gallery: Three Movements by Rasmus Roehling MFA

D301 Gallery: Way of Sorrows by Keith Knittel MFA

L-Shape Gallery: Carl Pomposelli MFA

Main Gallery: Simone Montemurno MFA

A402 Gallery: Walk Thru Walls by Travis Diehl MFA

Lime Gallery: Your Scratch Disk is Almost Full by Valerie Green MFA

Mint Gallery: Thoughts on Miniature by Kean O'Brien MFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: When the Chips are Down People Eat People by Jack Heard

ART:

Christian Schwartz
Monday, March 8
7PM, F200

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Christian Schwartz was born in 1977 and grew up in a small town in New Hampshire. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 with a degree in Communication Design, and then spent 3 months as the in-house type designer at MetaDesign Berlin. He joined Font Bureau as a member of the full-time design staff in 2000. Christian founded Orange Italic with Chicago-based designer Dino Sanchez at the end of 2000, and left Font Bureau in August 2001 to work as an independent designer in the New York area, where he often collaborates with Font Bureau co-founder Roger Black.

In addition to his series for Font Bureau, Christian has designed commercial fonts for Emigre, FontShop, and House Industries (including the popular Neutraface family) as well as proprietary designs for corporations and publications. His work has been honored by the New York Type Directors club and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum.

CRITICAL STUDIES: Every year, March 8th is celebrated around the world as International Women's Day. We have planned a 24-hour program of information and fun as an occasion to review how far women have come in their struggle for equality, peace and development. It is also an opportunity to unite, network and mobilize for meaningful change. Please join us to start off the ceremony in the Main Gallery at noon.

MUSIC: Concert featuring new works by CalArts Graduate Composers, performed by the New Century Players under the direction of David Rosenboom.

FILM/VIDEO: Award-winning independent filmmaker Lourdes Portillo will introduce and discuss her film Señorita Extraviada (Missing Young Woman, 2001).

Lourdes Portillo is a Mexico-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker whose work examines issues pertaining to Latino and Latin American culture, society and politics through a richly varied range of forms, from investigative documentary to satirical video-film collage, often combining the personal and the political in a radical, idiosyncratic way.

“Señorita Extraviada is a haunting investigation into an unspeakable crime wave amid the disorders and corruption of one of the biggest border towns in the world.” – PBS

CRITICAL STUDIES: Moten’s lecture, “Jurisgenerative Grammar: /ForAlto_, / For Black Studies” examines Anthony Braxton and the figure of the black student. It serves as an appendix to “The External World (When a Stranger Appears),” a recent paper regarding Hannah Arendt’s later work. Moten works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, I ran from it but was still in it., Hughson’s Tavern, and B Jenkins.

THEATER: California Institute of the Arts School of Theater presents director Lily Whitsitt's production of Adam & Eve by Mikhail Bulgakov. Adam and Eve imagines a city on the verge of apocalypse. Bulgakov wrote the play in 1931, on the brink of World War II, in a terror-stricken Communist Soviet Union, with state-imposed atheism. Bulgakov illuminates the humor and horror of human folly through the absurd battle between Capitalist and Communist ideologies. This sci-fi, Biblical-inspired adventure follows a handful of survivors, as they struggle to rebuild civilization amongst the ruins, and maintain sanity in the process. The only protection is a mysterious apparatus, a new scientific invention that protects humans from chemical gas, but even this technology may not save them from themselves.

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MUSIC: An evening of pieces that incorporate improvisation.

THEATER: Scripted theatrical production involving three actors, with minimal set, sound and lights. Three performances of the play will be performed--one on each night.

MUSIC: Colin Woodford's BFA graduation jazz drum recital.

ART:

 Sally Stein is an art historian whose field is the history of photography with particular interest in American photography of the New Deal era. Feminist issues and methodology consistently inform her efforts toward an interdiciplinary critical perspective. 

Stein, recently retired from the faculty of UC Irvine, is an independent scholar who continues to research and write about twentieth-century photography and its relation to broader question of culture, politics and society. Her most recent book on German émigré artist and photographer John Gutmann was published by Yale University to accompany the Gutmann retrospective that opened at the Center for Creative Photography in October 2009.

MUSIC: Guitars of all sorts playing music of all sorts.

MUSIC: An evening filled with the music of Kenny G. and other commercial artists. Come and enjoy some body rocking music.

MUSIC: Works by CalArts composers presented in a casual, student-run atmosphere.

DANCE: MFA-2 thesis concert for the School of Dance.

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MUSIC: Music faculty members Clay Chaplin and Ulrich Krieger will be sonifying the CalArts pool, using hydrophones, underwater speakers, scuba gear and various electronics.

MUSIC: Recital featuring voice and piano.

FILM/VIDEO: A group show of films created by students of CalArts Film & Video department.

MUSIC: Recital of jazz guitar.

MUSIC: A 9-hour overnight concert of experimental music suitable for both the conscious and unconscious mind.

MUSIC: World music fusions including Persian, Indian, Cuban, African and more, presented by Aaron Chavez & friends.

MUSIC: A concert of exciting and original music.

MUSIC: A night of ska, funk and electronica.

MUSIC: Midnight ragas performed completely unplugged with live sitars, Indian slide guitar and tabla.

MUSIC: Death-Bop, Super Bastard and (possibly) more!

MUSIC: Concert of California music featuring music of Ingram Marshall, David Rosenboom, Matt Sargent, James Tenney and more.

MUSIC: A new project of epic proportions: The CalArts Jazz Orchestra will perform original compositions and arrangements by its members, as well as works by Thad Jones, Sammy Nestico, Maria Schneider and Ray Brown.

ART:

D300 Gallery: ELEMENTARZ / THE PRIMER by  Karolina Karlic MFA

D301 Gallery: RAPE-SCAPES: A Deconstruction by Carrie Rebecca Armellino MFA

L-Shape Gallery: American Apparatus by Kiah Cohen BFA

Main Gallery: Mette Hersoug MFA

A402 Gallery:  Tales From the Third Place Environment by Andrew Fairweather BFA

Lime Gallery: Nicole Malinowski BFA

Mint Gallery: Tahoe, 2010 by Amanda Ribas BFA

Stevenson Blanche Gallery: The World Was Huge by Jessica Castillo BFA /Samantha Viloria

ART:

Jon Sueda

MUSIC: Guitars of all sorts playing music of all sorts.

MUSIC: Concert featuring student ensembles performing new original compositions.

MUSIC: Recital featuring original compositions including a microtonal piano piece.

MUSIC: Come join us for performances of renowned composer Chinary Ung and protégé Sean Heim, including a world premiere.

FILM/VIDEO: THE ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS is a program of new animated short films selected from major animation festivals around the world. In 1998, Ron Diamond, former producer of The International Tournée of Animation and The Animation Celebration, recognized a noticeable lack of animated short films in the theatrical circuit. He set out to curate a collection of significant artistic and narrative shorts from those he had seen during the past year at major animation festivals.

Screenings of each new edition of The Show of Shows begin in October, just after the close of the animation festival season. The films are presented in 35mm and High Definition at special screenings for animation and film industry professionals who might not otherwise have the opportunity to see these works in their original format, if at all. Past programs have included numerous films that have gone on to receive Academy Award nominations, including four Oscar winners — The Danish Poet, Ryan, Harvie Krumpet, Father and Daughter, and La Maison en Petits Cubes. The selections range from traditional narrative and character-driven CGI to more experimental works by directors such as Gianluigi Toccafondo, Jerzy Kucia, Piotr Dumala, and Steve Woloshen.

RON DIAMOND is the founder and Executive Producer of Acme Filmworks, Inc. and co-founder and President of Animation World Network. He produced the Academy Award-nominated short film Nibbles (2003) and the animated feature film Drawn From Memory (1995).  Diamond has lectured at leading animation schools and has served as a juror and guest speaker at numerous film events. He was also the executive producer of  “Drew Carey’s Green Screen Show.”

MUSIC: Acoustic performance featuring violin, bass and harp.

MUSIC: Trombonist Kevin Austin in his public debut (he's finally leaving Palmdale).

MUSIC: Original compositions for a wide variety of ensembles; a culmination of my time at CalArts.

MUSIC: Miroslav's Blues Band, faculty ensemble, performs old blues tunes with vocals and a horn section.

MUSIC: Greg hits things: an evening of marimba, Steve Reich, hand drumming, David Johnson, improvisation, Jessica, and the Mohawk.

MUSIC: An evening of music, dance and video, featuring brass, strings, winds and harp. Works by LeBaron, Ligeti and more.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/rosanna-gamsonworld-wide ($)

ART:

Matthew Brannon

Utilizing the aesthetics of graphic art, Matthew Brannon’s work explores the gulf between social ideals and personal crisis. Using screen printing as form of analogue reproduction, Brannon’s images carry both the suggestion of mass replication and aura of original artworks. Directly challenging the void between language and actuality, Brannon often combines text and image to illustrate the potential for dysfunction. In Police Officer Giving Up, Brannon juxtaposes a neutral symbol of a houseplant with a statement of desperation. Exuding the inadequate sentiment of greeting cards, Brannon offers decoration as a feeble mask for emotional depletion.

THEATER: An interactive sculpture with a 12' x 8' footprint; the sculpture interacts with performers and audience members.

MUSIC: Recital featuring works from the classical period to present day.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/ross-lipman ($)

ART:

Extremely eclectic and extremely creative, thirty pieces of Paul McMahon’s art work from the 1970s and 80s were recently displayed in the PICTURES GENERATION 1974-1984 at the Metropolitan Museum. Of the thirty or so artists in the show he is the probably the least known in the contemporary art world because of his prediliction for following his ‘interest du jour’ to the  detriment of career building.

INSTITUTE: Student Council town hall meeting.

MUSIC: Recital featuring Keita Akutsu performing original compositions.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/michiko-hirayama ($)

MUSIC: Recital featuring an eclectic mix of jazz, ECM, indie rock, world, free and singer/songwriter. Original works by Joe Henderson, Lee Morgan, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Van*Gloria.

MUSIC: An evening of original music and compositions from various video games.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/classical-hindustani-music ($)

ART:

Adam Michaels of project projects

Thursday / March 4, 2010 / 7:30P
Location: TBA

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Adam Michaels is co-founder and principal of Project Projects, a studio in New York focusing on design for art and architectural clients. The studio also produces independent curatorial and publishing projects. Recently, Project Projects was selected as Finalists in the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Adam Michaels studied graphic design at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and worked at design studios in Los Angeles and Minneapolis before becoming the Associate Art Director of Architecture magazine in New York. In 2002, he began his own studio, also collaborating with David Reinfurt's studio O-R-G Inc. He has lectured at the Walker Art Center and has been a critic at Columbia GSAPP, Parsons School of Design, Princeton University School of Architecture, and Yale School of Art. He edits the Inventory Books series for Princeton Architectural Press, self-publishes books and music recordings, and teaches in the graduate graphic design program at the RISD.

MUSIC: Recital featuring multiple bands performing original music and covers.

MUSIC: North Indian music on a 20-string slide guitar, east/west/world instrumental fusion and songs, featuring acoustic/electric groups and the CalArts Indian Ensemble.

MUSIC: The final concert of a four-concert series in the School of Music, featuring the music of undergraduate Music Composition majors at CalArts.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/films-julie-murray ($)

MUSIC: Voice program recital

DANCE: An evening of dance theater work, consisting of performers and props, with lighting design by Nick Percell and costume design by Ariel Boroff.

MUSIC: Concert of electronic music and media.

MUSIC: Recital featuring mostly acoustic hand drum music.

THEATER: The CalArts School of Theater will premier Kenwood Wilderness, an opera-play by Peter Parshall Jensen, original music composed by Lam Kwan-Fai and direction by Lars Jan. Kenwood Wilderness is a story told in time by a grandfather clock passed down through generations. Through snapshot moments in history, a family tree comes full circle. This opera-play, with original text, lyrics, and music, is structured in a musical format with an overture in the present day, three movements (the Great Depression, the Revolutionary War, and King Phillip’s War) and a coda set in the future. In this state of constant transformation the performance delineates the importance of time within a day, a lifetime, over the span of generations and as a universal spirit.

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ART:

The Art and Photography/Media Graduate students at The California Institute of the Arts are pleased to announce their annual Open Studios event. The CalArts MFA candidates will open their studios to the public on Sunday, April 11, from 2:00pm to 7:00pm. More than 60 artists will be on hand throughout the day to present and discuss their work, comprising a wide range of artistic practices including visual, performance and media work. 

The CalArts MFA Open Studios is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided free of charge, and additional sustenance will be available for purchase.  

Los Angeles residents and those new to the CalArts community are encouraged to make the short drive up to Valencia. From Los Angeles, take I-5N and exit at McBean Parkway. Turn left onto McBean, and the main entrance is on the right.

This is a rare opportunity for the greater Los Angeles community to interact with this exciting group of emerging artists and to view a wide array of work in the casual setting of working studios. 

CAP: Culminating event for CAP SCVAP Music Program.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/studio-spring-2010 ($)

MUSIC: MFA jazz graduation recital by trumpeter/composer Trevor Parrish, featuring original compositions, the CalArts Jazz Orchestra, and music from Terence Blanchard, Michael Brecker and John Zorn.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/john-jasperse-company ($)

THEATER: An interactive sculpture with a 12' x 8' footprint; the sculpture interacts with performers and audience members.

MUSIC: Performances by students in the Musical Arts Program.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/sharon-lockhart ($)

MUSIC: A Tier-1, inside concert of MFA composers' works, utilizing the acoustics of The Wild Beast.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/california-ear-unit-4 ($)

MUSIC: Concert of electro-acoustic music selected from a pool of submissions from UCSD, UCSB, CalArts, Mills, Stanford and UCB.

DANCE, MUSIC, THEATER: The CalArts' Herb Alpert School of Music, School of Theater and School of Dance present the world premiere of Dice Thrown. This contemporary opera is conceptualized and composed by John King. Inspired by Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance), the opera is a new work in each presentation--reordered according to chance. At each performance, the dice will roll, and a new configuration of the opera's elements will be performed.

Ticket information to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/carl-hancock-rux ($)

MUSIC: This outdoor concert will feature new music by MFA composers.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/lost-origins-essay ($)

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/jennifer-reeves ($)

See: http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/never-very-far-apart

MUSIC: Aashish Khan presents an evening of solos and ensemble pieces of North Indian Music performed by CalArts students.

Ticket information to be announced--please check back.

MUSIC: CalArts Herb Alpert School of Music faculty Alfred Ladzekpo, who teaches African Music and Dance, will perform his 11th play, Fe Fe, A Guilty Dog a Hero, an African Music, Dance and Theater piece.  The play will feature African music and dance by the CalArts African Storytellers and Dance Ensemble. 

This year’s iteration of Fe Fe combines three centuries old animal stories and portrays the effect of famine on the people and animals of West Africa. Its main characters, Cat and Dog, must find food for themselves, a struggle that eventually threatens their friendship. Cat refuses either to compromise or share a residence with Dog. In response, Dog demands that Cat, explain why. From that point on, they are enemies.

Ticket reservations to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/les-espaces-acoustiques ($)

MUSIC: A concert of North Indian Classical Music featuring performances by the CalArts Tabla Ensemble, and a special performance by CalArts World Music Faculty members Swapan Chaudhuri, tabla, and Aashish Khan, sarode.

Ticket reservations to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/cap-youth-piano-recital

MUSIC: The CalArts African Music and Dance Ensemble, under the direction of Beatrice Lawluvi and Andrew Grueschow, will perform traditional repertoire from the Ewe and Dagomba people of Ghana, West Africa. This year’s performance will feature a unique selection of significant pieces from both language groups. Join us for a special evening of drumming singing, and dancing!

Ticket reservations to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/gregorio-rocha-0 ($)

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/greg-tate ($)

DANCE: Season highlight concert featuring choreographic works by BFA-1, BFA-2 and BFA-3 students, with faculty works by Colin Connor and Andre Tyson.

Ticket information to be announced—please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/party-betty ($)

DANCE: The Next Dance Company presents original works, including the work of Dean Stephan Koplowitz, as well as the Herb Alpert Award Winner in Choreography 2009 Reggie Wilson.

Ticket information to be announced—please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/calarts-filmvideo-showcase-0

MUSIC: Balinese Gamelan Burat Wangi (Fragrant Offering) will perform a new dance drama, The Ramayana: an Indian Epic. Fusing elements between ancient traditions and contemporary idea with an emphasis on formal elegance and melodic beauty, the piece will be performed using the gamelan Gong Kebyar, a modern Balinese orchestra. Gong refers to the instrument and to the orchestra, while Kebyar means to burst in to light. The concert will showcase new music and dance repertoire, under the direction of I Nyoman Wenten, and Nanik Wenten, dance director and feature performances by guest artists I Dewa Putu Berata, and I Made Lasmawan.

Ticket reservations to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/calarts-writers-showcase-0

MUSIC / INSTITUTE / COMMUNITY: CalArts is pleased to announce the official opening and celebration of its new music pavilion, The Wild Beast. Headlining the program will be CalArts’ magical World Percussion Ensemble, led by Randy Gloss and Houman Pourmehdi, in rich and dazzling displays of virtuosity drawn from musical traditions worldwide. Joining the ensemble will be special guest, Abbos Kosimov, internationally renowned musician from Uzbekistan, especially noted for his mastery of the dorya (frame drum). Kosimov has performed and recorded with Stevie Wonder, the Hand’s OnSemble, Zakir Hussain, and many others.

The program will also feature a special surprise, a long-distance, bi-coastal link between CalArts musicians playing on stage in The Wild Beast together with others in a distant location, all facilitated by pianos and Disklaviers provided by Yamaha Corporation that will be directly linked via telecommunications technology to enable a real-time, transcontinental ensemble.

Enjoy this celebration in The Wild Beast’s open-air music pavilion configuration with both fixed and lawn seating. Blankets are encouraged and picnics are welcome.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/idyllwild-arts-academy-orchestra ($)

MUSIC: A concert performance by CalArts’ Gamelan Kyai Doro Dasih (Honorable Dream Come True). The Gamelan proudly presents modern and traditional compositions, along with a new Ramayana dance drama Sinta Hilang (the Abduction of Princess Sinta).  Directed by Djoko Walujo with Nanik Wenten, dance director, the concert also features guest dancer/choreographer Bhagawan Ciptoning.

Ticket reservations to be announced--please check back.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/pat-oneill ($)

MUSIC: A concert of audio-visual improvisations created by Experimental Sound Practices students.

MUSIC: A semi-stage performance of The Bewitched Child (L'enfant et les Sortileges) by Maurice Ravel.

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/next-dance-company-0 ($)

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/cap-teen-animation

See: http://www.redcat.org/event/considering-wagner ($)

MUSIC: Concert featuring student performances of chamber music.