The Institute's final Creative Leave Colloquium of the year will take place Thursday, March 7th in the Faculty Center from 4-6 pm. All Institute members, including faculty, staff, and students, are invited to attend. These colloquia have been a wonderful window into the interdisciplinary world of CalArts, and you won’t want to miss this last one.
Come support your colleagues and discuss new work by CalArts faculty Amy Knoles (Music); Michael Fink (Music); Clara Lopez Menendez (Art); Kaucilya Brooke (Art); and Robert Domingo (Film).
There will be time for Q & A and refreshments will be served. Hope to see you there!
4-4:25 pm
Amy Knoles (Music) will present on her improvisational work with Soma Laboratories' PULSAR 23. The PULSAR 23 is a 4 voice Analog Drum Machine with 121 connectable points, and it is estimated that one cannot live long enough to exhaust all possible variations of connectivity. She will be experimenting live with various configurations.
4:25-4:50 pm
Michael Fink (Music) will discuss his musical practices during his leave and play two or three tracks from his current project, Trio Through the Looking-Glass.
4:50-5:15 pm
Clara Lopez Menendez will talk about the research she conducted in Spain during creative leave as part of an ongoing investigation into her family's recent past––from the end of the nineteenth century until the present––in relation to certain events in Spain's modern history. This investigation will lead to a conceptual art piece consisting of a video component and a publication that speaks of difficult aspects of Spanish contemporary identity, such as its colonial past, as well as the ethical and environmental responsibilities that the disappearing middle class has to the future. She will also discuss her exploration of contemporary queer culture and activism in Spain and the intersection of this scene with the anti-racist movements that have emerged in Spain since the arrival of diasporic post-colonial communities in the 1990s. Finally, she will discuss her work with Catalan artist Antoni Hervás, whose work she curated for his first solo show in Los Angeles in May 2023 at Human Resources LA.
5:15-5:40 pm
Kaucyila Brooke will discuss her work on the exhibition Kathy Acker’s Clothes and an accompanying book, which document the garments left behind by experimental writer Kathy Acker after her death in 1997. Shot on Kodak VC film with a Hasselblad 500, each article of clothing—selected for its representation of the writer’s larger collection—has been photographed in order to interrogate its status as mere vestment or costume. The series charts an intimate portrait of the writer, while maintaining a disciplined formalism.
5:40-6:05 pm
Robert Domingo will discuss the inspiration and production process for his first self-authored 2D animated short film, “Home”. He will share some visual development artwork, scenes that are works in progress, and a pipeline test that serves as his proof of concept.