10 Photographs from the 20th Century
A Mining the Archive project by Dee Williams
Opens Saturday, June 25 with a reception from 5-7pm
On view through July 23, 2011
at Outpost HQ
Image: President John F. Kennedy with his children Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., in Halloween costumes. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Cecil Stoughton, White House/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. 31 October, 1963
For Mining the Archive, Outpost for Contemporary Art invites artists, curators, and art historians to explore and develop a project informed by Outpost's collection of art periodicals, which date back to the early/mid 60's. Volume One by MATERIAL Press pulled articles, ads and reviews to create a new journal entitled, RE_OPENING, which features contributions by a group of invited artists and writers.
Volume Two, 10 Photographs from the 20th Century, by Dee Williams looks at the publication of
ten photographs found in the art periodicals in Outpost's collection of magazines and journals. For
this exhibition, the photographs have been reproduced where permitted, at their original size
and displayed according to their year of production.
Dee Williams earned an MFA in Art from CalArts in 2002, and was the recipient of a DAAD stipendium in Berlin from 2000-2002. Her untitled daguerreotype project was included in the book We All Laughed at Christopher Columbus, published in 2007 by the Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam and Platform Garanti, Istanbul. Her work has been exhibited at Art2102, Monte Vista Projects, and ESL in Los Angeles, The Sweeney Gallery, UC Riverside, Artists Space, and Gagosian Gallery in New York, and Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos in Puebla, Mexico. She lives in Los Angeles.
This presentation will open on June 25 with a reception for the artist from 5-7pm, and will be featured at Outpost HQ through July 23, 2011.
For more information about Outpost, please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at julie@outpost-art.org
Saturday Visits with Michael Underwood and Mathew Timmons
Saturday, June 18, 2pm
at Outpost HQ
As part of Outpost HQ's Saturday Visits series, Outpost was pleased to host a book launch and conversation about Dispensaries, an artist book by Michael Underwood that documents the medical marijuana phenomenon in Los Angeles.
Michael Underwood's Dispensaries book launch Download media release.
Medical marijuana dispensaries became a ubiquitous presence in Los Angeles due to a combination of vacant commercial real estate resulting from the economic collapse and the legalization of distribution for medical use. Underwood photographed over 250 dispensaries across Los Angeles within the span of one week in February 2010 to capture the peak moment of their proliferation. Shooting mostly from his car, and following a GPS device across the city in search of the highest concentrations of dispensaries, Underwood also sought to capture the distinct architectural details of the city's diverse neighborhoods. The immediacy of Underwood's photography celebrates the experience of vernacular architecture unique to Los Angeles.
The book contains 80 full color plates and an essay by art historian Kevin Hatch, and is available for sale at www.dispensariesbook.com.
No stranger to changing economic landscapes, Michael Underwood was born in Detroit, Michigan. He received his MFA from Cal Arts in 2003 and has worked as a photojournalist ever since. In 2009, he released Escapement, a feature-length film documenting the conflict over water rights on the Columbia River and its impact on fisheries, farming, and the environment. Dispensaries is Underwood's first book.
Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is also the General Director of General Projects, co-editor/curator of Insert Press, the Los Angeles editor of Joyland, and author of CREDIT, an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book published by Blanc Press. CREDIT is a highly revealing and emotional work chronicling a personal tale of credit. Retailing for $199.99, the author himself lacks the cash or credit to purchase it.
For more information about the book, please contact Michael at munderwd@gmail.com.
Breaking New Ground
A Tribute to Julie Deamer
with silent auction to benefit the future of Outpost
Saturday, May 7, 5-7pm
at the NeutraVDL Research House
2300 Silverlake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039
Tickets $20
To celebrate the legacy of Outpost for Contemporary Art's founder, Julie Deamer, as she prepares to turn over the organization to a new Director, Outpost's Board of Directors organized, Breaking New Ground. Hundreds of supporters came out to support the future of the organization.
A benefit silent auction was held from 5 PM to 7 PM on May 7th at the Neutra VDL Research House, an extraordinary home designed by Richard Neutra in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Cocktails were provided by Fallen Fruit, and desserts were provided by Auntie Em’s of Eagle Rock. The evening also featured a performance by Brazilian composer Chico Mello. Chico recently collaborated via internet linkup with past Outpost resident, Octavio Camargo, during a course called Experimental Composition in Popular Music, which turned Outpost HQ into a long-distance classroom for 9 days.
The silent auction’s distinguished contributors included: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Brian Cooper, Dorit Cypis, Bart Exposito, Alexandra Grant, Taft Green, Evan Holloway, Olga Koumoundouros, Susan Logoreci, Euan Macdonald, Alia Malley, Allison Miller, Rebecca Morris, Sandeep Mukherjee, Jill Newman, Jorge Pardo, Nancy Popp, Analia Saban, Sterling Ruby, Joaquin Segura, and Mary Weatherford.
LA art collective, Fallen Fruit, offered a special blend of their Neighborhood Infusions, a vodka infused with locally-foraged fruit.
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How is Family Like a Broken Thumb?
Readings on the Intimate and the Abject
at Outpost HQ
by Janice Lee, Eric Lindley, & Lidia Yuknvitch
3:30 pm Sunday, April 17, 2011
Janice Lee is a writer, artist, editor, and curator. She is interested in the relationships between metaphors of consciousness and theoretical neuroscience, and experimental narrative. Her work can be found in Big Toe Review, Zafusy, antennae, sidebrow, Action, Yes, Joyland, Luvina, Everyday Genius, elimae, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), a multidisciplinary exploration of cyborgs, brains, and the stakes of consciousness, Daughter (Jaded Ibis, Forthcoming April 2011), and a chapbook Red Trees. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is co-editor of the online journal [out of nothing] and co-founder of the interdisciplinary arts organization Strophe.
Eric Lindley makes work in any medium that will take him. He has published a smattering of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose-poetry and poetic prose in Fence, Joyland, Shampoo, Antennae, and Eoagh. He lives ankle-deep in LA and NYC, and lovingly co-edits [out of nothing]. He’s released two albums and two EP’s of “glitch-folk”, and just finished a residency at Machine Project, where he and puppeteer Katie Shook performed over 100 theatrical shows for one person at a time, for the great advancement of cognitive linguistics!
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books), three books of short stories: including Liberty’s Excess (FC2), and Real to Reel (FC2), as well as a critical book, Allegories of Violence (Routledge), and a forthcoming novel, The Small Backs of Children (Hawthorne Books). She has twice been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her writing has been published in Ms., The Iowa Review, Exquisite Corpse, Tank, Another Chicago Magazine, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason: An Anthology of Contenporary Xxperimental Prose by Women Writers (Spuyten Duyvil), Forms At War: FC2 1999-2009, and Representing Bisexualities (NYU Press). She teaches and lives in Portlandia. Yes, it’s true.
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Octávio Camargo Residency
January 14-March 4, 2011
During this seven-week residency collaboration with Occidental College, Octávio Camargo's project, called Same City unfolded as a platform for exchange between Los Angeles and Curitiba. Using a variety of structured activities to pave the way, short and long term collaborative projects developed among an interdisciplinary group of artists and creative thinkers in both cities.
Various residency activities, people involved, and ongoing collaborative projects have found a home at samecity.com.
Together, with Brazilian composer, Chico Mello, a long-distance course called Experimental Composition in Popular Music brought two groups of interdisciplinary artists and musicians in Los Angeles and Curitiba together using SKYPE, stimulating dialog and facilitating the opening of creative paths in the conventional grammar of popular music.
They Live In The Same City Though They Don’t Know Each Other was a collective performance that grew out of the composition course and took place at an interesting public space called Confluence Plaza in Lincoln Heights.
Octávio also presented a series of topical discussions at Occidental College, including, "Oral tradition: The Legacy of Hellenism in the Development of Neo-Latin Languages," "Composition and Oral Poetry," "Site-Specificity and Urban Interventionism in Brazil," co-presented by Ken Ehrlich, and "Living Memory of At-Risk Groups and Communities." Download series poster.
And as a special component to his residency, Octávio Camargo hosted a series of screenings each Friday evening in February at Outpost HQ to share an archive of Brazilian videos entitled Shared Circuits/ Circuitos Compartilhados, collected and organized by Brazilian curator, Goto. The archive spans from the years 1970 to 2007 and consists of 34 DVDs. For the last video screening night, February 25th, Goto joined Octavio, via skype, for an interactive discussion with the audience. To reference the archive, visit www.circuitoscompartilhados.org.
SUPPORT: This residency and its related public programs are made possible with support from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and by a grant from the National Performance Network's Performing Americas Program. Lead funding of the National Performance Network Performing Americas Program is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Additional support provided by The University of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba.
Octávio Camargo is a composer and theater director based in Curitiba, Brazil. His collaborative practice incorporates site specificity, social art and urban interventionism, with interdisciplinary activities in the fields of theatre, poetry and musical composition. He has taught Aesthetics and Harmony at the University of Arts in Parana (EMBAP), Brazil, since 1992 and directs a theatre company “Cia iliadahomero de Teatro” (www.iliadahomero.wordpress.com) which is focused on the staging of Homer's Iliad in the Brazilian translation of Manuel Odorico Mendes. Camargo also collaborates with errantbodies press - as a writer and co-editor of the Surface Tension series Errant Bodies.
» more about Octávio Camargo's past work and the project the artist developed in LA.
Sunday, January 30 at Outpost HQ
Journal readings: 1-1:45pm
Discussion: 2-3pm
For the first iteration of MINING THE ARCHIVE, MATERIAL Press will engage with Outpost’s archive of journals, pulling articles, ads and reviews to create a new journal entitled, “Re-Opening” (taken from an ad for an exhibition at the Jean Larcade Gallery in Paris from ArtNews 1965). The contents of the new journal include responses in the form of paintings, drawings, and texts from artists Joseph Mosconi, responding to an ad for the now defunct magazine “Art and Artists,” Adam Berg on a 1980 ArtForum article on Arakawa, Kate Glickberg on “Phosphenes,” Kim Schoen on Ian Wilson’s 1984 “Conceptual Art,” Ginny Cook re-drawing “New Tools for Artists,” and interventions from Dee Williams, Gil Leung, David Raymond Conroy, and Katie Lews Underwood. The event on Sunday, January 30 will begin with a reading and slide projections of the journal and will continue with a discussion on artist-run journals and art publications with Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen of MATERIAL, Alex Klein of Oslo Press and Ronni Kimm of ART2102, in conjunction with ART2102's launch of Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles.
About MINING THE ARCHIVE
Outpost has developed MINING THE ARCHIVE as a recurring project that invites artists, curators and art historians to explore Outpost’s collection of art periodicals, some of which date to the early 1960s, each responding to the texts and images they find by spotlighting and annotating 10 articles, advertisements and reviews from the collection. In turn, the Outpost community will create a fluid dialogue by commenting in turn on the project’s marginalia.
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a collective performance that grew out of a platform for artistic and cultural exchange between the cities of Los Angeles and Curitiba.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Processual performance
3:00 – 6:15pm
Location: Confluence Plaza; corner of Figueroa and San Fernando near the Home Depot parking lot; Lincoln Heights
A collective of 15 Los Angeles-based composers, conductors, dancers, instrumentalists, new media artists, actors, singers, poets, performers and visual artists have developed the performance They Live In The Same City Though They Don’t Know Each Other with direction by Outpost artist-in-residence, Octávio Camargo.
This performance is the culmination of Experimental Composition in Popular Music, a nine-day course taught by Octávio Camargo as part of his residency, which stimulated experimentation, improvisation and creation of compositional concepts and facilitated the opening of creative paths in the conventional grammar of popular music.
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Una obra de arte que nacio de una plataforma para intercambio artistico y cultural entre la ciudad de Los Angeles y Curitiba.
Sabado, Enero 29, 2011
Presentacion Progresiva
3:00 – 6:15pm
Location: Confluence Plaza; corner of Figueroa and San Fernando near the Home Depot parking lot; Lincoln Heights
Una colaboración artistica de 15 artistas residentes de la ciudad de Angeles incluyendo compositores, conductores, bailarines, instrumentalistas, artistas multimedia, actores, cantantes y artistas visuales se han reunido para crear una obra artistica titulada They Live in The Same City Though They Don't Know Each Other bajo la direccion del artista en residencia Octavio Camargo.
Esta obra es la culminación del seminario Experimental Composition in Popular Music, un taller de 9 dias dirigido por Octávio Camargo, como parte del programa de residencia de artistas, el cual ha estimulado la experimentación, improvisación y creacion de conceptos compositivos y a su vez a facilitado el proceso creativo de la gramática convencional en la música popular.
January 21-29, 2011, everyday from 10:00am - 12:00pm
a long-distance 9-day course taught by Outpost Artist-in-Residence, Octávio Camargo (in Los Angeles) and renowned Brazilian composer, Chico Mello (in Curitiba).
This course was open to Los Angeles-based composers, conductors, instrumentalists, new media artists, actors, singers, poets, performers and visual artists.
ACTIVITIES:
The course stimulated experimentation, improvisation and creation of compositional concepts and facilitated the opening of creative paths in the conventional grammar of popular music through the following activities:
- Discussion of basic concepts of composition and aesthetics as well as methods to develop a personal artistic voice;
- Listening and comparative analysis of a variety of genres and styles of music;
- Compositional exercises and arrangements will be proposed, improvised, and transcribed.
Outpost's Highland Park headquarters became a long distance interactive classroom using the Internet and new media equipment designed for long distance live performance.
This course was offered through Outpost for Contemporary Art's residency program in collaboration with Occidental College and with support from the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and by a grant from the National Performance Network's Performing Americas Program. Lead funding of the National Performance Network Performing Americas Program is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org.
Additional support provided by The University of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná, the Cultural Foundation of Curitiba.
Curitiba-based, Brazilian artist, composer and theatre director, Octávio Camargo, will be in residence from January 14 - March 4, 2011. For information about other residency activities, including a lecture series at Occidental College, visit outpost-art.org.
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Window Dressing for Outpost
by Olivia Booth
A project for Outpost’s window residency series at Outpost HQ
It’s not a given that windows -- simply by making outside and inside visible at once -- open up and relate interior and exterior spaces; most of the time windows need to be attended to in order to get them to do so. I’ve been working directly with window glass in order to deal with this problem.
The Outpost window offered up a good area from which to start: the slot between the storefront window and the compressed front gate when the shop is open for business. From there glass doesn’t serve the obvious purpose of seeing through to the outside, but simply holds a gap of air; and there, one sees blue paint left behind from a previous paint job on the gate, a blue that could pass unnoticed but is actually a specific blue that is both graphic and spatial at once. Surrounding that blue I applied a sand coated surface meant to hark back to glass’s source and in this way to dissolve it; but the sand surface also dissolves the glass/gate obstruction from the view of sandy concrete and sandy lot beyond. The semi-opacity of the sanded glass is so continuous with the palette and texture of the surroundings that the surface plays a game of seeming more transparent than the untouched glass.
From the color of the sand and of the found blue of the gate, one could mix the color of clear sky, which takes us up to the windows above. There the alignment of the gate below continues in blue stained glass, excluding one pane left clear to frame the actual sky.
Finally, the window dressing is tied into the rest of the store-font with a blue string, which draws upon sight lines (particularly the view from the door of that slot of space between glass and gate).
With hope, the work recomposes the interior and exterior spaces of Outpost abstractly and resists the glib assumptions of what glass is expected to do with no prompting.
At one point my car’s side view mirror was ripped out and I was driving around with an empty space where it was supposed to be; instead of turning my body around –for lack of a mirror¬– to see if a car was in my way, I kept looking into its blankness and assuming that that meant there was no car in my way. The sand on glass is meant to create a similar type of uncertainty.
Olivia Booth
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Grupo Bijari -- Public Reception for America Love Me
an art project about education and immigration.
Friday, November 19, 5:30 - 9pm at Outpost HQ.
Grupo Bijari's "America Love Me" project traced the multi-layered network behind the issues of Immigration and Education in California. The artists engaged various social and institutional actors in Los Angeles who provided transverse perspectives on these issues. The research looked to embrace unexpected but inevitable deviations in order to create a perspectival overview ranging from the micro to the macro narratives. To give structural and formal clarity to their research, a mapping of this constellation was drawn and finally translated into a printed cartography.
A blog interface at americaloveme.org is an interactive archive of content that was generated by the project's contributors.
A final installation of the project was presented at Outpost for Contemporary Art's Highland Park headquarters (1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA 90041).
Grupo Bijari is a collective of artists, urban planners, architects, and designers that was formed in Säo Paulo, Brazil in 1996. The group aims to find a synthesis between art and activism through participatory public projects and urban interventions.
Three members of Grupo Bijari were in Los Angeles as part of Outpost's long-running international residency program. Unlike previous residency cycles, this iteration is happening in partnership with Occidental College, a liberal arts college located within walking distance of Outpost in the Northeastern corner of Los Angeles. Occidental is providing housing to Outpost's visiting artists and faculty and students have assisted in activating, situating, and executing the artists' dynamic projects.
SATURDAY VISITS
with Shana Berger and Nathan Purath
October 2, 2010 from 2-3 pm with a reception to follow
Outpost is very excited and pleased to host Shana Berger and Nathan Purath, who are visiting Los Angeles on a study trip facilitated by NAMAC Leadership Institute for Visual Arts Organizations. Wanting to take full advantage of their time here, and share their important work with members of our community, Outpost asked them to offer a presentation. Mark your calendars and come meet these awesome people!
Shana Berger and Nathan Purath are artists and curators who live and work in York, Alabama. Driven by the role that art can play in realizing positive change, their work facilitates opportunities for artist and communities while blending modes of art, activism, organizing, and advertising. Berger and Purath each hold a BFA in photography from Indiana University. They are founding members of the non-profit organization Your Art Here, which uses billboards as public art spaces. Their recent work, “The Compassion Project” was realized across the American South, and was featured in Art Papers in March of 2010. The artists are recipients of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Fellowship Award, and Berger received a Curatorial Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. They currently reside in rural Alabama where they co-direct the Coleman Center for the Arts.
SATURDAY VISITS
with Terry Chatkupt in conversation with Aram Moshayedi
September 18, 2010 at 2pm
This informal conversation will center on Terry's relationship to Los Angeles and a recent site of exploration with regards to landscape, space, and place.
45 minute conversation starts promptly at 2pm followed by a reception.
Terry Chatkupt received his MFA from CalArts in 2004. In 2003 he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture artist residency program. His videos, installations, and photography have been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, PDX Film Fest 2008, Art Basel Miami Beach Video Lounge 2007, Harris Lieberman (NYC), and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include Video Review at Jerome Zodo Contemporary (Milan, Italy) and Never Very Far Apart at the Gallery at REDCAT (LA). Terry and works in Los Angeles, CA and will have a solo show at LAXART in November 2010.
Aram Moshayedi currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he is a doctoral candidate in the department of art history at the University of Southern California and an adjunct curator at LAXART. Recent exhibitions include William Leavitt: Warp Engines, Uri Nir: Mommy, and VIshal Jugdeo: Surplus Room. In 2008, he served as the assistant curator of the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. He has also published widely, with recent contributions appearing in Art in America, Bidoun, Metropolis M, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art Lies, Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, and Art Papers.
Vlatka Horvat: 8-hour performance This Here and That There
in the Los Angeles River
July 31, 2010, 9am - 5pm.
Hundreds of viewers came and went throughout the day, some staying for hours, others returning at different points during the day. It was a beautiful performance and a wonderful day in a truly spectacular setting.
Outpost's mission to blur the boundaries between art, social practice, and public life came alive at the first ever Outpost Cup. Thanks to so many, important funds were raised to help support the upcoming South American artist-in-residence cycle. A blending of art and soccer brought together an estimated 600 players, performance artists, DJ's, game announcers, volunteers, and attendees from across Los Angeles and beyond.
Twenty-four soccer teams competed in three separate catagories (family, casual, and competitive) with Burbank Red Machine finally taking the Cup in the competitive division. The teams came from the greater Los Angeles area and as far away as San Francisco. Performers included Guadalajara art collective, Homeless, Karen Anzoategui, Kwik- Megan Wilson / Eliza Barrios , Rebeca Hernandez, Erika Miranda, Irina Contrera, Gordon Winiemko, Reanne Estrada, Jenn Su & The Lemonade Biker Gang, The EGG, and writer-in-residence Ruben R. Mendoza. DJ Alejandro Cohen of Dublab and DJ Alex Mendieta mixed it up with great music selections through out the day.
We are grateful to our sponsors, in-kind contributors, and community volunteers who helped Outpost double its fundraising goal. In particular, we'd like to thank Bestor Architecture, Sustainarealty, Y.E.S.S.S., Woodbury University, The Oinkster, Echo Park REMAX, Café de Leche, Niky’s Sports, The York, Bret Nicely, Jennifer Doyle, Anthea Raymond and Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric Garcetti for their support.
The funds that were raised, along with a new partnership with Occidental College, will allow Outpost to launch a program cycle devoted to cross-cultural exchange between Los Angeles and South America, starting with Brazilian art collective, Grupo Bijari, who will arrive in October to create a public art project informed by personal narratives around the issue of education and immigration. To learn more, visit America Love Me.
The Outpost Cup happened in the wake of the extraordinary global event that is the World Cup. Jeremy Rosenberg, the Outpost boardmember who conceived of and co-organized the Outpost Cup, wrote about both in his Next American City column.
View images and more information about all the great stuff that happened on that hot Los Angeles day at southamerica.outpost-art.org.
From all of us at Outpost, thank you! We hope you had a good time at the Outpost Cup and look forward to seeing you at another Outpost program soon.
THANK YOU BY PAUL PESCADOR
For Thank You the artist collected and transcribed thank you letters onto Outpost's front window shade. Each letter is hand written and was given to him from both donors and receivers of the text. The large 9x5 foot installation contains over a hundred letters and the subject matter of each varies from the sincere to the banal. The letters came from people who live in Northeast Los Angeles. Through the quantity of text, Thank You explores how social networks and communal environments interact.
Paul Pescador is interested in the thank you letter as the supplemental acknowledgment of a gesture that has already occurred. Most of these letters were originally written to be private. By placing them in a storefront window, in a public setting, he is consciously examining and invading the privacy of each letter. By removing full names or keeping the text anonymous, the gesture is reflected back onto the viewer of artwork. A thank you letter from Outpost for Contemporary Art to the neighborhood.
Paul Pescador is a Studio Art MFA candidate at University of California, Irvine. His actions, gestures and performances deal with issues of social disconnection and communal space. He has most recently exhibited at Performing Public Space at Casa de Tunnel, Tijuana, Mexico and Workspace Selects at House of Genesee, Los Angeles, CA. He is also the co-director of workspace, a project space in Lincoln Heights.
SATURDAY VISITS
with Paul Pescador in conversation with Melinda Guillen
April 17, 2010 at 3pm
Join us for a reception before the talk from 2:30-3:00
45 minute conversation starts promptly at 3:00 followed by a short reception.
This informal conversation will touch on themes found in Paul's work -- small gestures, routine occurrences, banal and sometimes awkward moments -- in relation to the new piece currently installed in Outpost's window called , Thank You.
More details about the artist's storefront window project here.
Paul Pescador is a Studio Art MFA candidate at University of California, Irvine. His actions, gestures and performances deal with issues of social disconnection and communal space. He has most recently exhibited at Performing Public Space at Casa de Tunnel, Tijuana, Mexico and Workspace Selects at House of Genesee, Los Angeles, CA. He is also the co-director of workspace, a project space in Lincoln Heights.
Melinda Guillen is a writer and organizer from Las Vegas, NV. She
relocated to Los Angeles in 2009 and is attending the Master of Public
Art Studies program at USC, with an emphasis on theory and criticism.
She has developed curatorial projects for Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions (LACE), RAID Projects and workspace.
Conceptualized as an open studio visit, Saturday Visits, opens up a new opportunity for local and visiting artists to talk about their work and process with a larger public.
LITERARY READING
with Joyland co-founder, Brian Joseph Davis, and LA writers, Todd Collins, Jennifer Krasinski, Gerard Olson and Janice Lee
Friday, April 9, 2010
Doors open at 7:30pm, reading begins at 8pm
In an article on the state of literary magazines, Quill and Quire proclaimed Joyland, "A savvy, sleek web publication, devoted entirely to new short fiction. Based in Toronto, Joyland boasts editors in several major North American cities and regions and has published marquee names such as Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Millet alongside emerging writers... The future of literary magazines is already here."
BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS is the author of Portable Altamont, a collection that garnered praise from Spin magazine for its "elegant, wise-ass rush of truth, hiding riotous social commentary in slanderous jokes." Slate called his novel I, Tania, "the book of your fever dreams." Brian will play radio theatre adaptations from his new short fiction collection, Ronald Reagan, My Father (AVAILABLE APRIL 1)
TODD COLLINS is a (sixth-grade) public school teacher. He recently finished co-editing (with Brian Mann) a magazine entitled Sportstalk and is currently co-editing its follow-up, entitled After Anal.
JENNIFER KRASINSKI is an LA-based film and art writer for publications such as Modern Painters, Frieze, and Art In America. Her fiction and experimental criticism has been published in Punk Planet, Pazmaker, and most recently in Mythym, edited by Trinie Dalton.
JANICE LEE is the author of Kerotakis. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from CalArts and currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a co-curator for the feminist reading series Mommy, Mommy!
GERALD OLSON is a member of Tusks, Hooves, Horns, a co-founder of the Oceanic Society for Sudden Euphoric Adventure, and a co-founder of Explorsion. He has been published in Opium, Mammut, LA record, and Out of Nothing. He makes beer and owns two Stetsons. Currently, he lives in Venice Beach.
SATURDAY VISITS
with Mike Wolf
March 20, 2010 at 3pm
For the past four years, Mike Wolf has been an itinerant cultural worker, circulating in the upper Mississippi and Western Great Lakes parts of the Midwest, with a home base in Chicago. He helped to organize Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago; and contributed to The Compass Group, a group of activists, artists and theorists working to unleash the decolonization campaign of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.
At Outpost, Wolf presented Drift and Surge: How We Conjure A Radical Culture Corridor where he drew upon images and anecdotes from various collaborative projects such as walking pilgrimages, exhibitions based on Midwestern wanderings, and the campaign to decolonize North America; experiences that brought him into contact with the broader landscapes of the Midwest, beyond the traditional urban cultural centers. He also discussed the plans of The Compass Group leading up to the U.S. Social Forum, held this June in Detroit, and his encounters with other Midwestern-based groups like "Boggs Center To Nurture Community Learning" and "Unsettle Minnesota."
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SATURDAY VISITS
with Jared Nielsen
February 20, 2010 at 3pm
Unburdening A Load (2008)
Jared Nielsen constructs assemblages of objects that encourage collaboration and explore new ways of being in the world. The objects may range from garbage and detritus to bytes and pixels. Most recently Nielsen executed projects that repurposed the waste from museum exhibitions toward artful and useful ends. In Unburdening A Load (2008), for example, one ton of sand left over from a Chris Burden installation at OCMA was used in a site-specific performance and then delivered to a school for children with learning disabilities for use in a sandbox. At Outpost, Nielsen presented an assemblage of language, ideas, and materials with the hope of encouraging a discussion around our relationship to things and to each other. The presentation concluded with the audience participating in the construction of a new "chunk" for his current project, Chunks of Sensation, a randomly constructed, open-source, collaborative, surrealist cinema.
Outpost is extremely pleased to host two presentations in January by Berlin-based artist, Ute Waldhausen, and local artist/designer, Bettina Hubby.
Ute Waldhausen
Saturday, January 16 at 3pm Karton Vivant (Part 1: Berlin/Bonn, presentation of the prototypes as a performance)
Ute Waldhausen is in Los Angeles on a DAAD grant until May developing a new project called Karton Vivant.
Karton Vivant experiments with re-appropriated technologies by turning a variety of common food and product cartons into kinetic performers, equipping them with an inner life to fall, slip, rotate, and bounce. They hit the walls of rooms, other obstacles and each other, and the traces of these collisions become part of their appearance.
Everyone is encouraged to attend this presentation to learn more about this developing project but the artist is especially interested in meeting people in Los Angeles who work with different types of motors and are interested in having fun conducting tests with microprocessor controllers and electromagnets.
Ute Waldhausen is an artist-in-residence with Fringe, a program that supports the projects of artists that work at the intersection of art, science, and technology.
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Saturday, January 23 at 3pm
Hubby's CoTOUR 2008 (Los Angeles)
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about how Bettina Hubby's clothing related work has evolved to encompass community-minded projects that involve different artists, approaches, and topics.
CoTOUR 2008, for example, was a chartered bus tour that included 10 personally significant spots that surround the artist's Los Angeles home. Each stop on the tour was marked by a collaboration with other artists who showcased their own talents via Hubby's garments, which were beautifully inspired by each location.
And if you are engaged to be married, Hubby is looking for a special couple to become the centerpiece of her new project, GET HUBBIED. Come learn more about how Hubby will work with selected artists, filmmakers, musicians and writers to interpret various aspects of the wedding ceremony.
For more information about Bettina Hubby and her company HubbyCo, visit www.hubbyco.com.
CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!
presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press
Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Do you sometimes wonder: "What the heck is Conceptual Writing!?" Some amazing new fad sweeping the nation? Some bland thing a bunch of dudes thought up in a bar as a joke? The new genre of infomercials after the tragic death of Ron Popeil? All this and so much more?!!
After a string of conferences, events, publications, etc--Conceptual Poetry and its Others conference at University of Arizona Poetry Center, May 29-31, 2008; Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing! at The Whitney, April 17, 2009; Conceptual Writing! & Its Environs, The Uferhallen, Berlin, May 1, 2009; a portfolio of Flarf and Conceptual Writing! in Poetry Magazine, July/August, 2009--Conceptual Writing! has arrived in LA, only to find that it's already there!? Los Angeles!? Conceptual Writing!
Discover Conceptual Writing! and so much more as you encounter the Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the Conceptual Lit Reading! & CREDIT Launch! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.
Come celebrate the release of Mathew Timmons' CREDIT, an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book published by Blanc Press and retailing for $199.99 which the author himself lacks the cash or credit to purchase. Come also to celebrate Conceptual Writing! in Los Angeles! with the wonderful Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!
Monster Drawing Rally
Sunday, November 8, 2009, 2-7pm
Crowd gathered at Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
The wonderful array of drawings that were created and sold during the Monster Drawing Rally this year is the reason why so many people came out for it, but the incredible sense of community that forms around the creative process, and that resonates throughout the venue, throughout the day, is the icing on the cake. Neither would be possible without our participating artists, so on behalf of all of us at Outpost and the spectators at the event who enjoyed watching your process of production, thank you for allowing us to turn the spotlight on you and your artistic talents.
We are happy to report that this year’s event was the most successful Monster Drawing Rally yet, earning about $12,000 in art sales, admission, and new memberships. Just over 100 drawings were sold, which is a lot, but not nearly the number of drawings that were created over that 4-hour period. In other words, we still have many incredible drawings left in our inventory. Soon, a selection of drawings will be posted on Outpost’s website, so stay tuned. » more
SATURDAY VISITS: Nancy Popp
October 24 2009 at 3pm
Nancy Popp’s series, Untitled (Street Performances), reframes the body and challenges typical hierarchical patterns of movement in public space through an interventionist gesture repeated in urban centers around the world. For her talk at Outpost she presented texts, images and video documenting recent performances in London, Zagreb and Belgrade, and discussed the variances in the actions as influenced by different geographical locations and cultural contexts. » more
X,Y, Z, and U
June 4 - July 3, 2009
Presented by apexart and curated by The League of Imaginary Scientists, with work by Kim Abeles, Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Jason Bobe, Mackenzie Cowell, Liz Kueneke, Andrea Poli, and Chuck Varga.
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INTERSECTION 2009
June 6 - 27, 2009
With Edith Abeyta, Carolyn Castano, Terry Chatkupt, Ken Ehrlich, Christopher Genik & Christopher Michlig, Taft Green, Michael Gullberg & Jennifer Rowland, David Jones & Kelly Marie Martin, Jared Nielsen, and Edward Pine Stevens.
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General Projects
by Mathew Timmons
Outpost was happy to host a host of General Projects during the months on March, April and May 2009.
The Cool White Cube
by Paul Druecke
Conversation between Paul Druecke and Sara Daleiden
The Cool White Cube focuses on the American refrigerator with its spectacular menageries and pedestrian aesthetic.
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Zsuzsa László Non-Conformist & Experimental Approaches to Exhibition-Making
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Presentation and Screening by Hungarian Critic and Curator, Zsuzsa László in the framework of an exchange program between tranzit.hu and Outpost » more
THIS IS THE FUTURE BEFORE IT HAPPENED
An exhibition of artwork by Jeff Cain, Krysten Cunningham, Tom Dale, Veaceslav Druta, Adam Frelin, Olexander Gnilitsky, Vlatka Horvat, Tim Hyde, Yuliya Kostereva + Yuriy Kruchak, Nebojsa Milikic, Maarten Vanden Eynde, and Angie Waller
Olexander Gnilitsky
January 17 - February 14, 2009
As a participant of Outpost for Contemporary Art’s 2007-2008 residency cycle, Gnilitsky traveled to Los Angeles from February 18 - April 6, 2008. His impressions of the city quickly translated into bold canvases, which were on view at Open Gallery, an independent gallery adjacent to Outpost for Contemporary Art.
Based in Kyiv and Munich, Olexander Gnilitsky incorporates painting, video, poetry, drawing, photography, kinetics, and many other available means and methodologies into his practice. This exhibition marks the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States. Gnilitsky is also included in the exhibition, This is the Future Before it Happened at The Glendale College Art Gallery from February 7 - March 14, 2009.
Architectures of Survival
Curated by Komplot and presented in conjunction with Art2102 in Los Angeles
The work of Hungarian architect Yona Friedman (*1923, Budapest, lives in Paris) is the starting point for this project and exhibition with the title itself being a reflexive reference to Friedman's 1975 book 'Architecture Of Survival' (MIT Press, USA). » more
Vlatka Horvat Residency
October 13 - 28, 2008
During her residency, Vlatka Horvat laid the groundwork for a public art project, using the residency as a research period to familiarize herself with Los Angeles, and explore ways in which to intervene within the City. » more
Monster Drawing Rally
Sunday, October 12, 2008, 3-7pm
Read and see images and video from a great personal experience of the Monster Drawing Rally by clicking here.
Outpost's annual live drawing and fundraising event was a great success! 100 artists shared their creativity and talent by drawing live and in person, and audiences had the rare opportunity to watch art come to life and purchase completed drawings for $75 each. » more
i.o.i.p Conversation
Monday, October 6, 2008
A Conversation Project on Recent Aesthetic Projects and Social Spaces Relating to the Visual Arts in Los Angeles
» more Download PDF Fact Sheet of I.O.I.P. conversation
Nebojsa Milikic Residency
June 26 - August 6, 2008
Nebojsa Milikic lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. He was Outpost's resident artist for six weeks during the summer of 2008. » more
Over the course of his residency, Nebojsa Milikic produced the following projects:
Photo Diary
"PASSING BY BUILDINGS IN HIGHLAND PARK ON MY BIKE » more
Photo Diary 2
"The distribution of city spaces in this count(r)y and it's hundreds of neighborhoods exceeds anything that an ex-Yugoslavian could relate to. » more
and... in the end Nebojsa tried to share his experience of the history of architecture in L.A. - to the despair of the World 66 web-site moderators.
Daylight (Banners with American Dreams, no 1-7)
During his residency in Los Angeles, Nebojsa Milikic decided to lend his mind and thoughts to a supposed average immigrant's personality. » more
Self-portraits
This self-portrait photo series is the second part of Nebojsa Milikic's exploration of the 'American Dream.' » more
Alan Ford Download the only known English translation of the first episode of the Alan Ford comic book. Or, click » more for information.
An Art Work in its Ideological and Political Setting -- Nebojsa Milikic discussed his project "Our Building," a series of weekly radio episodes, prepared with tenants of a typical building in Belgrade, Serbia. » more
Screening & Discussion Peaceniks and Treehuggers is an event that occurred at a "lonesome dump out in the country". As per Kaprow's direction, there were no spectators, only participants.
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Veaceslav Druta Residency
April 28 - June 1, 2008
Veaceslav Druta creates interactive situations using video, performance, music, and sculpture. He views his works as objects and situations that allow him to establish interaction with people.
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Screening and Conversation between Glenn Phillips & Veaceslav Druta » more
Veaceslav Druta -- New Work
An exhibition of newly completed work hosted by OPEN GALLERY, a new independent gallery adjacent to Outpost for Contemporary Art.» more
My Footnote to David Askevold
May 2008
Julie Lequin's five night performance series
Included performances and work by James Benning, Vera Brunner-Sung, Cal Crawford, Leslie Dick, Fat Farmer Bob and His Colourful Crazy Beard, Desiree Holman, Hot Knives + surprise sous-chef, Veaceslav Druta, Hedi El Kholti and Brian Kennon {Semiotexte VS 2nd Cannons},Norman M. Klein, Elana Mann, Lucas Michael, Anne McGuire, Barbara T. Smith, Doug Skinner + Michael Smith, John Silver, Sarah Wang, Kate Wolf, and Wounded Lion.
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Death Marketing
April 18, 2008
A performance by Adalet R. Garmiany that uses a collage of live and recorded sounds of explosions, drums, street sounds, voices, laments and texts.
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Olexander Gnilitsky and Lesja Zajac
(Institution of Unstable Thoughts) Residency -
Feb 18 - April 6, 2008
Olexander Gnilitsky incorporates painting, video, poetry, drawing, photography, kinetics, and many other available means and methodologies into his practice.
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Ukrainian Citizens, Neighbors, and Strangers
Films and Videos by Vika Begalska, Veaceslav Druta, Adam Frelin, Tim Hyde, Gleb Katchuk + Olga Kashimbeckova, Yuriy Kruchak, R.E.P Group, Stefan Rusu, and Lesja Zajac + Olexander Gnilitsky. » more
Democracy, Discourse and Artistry
A presentation by Richard D. Anderson, Jr., Associate Professor of Political Science, UCLA. » more
Visual Vinyl Workshop and Performance
by Olexander Gnilitsky and Lesja Zajac » more
2007
Connecting in Kyiv
Three Artist Exchanges in Kyiv by Jeff Cain, Adam Frelin, and Angie Waller. » more
Normalization
Films and videos curated by Croatian curatorial collective, "What, How, and for Whom (WHW). » more
2006
Artist-in-Residence
by Lucy Pullen
For six weeks, Lucy Pullen lived and worked in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park where she occupied a » more
The Economy of the Imaginary:
Pirates and Heroes
by Minerva Cuevas
Widely known for projects that are based on context-specific social research and an adept use of a wide array of media and artistic approaches, Cuevas created this five channel video installation » more
Fair Trade's The NAFTA Effect
by THINK AGAIN
Large-scale projections comprised of a slideshow of phrases in English and Spanish that explicitly criticize recent legislation regarding immigration and the U.S./Mexico border.» more
Fair Trade's 2006 Rose Bowl Flea Market Biennale by Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento
To be critical and aware of how art objects circulate as property in our culture, Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento proposes an artistic practice that conflates public and private space. » more
Fair Trade's Speak Up LA!
by Amanda Herman and Katina Papson
This performative project was less invested in creating a spectacle and more oriented toward creating open-ended relations among people to spark discussion.
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Fair Trade's Fair Exchange
by Irene Tsatsos
A curatorial project organized for the Millard Sheets Gallery at the Los Angeles County Fair Grounds, this group exhibition included 28 Los Angeles-based artists and artist collectives and » more
Fair Trade's Fire in the Taco Bell: Lo-tech strategies and not-so-shocking art from Mexico City
by Joaquin Segura, Renato Garza, and Ricardo Cuevas
Developed during a three-week residency in Los Angeles, this lecture, exhibition, and screening, hosted by Gallery 727 » more
Fair Trade's Haircuts by Children by Darren O'Donnell and Naomi Campbell
This performance engages with the enfranchisement of children and trust in the younger generation, and invites contemplation of a very simple image: a child cutting an adult's hair.» more
