Monthly Archive for September, 2009

Scent • Paul Pescador

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glenna
on September 27, 2009
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October 8, 2009
7:00 pmto9:30 pm

Scent
Paul Pescador
October 8th 7-9:30pm

Accompanying Julia Westerbeke’s exhibition “Alien Organic”, Paul Pescador will be conducting “Scent” an ephemeral installation/performance. Pescador will rub a variety of herbs and produces in a 1.5 ft circular space of the gallery as a means to create a complex scent surrounding the small-designated space. The work mimics reminisce of human presence, almost like a strong perfume that lingers once one walks away. Both sweet and pungent, the scents reference the organic materials that one wears, eats, and digests.

Paul Pescador is an artist and filmmaker. His actions, gestures, and performances, deal with issues of social disconnection and communal space. He is a Studio Art MFA candidate for University of California, Irvine, Pescador has shown in New York, Seoul, and Los Angeles.

www.paulpescador.com

WE OURSELVES FLASH AND YEARN,

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glenna
on September 18, 2009
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work by Tristan Shone and Gretchen Mercedes

August-Sept 2009

curated by Glenna Jennings

Red Requiem (2002) by Gretchen Mercedes • Drone Machines by Tristan Shone

Drone Machines • Saxon S (2007) by Gretchen Mercedes

Tristan Shone and his Dub Machines (2009)

From the Indonesian Archipelago to the local machine shop, we ourselves flash and yearn, presents the work of two artists whose disparate mediums (and pedestals) collide in the white cube of LA’s compactspace. Curator Glenna Jennings takes the title from poet John Berryman’s Dream Song 14 and describes Shone’s work in the show-titled essay: “The skilled machine shop artist has come a long way since the first crucifix he welded as an undergrad back at RPI in Troy, New York. Though his drone ‘sculptures’ are arguably more Marxist-esque than religious in their industrial connotation, their singularity and performative utility mark them as celebrated escape convicts from the world of commodity fetishism – convicts that themselves celebrate a kind of nostalgia for the simplicity of an Enlightenment-era human interface. When Shone performs with his creations, one wonders if Mary Shelly could have at least thrown in a climactic and conciliatory love scene between the doctor and his disgruntled monster.”

Mercedes’ selected videos from her Oceanic series deal with escapes and convergences of a different breed. These de-peopled oceanscapes are presented from the ‘predator’s’ perspective, as Mercedes wields her lens from the hulls of various shipping boats throughout the South Pacific on voyages into the semi-forgotten worlds that bring food to your table. Both Shone’s and Mercedes’ works exist in contemporary dialogs with the Sublime, Boredom and the relationship of these tenuously related territories to man and ‘his’ machines – whether they be hulking vessels roaming the open sea or polished and streamlined instruments housed in the art studio.

Image from Gretchen Merededes’ Red Requiem (2002)

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Sister Spit

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glenna
on September 16, 2009
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October 1, 2009
8:00 pmto11:00 pm

Sister Spit at compactspace!

RADAR Productions Presents

Sister Spit- Next Generation U.S. Tour

September 30th- October 30th — San Francisco

•Info: www.radarproductions.org – 573-268-1659

•Tour Schedule: http://www.radarproductions.org/tourschedule.html

•Tickets: Prices vary; see tour schedule for details

•Press Room (hi res photos): http://www.radarproductions.org/pressroom.html

Sister Spit- Next Generation blows into Los Angeles on Thursday, October 1st! They land at Compactspace Gallery at 8pm. Just $10 at the door! Featuring special guest Myriam Gurba!

Featuring queer luminary Michelle Tea, hilarious literary force Beth Lisick, well-manicured performance artist Ben McCoy, graphic novelist and former L Word writer Ariel Schrag, powerhouse poet Kirya Traber, photographer/myth-explorer Sara Seinberg, and world-traveling novelist Rhiannon Argo. This vanload of magnificent underground female-centric, queertastic brilliance blazes across the USA and into your town! The latest in the tradition of rowdy, raucous literary adventures stretching all the way back to 1997 featuring your new favorite performers! http://radarproductions.org/sisterspit.html

Sister Spit was established in San Francisco in the early 1990’s as a weekly all-female open mic series, co-founded by Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson. The duo launched the first Sister Spit national tour in 1997: 2 vans chock-full with cutting-edge queer female writers and performers. Since its inception, Sister Spit has crossed the country many times and re-merged in 2007 as Sister Spit- Next Generation featuring established writers with young, emerging queer artists of all genders.

http://www.radarproductions.org

For Calendar Editors:

WHAT: RADAR Productions Presents-

Sister Spit- Next Generation

A multimedia literary explosion of zinesters, fashion plates, novelists, performance artists, poets and fancy scribblers.

WHEN: Thursday, October 1st, 8pm

WHERE: Compactspace Gallery, 105 E. 6th Street, Los Angeles

TICKETS: $10/door

TOUR SCHEDULE: http://www.radarproductions.org/tourschedule.html

MORE INFO: http://www.radarproductions.org or (573) 268-1659

PRESS: Contact Elizabeth at (573) 268-1659 or info@radarproductions.org

Posters and photos available at http://www.radarproductions.org/pressroom.html

Brief bios available at

http://www.radarproductions.org/WhosInTheVanUSTour.html

Individual tour members available for interviews. Please contact Elizabeth (above.)