Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2011 Daily Programming & Events Schedule Friday, January 28 PERFORMANCE Late Risers Club 11am, Friday Art Los Angeles Contemporary Amphitheater Barker Hangar emilylacy.net Art Los Angeles Contemporary hosts a morning music session with a performance by Emily Lacy and Lady Noise. Emily Lacy will work with folk and electronic influences to produce reverberant sounds and echoes over the course of an hour. Emily Lacy is a folk and electronic sound artist generating works in music, film, and other media. She has performed in exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hammer Museum, and LACMA, in addition to various DIY spaces all throughout America. She works very closely with Machine Project. Lady Noise, founded by artist Gabie Strong, is the free-form sound collaboration between Kelly Coats (flute), Kathleen Kim (violin), Gabie Strong (bass) and Sandy Yang (guitar and drums). Disrupting conventional spatial formations of live sound performance, the group freely shapes the area reserved for hearing and language to present the listening audience with the aching beauty of amplified harmonic decay. CONVERSATION Conversation & Book Signing with Walead Beshty 1pm, Friday Art Los Angeles Contemporary Amphitheater Barker Hangar Artist Walead Beshty will discuss his book Walead Beshty: Selected Correspondences 2001-2009 with Holly Myers, writer and art critic for the LA Times. This publication focuses on Beshty's documentation of the abandoned embassy of the defunct Iraqi Diplomatic Mission in former East Berlin. A book signing will immediately follow the conversation. READING Poetic Research Bureau 3pm, Friday Art Los Angeles Contemporary Amphitheater Barker Hangar www.poeticresearch.com Scoli Acosta and Joseph Mosconi will present and read from their illustrated children's book, As Above, So Below. Composed of found machine-generated sentences about various types of animals, As Above, So Below borrows its title from Renaissance Hermeticism and treats both language and image as material objects of play. Joseph Mosconi is a writer and linguist based in Los Angeles. He is an editor of Area Sneaks, a journal of poetry and visual arts, and co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau, a literary service in the public domain. Artist Scoli Acosta lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Les Vagues, Frac Pays de la Loire (2010); Carbon Footprint, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, (2008); Bountiful, LAXART, Los Angeles, (2008); Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, LACMA, Los Angeles, (2008); From and About Place: Art from Los Angeles, CCA, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008); Day was to Fall as Night was to Break, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York (2006). PERFORMANCE Brendan Fowler Performance 4pm, Friday Art Los Angeles Contemporary Barker Hangar UNTITLED booth nyuntitled.com PERFORMANCE Human Resources presents 5pm, Friday Art Los Angeles Contemporary Amphitheater Barker Hangar humanresourcesla.com Art collective Human Resources presents an hour long program of performances and musical acts. Human Resources serves as a point of convergence for diverse and disparate art communities to engage in conversation and idea-sharing promoting the sustainability of non-traditional art forms. Friday January 28th: My body lies over the ocean. My body lies over the sea. Organized by Paul Pescador Human Resources, Los Angeles presents My body lies over the Ocean. My body lies over the sea. A one night performance event featuring the work of Alexis Disselkoen and Tessa Kurszewski, Billy Kheel, Paul Pescador, and Nancy Popp. My body lies over the Ocean. My body lies over the sea will focus on site-specific situational and interactive performances. The event will examine the role of the body as vehicle for physical production. Whether it is through the excursion of endurance or the transference of physicality to material form, each performer examines the role of the body as a vessel in which performance disseminates. My body lies over the Ocean. My body lies over the sea. stems from a larger set of performance events organized by Paul Pescador. Theses performances focus on site-specific situational and interactive performances. In this event, the exhibition space is divided into multiple units. Each performer will separate their piece into one of these locations. As the event unfolds varying parts of each performance will begin to move, by the end of the event: performers, objects, and audience will begin to blur into one another. SPECIAL EVENT / AROUND TOWN Collective Show Los Angeles 6pm, Friday 995 & 997 North Hill Street Los Angeles CA 90012 collectiveshow.org Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years. Previously realized in New York, Collective Shows exhibit local art groups that exist in a growing space between established non-profit organizations and commercial galleries. Thirty groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during this show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. Performances and talks will take place during the 10 days of the exhibition. Participating groups include: ACP, Actual Size, Canal, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, *particle group*, b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, Elysian Park Museum of Art, Gibsmir, Human Resources, JMoca, Material, [NAME], Night Gallery, Public Fiction, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Workspace, WPA, 323 Projects, and others. Collective Show is open Thursday-Sunday, January 27th-30th from 12-6pm BENEFIT / PERFORMANCE X-TRA's 1 Image 1 Minute 7pm, Friday Ray Kurtzman Theater Creative Artists Agency Century City Campus TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. These are available from the following website: x-traonline.org/1IMAGE1MINUTE_2011.php Art Los Angeles Contemporary in collaboration with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) present X-TRA'S 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE. This year's program will benefit both publication of X-TRA and LACMA's Art Here and Now program, which supports Los Angeles based emerging artists. The 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE event is based on Micol Hebron's column in X-TRA, which is a recreation of a project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda. Varda invited various people in and outside the art world to respond to photographic images for one minute. She presented the results on French television in 1983. X-TRA 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE Participants: BARBARA BESTOR / JOSHUA CALLAGHAN / JULI CARSON / KATE COSTELLO / EILEEN COWIN / JEFFREY DEITCH / SEAN DOCKRAY / MARTIN DURAZO / LAURI FIRSTENBERG / JUDY FISKIN / ROBERT FONTENOT / FRANCESCA GABBIANI / ALEXANDRA GRANT / EMMA GRAY / SCOTT GRIEGER / EMILIE HALPERN / DOUG HARVEY / MARIE JAGER / TOM JANCAR / BRIAN KENNON / CHRISTINE Y. KIM / MICHAEL KOHN / JOEL KYACK / KAREN LOFGREN / BENJAMIN LORD / SIMONE LUECK / MARA MCCARTHY / MICHAEL MCMILLAN / DANIEL JOSEPH MARTINEZ / SUSAN MOGUL / SHAMIM MOMIN / REBECCA MORRIS / CARTER MULL / WARREN NIESLUCHOWSKI / ANTHONY PEARSON / RENEE PETROPOULOS / STEFAN SIMCHOWITZ / FRANKLIN SIRMANS / JOHN TAIN / MATEO TANNATT / WU TSANG / MARK VERABIOFF / PAE WHITE / ROBERT WILHITE / KATE WOLF / BRENNA YOUNGBLOOD / . . . PLUS OTHERS!