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REDCAT: Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests. Gravitating more recently towards multi-media works, Bock’s new project, Palms, co-commissioned by REDCAT and the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, reflects the artist’s current interest in the narrative structure and genre conventions of film. ART: Mindy Shapero’s work comes from a rich fantasy world or constructed mythology that Start: 09:00
End: 17:00
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008. Start: 20:00
End: 22:00
MUSIC: Curated by CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro, this concert features music by CalArts alumni Tashi Wada (composer, harmonium) and Kathryn Clark (piano). Wada will present two recent works for three musicians using field recordings and live performance: Two Places Within Another (2008) and Lands End (2008). Kathryn Clark will play Alvin Lucier's rarely heard Still Lives (1996) for piano and sine tones, and CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro's recent work for piano and field recordings, noise and sine tones fields have ears (2008). Start: 20:30
End: 23:30
REDCAT: Two of California’s most notorious underground filmmakers unleash a pair of deliriously subversive visions of Los Angeles culture — past and present — as poverty-row sci-fi thrillers. Bricolage wizard Craig Baldwin, of Tribulation 99 (1991) fame, takes his culture-jamming to a new orbit with Mock Up On Mu (2008, 109 min., color and b/w). This new work is a frenzied collage narrative following the far-flung exploits of L. | ||
