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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.
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Mindy Shapero’s work comes from a rich fantasy world or constructed mythology that
has a significant basis in the literary. The titles of her works are often paragraphs long
and can accompany the work in the form of self-published black and white zines that
serve as a descriptive and informative textual component to the artwork. William Blake
and Henry Darger share a commonality with Shapero in the invention and maintenance
of complex theistic hierarchies and their supporting myths and histories rooted in their
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
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).
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.
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.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
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.
REDCAT: REDCAT and its neighbors invite all of Southern California for this lively annual day of art for the whole family. Visit the Gallery at REDCAT, have a caricature drawn by a CalArts animation artist, and enjoy live performances on stages up and down Grand Avenue.
More info: www.grandavenuefestival.com
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
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.
FILM/VIDEO: Video, Performance, Multimedia, Installation Artist & Film/Video Faculty Nancy Buchanan will present recent work from California to Iraq.
Program:
California Stories, mini-DV, 10 min., 1983
Natives of Wisconsin reveal the "truth" about California.
3 fates, mini-DV, 2 min., 2008
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.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
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.
CAP: Exhibition of CAP youth participants' works from 2007-2008.
CRITICAL STUDIES: Reading by David Marriott, UC Santa Cruz associate professor. Marriott is the author of Incognegro, a book of poetry and prose which centers around the black European and American literary/historical experience.
MUSIC: Mark Menzies (piano, violin) and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick (cello) will play Toru Takemitsu's Orion, Wolfgang von Schweinitz's Plainsound-Litanei and Roger Reynolds' A Crimson Path.
DANCE: The CalArts School of Dance would like to encourage the exchange of creative processes between the educational and professional environments within the greater Los Angeles collective. The “commuter” concept was developed to support the presentation of works by local choreographers. It is also our goal to provide our students with exposure to the talented and diverse working artists in the community we share. Participants include: Lionel Popkin, Oni Dance, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, casebolt and smith, and Meg Wolfe.
For reservations, please call 661.291.3046.
REDCAT: World Premiere
THEATER: An installation/performance framed in the guise of a sociology experiment.
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.
REDCAT: World Premiere
THEATER: An installation/performance framed in the guise of a sociology experiment.
THEATER: An installation/performance framed in the guise of a sociology experiment.
DANCE: The CalArts School of Dance would like to encourage the exchange of creative processes between the educational and professional environments within the greater Los Angeles collective. The “commuter” concept was developed to support the presentation of works by local choreographers. It is also our goal to provide our students with exposure to the talented and diverse working artists in the community we share. Participants include: Lionel Popkin, Oni Dance, Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company, casebolt and smith, and Meg Wolfe.
For reservations, please call 661.291.3046
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.
THEATER: An installation/performance framed in the guise of a sociology experiment.
THEATER: An installation/performance framed in the guise of a sociology experiment.
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.
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D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
ART:
D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
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.
FILM/VIDEO: As New-York based artist Julia Heyward will be in residence at CalArts in the Spring 2009 and will offer two classes in the Program of Film/Video, we are proud to offer this introduction to her ground-breaking work.
MUSIC: The CalArts Chamber Orchestra and various soloists perform James Tenney's Form 1, 2, 3, 4, Clang, Percy Grainger's (edited Ulrich Krieger) Random Rounds and Andrew Tholl Corpus Callosum.
ART:
D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
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:
D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
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.
REDCAT: West Coast premiere
"Utterly original... A stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation." Time Out New York
"A great work... its rough-hewn, homemade air is suffused with an innocence that one rarely glimpses in a contemporary work of art." Hilton Als, The New Yorker
ART:
D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
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.
MUSIC: A classical voice recital by Jewl Mosteller, featuring sacred works from different traditions, including works by Hildegard von Bingen, Petros Shoujounian, Oliver Messiaen and Aaron Jay Kernis.
REDCAT: West Coast premiere
"Utterly original... A stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation." Time Out New York
"A great work... its rough-hewn, homemade air is suffused with an innocence that one rarely glimpses in a contemporary work of art." Hilton Als, The New Yorker
ART:
D300: Concept Consumerism by Rebecca Inducil BFA
D301: Theatre School Event
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.
REDCAT: West Coast premiere
"Utterly original... A stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation." Time Out New York
"A great work... its rough-hewn, homemade air is suffused with an innocence that one rarely glimpses in a contemporary work of art." Hilton Als, The New Yorker
MUSIC: A selection of vocal works by Berlioz, Handel, Vivaldi, Ravel and Golijov.
REDCAT: West Coast premiere
"Utterly original... A stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation." Time Out New York
"A great work... its rough-hewn, homemade air is suffused with an innocence that one rarely glimpses in a contemporary work of art." Hilton Als, The New Yorker
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.
REDCAT: West Coast premiere
"Utterly original... A stunning act of choreographed literary transmutation." Time Out New York
"A great work... its rough-hewn, homemade air is suffused with an innocence that one rarely glimpses in a contemporary work of art." Hilton Als, The New Yorker
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REDCAT: In her first feature-length film, comic strip artist-turned-filmmaker Nina Paley juxtaposes multiple narrative and visual styles to create a highly entertaining and affecting vision of the Ramayana — the ancient Sanskrit epic and essential fixture of the Hindu canon. Musical numbers choreographed to the 1920s-era jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw spin off an astonishing whirlwind of flying monkeys, evil monsters, gods, goddesses, warriors, sages, and winged eyeballs.
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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.
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MUSIC: The CalArts community begins a series of concerts this fall and spring, that explore the music, and context, of Luigi Nono.
MUSIC: The first of two student-run concerts comprised of new and in-progress works. A second concert is scheduled for December 2.
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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.
MUSIC: The first of two student-run concerts comprised of new and in-progress works. A second concert is scheduled for December 2.
MUSIC: The first in a series of four concerts featuring new compositions by CalArts undergraduate composers, with performances by CalArts faculty, students and special guests.
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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.
DANCE: The first production of the Fall semester featuring student choreography. Undergraduate student work and new works from the MFA I class will be presented.
CRITICAL STUDIES: Reading and reception
Cris Beam reads from her nonfiction book Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers.
MUSIC: Master shakuhachi player and teacher will perform a concert of solo honkyoku pieces (traditional meditation music) on the Japanese bamboo flute.
REDCAT: Co-presented with CalArts’ graduate Aesthetics and Politics Program
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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.
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DANCE: The first production of the Fall semester featuring student choreography. Undergraduate student work and new works from the MFA I class will be presented.
MUSIC: An evening of standards and original compositions.
REDCAT: A darkly elegant evening of gorgeous melodies with a theatrical flourish. Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas face off on vocals as Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus strum their harps in this twisted match of musical one-upmanship. The quartet thrusts and parries with an arsenal of tunes ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime: psychedelic calls to prayer, Henry Purcell's Baroque art songs, Kraftwerk, Buffy St. Marie, Lee Hazlewood and Pink Floyd, as well as original songs by Magnuson and Dugas. New York art star-turned-L.A.
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.
REDCAT: A darkly elegant evening of gorgeous melodies with a theatrical flourish. Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas face off on vocals as Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus strum their harps in this twisted match of musical one-upmanship. The quartet thrusts and parries with an arsenal of tunes ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime: psychedelic calls to prayer, Henry Purcell's Baroque art songs, Kraftwerk, Buffy St. Marie, Lee Hazlewood and Pink Floyd, as well as original songs by Magnuson and Dugas. New York art star-turned-L.A.
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.
ADMISSIONS: Over 30 other visual & performing arts colleges reviewing prospective student portfolios.
MUSIC: An evening of songs, arias and other vocal music performed by the students of the CalArts voice program.
REDCAT: The latest installment of REDCAT's quarterly series of new work and works-in-progress features dance, theater, multi-media and music performances by Los Angeles area artists. The Fall 2008 edition of Studio was curated by Leilani Chan and Leslie Tamaribuchi, and includes the following six original works:
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MUSIC: Chamber music from all eras performed by CalArts students and faculty.