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    LA><ART PRESENTS
    FLY
    A Choreography and Digital Animation Collaboration at LA><ART
    By Flora Wiegmann and Miljohn Ruperto
     
    After a few seconds they’ve come to a tactical decision and they begin to do what they can, to buzz and try to lift themselves.
     
    For FLY, Wiegmann and Ruperto have conceived of a work that uses six performers to reenact Flypaper by Robert Musil (1880-1942). Musil's essay Flypaper painstakingly describes the struggle and incipient death of an unlucky housefly stuck upon a ribbon of flypaper. In a new adaptation, Flora Wiegmann has choreographed six dancers to move as fly appendages, reenacting the plight of Musil's creature. Pauses in the dance score open to a lenticular LCD screen. Mounted on a plinth, it displays an insectile animation mirroring the choreography. In these various registers of scale that begin with Musil’s fly, corporeal movement is staged, captured and distributed in separate approximations of size, form and life force.
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    Saturday April 13, 2013
    7:00pm
    LA><ART
    2640 South La Cienega Blvd.

    This one-hour program presents the moving image of international artists Pilvi Takala and Ahmet Öğüt. The onsite event will be followed by a discussion with audience members, the artists and LA><ART curator-at-large, Matthew Schum.

    Our retrospective look will feature the following works by each artist:

    Pilvi Takala
    Trainee
    The Real Snow White
    Players
    http://www.pilvitakala.com/

    Ahmet Öğüt
    Oscar William Sam
    Somebody Else's Car
    Things We Count
    Let It Be Known to All Persons Here Gathered
    EyeWriter/DIY/arbakir
    Guppy 13 vs Ocean Wave: A Bas Jan Ader Experience
    http://www.ahmetogut.com/

    * Image courtesy of Ahmet Öğüt; artwork commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial.
    ** Image courtesy of Pilvi Takala, Galerie Diana Stigter and Carlos/Ishikawa.

    ABOUT THE ARTISTS
    Ahmet Öğüt: (b. 1981, Diyarbakir, Turkey) Lives and works between Berlin, Istanbul and Amsterdam. Öğüt recently completed a year-long residency at the Tate and the Delfina Foundation to develop the ongoing project The Silent University (2012). Öğüt solo exhibitions include the Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney and Kunsthalle, Basel. Selected group exhibitions include the 7th Liverpool Biennial; the 12th Istanbul Biennial; the 4th Moscow Biennial; Performa 09 and the 5th Berlin Biennial. He is winner of the 2010 Europas Zukunft prize from Museum of Contemporary Art  Leipzig (GfZK), the 2011 Volkskrant Art Prize, and 2012 The Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize. Öğüt represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Banu Cennetoğlu.

    Pilvi Takala: (b. 1981, Helsinki, Finland) Graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 (MFA), was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010 and won the Dutch Prix de Rome 2011. Her solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon; Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway. Her work has been shown in New Museum, New York; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; 9th Istanbul Biennial and Kunsthalle Helsinki.

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    Film Screening at the Silent Movie Theater: 

    Edgar Arcenaux
    An Arrangement Without Tormentors
    I Told Jesus, Change My Name

    April 7 from 1-3 PM 

    Post screening conversation with Arceneaux, Martine Syms, and Curator Amanda Hunt

    611 North Fairfax Ave.
    Los Angeles, CA 90036

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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:

    A.L. Steiner

    Available appointments:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 

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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:

    Tania Bruguera

    Available appointments:
    Tuesday, April 2, 2013
    3pm – 3:50pm
    4pm – 4:50pm
    5pm – 5:50pm
     
    Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, installation and video. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating public forums to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, while also challenging notions of spectatorship and participation by transforming conditions for “viewing” into those for “citizenry.” Recent exhibitions include Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2012; The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, 2012, and Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2012. Bruguera participated in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal. Her works have also been exhibited at the New Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Helsinki Art Museum; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Museum Bojimans van Beuningen, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her performances have been presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela. In 2011, Bruguera spent a year operating a community space in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York as part of Immigrant Movement International, a long-term project presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art. From 2003 to 2009, Bruguera was the founding director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana, the first performance and time-based art studies program in Cuba.

    Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours is coordinated with USC Roski's Chelle Barbour, a 2013 Master's candidate in the MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program. The program emphasizes the practice and history of art, curating and critical theory. In addition to realizing an individual work of advanced research in a thesis, Master's candidates produce a curatorial practicum and related programs as a means of raising social questions about art and art's publics. Barbour's work with Bruguera precedes the artist's free open public evening lecture at USC Roski on April 3rd (7pm), at the University Park Campus, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089. 

    Special acknowledgement is extended to Connie Butler, Visiting Professor in the M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC and Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for her efforts in making Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours possible.

    Other Office Hours artists and appointment dates include:

    A.L. Steiner
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Available appointments with A.L. Steiner:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 
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    Office Hours at LA><ART

    Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

    Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 


    Participating artists and hours of availability:


    Edgar Arceneaux

    Available appointments:

    Saturday, March 16, 2013

    12pm – 12:50pm

    1pm – 1:50pm

    2pm – 2:50pm


    Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations and video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. From 1999 to 2012 Arceneaux served as Director of the Watts House Project, an artist driven neighborhood redevelopment project centered around the historic Watts Towers. He co-founded the WHP as a non-profit organization in 2009 with writer and arts organizer Sue Bell Yank. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Kitchen, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. His work was included in Marking Time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia; Mutatis Mutandis, at Secession, Vienna, Austria, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. Arceneaux is currently developing a collaborative project with the US State Department and the country of São Tomé e Príncipe, as well as a solo exhibition opening in May of 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, a forum created by Theaster Gates as part of the University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris.


    Other Office Hours artists and appointment dates include:


    Tania Bruguera
     
    Tania Bruguera is a Cuban-born interdisciplinary artist working primarily in performance, installation and video. Her work researches ways in which art can be applied to everyday political life, creating public forums to debate ideas in a state of contradiction, while also challenging notions of spectatorship and participation by transforming conditions for “viewing” into those for “citizenry.” Recent exhibitions include Catch Phrases and the Powers of Language, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, 2012; The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, 2012, and Forget Fear, 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2012. Bruguera participated in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale, and the São Paulo Bienal. Her works have also been exhibited at the New Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Helsinki Art Museum; Whitechapel Art Gallery; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. Her performances have been presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Venezuela. In 2011, Bruguera spent a year operating a community space in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York as part of Immigrant Movement International, a long-term project presented by Creative Time and the Queens Museum of Art. From 2003 to 2009, Bruguera was the founding director of Cátedra Arte de Conducta in Havana, the first performance and time-based art studies program in Cuba.

    Available appointments with Tania Bruguera:
    Tuesday, April 2, 2013
    3pm – 3:50pm
    4pm – 4:50pm
    5pm – 5:50pm


    A.L. Steiner
     
    A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, writing, performance, and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of an activated cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, co-curator of the project Ridykeulous, a founding member of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), and she consistently collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her works have been presented internationally at venues including the Tate Modern; the New Museum; P.S. 1/MoMA; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; Centre Pompidou; The Kitchen; REDCAT, and the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. Her work is also included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Marieluise Hessel Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. Her book Stop Onestar Press was published by Onestar Press in 2003. Steiner is currently based in Los Angeles and is faculty at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in the MFA, MA, and undergraduate programs.

    Available appointments with A.L. Steiner:
    Friday, April 5, 2013
    1pm – 1:50pm
    2pm – 2:50pm
    3pm – 3:50pm

    Please check back periodically for additional participating artists and hours of availability.

    Office Hours is the inaugural project for Discursive Programs at LA><ART. Please direct any questions regarding Office Hours or Discursive Programs to Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART. 

    Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours is coordinated with USC Roski's Chelle Barbour, a 2013 Master's candidate in the MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program. The program emphasizes the practice and history of art, curating and critical theory. In addition to realizing an individual work of advanced research in a thesis, Master's candidates produce a curatorial practicum and related programs as a means of raising social questions about art and art's publics. Barbour's work with Bruguera precedes the artist's free open public evening lecture at USC Roski on April 3rd (7pm), at the University Park Campus, 850 West 37th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089. 

    Special acknowledgement is extended to Connie Butler, Visiting Professor in the M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the Roski School of Fine Arts at USC and Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, for her efforts in making Tania Bruguera's participation in Office Hours possible.


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    Iván Argote
    La Estrategia, 2012
    (TRT 30:12)

    This film and video work focuses on clandestine communities founded in 1970s Bogotá by revolutionaries. Guided by a system of gnostic truths that consolidated their vision, these cellular groups applied their hermetic values in shared living situations. Their everyday reality consisted of physical and mental exercises that expressed their commitment to the collective and a way of life was intended to prepare them for the coming revolution.
     
    Traveling between Bogotà and the jungle, La Estrategia establishes a mirror community of youth in Colombia. On the basis of family folklore collected by the artist, he and his actors immerse themselves in the spirit—and occasional absurdities—of a former, more militant generation. The new group stalks their predecessors in a series of staged actions and kinetic artworks that attempt to reconstitute the past. A visual journal unfolds in vignettes made-up of asynchronous passages anchored in half-truths, historical fiction and actual events. La Estrategia searches for traces of individuals that can only be approached by seemingly futile experiments in collective action and a blind willingness to narrate a story that will inevitably remain incomplete. In this sense, the work investigates how quickly partisan ideals transform while still imposing their influence.
     
    “The strategy” seen in the footage tests how method relates to historical encounter and the provisional materials a micro community may use to mark the past.
     
    Film screening will begin promptly at 7:30 PM
    Public parking is free on La Cienega after 7 PM. 
     
    About the Artist
    Ivan Argote was born in Bogota in 1983. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Argote creates scenarios in his art that blend rebellion and absurdity. “My works are reflections on the way we behave and how we understand our environment and how our immediate surroundings relate to history, tradition, art, politics and power,” Argote says of his work. He has presented solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, CA2M, Madrid and D+T Project, Brussels. The artist was included in the 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, along with his partner, Pauline Bastard.
     

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    Barbara Bush on LA><ART by Martha Wilson
    Pitzer College Art Galleries in collaboration with LA><ART
    2640 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90034
    Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.

    Martha Wilson's signature performance work is political satire and she is known for impersonating First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Second Lady Tipper Gore. On Thursday, January 24, Wislon will present a special performance of Barbara Bush at LA><ART. 

    In conjunction with the exhibition: Martha Wilson, January 26 – March 22, 2013
    Pitzer College Art Galleries, Pitzer College
    1050 N Mills Ave
    Claremont, CA 91711
    Presented with generous support from