Join us June 16th at the Armory Center for the Arts in
Pasadena for an evening of lectures, performance,
music and video, including a reading room of artists'
books and publications. With an emphasis on duration,
'American Symposium' aims to unite some of the
fractured elements of LA's diverse cultural
production.
Come early and stay late.
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American Symposium
June 16th, 6-11pm
Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
2nd Cannons Publications
Bedwetter
Jason Brown
Elk
Falcon Eddy
Farmlab
Aaron Garber-Maikovska
Roger Herman
Gustavo Herrera
Malisa Humphrey
Ryan Lamb
Julie Lequin
Candice Lin
Anna Oxygen
Lawrence Pearce
William Roper with Christina Linhardt
Ben Shaffer
Jim Skuldt
The Speculative Archive/ Julia Meltzer and David
Thorne
Robert Summers
Catherine Taft
Wounded Lion
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Performances will include Julie Lequin performing her
submission for This American Life, Ben Shaffer's
attempt to heal something yet to be determined with
transcendental meditation specialist John Briganti,
and eight minutes of gestural sampling with Aaron
Garber-Maikovska.
Lectures will include Catherine Taft on the early
video work of Skip Arnold, a sampling of Jason Brown's
epic inter-disciplinary lectures, and Robert Summers
will present a paper bridging the space between Jason
Rhoades and erectile dysfunction.
Music will include Anna Oxygen leading the audience
through aerobic stretching and meta-physical didactics
with synth pop beats, William Roper will present a
work with soprano Christina Linhardt that was recently
written in residency at the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus
in Bavaria, the folk pop curiosity Falcon Eddy, and
the tribal power pop of Wounded Lion.
Following a day of siting their new mobile garden
project in Downtown LA, Lauren Bon's post-Not A
Cornfield project, Farmlab will conduct their weekly
team meeting in the Armory's studio; allowing insight
into metabolic sculpture, sustainable urban farming,
and the workings of a large-scale collaborative
project.
The video program will include work from Candice Lin,
Malisa Humphrey, Ryan Lamb, Jim Skuldt, and The
Speculative Archive's 'May You Choke on a Peanut',
which features an improvised curse delivered by Syrian
performer Rami Farah.
A reading room will include artists' books from
Gustavo Herrera, artist's publications from Brian
Kennon's '2nd Cannons Publications', Christopher
Russell's 'Bedwetter', Jocko Weyland's 'Elk', and
classics of Modern literature with hand-painted covers
by Lawrence Pearce.
Roger Herman provides eye candy that functions as good
as television, or better.
Come early and stay late.
A NewTown Slush Fund Event
www.newtownarts.org
For more information: american.symposium@yahoo.com |
