SUMMER SERIES
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Ben Patterson "Compositions for One or More Voices", 1962 to 2004 doors open at 7:30pm $10 gen/members free |
This program presents several different strategies, which I have employed during the last four decades to create "works" (some may hear "music", others may hear "sound poetry") for voice. The human voice has always interested me as a performance instrument, because everyone has one, it is easy to transport; and it is amazingly flexible and has a huge expressive range. - Ben Patterson
- "Pond", 1962 is performed by eight persons and sixteen mechanical frogs.
- "370 Flies", 2003 is performed by solo voice with pre-recorded music and projected video.
- "My Tone, Your Tone, His Tone, Her Tone", 2004 is performed by the whole audience with electronic assistance.
Approximate duration of entire program is 65 minutes.
Ben Patterson was born in Pittsburgh in 1934. In 1960 he moved to Cologne, Germany where he became active in the radical contemporary music scene. He was in Wiesbaden with George Maciunas to organize the historic 1962 Fluxus International Festival and he continued to be a major presence at Fluxus events until the early 1970s, when he retired to pursue an ordinary life. In 1988, Patterson came out of retirement with his exhibition titled Ordinary Life at the Emily Harvey Gallery. Ben Patterson's work has been featured in the many recent Fluxus exhibitions. In 1996 Patterson inaugurated the Public Entrance to his Museum for the Subconscious at Mt. 13th Month in Namibia, Africa. In 2004 he presented 10 special performances as he traveled through Russia, Mongolia, China and Japan by train, ship and foot to celebrate his 70th birthday on Mt. Fuji.
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Justin Chin "Cut Piece Remix" doors open at 7:30pm |
Imagine an artist statement here.
Now imagine a much better, more full-on kick-arse one.
Tell no one.
First performance for The ReCut Project (2006), conceived and directed by Ming-Yuen S. Ma, with interpretations of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964).
Justin Chin is the author of three collections of poetry, Gutted, Harmless Medicine & Bite Hard (Manic D Press), and three collections of essays, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Press), Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks (St. Martin's Press), & Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms (Suspect Thoughts Press). Harmless Medicine was a poetry finalist at the 2002 Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, the Publishing Triangle Awards, and the Asian American Literary Awards. He has received fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council, the Djerassi Artist Residency, the San Francisco Art Commission, PEN American Center, PEN Center USA West, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.
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Lisa Rosenmeier "The Extended Now" Artist talk following "Cut Piece Remix" |
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and The Danish Artist in Residency program in Los Angeles would like to invite you to a presentation with Danish artist Lisa Rosenmeier.
Lisa will talk about The Extended Now, a work that deals with our subjective experience of time as an extended quantity containing both our memory of the past and our expectations for the future. What distortions does memory add to the past, and in what way does this picture serve our present believe system?
Snack bar: Danish Cheese and Salty Licorice will be served.
The Danish Artist in Residency program has been located on a hilltop in Silverlake since 1999.
Lisa Rosenmeier is a multimedia artist based in Copenhagen. She is the current resident at the program.