2014
January 16 - 25, 2014
THE KEY GAME PROJECT: Sleep, Staring, Well
Kristen Smiarowski, Choreographer/Director
An immersive multimedia performance event and installation about the construction of cultural memory. It is the third phase ofSmiarowski's multi-year series, THE KEY GAME PROJECT. Reflecting upon the attempts to create a coherent history of the Holocaustby the generations who did not live through it, this series echoes the very subject it contemplates: each work in THE KEY GAMEPROJECT is a memorial to the one that preceded it.Audience members experience Sleep, Staring, Well on foot as they move freely through the performance and gallery space. As theywalk, they encounter dance performances, live music, video and sound installations, and art objects.Within the performance space there are dedicated areas that invite audience members to add their memories to the work throughmovement, drawing, and written word.This project is a collaborative effort between Smiarowski, Los Angeles-based dancer and featured performer Rosalynde Loo LeBlanc,Berlin-based dancer Arianne Hoffmann, composer and visual artist Douglas C. Wadle, video artists Ann Kaneko and Andrea Keiz,archivist Kathy Carbone, designers Caitlin Lainoff (set), Jesse Garrison (video) and Pablo Santiago (lighting) as well as a host ofdancers, writers and audiences who have participated in performances and workshops to generate material for the work. TheGnarwhallaby Quartet will premiere a new musical work by Wadle, titled Erasures and Additions.Kristen Smiarowski is a Los Angeles-based choreographer and director whose projects investigate the relationship between performance and cultural memory. Herwork has been performed nationally and internationally, and she has received awards and commissions from The Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists,Durfee Foundation, Music Center Education Division, Skirball Cultural Center, The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, and The Wooden Floor,among others. Her work has been called “meditative” (Lewis Segal, The Los Angeles Times) and “raw....chilling in its unflinching simplicity” (Elizabeth Schwyzer, TheSanta Barbara Independent). GROUNDSWELL, her environmental performance at Los Angeles’ Ballona Freshwater Marsh, was presented in the 2011 World Festivalof Sacred Music.
February 20-23, 2014
CYRK
She World Productions
CYRKis an uncanny history of the She Clown recalled through music, immersive performance, installation and film. Mementos and relicsassembled from the SHE WORLD Archive of artist Ursula Brookbank disclose a life's story as the audience moves through a topsyturvyworld of nomadic recollection.Produced by Stephanie KernWith Emily Lacy, Sallie Merkel, Natalie Shriver, Laura Steenberge, and Dan Rae WilsonUrsula Brookbank is a Los Angeles based artist, who works in the mediums of film, video and photography. She received a BFA in Painting at the University of Floridain 1975. Relocating to LA in 1976, Brookbank started as a darkroom technician in a commercial photo studio, and has been an Art Director for still photography andvideo productions since 1979. Her image-based work currently engages the feminine detritus of her SHE WORLD ARCHIVE in an ongoing participatory andcollaborative dialogue. Her work has been recently shown in Los Angeles at the Echo Park Film Center, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Luckman Fine ArtsComplex, Craftswoman, the Center for Living Arts in Mobile, Alabama and Krowswork, Oakland, California..
March 8, 2014 at 8 PM
URBAN RENEWAL
Kyle deCamp
Award-winning New York theater artist Kyle deCamp's Urban Renewal is a meditation on perception, public policy, and the significanceof the buildings we live in, from a child’s rigorously unsentimental point of view. “BESSIE”-award winning performer Kyle deCampmaps an experience of growing up in Chicago in the chaotic ’60s, caught in the crosshairs of power and history.In a multimedia environment of projected space, Urban Renewal maps a piece of land in Chicago, drawing world history into a clashwith individual lives. deCamp vividly spotlights her experience of growing up on a block razed by the last demolition of urban renewal inHyde Park in 1963.The work exploits simultaneity of perception: extremes of scale, animations, multiple narratives, locations and timeframes create portalsfor the audience’s own memories, both private and public, individual and collective."Smart, feisty, imaginative solo performer”—The Village VoiceRead more about URBAN RENEWAL on CultureBot
March 15-16, 2014
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
An installation/performance by Peiyi Wong
A multi-media installation / performance that attempts to examine the many ways we have of looking, in hopes of uncovering the idealway forward.The latest research and findings of an anonymous amateur archeologist-explorer who remains inexplicably drawn to the ruins of Llanodel Rio, a failed socialist utopian commune built on the edge of the Mojave Desert.Written, directed, and performed by Peiyi WongSound / Music composition by Michael DaySound / Music performances by Jenica Anderson, Michael Day, and Braden DiottePuppetry by Miriam JonesLighting by Jesse BaldridgeVideo by Jesse GarrisonCinematography by Matt Broach, Jessica Li, Sanmu Lin, Abraham Osuna, and Masha TatarintsevDirection & performance developed w/ Miriam Jones, So-Ok Kim and Alexis Macnab
