Hey All,
Just a reminder. We will be meeting this coming Saturday on the northwest corner of Olympic and Lorena. Here is a link to a map.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&om=1&msa=0&msid=1143488...
Also, FYI I posted a couple of PDF's on muralism to our class readings uploaded on AAAAARG
Max Benavides: The Wall: Image and Boundary in Chicano Art
Eve Simpson, Chicano Murals: A Sociological Perspective.
We will meet promptly at Noon. You can call or text 323-691-4739 if you get lost.
Hey everyone,
July 31st will be our echo park site visit in the former Red Hill area of Los Angeles. Everyone interested in organizing it please contact us so we can get together and collaborate. Let's all do some research and then we can decide on the areas/themes to be covered.
Andrea- andrea.denike.martinez@gmail.com
Katherine- ohjeepers@gmail.com
This is the page for organizing LA streetcar system site visit. There apparently were two rival streetcar systems which coexisted in LA. One was called the Los Angeles Railway (LARy) and the other was the Pacific Electric Railway Local. Commonly they were called the Yellow Cars and the Red Cars respectively.
JJ,
you can email http://www.freshpressed.com/ (vendor/retail) and ask some specifics. They have eco friendly paint options, 4C and wide variety of paints. They run workshops or you can bring your art and use their supplies. Probably not mention that you plan on teaching and just want their info. As for the table space they use an old fashion washing machine top area as their tabletop space so probably 4'X3" at max? Something that will hold the silkscreening frame size with some extra space around it which is sufficient enough to do T-shirt sized things.
Another place is Graphaids Inc., an art store in Culver City on La Cienega. http://www.graphaids.com/Stores.html 31020412121
Jose/Ramon has in-depth knowledge with lot of supplies. They've been there for over a decade and think they will be helpful.
y
Hi Everyone,
Just a reminder that the first meeting of Specters of LA History & Site-specific Resurrections will be held this Saturday @ noon at The Public School. Here is a note from Zen, one of the class facilitators, about what will take place:
JUNE 19TH
The first class will be an opportunity for us to meet each other, discuss our interests in LA lost communities, and plan out the future "site visits" to explore.
To begin with, I thought we could all look at two short articles by Mike Davis available here:
http://ifile.it/zvyom59/Mike%20Davis.ZIP
They are "Sunshine & the Open Shop" and "How Eden Lost its Garden"
This course will examine various shamanistic practices in the world, to provide a foundation for anyone interested in learning about shamanism or engaging in shamanistic practice. We will focus on shamansim in Central Asia (Siberia, Mongolia), East Asia (Korea), and the Americas. We will look at general theoritcal texts (Eliade, Rouget, Levi-Strauss, Lewis) and more recent literature on contemporary shamanistic practices. We will also discuss shamanism in popular culture and New Age culture (Carlos Castaneda, Burning Man, craigslist). Class participants interested in ethnographic research will be encouraged to present their own findings/experiences. When possible, we will visit field sites.
4 sessions, 2 hours each
Richard Wagner's operas have been praised as the greatest revolution in Western art of the 19th century, expressions of bloated German nationalism, pre-cursors to Schoenberg's rejection of tonality, uber-Christian metaphors, and Marxist artworks for the future.
This class would be a chance to get together, learn about the musical, mythological and philosophical structure of Wagner's ring cycle. The teacher/teachers of this class would get us started by helping us understand:
1. The use of letimotifs, chromatism & the other musical changes Wagner introduced in the Ring cycle (in a way non-musicians can understand).
2. The Norse background & how Wagner changes certain elements of it (Brunnhilde intervening for Seigmund, rather than a King).
3. The role of Bakunin & 1848, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and other philosophers on the Ring.
Someone has been murdered during class and it is likely the killer is one of us. We must use our deductive reasoning skills to catch them before its too late.
(I've always wanted to play a murder mystery party and the public school seems like a great place to do it.)
Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
The Public School is organizing a 13-day seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin. This seminar takes the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonate with the site selected. On 18 July The Public School and The Office will host an event to be held at Salon Populaire. The day will unfold as a series of participatory conversations and workshops.
This proposal is for localized version of the activities we are doing in Berlin. This link has our reading list and schedule.
Please revise, adapt and/or transform for your city!
This class should clarify how to (and how not to) make reasonable, evidence-based statements on “The American People,” and explore some shared attitudes that binds this diverse population together, for better or worse.
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Creative producers, critical analysts and seasoned educators develop attitudes of the types of social actors they encounter. Like any member of a national community, artists, writers and educators also formulate beliefs, ideas and judgments on the larger whole we call “The American People. Considering how many cultural producers incorporate these notions in their work, we might expect them to acquire a more intimate and accurate knowledge of the American mentality. I invite critics, artists and other cultural professionals to put their people experience to the test with a sojourn through some seemingly lifeless survey data.