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LA - "Urban Legends" (04.27.12)

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Das Tunnel | Transmission LA: AV Club

A short clip about Transmission LA: AV CLUB at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA running from April 20, 2012 to May 6, 2012. More info:

The Avant/Garde Diaries presents Transmission LA: AV CLUB, curated by Mike D, an interdisciplinary festival featuring the work of 16 contemporary artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and chefs, including Peter Coffin, Jim Drain, Will Fowler, Benjamin Jones, Mike Mills, Takeshi Murata, and Tom Sachs. The presentation will include the international debut of the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupé and an evening concert and DJ series featuring performances by many special guests, including Santigold.

The 17-day festival will illustrate how audio and visual art forms complement and influence each other, through various exhibitions, concerts, DJ nights, performances, and installations,. The event’s logo embodies Mike D’s artistic concept, depicting the letters A (for audio) and V (for visual) as inextricably fused.

Enjoy this look at Transmission LA: AV Club coming to life at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.More info at http://www.theavantgardediaries.com and http://moca.org

Directed by: Joe Termini
Produced by: Joe Termini
Principal Photographer: Matt Mimiaga
Edited by: Joey Indrieri

La Jolla - Jean Lowe "Hey Sexy!" (04.21.12 - 05.26.12)

LA - "High Five" (04.21.12 - 05.26.12)

LA - TRANSMISSION LA: AV CLUB (04.20.12 - 05.06.12)

Cai Guo-Qiang: Mystery Circle at MOCA

What a blast!!!!! Official MOCA footage of Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle explosion event.

Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event (Video)

Raw footage of Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, Los Angeles. Highlights at the start, :58, and 1:27. While the spectacle lasted a short period of time, it was talked about all night long.

RELATED: Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, LA Recap

Cai Guo-Qiang's Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for MOCA, LA Recap

We secured front row seats shared by the press corps, for Cai Guo-Qiang's highly anticipated Mystery Circle: Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Lulu waited patiently. I waited anxiously.

More about Mystery Circle from MOCA:

Mystery Circle, a site-specific work created for MOCA, will contain four stages of special pyrotechnics. At the moment of ignition, 40,000 firework rockets will form a string of crop circles and launch perpendicular to MOCA’s north wall, toward Temple Street, before falling onto the ground. Amidst a curtain of smoke, approximately 100 spinning pyrotechnic UFOs will sporadically appear from the parking lot grounds, while an imaginary alien-god figure on the left side of the wall is outlined from bottom to top by gunpowder fuses. When the burned fuses reach the “halo” of the figure, mini Titanium Salute rockets will shoot into the air followed by a grand finale. The rockets will create a burned imprint on the museum wall, leaving an outdoor drawing. While Cai’s signature explosion events, Project for Extraterrestrials, have been dedicated to creatures from outer space, his new project at MOCA will be the first time an imaginary alien figure actually appears.

Plenty of Angelenos showed up for the post-sunset fireworks show. 

After much anticipation, the time finally arrived! We experienced Guo-Qiang's site-specific work created for MOCA up close. Maybe too close. When the first humongous explosion ignited, everybody screamed because they were simultaneously scared and excited. People generally expect fireworks to explode in the air, vertically. At blast off, we experienced a wall of 40,000 firework rockets with full visual, auditory, and olfactory senses dialed up on overdrive. Not to mention the heatwave that followed. The spectacle lasted only a minute but it had the crowd chattering all night long. It was an amazing, amazing, amazing event to experience.

[I have a full unedited three minute video too.]

The imaginary alien figure appears on the smoldering firework wall.

After the outdoor exhibition, we toured Guo-Qiang's first west coast solo museum exhibition, "Sky Ladder". Upon seeing this crop circle piece, Lulu pointed excitedly and yelled, "The carpet is on the ceiling!" This made me laugh.

The rest of the evening was spent dreaming about the explosions in the sky.

Visit The Museum of Contemporary Art before July 30, 2012 to view Cai Guo-Qiang's "Sky Ladder".

LA - Vans Syndicate Presents "Twenty" (04.14.12 - 04.19.12)

LA - CHARLENE LIU "Everywhere Close To Me" (04.14.12 - 05.19.12)

CHARLENE LIU: Everywhere Close To Me
April 14 - May 19, 2012

Opening Reception Saturday, April 14, 2012, 6-8pm

For more information, please visit our website.

TAYLOR DE CORDOBA
2660 S LA CIENEGA BLVD
LOS ANGELES, CA 90034
310.559.9156
info@taylordecordoba.com

NYC - Priapus & Thanatos Poetry Reading (04.13.12)

 

"The Patter of Tiny Brains" Curated by Doug Harvey (04.06.12 - 05.27.12)

Lulu and I participated in Doug Harvey's "The Patter of Tiny Brains". Our contribution is the recording of Lulu's in utero heartbeats.

LA - "Clocked In" (04.06.12)

LA - "Shoah" Screening (03.26.12 + 03.27.12)

 

HAMMER SCREENINGS: SHOAH

The Hammer Museum presents a two-night screening of Shoah (1985) on Monday, March 26 at 7pm and Tuesday, March 27 at 7pm in the Billy Wilder Theater.

An extraordinary film...One of the noblest ever made. It is not a documentary, not journalism, not propaganda, not political. It is an act of witness. —Roger Ebert

Shoah is one of the greatest documentaries in the history of the cinema…you must see it. —New York Magazine

Shoah, Claude Lanzmann’s monumental epic on the Holocaust, features interviews with survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators in 14 countries. The film does not contain any historical footage but rather features interviews that seek to remember the Jewish tragedy and revisits places where the crimes took place. (1985, Dir. Claude Lanzmann, First Era: 273 min. Second Era: 230 min. total: 503 min.)

In conjunction with the exhibition Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972.

Phil Frost On The Inspiration Of Bob Marley

Phil Frost is an artist's artist. He taught Shepard how to wheat paste. He is legend. To get to peek his studio, I want to weep (can you tell I ♥ him)?! More about this clip:

In celebration of the upcoming release of MARLEY, Kevin Macdonald's epic feature length documentary on the life of Bob Marley, artist Phil Frost (who's known to be incredibly reclusive) participated in an terrific short video in which he for the first time talks about how his work and life has been influenced by Marley. MARLEY hits theaters and all the digital outlets (including Facebook) on 4/20 and includes never before seen footage and music.

Moebius - The Dancing Line Series

Fondation Cartier previously published videos of Jean Giraud (AKA Gir, AKA Moebius) drawing live on a graphic tablet. It is beautiful to watch the master illustrator at work.

More info:

Illustrated with original music by Raphaël Giraud. Edited by David Desrimais for the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.

Moebius - Blueberry (The Dancing Line serie)

Moebius - Stel and Atan (The Dancing Line serie)

RELATED:

MOEBIUS-TRANSE-FORME at Fondation Cartier

Lulu and Moebius

[Hat tip to Eben for the find!]

Paris Mavroidis "Divers"

Divers (Short Animation) from Paris Mavroidis on Vimeo.

 

LA - James Welling "Geometric Abstraction" (02.29.12 - 03.31.12)

JAMES WELLING: GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION
February 29 - March 31, 2012
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 29, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Kinsey's "Valle Flor"

Hot off the press, direct from Kinsey:

Valle Flor, my first print of 2012 released thru BLK/MRKT Editions. Available now in 2 sizes, 18 x 18", edition of 100, and a special oversized limited edition at 25 x 25"—my largest screen print to date (edition of 12).

LA - Os Gemeos "Miss You" (02.25.12 - 03.24.12)