CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts
Winter/Spring 2013
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
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CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts Experience the rewards of artistic exploration. REDCAT invites you to engage with artists from Los Angeles and around the world who are breaking the rules. In the spirit of California Institute of the Arts, which has been the site of important artistic breakthroughs since 1970, REDCAT is a vital hub where visual, performing and media artists inspire each other to spark invention. Since CalArts launched REDCAT in 2003, visionary artists from all disciplines have made REDCAT their creative home and their laboratory. We hope you’ll join the adventure as we extend the remarkable creative history of CalArts in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
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Winter/Spring 2013 Art–Conversations–Dance–Film/Video–Multimedia–Music–Theater January 20 –21
March 2
April 20
Film/Video
Music–Film/Video
Music–Conversations
The Art of Vision: Honoring Stan Brakhage
Lou Harrison: A World of Music
EMP Pop Conference
March 4
April 21–June 16
January 31–February 3
Film/Video
Art–Film/Video
Alpert Award Artist–Dance–Theater–Multimedia
Queer Sex Works: Money Power Sex
The Otolith Group Neophyte
March 9
April 22–23
Marc Bamuthi Joseph/ The Living Word Project red, black & GREEN: a blues February 4
Theater–Dance–Music–Conversations
Music
TEDxCalArts
Christian Wolff
March 9
April 25 –28
Film/Video
Jean Rouch on the Gold Coast February 6 Conversations–Film/Video
Alpert Award Artist–Film/Video
Theater
Kevin Jerome Everson Ten Five in the Grass & Other Shorts
Guillermo Calderón Villa + Discurso
March 20
April 29
Alexander Mackendrick: A Centennial Celebration February 7–8 Music
Conversations
Film/Video
Permanence of the Theologico-Political?
Films and Performance by Charlotte Pryce
CEAIT Festival
March 29
May 1
February 10 –March 24
Music
Conversations
Art
Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra
Claude Lefort, Thinker of the Political
Slavs and Tatars Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz February 11
March 30 –31
May 4 –19
Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
Family–Film/Video
Studio: Spring 2013
REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival
Film/Video
Nancy Buchanan: Lines of Enquiry February 12 Film/Video
April 4 –7 Dance–Multimedia
May 6
Bebe Miller Company A History
Music
February 14 –16
Vln & Vla
featuring Malcolm Goldstein
The Otolith Group The Radiant
April 8 Film/Video
May 20
New Work by Leighton Pierce
Film/Video
Dance –Multimedia
Hiroaki Umeda Haptic and Holistic Strata
Conversations
June 1–2
On Cities and Creativity
Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
February 21–24
February 25 Film/Video
Studio: Summer 2013
April 11
Theater
The Wooster Group & New York City Players Early Plays
The Elegiac Visions of Phil Solomon
April 9
June 7–8
Theater–Literary Events
Sister Spit: The Next Generation
Music
Partch: Eroica Dances
April 15 Film/Video
Cauleen Smith: Black Utopia LP
Ben Russell: Altered States February 28 Film/Video
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson In Search of UIQ
CalArts & student discounts available
April 30 –May 25
(for Sun Ra)
Conversations–Dance–Family–Film/Video–Theater
April 17
A series of special end-of-year programs highlighting work created at CalArts.
Music
CalArts at REDCAT
wild Up
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
January 20–21
The Art of Vision: Honoring
Stan Brakhage Co-presented with the Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences and Los Angeles Filmforum Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
With a lifelong devotion to filmmaking as a radical and resolutely personal practice, Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) completed more than 350 films that explored cinematic vision as a means of poetic expression and pushed the boundaries of cinema as art. Defying traditional film language, his distinctive techniques—expressive camera movement, intricate editing, subtle superimpositions, photographic abstractions and painting directly on the film surface—contributed to a singular, humanizing sensibility. Ten years after his death, Brakhage is celebrated on the occasion of his 80th birthday with two programs of major early works: a rare screening of The Art of Vision (1961–65, 255 mins.), his monumental and deeply meditative deconstruction of Dog Star Man, and a second evening devoted to eight short masterworks newly restored by the Academy Film Archive, from the seminal psychodrama Reflections on Black (1955), to his landmark ode to subjective seeing, Anticipation of the Night (1958).
Loving
In person: Curators Steve Anker and Mark Toscano Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Mark Toscano.
Program details at redcat.org Sun 5pm & Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8] Anticipation of the Night
“For Brakhage, the goal of cinema was the liberation of the eye itself.” The Guardian
February 4
Jean Rouch
on the Gold Coast Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Jaguar (shot 1954–55, premiered 1967) preceded by Les Maîtres fous (1955) These two films compose a fascinating portrait of the dislocation created by colonialism in Africa. Once controversial, but now an anthropological classic, Les Maîtres fous (28 mins.) documents a Hauka possession ceremony, during which the participants mimic figures of the colonial power. With Jaguar (90 mins.), Rouch invented ciné-fiction, a mix of ethnology and improvised narrative. A gallant public writer, a shepherd and a fisherman—portrayed respectively by non-professional actors Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia and Illo Gaoudel— leave their village to try their luck on the fabled Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana). In Accra, Damouré becomes a “jaguar”—a city slicker. As sync sound was not available then, the three buddies jovially comment on the action after the fact, observing that the Brits royally conned Africa out of its gold. Presented as part of Farther than Far: The Cinema of Jean Rouch, in association with the French Film & TV Office–Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Los Angeles Filmforum. Additional series screenings take place January 25–February 23. Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
Jaguar. Courtesy Icarus Films.
“Rouch’s most thorough examination of the African experience under the colonial regime.” Senses of Cinema on Jaguar
$10 [members $8]
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January 31–February 3
Marc Bamuthi Joseph/ The Living Word Project red, black & GREEN: a blues Directed by Michael John Garcés featuring an installation by Theaster Gates Alpert Award Artist–The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Theater–Multimedia
Alpert Award-winning theater artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s soul-stirring performance draws on hip-hop’s interdisciplinary foundations to create a kaleidoscopic investigation of collective responsibility in an era of climate change. Within an evolving modular stage set-cum-art installation—an interactive shotgun cabin constructed from reclaimed materials by celebrated visual artist Theaster Gates—Bamuthi and his performers deliver powerful verse and impassioned songs that examine notions of “living green,” and what that might mean to communities under social and economic duress. Backed by documentary video, red, black & GREEN: a blues is shaped by stories gathered during urban eco-festivals organized by the artist in cities across the U.S., and offers an expansive vision of environmental justice, social ecology and what it means to nurture ourselves and the planet. Directed with passionate urgency by Michael John Garcés, Bamuthi is joined onstage by a magnetic and multitalented cast, including Tommy Shepherd (a.k.a. Emcee Soulati), Traci Tolmaire and Yaw. Executive Producer: MAPP International Productions Funded in part with generous support from The Herb Alpert Foundation. The Alpert Award in the Arts, a fellowship program that supports innovative practitioners in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and visual arts, is administered by CalArts on behalf of The Herb Alpert Foundation.
Thur–Sat, 8:30pm & Sun 3pm
$20–25 [members $16–20]
Traci Tolmaire. Photo: Bethanie Hines.
“The four performers are magnetic… A piece as smart and provocative as it is breathtakingly beautiful.” San Francisco Chronicle
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Tommy Shepherd and Theaster Gates. Photo: Bethanie Hines.
CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
February 6
Alexander Mackendrick: A Centennial Celebration Conversations–Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
The esteemed director of Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and The Ladykillers (1955), Alexander Mackendrick (1912–93) was a pivotal figure in the history of CalArts, and his work and writings remain a major influence on contemporary narrative directors and screenwriters. For this celebration of the artist’s multifaceted contributions, Paul Cronin, editor of Mackendrick’s seminal book On Film-Making, is joined by two CalArts alums, director James Mangold and author and filmmaker F.X. Feeney. Together they honor the man who, as dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts and throughout his more than 30 years of teaching, shaped an institution and inspired generations of filmmakers. This lively discussion reveals Mackendrick through personal reminiscences, film clips and critical observations on his work as a filmmaker, teacher and theorist.
Sweet Smell of Success
In person: Paul Cronin, F. X. Feeney and James Mangold Presented in collaboration with the CalArts School of Film/Video and the CalArts Office of Alumni Relations. Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Wed 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
“‘Process, not product’ was [Mackendrick’s] mantra… The process. Which never stops.” Martin Scorsese Alexander Mackendrick
February 7–8
CEAIT Festival 2013 Music
The two different programs that make up this year’s festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology (CEAIT) offer a triad of avant-garde techno musicmakers. One night features Bonnie Jones, whose “no-input” style of sound-text performance makes use of internal feedback mixers, cracked delay pedals, hacked electronics and other custommade instruments as she short-circuits her board and plays her electronics in ways that manufacturers would never recommend. A second night features Keith Fullerton Whitman’s compositionally masterful electronica, which generates “shimmering drones and deep waves of sound,” together with improvised guitar. Both nights are anchored by selections from South Korea’s Balloon & Needle record label, founded by members of Puredigitalsilence and Piwacot to highlight the pioneering musicians of Seoul’s burgeoning experimental music scene.
above: Keith Fullerton Whitman. Photo: Seth Tisue. below: Bonnie Jones. Photo: Dani Leventhal.
Program details at redcat.org Thur–Fri 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
“Thrilling in ways that no written description can convey.” Dusted Reviews on Bonnie Jones
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in the gallery February 10–March 24
Slavs and Tatars Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz
Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz, 2011. Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Courtesy the artists. Photo: Elizabeth Rappaport.
Opening reception: Sat, Feb 9, 6–9pm Art
Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz is an examination of the unlikely points of convergence in Poland and Iran’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories, from 17th-century Sarmatism to the 21stcentury Green Movement. For the most comprehensive exhibition of works from Friendship of Nations, Slavs and Tatars, an international collective of artists, designers and writers, presents a range of sculptural objects, woven tapestries, lecture performances and photographic murals that address how the two countries’ respective efforts toward self-determination have shaped the larger geopolitical landscape, punctuating the major narratives of Communism and Islam in the 20th and 21st centuries. Devoting its researchbased practice to the area commonly referred to as Eurasia, a geography the group identifies as being “east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China,” Slavs and Tatars’ works span disparate media and graphic traditions to focus on the oft-forgotten sphere of exchange among Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. Funded in part with generous support from Étant donnés, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, as part of Ceci n’est pas… Art Between France & Los Angeles. Additional support provided by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
Tues–Sun, 12–6pm or Intermission FREE
Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory, 2011, digital print, 116 x 234 inches. Courtesy the artists.
CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
February 11
Nancy Buchanan Lines of enquiry Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Since the early 1970s, Nancy Buchanan’s work in video has been marked by her consistent exploration of the spaces between political essay, poetry and performance. This screening presents an overview of her remarkable career, starting with early videos that disrupt representational stereotypes through feminist critique, such as Primary and Secondary Spectres (1989), to her polemics of the 1980s and ’90s that address such issues as real estate speculation and U.S. interventionism in Latin America, including Sightlines (1989) and American Dream #7 (1991). Other pieces combine political awareness with dry humor (Pursed, 2003–4; Horses, 2009), as well as insightful explorations of cultures at times of momentous changes, such as her collaboration with Sandra Agalidi, Windows and Mirrors (1995), shot in Romania. In person: Nancy Buchanan Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
“There is an ethical core to her artistic practice… At the same time, a disarming element of ‘serious play.’ ” Afterall top: These Creatures; above: The Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction.
February 12
The Otolith Group
The Radiant U.S. Premiere Film/Video
Commissioned as part of dOCUMENTA (13), The Radiant explores the aftermath of March 11, 2011, when the Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami that killed many thousands and caused the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan. A film essay burdened by the difficult task of representing the invisible aftermath of nuclear fallout, The Radiant travels through time and space to invoke the historical promises of nuclear energy and the threats of radiation that converge in Japan’s illuminated cities and evacuated villages in the months immediately following the disasters. The Otolith Group’s cinematic document offers a glimpse into the shape and presence of an unseen entity and its abstract manifestation through visual phenomena.
The Radiant
In person: Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar
Tues 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
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“Dazzling... Eye-popping... A three-dimensional force emanating from the screen, part Matrix, part Tron.” This Week in New York
February 14–16
Hiroaki Umeda
Haptic and Holistic Strata u.s. premiere The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Multimedia
Holistic Strata. Photo courtesy Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media.
Haptic. Photo: Shin Yamagata.
Tokyo-based choreographer and video artist Hiroaki Umeda creates mesmerizing visual environments for his visceral solo works, appearing as a fine-spun swirl of movement in a digital storm of light and sound— an elusive figure, by turns frantic and still, awash in pulsating electronic waves. In a program of acclaimed companion pieces, Haptic and Holistic Strata, Umeda’s distinctive dance vocabulary draws on a range of butoh, ballet and hip-hop. He conceives his interdisciplinary events as sensorial wholes, creating the beats and sonic textures, as well as the entrancing video and lighting effects. Designed to elicit primal emotion, Umeda’s work is minimalist and radical, subtle and violent, abstract yet precise, and thrillingly physical. Funded in part with generous support from The Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts Japan Program.
Thur–Sat 8:30pm
CalArts & student discounts available
$20–25 [members $16–20]
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
February 21–24
Ob 2012 ie for Awa D ir rd R ic e
The Wooster Group & New York City Players
ha r c d M tor ax w ell
Early Plays
Based on the Glencairn Plays by Eugene O’Neill Directed by Richard Maxwell of New York City Players Produced by The Wooster Group With performers from both companies Theater
The Wooster Group has invited Richard Maxwell of New York City Players to direct Eugene O’Neill’s early “Glencairn” plays— Bound East for Cardiff (1914), The Long Voyage Home (1917), and The Moon of the Caribbees (1918). The Early Plays take O’Neill’s tales of sailors as a base to explore themes of longing and eternity. Dark episodes showing the underside of turnof-the-century maritime life—brawls, dances and carousing— are staged with a quotidian grace, allowing these simple stories to resonate emotionally. The episodes are threaded together with haunting melodies written by Maxwell; the cast features performers from both companies. Early Plays is made possible with funding from the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Pilot, with lead funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Thur–Sat 8:30pm and Sat–Sun 3pm $40–45 [members $30–45]
Production stills from Early Plays. Courtesy of The Wooster Group. Above: Brian Mendes, Ari Fliakos. Below: Alex Delinois, Kevin Hurley.
“Early Plays has the supreme realism of a dream…and, best of all, things that cannot be explained.” The New Yorker
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February 25
Ben Russell Altered States Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
This program, a slightly modified version of one shown at the Centre Pompidou last fall, presents a selection of films from Ben Russell’s ongoing TRYPPS series, including River Rites, Black and White Trypps Number Three, Ponce de León, Trypps #6 and Trypps #7. Shot mostly in 16mm, though formally quite distinct, these short films “enunciate a ‘psychedelic ethnography’ —in which the trip is both the means and the end,” Russell writes, noting that his films have “expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance à la Jean Rouch.” The evening concludes with the two-projector performance The Black and the White Gods. Russell was listed among the “50 Best Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope. In person: Ben Russell Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
“Ben Russell has invented his own cinematic territory…producing a patently hypnotic result.” Cahiers du cinéma Black and White Trypps Number Four
February 28
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
In Search of UIQ
In Search of UIQ
World Premiere Film/Video
Following the publication of A Thousand Plateaus, a work that marked a highpoint in his creative partnership with Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari began working on a screenplay for a science-fiction film, Un amour d’UIQ. This script, which preoccupied Guattari’s attention for seven years, represented a blueprint for a subversive popular cinema through an imagined hyperintelligent infra-cellular life substance—“UIQ” (Universe Infra-Quark)—capable of controlling global communications networks and plugging into the “desiring machines” of a community of squatters. After discovering the unpublished script, Paris-based artists and filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson initiated a multiform research project that culminates in their film essay In Search of UIQ, which takes on Guattari’s central quandary: how to give shape to a bodiless entity, seemingly without spatial or temporal limits. In person: Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson Funded in part with generous support from Étant donnés, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, as part of Ceci n’est pas… Art Between France & Los Angeles.
Thur 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
March 2
Lou Harrison: A World of Music Music–Film/Video
A Los Angeles premiere screening celebrates American composer, artist, writer and activist Lou Harrison (1917–2003), who forged a new course for 20th-century music with hauntingly beautiful pieces using western, eastern, and custom-made instruments inspired by Javanese gamelan and the Chinese zheng. Directed by filmmaker and music producer Eva Soltes, the feature-length documentary Lou Harrison: A World of Music is drawn from more than 25 years and 300 hours of performances, rehearsals and interviews conducted with Harrison, his contemporaries and his life partner William Colvig. This extraordinary film is preceded by a performance of Harrison’s Suite for Violin and American Gamelan (1973), demonstrating his signature use of Pacific Rim-inspired microtones, performed by violinist Mark Menzies and CalArts percussionists on “Old Granddad,” a gamelan built to Harrison’s specifications.
Lou Harrison. Photo: Eva Soltes.
In person: Eva Soltes Presented as part of MicroFest.
Sat 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
“Engagingly pays homage to a composer who remains perhaps the most warmly accessible figure in the American musical avant-garde.” Variety March 4
Queer Sex Works: Money Power Sex Co-presented with Outfest Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
With a wide range of piercingly personal perspectives, this screening of experimental films made by queer artists explores a markedly different outlook about sex work. Be they strippers, hustlers, rent boys, go-go dancers, escorts, whores, pro-dommes, pornographers or rough trade, they do it for the money. Yet, unlike their straight counterparts, they are ”outsiders” in relation to the status quo. Sex work is a job with class, gender, race and power inequalities like any other, but with added social stigma, legal and, potentially, even physical danger. The program includes a reconstruction of the legendary A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986–87) by David Wojnarowicz and The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998) by William E. Jones, among others. In person: Kristin “KP” Pepe and William E. Jones Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Kristin “KP” Pepe.
Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
“Combines deeply disturbing imagery with genuine insight.” Chicago Reader on William E. Jones William E. Jones, The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography.
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Ten Five in the Grass, 2012. Courtesy of the artist; Trilobite-Arts-DAC and Picture Palace Pictures.
March 9
Kevin Jerome Everson
“Everson has carved a place for himself outside both the typical expectations of documentary and the conventions of representational fiction.” Artforum
Ten Five in the Grass & Other Shorts U.S. Premiere Alpert Award Artist–Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
With six feature-length films and more than 70 shorts, Alpert Award recipient Kevin Jerome Everson has explored the multiple facets of African American life via a variety of formal approaches. Whether through his signature long shots, collage of archival sources or the re-enactment of fictional material that echoes the lives of his performers, Everson favors a strategy that interrupts the documentary impulse, abstracting everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures. His works play with the ambivalent relationships between art and narrative, fact and fiction. This screening includes a selection of shorts, from the Lumière-inspired Workers Leaving the Job Site (2013), to a dark, witty homage to Chester Himes, Early Riser (2012), to an exploration of the world of black cowboys, Ten Five in the Grass (2012). Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and The Herb Alpert Foundation. The Alpert Award in the Arts, a fellowship program that supports innovative practitioners in the fields of dance, film/video, music, theater and visual arts, is administered by CalArts on behalf of The Herb Alpert Foundation. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud. In person: Kevin Jerome Everson
Sat 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
March 9
TedxCalArts: Performance, Body & Presence
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lA a C
Conversations–Dance–Music–Theater
The CalArts Center for New Performance presents the first-ever TEDxCalArts conference. Created and curated with TED’s “Ideas Worth Spreading” mission in mind, TEDxCalArts is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience centered on investigations in contemporary performance. This all-day event gathers thinkers, doers and innovators from across the performance landscape to discuss big ideas in the live arts that are having an impact on the world. Through a series of short talks and performances that present a diverse array of perspectives and disciplines, the conference explores new understandings of performance and liveness, and examines how these are radically changing the experience of art, technology, design, culture, politics and beyond. This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED. TEDxCalArts is made possible through the support of the MetLife Foundation/Theatre Communications Group A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It.
Program details at redcat.org
CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
March 20
Permanence of the Theologico-Political? part of the Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series Conversations
Political and social theorists Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato deliver lectures that critically examine the permanence of political theology in contemporary thought and institutions, in particular those associated with the legacy of Carl Schmitt. Together, these influential thinkers address the fact that positive reliance on political theology not only can have a profoundly authoritarian meaning, but could also be helpful in disguising and misrepresenting that meaning. The evening is introduced by CalArts’ Martín Plot and followed by a Q&A, with comments from Victoria Crespo of Morelos’ Universidad Autónoma and Enrique Peruzzotti of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Presented in conjunction with the Los Angeles release of Peruzzotti and Plot’s (eds.) Critical Theory and Democracy: Civil Society, Dictatorship, and Constitutionalism in Andrew Arato’s Democratic Theory. Wed 8pm
Andrew Arato
$10 [members $8]
March 29
Kim Richmond
Concert Jazz Orchestra world premieres Music
An evening of free-swinging improvisation performed by the Grammynominated Kim Richmond Concert Jazz Orchestra combines the sounds of large ensemble jazz with symphonic colors and textures. Led by saxophone soloist Kim Richmond, the 24-piece orchestra—featuring expansive instrumentation that includes five woodwinds, four trumpets, three tenor trombones, two French horns, Latin percussion and more—plays from its latest release, Artistry, a tribute to big band leader Stan Kenton and his Neophonic Orchestra, created in 1964 with L.A.’s best jazz and studio musicians. Big, new, Kentonesque jazz and Latin-style compositions pay homage to the size and scope of the master’s kinetic orchestration, rightfully known to music historians as the original “Wall of Sound.” Fri 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
March 30–31
Studio: spring 2013 Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
Each edition of REDCAT’s quarterly program of new works and works-inprogress brings together six intriguing investigations in dance, theater, music and multimedia performance for an evening that celebrates the vitality of L.A.’s next-generation artists making work for the stage. Past editions of Studio have included the work of Ana Maria Alvarez, Nao Bustamante, Brian Getnick, Sheetal Gandhi, Lux Aeterna Dance Company, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Emily Mast, Miwa Matreyek, Peres Owino, Poor Dog Group, Waewdao Sirisook and Wu Tsang. Funded in part with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Program details at redcat.org Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7pm
$15 [members $12] Moira MacDonald. Presented as part of Studio: Fall 2012.
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Photos: Julieta Cervantes.
“Her movement is infused with a spirit that clings to the audience even after she and her dancers have left the stage.” The New York Times
April 4–7
Bebe Miller Company A History The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Multimedia
Celebrated for creating sumptuous movement that is both physically electrifying and intimately felt, Bebe Miller approaches her latest multidisciplinary project as an investigation into the deep creative process she has developed over more than 25 years. Mining the richly complex relationships among her dancers and collaborators, she illuminates the interpersonal histories that serve as the very foundation of her choreography. Performed by longtime company members Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones, A History layers video, sound and movement to chart the mind, heart and body of a dance—with Miller’s signature intelligence and delicate artistry. Funded in part with generous support from the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Thur–Sat 8:30pm and Sun 3pm
$20–25 [members $16–20]
“Bebe Miller is a cartographer of human emotions, mapping the landscapes of the passions of her dance with luminous intelligence.” Washington Post CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
April 8
Experiences in Transformative Time: New Work by
Leighton Pierce Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Leighton Pierce’s cinema transforms ordinary sounds and visual impressions into ecstatic experiences filled with new kinds of movements and sensory rediscoveries of the world. Often hovering between definition and abstraction, and between gestural implication and narrative meaning, his musical eye and ear find beauty and magic in everyday places and situations. Pierce’s work has been shown widely at festivals and museums, and this screening features two early 16mm films along with nine recent digital pieces, including Viscera, described by filmmaker Jon Jost as “an astonishing piece on the recreation of a presence through remnants of their being, memories of their gestures, as molded in the impressionistic contours of light. A film built upon cascading refractions. The film dissolves in the memory as one watches it…”
Sitting
In person: Leighton Pierce Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm $10 [members $8]
“Pierce is capturing the beauty, the ecstasy contained in matter before its inevitable disappearance.” New Zealand Film Festival Water Seeking its Level
April 9
on Cities and Creativity: a conversation with Steven D. Lavine, Kelley Lindquist and Thom Mayne Conversations
Launching an ongoing series of investigations into the role of creativity in contemporary life, CalArts President Steven D. Lavine hosts a panel discussion that centers on the question, “What is the overarching role of artists in civic life and creative placemaking?” Joining the conversation are Kelley Lindquist, president of Artspace in Minneapolis and a developer of affordable artist housing throughout the U.S., and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne. Together, they explore issues of gentrification, reclamation and artists’ influence and impact on today’s urban fabric. In addition, the panel examines the ideas and opportunities driving the Broadway Arts Center, a proposed mixed-use development containing a black-box theater, an art gallery, creative commercial space and affordable housing for artists in downtown Los Angeles. Tues 8:30pm Thom Mayne. Photo: Reiner Zettl.
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$10 [members $8]
“The coolest (and cutest) line-up of talented, tattooed, pierced, and purple-pigtailed performance artists the Bay Area has to offer.” The Boston Phoenix
DavEnd
April 11
Sister Spit: The Next Generation Theater–Literary Events
Cristy C. Road
TextaQueen
Legendary adventurers in queer literary performance, San Francisco’s Sister Spit comes to Los Angeles with a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance. Hosted by the irrepressible Michelle Tea, this irreverent, wild, brainy and provocative extravaganza features established writers along with emerging queer and queer-influenced artists of all genders, including singer/songwriter/performance artist DavEnd, writers Danny LéVesque and Ali Liebegott, artist TextaQueen and graphic memoirist Cristy C. Road. Sister Spit’s 2013 line-up guarantees a raucous evening of butch gamblers, cranky mermaids, psychic hairdressers, accordion-wielding songstresses, punk-obsessed teens and post-apocalyptic heroes. Thur 8:30pm
$15 [members $12]
April 15
Cauleen Smith
Black Utopia LP (for Sun Ra) Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
“Her constellational approach to filmmaking parallels Sun Ra’s freestyle compositions and spiritual belief in the astral world, while reawakening the political possibilities of black experimental culture.” Art in America
Premiered at Chicago’s threewalls art space, Black Utopia LP is a deeply original off-shoot of the years of research artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith devoted to Afrofuturism—a cultural movement that mixes science fiction, fantasy, non-Western religion and Afrocentrism. Chicago legend Sun Ra (1914–93) and his Arkestra were key figures in this movement. Smith produced over 800 35mm slides: images of objects found in archives, recorded in contemporary Chicago or appropriated from occult, astronomical, and historical sources. The slides are projected in a 90-minute performance to the sounds of both sides of an LP that Smith recorded—a collage of lectures, rehearsals and live performances by Sun Ra, mundane ephemera and commissioned contributions from Chicago artists Krista Franklin and Avery R. Young. In person: Cauleen Smith Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm CalArts & student discounts available
$10 [members $8]
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
April 17
wild Up Music
Known for producing visceral, convention-defying concert experiences, the daring Los Angeles modern music collective wild Up explores a range of influential Brooklyn-based contemporaries in this eclectic program presented in conjunction with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s adventurous Brooklyn Festival. The collective’s artistic director and conductor Christopher Rountree leads varied groupings of more than 20 players and guest artists as they careen from J.S. Bach to They Might Be Giants, and beyond. New works by Matt Marks, Du Yun, David T. Little and others are part of this musical journey from classical roots, through twisted pop idioms and into a maelstrom of experimentalism, noise and multimedia. $20 [members $16]
Photo: Karen Tongson.
Wed 8:30pm
April 20
EMP Pop Conference 2013 Conversations–Music
The EMP (Experience Music Project) Pop Conference brings together academics, critics, performers and dedicated fans in a rare common discussion. On the heels of a blowout gathering in New York last spring, this year’s conference expands its scope to include five different gatherings over the course of a single weekend in Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Cleveland and Seattle. REDCAT hosts day two of EMP L.A., organized around the theme “Locals Only: Pop and Politics in This Town.” Commandeering the “Locals Only” slogan— seen for years scrawled on renegade signs at certain L.A. beaches—EMP L.A. pays tribute to the importance of location, neighborhood and community in defining “minority majority” regions. The event’s panels and roundtables engage music and multimedia through academic, journalistic and aesthetic approaches. Co-sponsored by the CalArts Graduate Programs in Creative Writing and Aesthetics and Politics and the USC Dornsife Center for Feminist Research.
Program details at redcat.org
April 22–23
Christian Wolff Music
For 60 years, Christian Wolff has been at the center of composing’s avant-garde, working alongside such figures as John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Cornelius Cardew. In these two nights of exceptional performances, Wolff pays tribute to fellow great Elliott Carter with a work played by the Formalist Quartet, followed by a world premiere of Nick Deyoe’s Lullaby 3, in the spirit of Wolff’s musical experimentation and featuring the Formalist Quartet with cellist Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick. A second don’t-miss evening of Wolff’s groundbreaking music is curated by renowned composer Michael Pisaro and includes the compelling and unique Changing the System (1974) and John Heartfield (2003), as well as the touching Trio V for James Tenney (2006), all heard for the first time on the West Coast. Mon–Tues 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
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in the gallery
right: Hydra Decapita, 2010, HD video, 31 min. 41 sec. Courtesy the artists. below: I See Infinite Distance Between Any Point and Another, 2012, HD video, 33 min. 32 sec. Courtesy the artists.
April 21–June 16
The Otolith Group Neophyte Opening reception: Saturday, April 20, 6–9pm Art–Film/Video
Conceived as notes toward the making of a future film, a new project by London-based collective The Otolith Group treats the format of an exhibition as an exercise in writing, and attempts to give shape to preparatory notes, archival materials and preliminary sketches as a form of speculative screenplay or notebook-film. For their first work produced within the U.S., Neophyte is an inquiry into the gradual spiritualization of Capitalism, and the state of California as a test-ground for both the importation of Hindu guru culture and the ideology of post-war production in the 1960s and ’70s. The Otolith Group’s investigation into the cybernetic subcultures, musical presences and sentient entities distributed throughout the spiritual landscapes and industrial parks of Los Angeles and San Francisco proposes a possible future, envisioned through an improbable present. Hypothetically titled Neophyte, the project is the materialization of a cinema that documents its own quest for places, spaces and subjectivities yet to be defined. Funded in part with generous support from the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Tues–Sun, 12–6pm or Intermission FREE
CalArts & student discounts available
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
April 25–28
Guillermo Calderón Villa + Discurso Theater
Chilean director Guillermo Calderón’s lean, literary theater works are powerful explorations of political legacies distilled into tightly wrought drama. In this double bill, Calderón’s intimate and poetic language—demonstrated in the internationally acclaimed works Neva and Diciembre (seen at REDCAT in 2012 and 2011)—gives way to the cool complexities of public discourse. In Villa, three women gather around an architectural model of the Villa Grimaldi, a site where thousands were tortured and hundreds were “disappeared,” to debate the ideal adaptation of these blood-soaked facilities and grapple with a nation’s unwanted legacy. In Discurso, the same three actresses share the role of Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s recent president, to deliver an imagined farewell speech that abandons diplomatic parlance and reveals a leader’s aspirations, failures and humanity, amid the mechanizations of political life. Thur–Sat 8:30pm & Sun 3pm
$20–25 [members $16–20]
“Finely played, humane and without self-pity… unexpectedly funny moments are followed by references that freeze our smiles.” Financial Times (London)
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April 29
Cabinets Of Wonder: Films and Performance by
Charlotte Pryce world premieres Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Discoveries on the Forest Floor
Charlotte Pryce’s exquisitely detailed and evocatively structured short films suggest an alert daydreaming in which the documented and the imagined are juxtaposed. Her films offer fleeting illuminations at the periphery of vision, calling into question the “mechanical eye” of the lens and the chemical composition of the celluloid. The films use 16mm “chrome” stocks— now-extinct reversal color—which are hand-processed and optically reprinted. “Like the items in a Cabinet of Wonder, my subjects are specimens of philosophical musing: rootless plants, mysterious insects and curious glasses,” says Pryce. The program includes Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature, Discoveries on the Forest Floor, The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly, Curious Light, Looking Glass Insects, A Study in Natural Magic and a live magic lantern show. In person: Charlotte Pryce Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Looking Glass Insects
Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
“Charlotte Pryce’s body of work offers the beautiful possibilities of film as miniature, wherein brief filmic glimpses offer depths of suggestion and inquiry.” Chris Kennedy and Vanessa O’Neill Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature
May 1
Claude Lefort,
Thinker of the Political part of The Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series Conversations
French philosopher Claude Lefort’s oeuvre developed over a period of six decades until his passing in 2010. His notions of “power as an empty place” and “the modern dissolution of the markers of certainty” have become radical and liberal democracy’s obligatory reference, as well as an unparalleled knot of intellectual confluence. For this panel discussion, Bernard Flynn of the New School for Social Research and Claudia Hilb of the Universidad de Buenos Aires debate Lefort’s phenomenological style and legacy as a political theorist and literary critic. With an introduction by CalArts’ Martín Plot and followed by a Q&A, the discussion is presented as part of a two-day symposium on the aesthetic character of politics in Hannah Arendt and Claude Lefort. Wed 8pm
CalArts & student discounts available
$10 [members $8]
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
The Tourists Arrive! Directed by Gerald Zahn.
The Changeling. Directed by Maria Steinmetz.
May 4–19
REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival Family–Film/Video
With three weekends of acclaimed international short-film programs, the REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival returns to delight movie-goers big and small. This global tour of charming, funny and poignant films—hailing from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Japan, Puerto Rico, Russia, Singapore, Spain andTaiwan, among others—is an awe inspiring journey for the whole family. Festival highlights include the latest in both live action and animated shorts.
“For cultural immersion they’ll confuse for fun, take the kids to REDCAT’s International Children’s Film Festival.” Jewish Journal
Program details at redcat.org
Toys in the Attic. Directed by Jirí Barta and Vivian Schilling.
May 6
Vln & Vla
featuring Malcolm Goldstein world premieres Music
Malcom Goldstein. Photo: Silvia Otte.
“[Goldstein makes] true revolutionary music whose blues- and folk-inflected language remains accessible to all.” The Wire
In an epic concert of music for solo, ensemble and concerto violin and viola, internationally acclaimed string musicians perform an array of new, recent and older works. Malcolm Goldstein, whose sounding improvisations have received accolades worldwide for extending the range of the violin’s tonal qualities and sound textures, reveals new dimensions of expressivity in a solo performance. Also on the program are celebrated CalArts viola and violin faculty Lorenz Gamma and Mark Menzies, as well as composer-to-watch Andrew Tholl, whose new concerto includes parts composed for turntable. The evening features music by Witold Lutoslawski, Heinrich Biber, Luciano Berio, and CalArts alumnus and recent Gaudeaumus competition-winner Andrew McIntosh. Mon 7pm
$20 [members $16]
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CALARTS AT REDCAT a series of special end-of-year programs highlighting work created at CalArts April 30 and May 2– 4
CALARTS FILM/VIDEO SHOWCASES Film/Video
Each year the CalArts School of Film/Video presents a juried selection of four special screenings that feature new short and feature-length films by students in its Experimental Animation, Film and Video, and Film Directing programs. Program details at redcat.org FREE
Reservations Recommended
May 10–11
THE NEXT DANCE COMPANY Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series
The Next Dance Company, an ensemble of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, draws together the school’s most accomplished performers and choreographers, all from the 2013 graduating class. Under the leadership of choreographers Stephan Koplowitz and Laurence Blake, The Next Dance Company will bring two performances of new works to REDCAT. This year’s concert includes choreography by French-transcontinental choreographer Julie Bour, and Alpert Award winner Stephan Koplowitz, graduating MFA students Daniel Charon and Becca Lemme, and selected undergraduate students. Fri–Sat 8:30pm
$20 [members $16]
May 16
CALARTS WRITERS SHOWCASE Conversations
The School of Critical Studies hosts its annual reading of the best new fiction and poetry by MFA candidates in the school’s Writing Program. Program details at redcat.org FREE
Reservations Recommended
COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP (CAP) AT REDCAT Family–Film/Video–Music–Theater
Throughout the spring, REDCAT and the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) host a variety of free screenings, concerts and a new youth theater production that highlight the young participants in CAP’s varied programs throughout Los Angeles. For more than 20 years, CAP has been linking the Institute with the diverse communities of Los Angeles County through free after-school and school-based arts programs for youth. CAP provides these youth with challenging learning environments for artistic experimentation as it creates access to higher education. Through these CalArts facultymentored programs, CAP provides CalArts students the opportunity to teach, to refine their artistic abilities, and to redefine the role of artists, arts education, and the arts in society. See why at CalArts.edu CalArts & student discounts available
Program details at calarts.edu/cap
tickets: redcat.org 213.237.2800
May 20
The Elegiac Visions of
Phil Solomon world premiere Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series
Since 1975, Phil Solomon has been making films that magically penetrate the surface of images and reveal depths of new poetic meaning. Solomon’s 16mm films imbue prerecorded imagery with fantastical sensual and dimensional qualities. His recent work extends these concerns into the digital realm, creating haunting landscapes that reawaken the mysteries of life and death, and of physical reality and alternative states. Solomon presents two masterful films, What’s Out Tonight is Lost (1983) and Psalm I: “The Lateness of the Hour” (1999), and four digital works, Innocence and Despair (2002), his reflection on 9/11, and In Memoriam (2005–09), a trilogy in memory of filmmaker Mark LaPore that mystically transforms backgrounds from the video game series Grand Theft Auto.
Rehearsals for Retirement
“Phil Solomon is known for his image alchemy… dreamlike works that reveal subterranean depths.”
In person: Phil Solomon Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.
Mon 8:30pm
$10 [members $8]
Museum of the Moving Image
June 1–2
Studio: Summer 2013 Dance–Theater–Music–Multimedia
For each edition of Studio, REDCAT invites a team of guest curators to join in crafting an interdisciplinary program of six experimental performance works, giving adventurous audiences a glimpse at the newest creative visions from emerging Los Angeles artists. Funded in part by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Program details at redcat.org Sat 8:30pm & Sun 7pm Emily Beattie. Presented as part of Studio: Fall 2012. Photo by Brenda Kaing.
“Funny, moving, inventive and insanely theatrical… an unforgettable performance.” San Francisco Chronicle June 7–8
Partch: Eroica Dances Music
In a welcome return, the Grammy-nominated ensemble devoted to the works of American composer and maverick musician Harry Partch performs a program centered on the Marimba Eroica—one of Partch’s custom-designed instruments. Weighing in at 847 pounds and eight feet in length, the Eroica generates tones even lower than the bass marimba. Partch wrote, “In the right room acoustically, the Eroica is felt through the feet, against the belly, and, if one sits on the floor, it ripples through [one’s] bottom. It is very difficult to put on tape, and especially, on records, with any fidelity.” Experience this rippling, earth-shaking concert event that includes the works Plectra and Percussion Dances and Dance Pantomime (King Oedipus). Fri–Sat 8:30pm
$25 [members $20]
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right: Slavs and Tatars, Wheat Molla, 2011. Installation view, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Courtesy the artists. below: The Otolith Group, The Radiant, 2012, HD video, 64 min. Courtesy the artists.
Winter/Spring 2013
front cover, from top: Production still from Early Plays. Courtesy of The Wooster Group. Pictured: Alex Delinois, Kevin Hurley. Bebe Miller Company, A History. Photo: Julieta Cervantes. Hiroaki Umeda, Haptic. Photo: Shin Yamagata.