Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, March 20
3 – 4:30pm

Mike Wolf – Drift and Surge

“For the past four years, Mike Wolf has been an itinerant cultural worker, circulating in the upper Mississippi and Western Great Lakes parts of the Midwest, with a home base in Chicago. He helped to organize Mess Hall, an experimental cultural space in Chicago; and contributed to The Compass Group, a group of activists, artists and theorists working to unleash the decolonization campaign of the Midwest Radical Culture Corridor.

Wolf will present “Drift and Surge: How We Conjure A Radical Culture Corridor” where he’ll draw on images and anecdotes from various collaborative projects such as walking pilgrimages, exhibitions based on Midwestern wanderings, and the campaign to decolonize North America; experiences that brought him into contact with the broader landscapes of the Midwest, beyond the traditional urban cultural centers. He will also discuss the plans of The Compass Group leading up to the U.S. Social Forum, held this June in Detroit, and his encounters with other Midwestern-based groups like “Boggs Center To Nurture Community Learning” and “Unsettle Minnesota.”

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream.Text from Outpost Facebook invitation. Graphic from Google image search for "Midwest map.']

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Sunday April 25

* Anita Baker * Allman Brothers Band * Darius Rucker * Jonny Lang * The Levon Helm Band * Juan Luis Guerra y 440 * Imagination Movers * Keely Smith * King Sunny Ade & His African Beats * Blind Boys of Alabama * Susan Cowsill Band * Marcia Ball * Shawn Colvin * Donald Harrison * Voice of the Wetlands All Stars * Theresa Andersson * Louisiana LeRoux feat. Tab Benoit * The Radiators – Pre-War Blues * Wayne Toups & Zydecajun * The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong feat. Wycliffe Gordon, James Andrews, and Victor Goines * Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra * Big Chief Kevin Goodman & the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians * Free Agents Brass Band * Golden Blade and Ninth Ward Navajo Mardi Gras Indians * Golden Star Hunters and Carrollton Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Jeremy Davenport * Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & the Golden Eagles Mardi Gras Indians * Terrance Simien & the Zydeco Experience * Preservation Hall Jazz Band * James Andrews & the Crescent City Allstars * New Orleans Klezmer Allstars * Susan Cowsill * Grayson Capps * Mark Braud’s New Orleans Jazz Giants * Guitar Slim, Jr. * Tribute to Juanita Brooks feat. Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase, and Betty Shirley * Storyville Stompers Brass Band * Lionel Ferbos & the Palm Court Jazz Band * The Electrifying Crown Seekers * Watson Memorial Music Ministries * Honey Island Swamp Band * Seguenon Kone & L’Ivoire Spectacle * Marc Stone * BateauKracBook Stiltwalkers * Kim Carson * Michael Ward * Original Dixieland Jazz Band * Miss Sophie Lee * Sammy Rimington’s Jubilee Band * Goldman Thibodeaux & the Lawtell Playboys * Sonny Bourg & the Bayou Blues Band * Nineveh Mass Choir * Gospel Soul Children * Rumba Buena * Minister Jai Reed * Robert ‘One String’ Gibson * Julio y Cesar * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Untouchables * Furious Five, and Big Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * Young Pinstripe Brass Band * Gospel Stars * Voices of Distinction * University of New Orleans Jazz Ensemble * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Olympia Aid * New Look, and the First Division Social Aid & Pleasure Club * Young Audiences presents Gal Holiday & the Honky Tonk Revue * Angela the Yarnspinner * New Orleans Traditional Brass Band with the Heel to Toe Steppers * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Red Hot Brass Band * Kai Knight’s Dance Academy * Guardians of the Flame

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Marcia Ball 'Photo by Mike Perry.]

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Saturday April 24

* Simon & Garfunkel * My Morning Jacket * Drake * Better Than Ezra * Ledisi * Sam Bush * the funky Meters * Campbell Brothers * Smokie Norful * COWBOY MOUTH * Red Stick Ramblers * Big Sam’s Funky Nation * Walter ‘Wolfman’ Wahington & the Roadmasters * Papa Grows Funk * Tab Benoit * Sax For Stax Featuring Gerald Albright, Jeff Lorber, Kirk Whalum * Kirk Whalum * Jeff Lorber * Preservation Hall with special guests Jim James and Terence Blanchard * Davell Crawford and One Foot in the Blues with special guests Dr. John and Jon Cleary * Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indians * Golden Comanche and Seminoles Mardi Gras Indians * New Orleans Bingo! Show * Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr. & the Zydeco Twisters * Terence Blanchard * Wild Mohicans, and Red, White & Blue Mardi Gras Indians * Savoy Center of Eunice Saturday Cajun Jam * Bonerama * Bounce Extravanganza feat. Big Freedia Sissy Nobby, Katey Red, and Magnolia Shorty with DJ Poppa * The Wiseguys * Jewel Brown with the Heritage Hall Band * Dr. Michael White & the Original Liberty Jazz Band feat. Thais Clark * The New Orleans Bingo! Show * Treme Brass Band * Bill Summers & Jazalsa * George French & the Original Storyville Jazz Band * Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes * Lil’ Buck Sinegal Blues Band * Guitar Woodshed feat. Steve Masakowski, Todd Duke, and Jake Eckert * Roddie Romero & the Hub City Allstars * Midnite Disturbers * Kirk Joseph & the Sousaphone Symphony Parade honoring Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen * Tin Men * Judy Spellman * Mahogany Brass Band * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * D.L. Menard & the Louisiana Aces * Rockie Charles & the Staxx of Love * Kirk Joseph & Tuba Tuba * Curley Taylor & Zydeco Trouble * Andrew Duhon & the Lonesome Crows * Panorama Jazz Band * The Red Stick Ramblers * Blessed * Patrice Fisher & Arpa and the Honduran Connection * Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble * Chris Clifton * Bleu Orleans * Tonia Scott & the Anointed Voices * Leo Jackson & the Melody Clouds * N.O.C.C.A. Jazz Ensemble * Black Feathers * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Da Souljas Brass Band * Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Ensemble * Loyola University Jazz Ensemble * Resurrection Mass Choir * Greater Antioch Full Baptist Church Mass Choir * Betsy McGovern & Patrick O’Flaherty * Lindsay Mendez * Ladies of Unity * Dumaine Gang, and Divine Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Johnette Downing * Archdiocese of New Orleans Mass Gospel Choir * Golden Voices Community Choir * Curtis Pierre & Samba Kids * RRAAMS Drum and Dance * Single Men and Nine Times Men Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream.. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. 'Photo by NealyBob.]

2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Friday April 23

* Lionel Richie * Dr. John * Steel Pulse * George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic * Baaba Maal * Elvin Bishop * Chocolate Milk * Jon Cleary * Frankie Ford * Deacon John * Joe Lovano * Bob French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band’s 100 Year Celebration * Irma Thomas’ Tribute to Mahalia Jackson * The Joe Krown Trio with Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington and Russell Batiste Jr. * Lena Prima * Anders Osborne * Jumpin’ Johnny Sansone with Anders Osborne and John Fohl * Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers’ Tribute to Rockin’ Dopsie Sr. * Black Crowes * Maurice Brown Effect * Black Mohawk Mardi Gras Indians * Kenny Neal * Glen David Andrews * Mia X with Ms Tee and Cheeky Blakk * OTRA * Nathan & the Zydeco Cha Chas * Leah Chase * Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band * Little Freddie King Blues Band * The Revivalists * Semolian Warriors and Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Leroy Jones & New Orleans Finest * Tommy Sancton New Orleans Quintet * Lost Bayou Ramblers * New Orleans Night Crawlers * The Revealers * Rotary Downs * James Rivers Movement * Spencer Bohren * Jesse McBride presents the Next Generation * Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys * David Egan * Kipori Woods * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Mas Mamones * Shades of Praise * Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Mass Choir * Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders feat. Butch Thompson * Jambalaya Cajun Band with special guest Merlin Fontenot * Real Untouchables Brass Band * Beth Patterson * June Gardner & the Fellas * Kevin Thompson & the Sensational Six * Native Nations Intertribal * Chip & Polly Radke with the God’s House Choir * Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Ensemble * Mount Hermon Mass Choir * Smitty Dee’s Brass Band * Alexis Marceaux Band * White Cloud Hunters Mardi Gras Indians * Kat Walker Jazz Combo * Natasha Richard of Canada * Delgado Community College Jazz Ensemble * John Lee & the Heralds of Christ * The Bester Singers with the Dynamic Smooth Family Gospel Singers * Keep N It Real and Single Ladies Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs * Grey Hawk * Brass Band Throwdown with the Behrman Charter & O. Perry Walker School Bands * Family Ties and Big Nine Social Aid & Pleasure Club * McDonogh #42 Elementary School Performers

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream. Information from Jazz Fest website. Graphic from Google image search for 'Irma Thomas.']

Below are links to “Umm Kulthum: ‘The Lady’ Of Cairo,” a feature on National Public Radio by Neda Ulaby. The March 15, 2010 report is part of the U.S. radio network’s “50 Great Voices” series.

READ | LISTEN

[Cross-posted to The Data Stream. Graphic from Google image search for "Umm Kulthum"]

Performing Public Space

La Casa del Tunél
Calle Chapo Márquez 133
Colonia Federal, Tijuana BC Mexico

Saturday, March 20
Closing Party

2:00 pm: Fallen Fruit: Acción Fruta Urbana
4:30 pm: Lauren Bon: Tia Juana Day
7:00 pm: Portable City Projects: People’s Café Dance Party
7:30 pm: John Geary: A Touch of Evil

“As towns and cities are increasingly overwritten by the needs and desires of globalized capital, so public spaces and the behaviors they support are becoming evermore shrunken and controlled. At the same time however, everyday examples of common usage – a skate boarder curving past a crowd, a girl chopping and bagging melon on the sidewalk, a child dancing up a mountain of steps – counterpoint homogenization and regulation.

Curated by Owen Driggs, Performing Public Space (PPS) is both a celebration of artists who consciously adopt such tactics and instrumentalize their bodies in an effort to bend, expand, or puncture dominant spatial narratives, and an inquiry into the ways in which public space is articulated through real use.

Like tumbleweed, the inquiry is designed to pick up more material as it roams. Understanding that, despite the strategies of corporate commerce, local spatial conditions vary, at each place it visits PPS will work with local citizens to create a city-specific archive. Documenting both quotidian uses of public space and witting artist interventions the archives will be included in the exhibition and become part of a growing website that considers local, national, and international interpretations of ‘public space’ and approaches to its preservation, generation, and augmentation.”

Lauren BON
FALLEN FRUIT
FINISHING SCHOOL
John GEARY
Anne HARS & Bill
WHEELOCK
Ari KLETZKY
Paul PESCADOR
Nancy POPP
PORTABLE CITY PROJECTS
Jane TSONG
L.A. URBAN RANGERS

[Text and graphic from organization. Caption: "'Ryan, Freerunner, 2009.' Owen Driggs." Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Root Division Gallery
3175 17th Street (at S. Van Ness)
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.863.766

Security

Marisa Aragona | Andrea Chung | Gary Duehr | Oasa duVerney | Benjamin Echeverria | Stephanie Ellis | Pete Hickok | Glenn Hirsch | Yu-Hang Huang | iiiahh Collective | Jeremiah Jenkins | Suzanne Kehr | JP Kelly | Lee Lee | Alma Leiva | Paula Levine | Lesley Louden | Lisa Martin | Masako Miki | Randall Miller | Robert Minervini | Nancy Popp | Renée Rhodes | Paulina Velazquez | Serena Wellen | Doug Williams | Kathryn Williamson

Guest Curators: Stephanie Ellis & Serena Wellen

“Security means simply, the provision of safety. Security is related to the oldest meaning of curate: to care for souls. Today, the business of security is a global and corporate phenomenon. Its primary agenda is the production of fear; its ideal consumer is immobilized by dread.

Security (the exhibition) seeks to address this pivot between asylum and alarm. We are painfully aware of the brutality that so-called professional security may engender. Unspeakable ugliness appears when protector and protected warp into perpetrator and victim, but the curators of the exhibition seek to upturn rather than reproduce the fear, uncertainty, and mistrust already so pervasive in our everyday. To that end, they looked for humor, gentleness, and a light touch as well as acuity, provocation, and gravity in the works selected.

The artists chosen for the exhibition touch on the care or solicitude necessary for collective wellbeing as well as artists who tackle the charms or fetishes necessary for security’s sell. How we define security for our communities and our world will determine how we get there and where we arrive.”

Reception: Saturday, March 13, 7 to 10 pm

Through March 27

[Text and graphic courtesy of the gallery and curators. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

Outpost for Contemporary Art
1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, March 13, 2010 7 – 10pm

“T-shirt Revival Night” with Kiki Johnson

“For a minimal charge ($3 for one, $5 for two), Kiki will “revive” your old T-shirt, canvas bag or whatever other clothing you bring in by silk-screening one of five designs onto it.

Titled “Umpiring Under the Amateur Code of Rules” Kiki Johnson will use drawings inspired by spring training and the approaching baseball season for the silk-screening event.

Johnson redraws historical images, not as duplications or copies, but as reenactments of the images. Subjects such as sailors and witches are placed side by side, revealing how these two apparently dissimilar subjects are in fact treated as equals within historical discourse. By collecting images from history books, rather than history itself, Johnson creates delicate and eerie images that collapse the languages of maritime history and superstition. As Johnson’s drawings are more performative then representational, her work also expands into performances in which she reenacts historical rituals such as baking a Great Depression era recipe or burning a Christmas tree to fry pancakes over the fire on Shrove Tuesday. Whether images or performances, her work confronts viewers with the results of history, stripped of its supporting context. The viewer must justify these images and actions as they exist now, and also question the meaning of the word “yesteryear.” Replacing the authoritative voice of history with her own voice brings cause to question the accuracy, authenticity, and truth of history as it is presented.

In conjunction with NELAart Second Saturday Gallery Night.”

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[Text from Outpost FB invitation. Graphic from Kiki Johnson's website. Caption: "Baseball Crest, ink on paper, 8.5”x11”, 2010." Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]

In Los Angeles on any given Friday, you could venture over to Farmlab’s Salon, tuck in a full-on organic lunch and listen to an amazing line-up of art/ecology innovators and activists. Last week I heard Wes Jackson of the Land Institute describe his 50-year plan to restore the depleated soils of America’s heartland.  Next Friday historian Robert Bichard presents over 100 images exploring the first movie studios in L.A. starting 100 years ago.

Farmlab, formerly Not a Corn Field, is the invention of artist/urbanist/philanthropist Lauren Bon.  It began as a multi-year project to restore a 35-acre industrial brownfield near downtown through the cultivation of corn- not only corn, but a social sculpture and nexus for community action and education.

Recently Bon has been working with a veteran’s hospital to create the Strawberry Flag project.

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March 13 – April 17, 2010

apexart

Sinudom Silk Screen Factory
35/21 Moo 1, Sakaegnam Road
Samaedam, Bang Khun Thian
Thailand

Franchise Two: “free size” **
Curated by Logan Bay

Participating artists: Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, and P7

“In a mass produced world of global goods, the act of creation is often lost or forgotten. Hidden machinery cranks and sweats out elements of our everyday life, yet we rarely glimpse the environment where ideas are physically forged. To produce the exhibition free size artists Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, and P7 will work directly in the Sinudom Silk Screen factory along side employees creating works of art. By bringing these contemporary artists into a global manufacturing hub the realms of production and creation will exist in a simultaneous space, transforming this modest factory into an active generator of creative capital. The Sinudom Silk Screen factory is located on the edge of Samut Sakhon a province that houses many factories. Over the past few decades Thailand has worked to become a producer of exportable goods and inexpensive items for domestic use. While the manufacturing machinery is abundant, many of the products are designed elsewhere. free size will encourage viewers to see that industrial spaces can also be incubators for creative thought and social evolution.

** For Franchise Two we excluded submissions for exhibitions to take place in large cities like New York, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, to focus on locations with less than 500,000 people — places such as Moshupa or Priboj, Baton Rouge or Lübeck, Cadiz or Az-Zawiyah, Heidelberg or Zinder. In response we received 243 exhibition proposals from 63 countries, and jurors submitted over 5,000 votes to identify a winner.”

Opening reception: March 13, 2-6 pm

[Text and graphic from apexart. Cross-posted to The Data Stream.]