What You Will Be Doing This Weekend

This weekend in LA is all about Angels Gate, as far as I’m concerned. We’ve got so much stuff going down that I’ve got tunnel vision at this point. But there is non-AGCC stuff going down, too.

Friday – Sunday

“During three days, about twenty rectangular enclosures of ice blocks (measuring about 30 feet long, 10 wide and 8 high) are built throughout the city. Their walls are unbroken. They are left to melt.”

LACMA has taken on the job of organizing nine venues to re-invent Allan Kaprow’s Fluids, in my opinion, the most spectacular of all of the Kaprow happenings that will be accompanying the current MOCA exhibit. We’re building one on Sunday at Angels Gate, but they’re happening all over the city.

Saturday, April 26

Jim Ovelmen: Queens of Sorrow @ Kristi Engle Gallery. Pen and ink megatalent Jim Ovelmen engages in a one night only performance. Gallery opens at 6, performance starts at 7:30, sharp.

Sunday, April 27

Open Studios + Allan Kaprow’s Fluids + Portable Potluck Project + Two Opening Receptions + Other Fun Stuff @ Angels Gate Cultural Center. All this adds up to a lot to do. About fifty studio artists, including a pack of new folks. We’re building Fluids starting at noon (not to late to volunteer if you desire to be an ice hauling slave for art – just drop me an E-mail), and capping it off with a 60’s themed potluck at 5 PM, Salty Dog Bites the Hand, an exhibition curated by Allan Sekula and featuring work by 2008 MFA graduates Ian Arenas, Allie Bogle, Louisa Conrad, Lindsay Foster, Sidonie Loiseleux, Justin Long, Alejandro Sanchez, and Carlin Wing, 2007 MFA graduate Heather Rasmussen and CalArts Photography and Media faculty members Andrew Freeman and Allan Sekula. Also opening is Labor: Black and White Work, a solo show by Studio Artist Slobodan Dimitrov. Both shows are focused on port and maritime issues. Download the .pdf map & brochure for the event here. The whole shindig runs 11 – 5, with the potluck going until we’re done eating and watching ice melt.

Finally, Studio Artist and general pal Edith Abeyta will be dishing out cotton candy and other brightly coloured whatnots as her studio is transformed into the Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe (Flickr set here)

At Top: Fluids, 1967, Photo courtesy of Dennis Hopper, all rights reserved.
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