PLAN ForYourArt

June 25, 2009 - July 01, 2009

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt.

THURSDAY, JUNE 25
Mobius LA 2009
10am–8pm
Los Angeles Convention Center (Downtown)
The AIA Los Angeles in partnership with Dwell on Design, brings you the 2009 Mobius show

Trekking LA 2009: Season Opening
Mercado La Paloma (Downtown)
6–9pm
Trekking LA, a project of LA Commons and UCLA's Department of Urban
Planning, is a continuing experiment in exploring local Los Angeles
through food, art and music

Your Bright Future: Artist talk with Do Ho Suh
LACMA (Miracle Mile)
7pm
Artist talk by Do Ho Suh with Lynn Zelevansky, head and curator of contemporary art, about how his work evolved into the sculptures on display in the exhibition Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea. As the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on contemporary art from South Korea, Your Bright Future presents the work of the generation of artists who have emerged since the 1980's, and who display a distinctly Korean cultural bent in the form of site-specific installation, computer animation, sculpture, and video installation. Exhibition opens on June 28. On view until September 20

Cirque Bezerk
LA State Historic Park (Downtown)
8:30pm
Described as a circus on acid, this act combines intricate gymnastics with a dark atmosphere to create an entirely unique spectacle. Performances running through July 5

Olga Koumoundouros: Demand Management
REDCAT (Downtown)
6–9pm
Opening Reception for Olga Koumoundouros's site-specific installation commissioned by REDCAT. The work expands on her interest in architecture and monumental sculptures where the tension between power, movement and the individual must be negotiated. Artist talk at 6:30pm, immediately preceding the opening

FRIDAY, JUNE 26
Yvonne Rainer: Ros Indexical and Spiraling Down
REDCAT (Downtown)
8:30pm
The avant-garde dance and film pioneer stages a radical re-vision of The Rite of Spring, the brilliant and controversial Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet that scandalized Paris audiences in 1913 with its "primitive" movement and dissonant score.

CA | Boom
CA Boom Design Store
11am–6pm
The 2009 CA Boom Design Show, adjacent to the Beverly Hilton, highlights the CA Boom Design & Architecture Tours, which continues with 15 new locations

Dwell on Design conference
Los Angeles Convention Center (Downtown)
10am–8pm
The Dwell on Design conference includes screenings, forums on sustainability and design innovation, self-guided explorations of design-forward L.A. homes and a host of exhibitors displaying an array of work, from furniture design and art, to design technology and architecture. Continues through Sunday June 28

Wrong: A Program of Text and Image
Eighth Veil (West Hollywood)
7–9pm
Curated by artist and writer Jibade-Khalil Huffman, this group show explores the ways in which different artists experiment with the interplay of word and image, and focuses on the notion of contemporary art as an expanding visual language

SATURDAY, JUNE 27
Jesse Reding Fleming: Methods of Invisibility: Shades of Gray
The Company (Downtown)
6–8pm
Jesse Redling Fleming's video project, Methods of Invisibility: Shades of Gray, was filmed on a drive from Los Angeles to New York in 2001, and was re-visited and completed in 2009. The video will be accompanied by an installation in The Company's main exhibition space. On view until July 25

Michael Rashkow: Quadrangles
China Art Objects (Chinatown)
6–9pm
Michael Rashokow's Quadrangles is the third show of China Art Object's summer exhibition series. On view until July 18

Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan
Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena)
7–9pm
Curated by David Burns, this exhibition features the work of ten emerging Los Angeles artists, all of whose studio practices reflect the boldness and growing diversity of art-making in the new millennium

SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Trekking LA: Street Food
Highland Park
12–4pm
Trekking LA explores Highland Park for the best of neighborhood
culture and street food.

A Virtual Artistic Tour to Saint Petersburg
IGM Art Gallery (East L.A.)
2–5pm
An exploration of LA's sister city, St. Petersburg, through visual art, film, cultural discussion, and live music

Why Theory
REDCAT (Downtown)
8pm
Screening of CalArts MFA graduate video work

TUESDAY, JUNE 30
MOCA Contemporaries host an evening with Johnston Marklee
Roberts & Tilton, Honor Fraser (Culver City)
Roberts & Tilton: 6:30pm, Honor Fraser: 7:15pm
Sharon Johnston & Mark Lee, founders and principals of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee & Associates, lead a tour of their newest gallery projects at Roberts & Tilton and Honor Fraser and speak of their past and upcoming projects

Satellite Geography: as long as it is aiming at the sky, a conversation with UFI Fellows Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi
MAK Center for Art and Architecture (West Hollywood)
7pm
UFI Fellows Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi will give a public presentation about their current video project-in-development, a survey about Los Angeles-based Iranian satellite television stations. This project addresses aspects of the tele-visual mediation and production of geographical and communal identity and politics

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1
Urban China: Jiang Jun & Benjamin Godsill
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
7pm
Jiang Jun, editor of Urban China magazine, and curator Benjamin Godsill of the New Museum will discuss the rapidly changing nature of Chinese cities and what these alterations of space mean for forms of social control and organization in contemporary China. Never before seen photographs, maps, and diagrams from Urban China's extensive collection will accompany the talk

Filed Under: See Exhibitions Greater L.A.

Posted by: Bettina Korek on June 26, 2009

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