REDCAT Fall 2010 Season

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Cross Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

Fall

CalArts presents Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater CalArts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts in The Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex

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Welcome to the eighth season at REDCAT. We are launching our most international and daring program yet. The work embodies the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration that is the core of our mission, including new premieres and collaborations that celebrate the inventive partnership of great creative minds. We treasure artistic integrity and understand the importance of dialogue and exchange, particularly in challenging times.

Join in the spirit of risk and experimentation for which redcat has come to be recognized internationally. Become a member of redcat today and be part of the adventure. We know these are events you’ll want to experience for yourself, not just hear about.

Thank you, Mark Murphy Executive Director

Clara Kim Gallery Director and Curator

Each year, the coming together of REDCAT’s season is a thrill.

Artists from around the world, making their work under very different circumstances, arrive at redcat through highly individual routes. A theater company discovered during a visit to Eastern Europe; the return of an ensemble warmly greeted by Los Angeles audiences on a previous visit; an international collaboration with deep roots in CalArts history; two Alpert Award recipients; a collaboration with a sister institution in Los Angeles. This multiplicity of threads is woven together by the redcat team into a portrait of our lives today, as citizens of Los Angeles, on the Pacific Rim, in a worldwide blending of cultures and creation. I hope to see you at redcat for another season of exploration and discovery, in the arts and in our lives.

Steven D. Lavine President, California Institute of the Arts

Theater–Music

09.23–26

RadosŁaw Rychcik/ Stefan Zeromski Theatre

In the Solitude of Cotton Fields

Fall 2010

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

09.27

The Best of Ottawa 2009

October Music

10.02

Henry Grimes and Friends

September

Music–Multimedia– The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

Music

10.03

Robert Henke

09.16–19

Monolake Live

Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton

Rain Coloring Forest Art–Film/Video

09.17–11.21

Not Only Time: Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

10.04

Erie

by Kevin Jerome Everson Music–The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

10.08–10 Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

09.20

Nina Menkes

Hitparkut (Dissolution)

Tickets

Location

Parking

redcat.org | 213 237-2800 | at the box office

631 West 2nd Street | Los Angeles, CA 90012

The redcat Box Office is open Tues–Sat, noon–6 pm and two hours prior to curtain.

Housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex, redcat has a separate entrance at the corner of West. 2nd and Hope Streets.

Parking is available in the Walt Disney Concert Hall parking garage.

Seating at redcat is unassigned, and late seating is not guaranteed. Programs, schedules, prices and artists subject to change.

Only $5 after 8 pm on weeknights. $9 flat rate all day on weekends.

Traditions Engaged: An International Festival of Classical Indian Dance & Music

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

10.11

Lewis Klahr: Dreaming over the Flux of Things Past

Conversation–Music

10.28

11.10–14

Alfred Brendel

On Character in Music Conversation

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

10.14–17

Tere O’Connor

Alpert Award Artist–Multimedia The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

10.31

Mark Danielewski

Ralph Lemon/ Cross Performance

How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?

Art–Architecture

12.7–01.30

Decolonizing Architecture A project by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Eyal Weizman

The Fifty Year Sword

Wrought Iron Fog Alpert Award Artist–Theater–Music

10.21

Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series Theater

11.17–21

november

12.17–18

CalArts Winter Dance

Wunderbaum

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

Venlo

January

11.01

Spectacles of Light: Films and Videos

by Peter Rose

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

01.13–16

The A.W.A.R.D. Show!

Music Music

10.22

California E.A.R. Unit

Theater–Music Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

11.02

11.22

Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet

Thom Andersen: Out of the Car and into the Music of the Streets

Champ Vital (Life Field)

01.19–23

Betontanc and Umka.lv

Show Your Face!

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

10.23

Between Displacement and Nostalgia: Conflicted Memories of Cuba

Music

01.28–30

CEAIT Festival

Music–Multimedia

Iannis Xenakis: Now and Tomorrow

11.05

SCREAM Festival: NoiseFold

REVELATIONS OF THE EVERYDAY: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY VINCENT GRENIER

Theater–Multimedia

Dance–Music–Multimedia–Theater

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

10.25

DECEMBER

11.6–7

12.1–12

The Wooster Group

Vieux Carré

Studio: Fall 2010 Conversation

11.09

Catherine Malabou

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Courtesy of the artist

01 Sardono W. Kusumo

“[Indonesia’s] most famous but also most rebellious choreographer and dancer.” –The N ew York Times

Sardono Dance Theater and Jennifer Tipton: Rain Coloring Forest Music–Multimedia–The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

September 16–19 World premiere

Evocative movement and music emanate from a lush visual environment in this world premiere performance created during a redcat residency by legendary Indonesian visionary Sardono W. Kusumo and his dancers in collaboration with artist and lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, composer David Rosenboom, and video/animation artist Maureen Selwood. Widely revered for artistry transcending any traditional performance or visual discipline, Sardono recently created a vast collection of 30-foot tall scroll paintings inspired by the Tibetan “Tanka” form. The virtual forest of hanging paintings is now transformed by Tipton’s mastery of light and shadow into a compelling and evolving visual environment for performance. Vivid movement and musical elements that feel both contemporary and ancient bring new dimensions to the rain forest imagery, evoking rituals of historic Indonesian tribes and deeply personal quests for peace and a sense of belonging in a time of visceral global change. Multi-dimensional projections, including abstracted imagery of dances new and old, are combined with a rich, live score of electronic sounds shaped by vocal gestures to expand on the universal themes introduced by Sardono, who says he dances “as a man who has lost or been uprooted from his own culture.”

Rain Coloring Forest is made possible by the Contemporary Art Centers (cac) network, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts (nefa), with major support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. cac is comprised of leading art centers, and brings together performing arts curators to support collaboration and work across disciplines, and is an initiative of nefa’s National Dance Project.

Thur–Sat Sept 16–18 | 8:30 pm & Sun Sept 19 | 3:00 pm

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$25-30 [students $20-25, CalArts $12-15]

02 Zhu Jia,

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Never take off (still), 2002, single-channel video, sound, 6 min.

Courtesy the artist and ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai.

03 Zhu Jia,

Forever (still), 1994, single-channel video, 27 min. Courtesy the artist and ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai.

04 Zhang Peili,

Last Words (still), 2003, two-channel video, sound, 23 min. Courtesy the artist and Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

05 Zhang Peili,

Art–Film/Video

September 17–November 21

Not Only Time: Zhang Peili and Zhu Jia

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Last Words (still), 2003, two-channel video, sound, 23 min. Courtesy the artist and Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

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Uncertain Pleasure , 1996, 10-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist and Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing.

Opening reception: Thursday, September 16 | 6–9 PM Belonging to a generation that witnessed the ramifications of the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the landmark 1989 China/AvantGarde exhibition and its subsequent closing by state authorities, Hangzhoubased artist Zhang Peili and Beijing-based artist Zhu Jia have used the media of video and photography since the early 1990s to navigate the sea of changes in contemporary China. Although both earned degrees in oil painting, this radical departure from their training and their consistent use of video as a medium for provocation, reflection, and resonance are the impetus for this two-person exhibition. Their bodies of work begin with a position that

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poignantly challenges social mores, rampant development, authoritarian politics, and cultural values, and expand into more universal themes of the individual, time, and the loss of innocence and idealism. Zhang and Zhu are presenting new works created especially for redcat alongside past work, providing a focused, parallel examination of their respective practices. This exhibition is the first presentation of both artists’ work in Los Angeles.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a screening and conversation program with the artists will be held on Friday, September 17, 6:30 pm at the haudenschildGarage, La Jolla, CA. rsvp at haudenschildgarage.com.

The exhibition is funded in part with generous support from the Nimoy Foundation and the haudenschildGarage.

Fri Sept 17–Sun Nov 21 Tues–Sun, 12 pm–6 pm or intermission Free 05

Tickets: 213 237-2800 redcat.org

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Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

September 20

Nina Menkes: Hitparkut (Dissolution) North American premiere

“Potent and Luminous… Menkes is one of the most provocative artists in film today.” –Los Angeles Times

Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Nina Menkes returns to Israel, the site of some of her earlier work, and continues her exploration of sumptuous, digital black-and-white as a metaphor for the dark corners of the human psyche.

She also takes a giant step by focusing on a male character (nonprofessional actor Didi Fire) who is both the subject of his own tale and an object of desire for the camera, subverting the tropes of cinematic discourse. Shot in Yafo, the predominantly Arab area of Tel Aviv, the movie follows the moral collapse and first glimmer of redemption of a morose young Israeli Jew who murders a female Arab pawnbroker.

01 Bastien Dubois

Madagascar, a journey diary

02 Martha Colburn Myth Labs

03 David OReilly

Please Say Something

Israel/USA, 2010, 88 min., HDCAM

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

THE BEST OF OTTAWA 2009

Menkes weaves realistic views with surreal images to suggest a dialectic of violence: one man’s alienation and spiritual journey versus the war mentality that permeates contemporary Israeli society and the devaluation of the feminine within a context of intra-ethnic hostility.

Hitparkut won the Anat Pirchi Award for Best Drama at the 2010 Jerusalem International Film Festival.

In person: Nina Menkes Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Sept 20 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

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This selection of 12 outstanding films from the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2009, most of which are Los Angeles premieres, reflects the vitality of experimental animation today and includes work from Canada, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Poland, and the United States. Each filmmaker demonstrates a passion for telling stories, whether abstract or figurative, and the works showcase the rich possibilities of animation as personal art. Films include Eric Dyer’s mesmerizing The Bellow’s March, Diego Maclean’s haunting The Art of Drowning, and David OReilly’s sci-fi drama Please Say Something, as well as works by Jake Armstrong, Bastien Dubois, Julian Grey, Rao Heidmets, Stephen Irwin, Gary Leib, Ian Miller, Marv Newland, and Michal Socha. Two new films by American animators who continue to delight, disturb, and enlighten—Myth Labs by Martha Colburn and Presentation Theme by Jim Trainor—will also be screened.

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In person: Suzan Pitt, Ottawa International Animation Festival jury member Curated by Suzan Pitt and Steve Anker.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Sept 27 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

Tickets: 213 237-2800 redcat.org

“Martha Colburn’s animations charge the frame with such ferocity that it almost hurts to watch…” –Art Practical

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Maciek Zorawiecki

“A combination of a concert, disco, poetic slam, and club event.” –Gazeta Wyborcza

RadosŁaw Rychcik/ Stefan Zeromski Theatre: In the Solitude of Cotton Fields Theater–Music

September 23–26 Los Angeles premiere

Two seductive frontmen for an edgy art-rock band have more than singing on their minds in this theatrical tour de force that demonstrates why young Polish director Radosław Rychcik is gaining global attention. Fueled by the live music of Poland’s cult rock band Natural Born Chillers, the searing text by late French writer Bernard-Marie Koltès takes on a visceral urgency as the enigmatic young men engage in an intense dance of negotiation. They are dealer and client, but are clearly trading something deeper and more mysterious than ordinary goods and services. The high-stakes game is played out amid a powerful barrage of video and lighting effects, enhancing Rychcik’s masterful manipulation of raw power and emotional fragility.

Maciek Zorawiecki

Funded in part with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Polish Cultural Institute and The Marshall of the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship.

Thur–Sat Sept 23–25 | 8:30 pm & Sun Sept 26 | 7 pm

$20–25 [students $16–20, CalArts $10–12]

Maciek Zorawiecki

Music

Henry Grimes and Friends

“Sound as full-spectrum embrace… blending elements of techno, dubstep, October 2 and ambient.” –Pitc hfork

Co-presented with Angel City Jazz Festival In the 1950s and 1960s, bassist Henry Grimes toured and recorded with such jazz greats as Albert Ayler, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Cecil Taylor, and many more. After a 33-year disappearance during which he was presumed dead, Grimes re-emerged from the streets of Los Angeles in a storied “rediscovery” before he moved to New York in 2003. For his first L.A. appearance since the move, Grimes performs a set with Alex Cline, Ben Rosenbloom, famed trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and local reedman Vinny Golia. To open the show, singer Dwight Trible, who has worked with Billy Childs, Charles Lloyd, Pharoah Sanders, and Horace Tapscott, joins pianist John Beasley to explore the outer reaches of vocal and instrumental technique.

Sat Oct 2 | 8:30 pm $30 [students $25, CalArts $15]

Justine Lera

”A triumphant return for Grimes and a promise of brilliant music to come.” –Chicago Sun-Times Music TimDickeson

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

October 4

ERIE BY KEVIN JEROME EVERSON West Coast premiere Erie consists of single-take, 16mm black-and-white sequences filmed in and around communities near Lake Erie, including Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Cleveland and Mansfield, Ohio. The scenes relate to African American migration from the South to the North, contemporary conditions, realities affecting workers and factories in the automobile industry, theater, and famous art objects. “With a sense of place and historical research, my films combine scripted and documentary elements with rich elements of formalism.

The subject matter is the gestures or tasks dictated by the socio-economic,

“[Everson] has carved a place for himself outside both the typical expectations of documentary and the conventions of representational fiction.” –Artforum

physical, or weather conditions affecting the lives of working class African Americans and others of African descent.”

Everson is an internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker and has made four feature-length and 70 short films. His work has screened at the Centre Pompidou, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitechapel Gallery, and at other museums and festivals throughout the world.

In person: Kevin Jerome Everson Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Oct 4 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

October 3

Robert Henke: Monolake Live World premiere

In this special Monolake Live appearance, composer and sound shaper Robert Henke expands upon his legendary club-oriented shows to focus on the spaces between the rhythmic elements of his intensely percussive trademark sound. Subtle sonic details are brought to the forefront, and redcat’s immersive surround-sound technology allows Henke to highlight the spatialization of this live performance, and manipulate the timbre precisely and/ or radically. Known as a co-creator of the Ableton Live software and a revolutionary figure in dance/trance sound manipulation, Henke has transcended his roots in academic and technological sound research, influencing contemporary club culture and creating a body of work that is both extremely sophisticated and wildly popular worldwide.

Funded in part by generous support from the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Sun Oct 3 | 7 pm $25 [students $20, CalArts $12]

Tickets: 213 237-2800 redcat.org

Justine Lera

Courtesy of the artist

“[Chitresh Das] has opened new avenues to his form... a phenomenon.” –Hindustan Times

Traditions Engaged: An International Festival of Classical Indian Dance & Music Music–The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

October 8–10

Co-presented with Chitresh Das Dance Company and Chhandam School of Kathak Some of the world’s leading Indian classical artists gather along with emerging practitioners for three days of unparalleled performances and cross-genre inquiry that shed new light on India’s rich and diverse traditional dance forms. Signature elements of dance, drama, and rhythm are brought to new heights by an international roster of artists that includes such luminaries as Kathak master and guru Pandit Chitresh Das, master percussionist Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bharatanatyam gurus V. P. and Shanta Dhananjayan, Sri Ratikant Mohapatra (son of the great Odissi guru Kelucharan Mohapatra), leading dancer of the Kathak’s Jaipur form Sri Rajendra Gangani, and many more—proclaiming the relevance, vitality, and elasticity of these centuries-old expressions.

For detailed information on lectures and performances, visit redcat.org.

Funded in part with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Fri–Sat Oct 8–9 | 7:30 pm & Sun Oct 10 | 3 pm

$35 & $55 vip [students $25, CalArts $20]

Ryutaro Mishima

“Go see this piece while you can… tremendously evocative in the way it allows subtle, poetic meaning to blossom.“ –The N ew York Times

Tere O’Connor: Wrought Iron Fog The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

October 14–17 West Coast Premiere

Widely cited as one of America’s most influential choreographic voices, Tere O’Connor is known as a master of composition and an evocative manipulator of gesture and theatricality. In his latest evening-length work, Wrought Iron Fog, O’Connor’s richly layered choreographic structure highlights unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood as it builds complex relationships with his five idiosyncratic performers. Through often-surprising, continuous dancing, they generate a dynamic network of disparate ideas while at times revealing interior psychologies that remain ghosted beneath the surface of the dance. The result is a moving essay on the nature of human consciousness in the form of beautifully sculpted movement. O’Connor’s work has won him international acclaim and commissions for such important companies as Lyon Opera Ballet and the White Oak Dance Project.

Yi-Chun Wu

Funded in part with generous support from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. ndp is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.

This project is made possible in part by support from the National Performance Network (npn) Performance Residency Program. For more information visit npnweb.org.

Thur–Sat Oct 14–16 | 8:30 pm & Sun Oct 17 | 7 pm

$20–25 [students $16–20, CalArts $10–12]

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

October 11

Lewis Klahr: Dreaming Over the Flux of Things Past Los Angeles premiere

Prolix Satori, USA, 2008-10, 77.5 min., digital video

Master collagist Lewis Klahr returns to redcat with a new series, Prolix Satori.

A departure for him, the series is both open-ended and ongoing, with a variety of thematic focuses, and will include a combination of very short works (under a minute) and feature-length films. It will also function as an umbrella for various sub-series.

This program offers seven digital films from Prolix Satori, including five pieces from “The Couplets”: Wednesday Morning Two a.m. (2009, 6:30 min.), Sugar Slim Says

(2010, 7 min.), Nimbus Smile (2009, 8:30 min.), Nimbus Seeds (2009, 8:30 min.), and Cumulonimbus (2010, 9:30 min., with music by Mark Anthony Thompson performed by Chocolate Genius). “The Couplets” is generally be structured around the pairing of pop melodies and the theme of romantic love as expressed in the songs’ lyrics. Also screening: False Aging (2008, 15 min.) and Lethe (2009, 23 min.).

“Visually seductive stories... Klahr gets the peculiar power of American mass culture exactly right.” –Chicago Reader

In person: Lewis Klahr Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Oct 11 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

Courtesy of the artist

Alpert Award Artist–Theater–Music

October 21

Reverend Billy and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir Highlighting the Alpert Award in the Arts In the spirit of a Gospel Revival, Alpert Award-winning artist Billy Talen takes to the pulpit as Reverend Billy, a “pop-gnostic Jimmy Swaggart,” to deliver an electrifying and poignant Obie Award-winning performance. Directed by Savitri D., Reverend Billy and the joyous 25-voice Life After Shopping Gospel Choir draw upon their “retail interventions,” staged inside Wal-Marts and Starbucks, to transform consumer nightmares and biblical narratives into an inspirational showdown. Appropriating the style of some of America’s most reactionary icons, Reverend Billy proselytizes with supreme power and delivers the tenets of his Church of Stop Shopping with such infectious passion that your experience of shopping may never be the same.

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 Oct 21 | 8:30 pm $12 [students $12, CalArts $12]

“It’s an Art. It’s an Act. It’s almost a Religion.” –THE New York Times Tickets: 213 237-2800 redcat.org

Courtesy of the artist

“The E.A.R. Unit performs with exuberance and razor sharp precision.” –The New York Times Music

October 22

California E.A.R. Unit: Champ Vital (Life Field) Los Angeles’ fearless new music ensemble returns with an all-new program that features Champ Vital (Life Field), penned by the inimitable David Rosenboom and soon to be released on the Tzadic label. Composed for violin, piano and percussion, Champ Vital is inspired by ideas of morphogenesis and evolution, employing melodic shape mutations to build 25 transformative variations on a hidden theme. The evening also explores the works of the Unit’s own members, including Eric KM Clark’s exPAT, an aggressive odyssey scored for “distorted instruments”; the electronics-savvy Belgo II, Amy Knoles’ clever confounding of violin, piano, sampled text and bird song; and Vicki Ray’s Jugg(ular)ling, which follows the ever-increasing complexity of juggling feats captured on video.

Richard Hines

Fri Oct 22 | 8:30 pm $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]

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01 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Memories of Underdevelopment

02 Miguel Coyula

Memories of Overdevelopment

“Memories of Underdevelopment… conjures up the uncertain mood of Havana just after the revolution. The effect is fascinating.

A must-see.” –The Guardian

03 Miguel Coyula

Memories of Overdevelopment

Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

October 23

Between Displacement and Nostalgia: Conflicted Memories of Cuba

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment), Cuba, 1968, 97 min., 35mm. Followed by a discussion with Cuban novelist Edmundo Desnoes. And by Miguel Coyula: Memorias del desarrollo (Memories of Overdevelopment), USA/Cuba, 2010, 113 min., HDCAM

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Tickets: 213 237-2800 redcat.org

One of the first international successes of Third Cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s classic film was banned in the United States for five years, a victim of the embargo on post-revolutionary Cuba. Memories of Underdevelopment imaginatively transposes Edmundo Desnoes’ eponymous stream-of-consciousness novel into a modernist cinematic space. Desnoes’ ambivalence toward the new regime grew, and in 1979 he defected to the United States, where he wrote Memories of Overdevelopment, a companion piece to his earlier work. His writings in turn inspired young Cuban filmmaker Miguel Coyula, who uses the digital-media tools of his generation to comment on the issues

that have fascinated Desnoes: the hunger to embrace a revolutionary cause versus political disillusionment, feeling displaced in one’s own country and in permanent exile in the country of one’s choice, the protracted conflict between underdevelopment and overdevelopment, and, last but not least, acerbic sexual politics. Desnoes will share his point of view on both films, creating a dialogue between Gutiérrez Alea’s masterpiece and Coyula’s multilayered visual experiment.

In person: Edmundo Desnoes and Miguel Coyula Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Sat Oct 23 | 6 pm $15 [students $12, CalArts $8] Includes both screenings and discussion 03

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Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

REVELATIONS OF THE EVERYDAY: FILMS AND VIDEOS BY VINCENT GRENIER Vincent Grenier, a native of Québec City, Canada, has lived in New York City and Ithaca, New York, since the 1970s and over the past four decades has produced one of the most significant bodies of experimental films and videos of his generation. “My works directly confront the ideas of spatiality and temporality as a continuum and unsettle the notion of a universal human experience,” Grenier writes. “These films and videos move towards fracturing space and time in order to release how the everyday, and the specific, hold within them ineffable, untranslatable, revelations of light, color, form, and composition.” His work has

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been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Film Festival, the Whitney Museum, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Media City Film Festival, Ontario. His films are included in the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, The Donnell Library Center, and other institutions in Canada and the United States. Program includes Tabula Rasa, Here, Surface Tension #2, North Southernly, While Revolved, Armoire, Burning Bush, and others.

Tabula Rasa

05 Vincent Grenier Here

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In person: Vincent Grenier Curated by Steve Anker, and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Oct 25 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

Conversation–Music

October 28

“a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.” –The Guardian

Courtesy of the author

Alfred Brendel: On Character in Music Co-presented with the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California Legendary pianist Alfred Brendel is considered one of the greatest classical musicians of our time. After nearly 50 years of riveting live performances that packed the world’s most prestigious concert halls, Brendel retired from the concert platform in 2008. He continues to command the stage as a scintillating speaker, drawing audiences into a lively lecture-demonstration to discuss the ideas and inspiration that have made him one of the indisputable authorities on musical life today. Illustrating his presentation by playing musical examples from the Beethoven sonatas, Brendel guides his audience in an exploration of various aspects of sound, articulation, notation, rhythm and character, as well as performance habits and their relevance to the works and to the present-day ear.

Thur Oct 28 | 8:30 pm $30 [students $25, CalArts $15]

“One of the world’s great pianists, an exponent of the classical tradition.” –The Guardian

Conversation

October 31

Mark Danielewski: The Fifty Year Sword

In the spirit of Halloween, critically acclaimed author of House of Leaves Mark Danielewski creates a special treat for the occasion: a collaborative theatrical presentation of his limitededition, illustrated ghost story The Fifty Year Sword, which blends the oldest traditions with his singular innovations.

The chills begin on a late October evening at an East Texas ranch when Chintana, a seamstress recovering from a painful divorce, encounters a shadowy caped Story Teller recounting for five orphans a tale of revenge, a harrowing quest, and a terrible sword, which everyone soon realizes waits before them, concealed in a long black box, honed for new crime. Danielewski assembles an eclectic mix of special guest performers to conjure an unpredictable evening of whispering voices and the intricacies of malice foretold and retold.

Benjamin Ealovega

Sun Oct 31 | 7 pm $15 [students $12, CalArts $8]

01 Peter Rose

Metalogue

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Film/Video–Jack H. Skirball Series

02 Peter Rose

Spectacles of Light: Films and Videos by Peter Rose

The man who could not see far enough

Since 1968, Peter Rose has made more than 30 films, tapes, performances, and installations. Many early works raise intriguing questions about the nature of time, space, light, and perception, and draw upon his background in mathematics. His subsequent interest in language as subject, and video as a medium, has generated a substantial body of work that plays with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a

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kind of intellectual comedy. Rose’s recent installations return to an examination of landscape, time, and vision, and works on this program propose an annotated, nocturnal portrait of a vanished culture.

Rose’s work has been widely exhibited in venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

In person: Peter Rose

“[The Man Who Could Not See Far Enough is] a powerfully formal, analytic inquiry into the very nature of vision and cinema.” –The Village Voice

Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

Mon Nov 1 | 8:30 pm $9 [students $7, CalArts $5]

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Music

November 2

Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet Bringing together four uniquely defined voices of new music, jazz, and improvised composition, Gravitas Quartet explores the depths of texture, sonority, rhythm, and ensemble fluidity available to masters working with a broad palette. Wayne Horvitz (piano), Peggy Lee (cello), Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), and Ron Miles (trumpet) have been hailed as harbingers of modern music—each emerges from a vast musical background to redefine the sonic landscape. Gravitas Quartet has two releases on the Songlines label, Way Out East (2006) and One Dance Alone (2008).

Nenad Stevanovic

Tues Nov 2 | 8:30 pm $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]

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Nenad Stevanovic

Music–multimedia

November 5

Courtesy of the artist

SCREAM Festival: Noisefold Co-presented with the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music (SCREAM) Melding real-time animation and generative electronic sound within the legacy of cybernetics, NoiseFold unleashes a suite of selected movements in its live cinema works nFold 1.0, ALCHIMIA, and Neu_Blooms.

Using sensor-activated computer systems and complex audiovisual feedback models, co-founders Cory Metcalf and David Stout synthesize a mesmerizing array of biomimetic visual forms that generate sound,

celebrating the evolution of visual music as a form of instrumental play with semiautonomous systems. From subtle lifelike emanations to roiling upheavals of sound and light, their audiovisual events are at once familiar, mysterious, and strange. The result is a powerful synaesthetic experience where noise, music and image interact on a symphonic scale.

Fri Nov 5 | 8:30 pm $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]

“Whether seen simply as a work of art or encountered as an intellectual and spiritual event, the loss of self that occurs during a NoiseFold performance is balanced by a gain of understanding.” –The End of Being

Courtesy of the artist

David Formentin.

Conversation

November 9

03 Sarah Paul Ocampo / Advanced Beginner.

Featured in Studio: Spring 2010.

Catherine Malabou

Co-presented by CalArts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Dance–Music–Multimedia–Theater

Studio: Fall 2010

November 6–7

In an interdisciplinary mix of new works and works-in-progress by experimental Los Angeles performing artists, Studio offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performance works in dance, theater, music, and multimedia. Each quarter, guest curators select a new lineup of six short works. Past performances have featured such inventive artists as Ana María Alvarez, Gregory Barnett, Nao Bustamente, Dino Dinco, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Ayana Hampton, Cynthia Lee, Prumsodun Ok, Todd Gray & Max Cap King, Poor Dog Group, Armen Ra, Wu Ingrid Tsang, and Kristina Wong.

Sat–Sun Nov 6–7 | 8:30 pm $15 [students $12, CalArts $8]

For detailed information on this daylong program at moca’s Ahmanson Auditorium, visit redcat.org.

Courtesy of the author

Funded in part with generous support from the James Irvine Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Renowned French philosopher Catherine Malabou headlines a day of free discussions exploring the crossover of biology, technology, and the arts organized by the CalArts MA Aesthetics and Politics Program and held at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moca). Malabou’s evening lecture draws on her current research into biology and biopolitics, as well as her highly praised writing about the concept of plasticity at the crossroads of continental philosophy and neuroscience. A famed professor at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Malabou has written such influential books as Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing, The Future of Hegel, and Counterpath (with Jacques Derrida).

Ralph Lemon

“Lemon has long mesmerized audiences… It is not surprising that he would move so nimbly between disciplines.” –The N ew York Times

Ralph Lemon/Cross Performance: How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere Alpert Award Artist–The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series–Multimedia

Los Angeles premiere

November 10–14 Highlighting the Alpert Award in the Arts

A homemade spaceship built from scrap metal and wood serves as a central metaphor in the latest work by Alpert Award-winning choreographer and artist Ralph Lemon, who commissioned the craft as part of his eight-year friendship and creative collaboration with Walter Carter, a former Mississippi Delta sharecropper born at the turn of the 20th century. Lemon’s multimedia work How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere juxtaposes images and memories of Walter and his family with fearless dancing by Lemon’s six-member company and sophisticated video imagery, including references to Andrei Tarkovsky’s landmark 1972 sci-fi film Solaris. Described by Lemon as a “speculative fiction epic,” the production bridges the personal and the universal, draws from myths and realities, and reminds us, as Lemon says, of “the special, ordinary, and inspiring human commonality of how one lives a life.”

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.

Antoine Tempé

Funded in part with generous support from The National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts.

NDP is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.

Wed–Sat Nov 10–13 | 8:30 pm & Sun Nov 14 | 7 pm

$25–30 [students $20–25, CalArts $12–15]

Courtesy of the artist

“Fresh and original… [Wunderbaum] is political and raw, its actors also rockers.” –Los Angeles Times Theater

November 17–21

Courtesy of the artist

Wunderbaum: Venlo There is no way to know exactly what will happen when the daring Dutch theater ensemble Wunderbaum premieres Venlo, a new theatrical event developed during a three-week redcat residency. Known internationally for its intelligent and lively blend of humor, social politics, and theatrical intensity, Wunderbaum collaborates with Los Angeles artists from various disciplines in this new work inspired Courtesy of the artist

in part by the company’s recent series of interactive events—town hall meetings that devolve into chaotic beer-fueled parties, polite conversations that grow into raging debates, and public art unveilings that explode into cultural standoffs. While Wunderbaum’s work is at times unpredictable, the ensemble’s genuine passion and heightened theatrical sensitivity have made it one of the most closely watched young collectives—always surprising and never easily forgotten.

Funded in part with generous support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ Cultural Exchange International Program.

Wed–Sat Nov 17–20 | 8:30 pm Sun Nov 21 | 3 pm $25–30 [students $20–25, CalArts $12–15]

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Get Out of the Car

02 Thom Andersen

Get Out of the Car

Film/Video – Jack H. Skirball Series

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November 22

THOM ANDERSEN: OUT OF THE CAR AND INTO THE MUSIC OF THE STREETS These three sad, funny, beautiful works take you through Los Angeles, 2009, and Munich, 1967/1968. Thom Andersen’s new film Get Out of the Car (2010, 34 min., 16mm) responds to his award-winning documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself by recording the city’s most evanescent signs, memorializing some of its vanished monuments and musical history.

Get Out of the Car is screened with two 1960s shorts that served as points of inspiration and departure: The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp, (1968, 23 min., 35 mm) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, with music

by Johann Sebastian Bach and dialogue by Saint John of the Cross in a radical condensation of Ferdinand Bruckner’s three-act play Sickness of Youth; and The Little Chaos (1967, 10 min., 16mm) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a mordant commentary on the sickness of contemporary German youth, with music by Richard Wagner and the Troggs.

In person: Thom Andersen Curated by Thom Andersen, Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from Wendy Keys and Donald Pels.

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“Andersen’s film frees images from the yoke of instrumentality, revealing the city for what it is and allowing us to see what we otherwise cannot. It is at once theory and practice; not content to simply describe the new cinema, it embodies it… It teaches us how to see.” –Bright Lights Film Journal

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03 Nancy Campbell

“Is there nothing The Wooster Group cannot imagine— or re-imagine?” –The N ew Yorker

“This house… was occupied once. In my mind it still is, but by shadowy occupants like ghosts.” from Vieux Carré

The Wooster Group: Vieux Carré Theater–Multimedia

December 1–12

U.S. premiere

By Tennessee Williams | Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte Performed by Ari Fliakos, Daniel Jackson, Ellen Mills, Daniel Pettrow, Kaneza Schaal, Andrew Schneider, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk

Franck Beloncle

Like Williams’ first big success The Glass Menagerie, Vieux Carré is a “memory play,” set in the boarding house in New Orleans where Williams himself stayed as a young man during the Depression. The young writer, as narrator, remembers his artistic and sexual awakening there.

Inhabitants of the house swirl up out of the writer’s mind as archetypal Williams characters, longing for release and haunted by thwarted dreams. In its production of Vieux Carré, The Wooster Group experiments with new modes of expression for Williams’ now familiar lyric voice, borrowing from the early screen style defined for Williams by Actors Studio director Elia Kazan; the films of Paul Morrissey, produced in collaboration with Andy Warhol in the early 1970s; and the more recent videos of artist Ryan Trecartin.

Funded in part with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the “Leading for the Future Initiative,” a program of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Wed–Sat Dec 1–4 | 8:30 pm & Sun Dec 5 | 7 pm Tues–Sat Dec 7–11 | 8:30 pm & Sun Dec 12 | 7 pm $55 [students $45, CalArts $35] Franck Beloncle

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and Ari Fliakos in Vieux Carré

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Nature (in progress).

Proposal to convert buildings in former Israeli camp to bird observatory, Bethlehem.

02 How to re-inhabit your enemy’s house, 2009.

Installation view, 11th International Istanbul Biennial.

Courtesy the artists.

03 How to re-inhabit your enemy’s house, 2009.

Installation view, 11th International Istanbul Biennial.

Courtesy the artists.

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Nature (in progress).

Proposal to convert buildings in former Israeli camp to bird observatory, Bethlehem.

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Art–Architecture

December 7–January 30

Decolonizing Architecture

A project by Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman Opening reception: Sunday, December 5 | 4–7 PM Decolonizing Architecture is a research project initiated by the team of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Eyal Weizman.

Working as a studio in Ramallah and Bethlehem, the trio explores how Israeli settlements and military bases in the Occupied Territories can be reused, recycled, or reinhabited by Palestinians.

The studio articulates the spatial complexities of decolonization through architecture, assuming that a viable approach to the issue of appropriation can be found not only by using the professional language of architecture but also by inaugurating an “arena of speculation” that incorporates diverse cultural and

political perspectives. Working within a spatial reality that Weizman calls “the politics of verticality,” the team works on a broad spectrum of research projects with a range of experts, activists, and organizations. For redcat, Decolonizing Architecture is developing an exhibition— the studio’s first U.S. presentation—that builds on its work over the last few years alongside new projects.

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A program of lectures and presentations will round out the closing week of the exhibition.

Visit redcat.org for details.

The exhibition is funded in part with generous support from the Nimoy Foundation, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the haudenschildGarage.

Tues Dec 7–Sun Jan 30 Tues–Sun, 12 pm–6 pm or intermission Free

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The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

CalArts Winter Dance

December 17–18

Julieta Cervantes

The centerpiece of this special presentation by The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance is a restaging of Trisha Brown’s 1983 masterpiece Set and Reset, retitled Set and Reset/Reset. Performed by seven of CalArts’ most expert dancers and featuring a driving score by Laurie Anderson, the spellbinding 24-minute opus is recognized as one of the finest examples of Brown’s trademark combination of fluid movement and unpredictable geometric style.

The School’s dancers also perform an excerpt from Israeli American choreographer Barak Marshall’s high-speed physical-theater work Rooster, New York-based choreographer Daniel Charon’s trio Junctures, and a short new piece by Rosanna Gamson, whose evening-length work Tov premiered last spring at redcat to great acclaim.

Fri–Sat Dec 17–18 | 8:30 pm $20 [students $16, CalArts $10]

“Set and Reset is unmistakably Trisha Brown at her most tantalizing.” –The New York Times

Julieta Cervantes

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Peter Halmagyi

RJ Muna

The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series

The A.W.A.R.D. Show!

January 13–16

Co-presented with The Joyce Theater Foundation

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The Joyce Theater Foundation comes to Los Angeles for a SoCal edition of The a.w.a.r.d. Show!, its wildly successful dance event that offers an alternate definition of “public funding” by granting $10,000 to a regional choreographer with the help of the audience’s vote. Each night for three nights, four different dance artists present their work, followed by facilitated conversation between the artists and the audience, feedback, and the selection of one company to advance to the final round by popular vote. The event culminates on Sunday, when the three finalists perform again for a panel of judges that teams with the audience to

determine the grand prize winner. More than a competition, The a.w.a.r.d. Show! (which is an acronym for Audiences With Artists Responding to Dance) is a lively public discourse on an art form that rarely gets to speak up. Featured artists include Randé Dorn, Maria Gillespie, Pam Gonzales, Holly Johnston, Rachael Lincoln and Leslie Seiters, Arianne MacBean, Victoria Marks, Barak Marshall, Bradley Michaud, Karen Schaffman, Christine Suarez, and Meg Wolfe.

The a.w.a.r.d. Show! 2010–11 awards in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle are made possible by a generous grant from The Boeing Company.

Thur–Sat Jan 13–15 | 8:30 pm Sun Jan 16 | 7 pm $18 [students $18, CalArts $18]

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Mark Stevens

Mark Stevens

“incredibly emotional (live!) music and admiringly healthy irony toward their own story.” –Delfi

Betontanc and Umka.lv: Show Your Face!

January 19–23

music–Theater

West Coast premiere A virtuosic layering of puppetry, physical theater, dance, and music, this contemporary parable follows the travels of Little Branko, a faceless snowsuit transformed by puppeteers into a modernday Everyman on a dark odyssey through the 20th century. Based on a comic strip, the story takes Little Branko around the world, where he is confronted by other rootless figures—characters either too impetuous or not brave enough to be able to change the world. Show Your Face! is an award-winning collaboration by avant-garde Slovene physical-theater troupe Betontanc, Latvian object-theater masters Umka.lv, and the Latvian pop-electronic group Silence.

Funded in part with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Mark Stevens

Wed–Sat Jan 19–22 | 8:30 pm & Sun Jan 23 | 7 pm

$25–30 [students $20–25, CalArts $12–15]

Courtesy of the artist

01 Iannis Xenakis,

Terretektorh, 1966, (Preparatory Sketch)

02 Iannis Xenakis,

Diatope de Beaubourg, 1979, (Digital Light Score Schematic)

03 Iannis Xenakis,

Polytope de Cluny, Paris, 1972, (Photo, Performance with Lasers)

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January 28–30

Courtesy of the artist

CEAIT Festival: Iannis Xenakis: Now and Tomorrow Los Angeles Premieres Co-presented with the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology 02

Three scintillating concerts mix electronic and high-tech sound events with extraordinary instrumental pieces by Iannis Xenakis, the legendary pioneer of music and architecture. Celebrating the way Xenakis forged new paths of hearing and seeing, these three different programs feature new pieces by composers inspired

by Xenakis along with the artist’s own multi-channel electronic works, multiple realizations of game strategy pieces, landmark instrumental compositions, and his arresting Pour la Paix, a gripping

statement about war for actors with vocal and electronic sounds. Guest artists include renowned cellist Rohan de Saram, composer Curtis Roads, electronic diffusion specialist Daniel Teige, remix and sound artist Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) and others.

In addition to the performances, A Forum: Hearing and Seeing Xenakis features guest speakers interspersed with world premiere videos of Xenakis’ own commentary and demonstrations. These pre-concert presentations take place January 29 and 30 in the Ahmanson Auditorium, moca Grand Avenue.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at moca Pacific Design Center. For more information visit moca.org.

Courtesy of the artist

Fri–Sat Jan 28–29 | 8:30 pm Sun Jan 30 | 7 pm $25 [students $20, CalArts $12] Courtesy of the artist

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02 Zhang Peili,

Uncertain Pleasure (stills), 1996, 10-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist and BoersLi Gallery, Beijing.

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Forever (stills), 1994, single-channel video, 27 min. Courtesy the artist and ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai.