FREE all ages dance party, rock show and soiree!

Debut event, featuring:
Lucky Dragons
DJ Jimi Hey
Savory and sweet melon snacks and drinks from Eden Bakti’s Herbal Eden

Conveniently scheduled between afternoon nap and bathtime, this intergenerational mixer aims to let moms, dads and friends get loose, and for baby to do her thing!

I.M.A.H.A.N.H: Sunday, July 3, 3-7pm

Tagbanger· 06/22/11

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Burden Baskets have been used by different groups of Native American people for various purposes, primarily for gathering seed, grain, fruit, wood, and personal belongings.

These baskets are made by Nanette Sullano using a coiling technique, inspired by traditional forms, with braided cotton rope, vegan suede lace, and leather. They are available in two shapes (womb or cone), three sizes for womb (small, medium, large), one size for cone (medium), and four vegan suede lace and leather colors (black, brown, golden, gray). All braided rope is 100 percent cotton and natural in color.

Kelly Breslin, Fragment #3 (for Agnes Denes), Ceramic and Bronze, 2010

January 8 through February 5, 2011

Opening Reception 6-8pm, January 8 (tonight!)

ACME

via South Willard

CD-Rt, an audio imprint by Sun An.

Telefantasy Studios presents two spectacular new episodes from the science fiction adventure series, The Multinauts.

Generations after the wars of Cancelation, a dark tyranny grips the Multiverse under the rule of Corporate Warlord, Oysters Rockafeller. Xanthor, Gigs, and Centari, three unlikely heroes from three very different dimensions, are transported aboard Tetra, a sentient starship infused with the wisdom of an ancient civilization. Moved by Tetra’s plea to restore peace, the trio embarks on a noble quest to save the Multiverse by taking on Oysters Rockafeller in a post-apocalyptic showdown. The Multinauts is both frightening and funny. It’s adventures explore astonishing new worlds full of remarkable creatures and dazzling special effects.

Episode I: “Flashback” — Good times go terribly awry when the trio travels to a wild kegger full of space preppies that turn out to be more than just party animals. Look for a special double cameo by Ariel Pink who lends his talents as a sewer mutant as well as a performance of the song “Flashback”. Other memorable cameos include web diva, Leslie Hall as well as DJ Lance Rock of Yo Gabba Gabba.

Episode II: “Mirror Man” — Finds the Multinauts on the bleak desert planet, Cherotec. In an attempt to regain a lost power crystal, the team must face mysteries lurking in the sand and the bizarre mirrored domain of Indigirka. This episode contains a chilling performance by Geneva Jacuzzi as well as an appearance by Francois Sagat.

thanks Jimi

Emily Mast, Bread Subscription, 2010
Subscription of homemade breads, one loaf per month for one year.

In the spirit of the Exquisite Corpse, we are inviting you to contribute a drawing to create one-(plural)body-as-exhibition. All information here.

Golden Sounds’ 1986 hit Zamina (Waka Waka, time for Africa)

From the first 2010 World Cup broadcasts on ESPN, my fellow tweeters cracked jokes about The Lion King. We imagined Rafiki calling the matches, or James Earl Jones (who provided the voice for Mufasa), and half expected the referees to raise the Jabulani aloft to announce the arrival of the New Ball. Most folks simply observed, “I feel like I am watching The Lion King.”

There is a good reason for this. The score used by ESPN to frame its broadcasts was written by Lisle Moore, a Utah composer who had worked with the network in the past. Moore gave us muscular music for a sporting event, upbeat music for a media event organized around putting us all in the mood to buy a shirt, a ball, or a Coke. Layered over the orchestral swells are the oddly familiar sounds of African voices, or, I should say, African-sounding voices. Africa is scored here as a noble landscape, peopled by a unified chorus, singing together in a harmonic convergence of tribal cultures.

“With the exception of the African choir,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune, “all of the music is performed by Utah musicians.” (”ESPN Turns to Utah for World Cup Music”) That African choir, lending this score a sense of location, is actually made up with members of The Lion King’s Broadway cast. The African-sounding choir from New York City was hired to sonically channel an idea of African authenticity keyed to ESPN’s American audience. This is of course true of all scores produced by the World Cup broadcasting networks as they reach for music their imagined audience will understand. Without a doubt, we are hearing not African music but (to invoke philosopher Valentin Mudimbe) a musical “Idea of Africa.”

In the mix of the music draped over the 2010 World Cup, are more specific strains - signals clearly audible to the listener of African music, the sound of a continent being ripped off. This is nowhere more obvious than “The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup ™ Song”, “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”, sung by Shakira and Freshlyground, a South African Afro-fusion bad. The global pop hit has a clear relationship to a Cameroonian military song, Zangaléwa, popularized by Golden Sounds in 1986. “Waka Waka” doesn’t just borrow from “Zangaléwa” - listen to the two and you see that “Waka Waka” is, very nearly, an illegal cover (the chorus is a direct use of “Zangaléwa).

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Before the start of their 2006 World Cup semi-final, players for Brazil and France stood together and held a banner declaring “Say no to racism”. The gesture was part of a Fifa campaign — each of the 64 matches included a visible statement against the racist abuse directed especially at black players in Europe. From the round banner marked with this slogan which covered the centre circle until the start of the match, to pre-game statements read by team captains before kick-off, during Fifa’s 2006 World Cup, players, fans and tournament organisers declared that racism has no place in football.

Imagine a similar intervention today. South Africa has the highest incidence of rape in the world. The statistics are chilling: one in two women are raped; women are more likely to be raped than to learn to read; and they have little reason to trust the law to defend their right to their own bodies.

One grisly dimension of this crisis is that black lesbians are singled out for homophobic rape and violent assault with particular frequency. In April 2008, Eudy Simelane, a former midfielder for South Africa’s women’s national team, was raped, beaten, stabbed and left to die in a creek 200m from her home. A shocking number of South African female athletes have been assaulted — women who dare to play a “man’s game” become visible targets.

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Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

In June 2009, Marc Kremers stumbled across the personals section of Haitianconnection.com and collected several hundred of the brazen images he found there. After the devastion that the earthquake on 12th January 2010 has caused, and the subsequent media coverage of their plight, we at As-found think it’s pertinent to show Haitians according to their own self-image and means. Thanks to Damien Poulain for the title illustration and Julie Rubio for the exhibition title.

Slavs and Tatars & Ooga Booga present the west coast debut of Kidnapping Mountains. Featuring a selection and sale of Slavs and Tatars posters, editions, and printed matter.

Ooga Booga
943 N Broadway #203
Los Angeles CA 90012
14 January — 7 February 2010

Ooga Booga is a concept shop vital to the creative life-blood of Los Angeles. It gathers an eclectic range of products. Spearheaded by Wendy Yao, Ooga Booga fosters a vibrant community of independent producers. For Swiss Institute, Yao installs a lounge in which one may read over 300 titles — from self to professionally published. The room contains contributions by:

Not Equal, 2009, Plywood, wood glue and enamel paint, 13.1 x 17.75 inches

Shannon Ebner
Invisible Language Workshop
30 October — 19 December 2009
Opening Reception: Friday 30 October, 6-8pm
Wallspace

Music Video for my brother’s band, Escort, All Through the Night, edited and synched to various Muppets shows by Irvin Coffee, 2007. Miss you Darius!