In tandem with a new display by Angie Keefer and Robert Snowden
for Works Sited, please join us for a screening of:

“Stefan Themerson and Language”
Friday, February 24th, 7-9pm
with an introduction by Stuart Bailey
at Hop Louie

“Stefan Themerson and language” (1976) is a made for tv
documentary by Dutch filmmaker Erik Van Zuylen in which Stefan
Themerson plays himself, in a staged dialog with Van Zuylen. It’s both
madcap and serious, very serious.

I hope you can join us.

This residency is about the pleasure of writing and drawing images and words. Sort of.

YOU ARE INVITED!

PAULINE PRESENTS

DIALOGUES - OR A WAIST IS A TERRIBLE THINGTO MIND

A FILM BY OWEN LAND

PLEASE BRING BLANKETS AND PILLOWS TO LAY ON AND SOME FOOD AND WINE TO EAT

CHAIRS WILL BE PROVIDED IF NEEDED IN THE BACK OF THE GALLERY>>>>>

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 21, 2011
6-8 pm

Works Sited

Tuesday Dec 28th, at 6:30pm

for Works Sited
Art, Music, & Recreation Department
Central Library, Los Angeles Public Library
630 W. Fifth st.
Los Angeles, CA
Parking available on Flower b/w Fifth and Sixth streets

** join us afterwards at the Mandrake, 2692 S La Cienega Blvd,
where Frances Stark may play music containing swearwords **

Alice Notley’s writing and art responds to a broad spectrum of American culture. Her experiments with poetic forms and free verse owe as much to Gertrude Stein, Frank O’Hara, and Ted Berrigan as they do to William Carlos Williams. Like them, she believes that she is writing primarily to express her own personal tone of voice. She feels her speech is the voice of “the new wife, and the new mother” in her own time, but her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platform of social reform.

Will Holder is a designer and writer, preoccupied with conversation as a model for production and documentation. In May 2009, Holder curated “Talk Show” at the ICA, an exhibition and season of events concerning speech and accountability. He is editor of F.R.DAVID, a journal concerned with reading and writing in the arts, published by de Appel, Amsterdam. Holder is currently editing and designing a biography of American composer Robert Ashley in the form of operatic notation (together with Alex Waterman), and rewriting William Morris’ “News from Nowhere (An epoch of rest)” (1876) into a guide for design education and practise set in 2135.

An Avant-Garde Film Festival
October 14–16, 2010

SilverScreen Theater
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue
West Hollywood, CA 90069

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
6:30 PM
Cocktail Reception

7:30PM
PROGRAM 1: Underground Classics
Followed by a panel discussion with Jonas Mekas, Carolee Schneemann, MM Serra and David James.
# Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963) 16mm, black & white, sound, 45 min.
# Lupe (Jose Rodriguez-Soltero, 1966) 16mm, color, sound, 49.5 min.
# Fuses (Carolee Schneemann, 1964) 16mm, color, silent, 23 min.

“A DESIRE TO LEARN ESPERANTO:
HAVING A THING to do with Esperanto, Ballantine Beer, both or neither”

Nancy Lupo for works sited

August 30 - September 30, 2010

“Imagine that you are on a train car sitting next to a Russian gentleman with whom you wish to speak. You have brought with you a key to Esperanto in Russian. On the back of the key is written (in Russian), “Everything written in Esperanto can be translated by the help of this vocabulary.” You give the gentleman a sentence written in Esperanto, and he will be able to make out your sentence in a very short time by using the key. As an example Dr. Zamenhof gives the following sentence: Mi ne sci’as kie mi las’is la baston’o'n: Cxu vi gxi’n ne vid’is?”

Picture Industry (Good Bye To All That)
Organized by Walead Beshty
July 17 - August 21, 2010

Opening reception
Saturday, July 17, 6 - 8 pm

Regen Projects

In most Los Angeles social circles, when one speaks of the “industry” they are referring to the Entertainment Industry (a.k.a. the “Picture Industry”). Pictures have a knack for supplanting the concrete, sliding as though self-lubricating around the globe, like poltergeists, they haunt the world they represent like vague recollections, inhabiting concrete forms briefly until slipping off to another host, a billboard here, a magazine page there, creating momentary associations, and chance resonances. And what to make of the application of the term industry, with the heaviness of factories and smoke stacks encircling it, to the production of ephemeral pictures whose power is synonymous with their lightness? It could be said that it is the seemingly invisible and ephemeral aspects–the means of distribution, the contextual frame, the vicissitudes of taste, and an object’s ability to “pass”–which serve as the most robust material of the contemporary work, an embrace of convention that produces an endless sequence of provisional “meanings.” Perhaps the only solution available to us is to allow pictures to be concrete, to reclaim their moments of heaviness, instead of pretending that they are endlessly able to float listlessly in the breeze.

Richard Jackson:
Red Room/Green Room
June 27- August 22
Opening: June 26, 7-9 PM

A rare US exhibition of a never-before-seen installation by Richard Jackson. For Red Room/Green Room, Jackson has constructed two separate spaces, each of which is painted one of the colors in the exhibition title.

The Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103

Paper Surrogate by Anthony Lepore for Works Sited.

June 15 - August 22, 2010

Reception today from 6-8pm @ Central Library.

Using photographs, wood and plastic, Lepore has created a quarter-scaled replica of the library’s display case housed within the original. This smaller edition contains a photographic snapshot of an arrangement of books that either deal directly with subjects of expectancy, birth and parenthood or have titles that invoke these themes despite their actual contents. Using a diverse selection of library books from a wide range of topics, Lepore frames how such complex and abstract phenomena – that of birth and procreation – have been embedded in today’s social and cultural imaginary.

Art, Music & Recreation Dept, 2nd Floor
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles, CA 90071

Hours: M, W 10-6; T, Th 10-8; Fri, Sat 10-6
Parking available in lot on Flower between 5th and 6th streets