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BYOB MOCA LA
Organized by Rafaël Rozendaal, Felipe Lima, & Family Bookstore

Saturday, May 5, 2012
8 - 10pm
Free to public

Presented by Imprint Projects

Part of Mike D’s Transmission LA

MOCA Geffen
152 North Central Ave 90012

Participating artists:

Adam Harms, Albert Samreth, Alex Bogdanov, Andy Bruntel, Anita Fontaine, Beau Johnson, Bennett Williamson, Bret Nicely, C. R. Stecyk III, Chris Silva, Christopher Richmond, Daniel Rehn, F. Myles Sciotto, Guthrie Lonergan, Hazel Hill McCarthy III, Jeff Baij, Joel Fox, Laura Matsue, Lucy Chinen, Mark Essen, Marlous Borm, Michael Ray-Von & Bedros Yeretzian, Michael Reich, Mike Manning, Natalie Rodgers, Nick Loewen & Rimas Simaitis, Parker Ito, Pascual Sisto, Ross Harris, Ryan Bulis, Sterling Crispin, Steven Schkolne, Susanne Melanie Berry, Tim Brown, Van Tran, Wade Ivy.

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Documentation from a performance, B!RDBRA!N, at The Blackbox on January 22, 2012 for the Pacific Standard Time Public Art & Performance Festival.

“No general idea, not one idea, but an accumulation of details. One detail after another. All the time, without interruption or pauses”. —Guy de Cointet, 1979

Alex was an African Grey Parrot and the subject of a thirty-year Avian Language EXperiment (hence, his name) that set out to prove that birds can reason on a basic level and use words creatively. Alex consistently demonstrated an ability to learn symbolic and conceptual tasks often associated with complex cognitive and communication skills. The animal psychologist who worked with Alex for 30 years, Dr. Irene Pepperberg, claimed that Alex used a two-way communications code and could identify 50 different objects and recognize quantities up to six; that he could distinguish seven colors and five shapes, and understand various spatial concepts. Alex showed surprise and anger, and could add, to a limited extent. He even understood the concept of zero. Alex died suddenly and unexpectedly on September 6, 2007. His last words to Pepperberg were: “You be good. I love you.” Pepperberg’s research remains controversial, with some skeptics maintaining that Alex’s apparent mastery of language revealed nothing more than a very sophisticated version of conditioned responses.

Late last month, the beloved Los Angeles artist and teacher Franklyn Liegel was found unresponsive in his studio. An autopsy later confirmed the immediate cause of death was a heart attack.

waanaki, which means ‘to live undisturbed, to live in peace’ in Ojibwemowin (Anishinaabemowin), is an online shop that focuses on hand-selected vintage pieces for children between the ages of zero and six.

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.

xxx 18+ xxx

1976’s Los Angeles Barrio Calligraphy, a long out of print book by Jerry & Sally Romotsky photographed for Self Learn LA.

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MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS is a group of friends who create, produce and distribute furniture, prints, fashion and books amongst many other objects. The collective evolved from a group exhibition in 2009 and has shown its work in Milan, Berlin, Leipzig, Beirut and Weimar. The aim is to enable the designers and artists of MY BAUHAUS IS BETTER THAN YOURS to generate a creative and financial capital for the collective. This way, the group can continue working independently, developing and producing new concepts and objects … more

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