SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & ARTS PROGRAMMING
curated & organized by Darin Klein
Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
7pm cash bar
8pm screening
Free admission
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
www.hammer.ucla.edu
www.dirtylooksnyc.org
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
7pm
Yale Film Study Center
212 York, Room 106
New Haven, CT 06511
Cecilia Dougherty / Deanna Erdmann / Rhys Ernst / Glen Fogel / Mariah Garnett / Jonesy / Dani Leventhal / Charles Ludlam / Narcissister / Luther Price / Michael Robinson
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Dirty Looks is a New York-based roaming screening series, a salon of influences, and an open platform for inquiry, discussion and debate. Tonight's program is a love letter passionately proposing the curious coupling of East Coast and L.A. queer experimental filmmakers of yesterday and today. Expect obsession, permuted notions of sex, and violent whimsy. Curated by Bradford Nordeen and Darin Klein. A discussion with several of the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Darin Klein & Friends Present
Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge
January 28 – February 25, 2012
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Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
2685 S La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 838-6000
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm, special program hours, and by appointment
www.luisdejesus.com
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Brandon Andrew, Zackary Drucker = A. L. Steiner, Deanna Erdmann, Matthew Greene, Abel Baker Gutierrez, Lia Halloran, Danny Jauregui, Matt Lipps, prvtdncr & bodega vendetta, Christopher Russell & Halle Tate, George Stoll, Suzanne Wright
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“Tilt-shift" refers to the use of camera movements typically employed in creating a simulated environment or miniature scene. The term in this context is well suited to Los Angeles-based queer artists who do not shy away from exploring and exploiting the visibility of a specific timeframe and geographic location, skewing and adjusting concepts of queerness to illuminate individual ideals. Much of the art in Tilt-Shift LA has been created specifically for this exhibition, while key pieces from the past half-decade were sourced from the artists’ studios, and several very recent works not shown previously now reach the public. A series of free exhibition-related programs are presented within the gallery during the run of the exhibition.
Related Programs
Saturday, January 28, 6-9pm: Opening Reception
Celebrate the kickoff of Tilt-Shift LA with the post-religious gospel vocal stylings and powerhouse pianist skills of recent LA transplant Our Lady J. Come hear the unorthodox, uplifting, and soul-shaking sound she’s known for.
Sunday, February 12, 12-6pm: ‘Zine Fest 2012!
Peruse and purchase publications from local creators and purveyors: 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves, Double Break Gallery and Shop, Glaciers of Nice, itch, JIMMY, Night Papers, prvtdncr & bodega vendetta, Public Fiction, Christopher Russell, spunk (1993-96), and more. Plus free reading material from The Miracle Bookmobile!
Saturday, February 18, 6-8pm: itch
Experience an intimate and intense dance performance by members of the itch community, whose interests and practices converge in a happenstance yet curiously fortuitous bricolage. itch is an evolving art project qua artist forum cum journal/‘zine published in LA.
Admission to all programs is free of charge
New Skin for the Old Ceremony
54th San Francisco International Film Festival
April 26, 2011
9pm Kabuki Theater
Tickets/showime: www.sffs.org/sf-intl-film-festival.aspx
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tickets/showtimes: www.moma.org/explore/films/upcoming
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
Thursday, December 16, 2010
8pm
Free admission
Theo Angell / Peter Coffin / Weston Currie / Brent Green / Alex Da Corte / Christian Holstad / Sylvan Lanken & Lily Lanken / Lucky Dragons / Brett Milspaw / Kelly Sears / Tina Tyrell
Curated by Lorca Cohen & Darin Klein
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Leonard Cohen’s 1974 album New Skin for the Old Ceremony is re-imagined and interpreted by a stellar group of select artist filmmakers. 11 newly commissioned works interpret the album in its entirety through the medium of the moving picture. Varying in style and technique from song to song, this program highlights the craft of each artist as they complement and coalesce with the work of the legendary singer/songwriter.
HAHN-BIN: The Five Poisons
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
Thursday, March 17, 2011
7pm cash bar
8pm performance
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
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Melding classical music masterfully with pop performance art, Young Concert Artists Prize-winning violinist HAHN-BIN displays captivating stage presence and virtuoso technical abilities. Drawing on a repertoire that includes John Cage, Chopin, Debussy, and Ravel, this program is divided into three chapters of compositions: Ignorance; Anger + Pride; Desire + Jealousy. With pianist John Blacklow.
TRANSylvania Mania!
Friday, October 29 2010
7-11pm
Free admission
Hammer Museum Courtyard and Lindbrook Terrace
Trans and queer artists and allies invite you to a blowout Halloween bash. Hostess Darlin’ welcomes comic Ian Harvie, chanteuse Our Lady J, folksinger Phranc, rock trio Patty Schemel, Will Schwartz & Daniela Sea. View the latest issue of Original Plumbing magazine, and tour Hammer Projects artist Julian Hoeber's installation Demon Hill. Plus, Tranimal drag makeover workshop for attendees with before and after portraits by Austin Young. Costumes encouraged!
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Darlin’ is back for her fourth consecutive year as Hammer Halloween Hostess to bring you her special brand of theatrics, wit and stitch witchery. A regular performer at San Francisco ’s now-legendary Club Trannyshack in the mid-nineties, Darlin’ has also hosted numerous art and social events as an array of creepy, funny or otherworldly characters and creatures.
Los Angeles based transgender funnyman Ian Harvie has headlined clubs, colleges, and festivals all over the world. With equal parts candor and deadpan humor, Ian's distinctive matter-of-fact delivery and almost surreal anecdotes about the intricacies of his exceptional life are so full of humanity that they become universal. Ian's observations about gender-specific societal codes, privilege, coming out twice, and of course, learning new bathroom etiquette, will have you peeing in your pants as well as wanting to check your neighbor's pants to see what's inside. Ian's not just a queer comedian - he's the world's first FTM transgendered comic - which, when put in context, make his anecdotes about his own phobia of public restrooms all the more side-splitting. Ian's performance makes you think, makes you wonder, but most importantly, it makes you laugh.
Our Lady J is a singer/songwriter known for her visionary gospel stylings and powerhouse pianist skills. Along with the Train-To-Kill Gospel Choir, she has been touring internationally and delivering a new testament of post-religious gospel music to sold-out crowds in NYC, London and Berlin . Recently, OUT Magazine named her as one of the "Out 100," a list of the people who helped shape LGBT culture in 2008. On the album, "The Gospel Electric," Our Lady J blasts her classical and gospel roots into the future, fusing electro/pop with the unorthodox uplifting soul-shaking sound she's been known for.
Phranc has introduced herself as “the All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger”; as a visual artist she has adopted the moniker “The Cardboard Cobbler”. As a teenager she attended The Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles , California , where she focused on songwriting and silk-screening. In the late 1970’s she was a member of the bands Nervous Gender and Catholic Discipline in the L.A. punk rock scene. She has recorded for Rhino, Island, and Kill Rock Stars and toured internationally with many acclaimed and notorious artists. Both her music and visual work employ humor to raise consciousness, trigger response, and provoke discussion. She is currently preparing for a summer 2011 solo show of her visual work and a new musical release.
Having taken LA by storm with a recent gig at Human Resources in Chinatown, Patty Schemel (Hole, Green Eyes), Will Schwartz (Imperial Teen, Hey Willpower!) and Daniela Sea (The Gr’ups, Cypher in the Snow, “Max” on the hit HBO television series, The L Word) are here to show you their licks. Each of them is an accomplished musician, and each has performed with legendary bands of cult status. Get them all together on stage as a team and they will rock your world!
On hand at the event will be Amos Mac, Editor in Chief of Original Plumbing - the premiere print magazine dedicated to trans male culture. Pick up a copy of OP #4, hottt off the press! Original Plumbing documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. OP feels that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because everyone has different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to their own bodies. Original Plumbing is independently published and distributed out of San Francisco , CA .
Julian Hoeber and friends entertain, delight and amuse audiences with masked shenanigans, mysterious demonstrations and more in Demon Hill, his freestanding structure based on the architecture of “gravitational mystery spots.” Head upstairs to the Lindbrook terrace where Hoeber’s Hammer Project allows for a playful experience of space and narrative while opening questions of how psychology and ideology form meaning in art.
Mathu Andersen, Squeaky Blonde, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Fade-Dra, Jer Ber Jones, and Austin Young host and trans-form participants into TRANIMALS in the second installment of their ongoing series of Tranimal Drag Make-Up Workshops. This is definitely not your typical make-up session! Last year’s TRANIMAL event produced some of the most intriguing, otherworldly and colorful creatures LA has ever seen, and this year is sure to do the same. Before and after portraits by Austin Young. Presented by Ultra Fabulous Beyond Drag.
Flood Tide: Remixed
Thursday, September 23 2010
7pm cash bar
8pm screenign/perfomance
Free admission
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
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A dreamlike, meditative journey down a river flowing both ways with the tides, Flood Tide follows real-life, handmade boat-sculptures and their crews as they drift past empty new condominiums, explore crumbling castles, swim in iridescent quarries, and are occasionally hindered by torrents of rain or groaning motors. Interpreting and responding to extended footage not in the narrative version, Dark Dark Dark perform live with the film onstage following their pre-screening musical set. (2010, 50 min. Dir. Todd Chandler, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky)
Darin Klein & Friends Present:
Original Plumbing #3 Release Party
Saturday, July 10 2010
8:30pm reception
9:30pm films and performances
An OUTFEST/Platinum Party
REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
www.outfest.org
www.originalplumbing.com
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Darin Klein & Friends take REDCAT by storm to celebrate the third issue of San Francisco’s trans male quarterly, Original Plumbing. This showcase of talent from the trans, genderqueer and queer communities includes sizzling LA film premieres from Math Bass, Eden Batki & Daniela Sea, Zackary Drucker & Van Barnes, and Chris Vargas & Greg Youmans. Also in store are performances from activists/humorists Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, techno-pop art band Hi Fashion $9.99 and rapper Katastrophe. PLUS: be sure to check out The Miracle Bookmobile (free reading material – book donations welcome) and a pre-screening reception with photographer and OP editor Amos Mac, offering affordable original art and copies of Original Plumbing #3, hottt off the press!
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Original Plumbing is the premier quarterly print magazine dedicated to the sexuality and culture of FTM trans guys. Independently published and distributed out of San Francisco, CA., Original Plumbing documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. We feel that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because we each have different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to our own bodies.
Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
7pm cocktail hour
8pm showtime
Free Admission
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
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Brent Green’s debut feature-length film expands upon the themes and aesthetics of his short analog animations. Hope and despair often clash in Green’s fantastical, intimate productions. Filmed on an elaborate large-scale set with actors instead of drawings, this film reconstructs the true story of a man obsessed with curing his wife of a terminal illness. For the Hammer program, Green narrates the film live onstage accompanied by Brendan Canty of Fugazi on drums, John Swartz on cello and Donna K providing foley and percussion.
Darin Klein & Friends Present:
Suzanne Wright
March 27-April 24 2010
Free Admission
Amy Adler's Echo Park Studio
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Darin Klein & Friends return to Amy Adler’s Echo Park studio with artist Suzanne Wright. During her month-long residency, Suzanne will be using Amy’s studio as her own. Displaying sculptures and large-scale works on paper in various states of completion, Suzanne will grant visitors access to her creative process as she works on the drawing Cockpit as well as her two new sculpture series, Galactic Glory Hole and Eye of the Future.
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Social engagement and political action have long been aspects of Suzanne’s life and work. Hosting community-driven get-togethers while educating and learning from friends and strangers remain integral parts of this ongoing project which temporarily re-purposes Amy’s studio to give other artists a platform for the expression of their own ideas. We invite you to attend our scheduled series of programs at the studio featuring artists and peers using vocabularies complementary to Suzanne’s.
Darin Klein & Friends Present:
Kate Barclay
February 20-March 13 2010
Free Admission
Amy Adler's Echo Park Studio
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Darin Klein & Friends return to Amy Adler’s Echo Park studio with recent work by Los Angeles based artist Kate Barclay. Kate will be exhibiting works that demonstrate both the beauty of chaos and the labor of lyricism. Collage, as a medium and as a concept, plays a vital role in Kate’s work. “I increase the size of the in between, stretching it, inflating it,” writes the artist in her catalog for Rawhang Teewang, a recent solo exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand. And, “I am focused on the moment of most potential in an object or a site, when there is a movement or a transition from one form to another.” The result of her observations is the documentation, prediction or fabrication of the outcomes to obvious and/or barely perceived movements.
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Hosting community-driven get-togethers and educating and learning from friends and strangers remain integral parts of this experiment. Temporarily re-purposing the studio of an already established artist to give emerging artists a platform for the expression of their own ideas, we invite you to attend our scheduled series of programs featuring artists and peers using vocabularies complementary to Kate’s.
Darin Klein & Friends Present:
Original Plumbing #2
Release Party
Saturday, July 10, 2010
7-10pm
Free Admission
workspace
www.workspace2601.com
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com
Darin Klein & Friends touch down at workspace in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the 2nd issue of San Francisco's trans male quarterly, Original Plumbing. The event features an exhibition of Amos Mac's photographs showing the diversity of the FTM community in size, age, body, surgery, and hormone use and non-use.
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Plus: Jenn Kolmel and Kate Hoffman's Mustache Station; screenings by local video artists Zackary Drucker, Deanna Erdmann & Darin Klein, and Austin Young & Barry Pett; 16mm film installations by Rhys Ernst and Mariah Garnett; and Copies of Original Plumbing #2 available for purchase, hottt off the press!
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