Conversations That Never Happened
dal 27/6/2008 al 18/7/2008
Segnalato da
27/6/2008
Conversations That Never Happened
Telic Arts Exchange , Los Angeles
Tamala Poljak + Anna Oxygen. An exhibition that incorporates photography, performance, installation, food, and video within various forms of collective consumption - two nights of dinner theater, a temporary cafe, simultaneous TV dinners.
Tamala Poljak and Anna Oxygen have organized an exhibition that incorporates
photography, performance, installation, food, and video within various forms of
collective consumption - two nights of dinner theater, a temporary cafe,
simultaneous TV dinners.
The point of departure for "Conversations That Never Happened" is a series of 200
photographic portraits that Poljak made in her kitchen while dining individually
with her friends and neighbors. As a group, the photographs might remind us of
"friend lists" on MySpace and Facebook, where sociality is expressed in serial form
(as a grid of pictures or a list of comments and testimonials). Do these grids and
lists refer to communities? And if so, how do communities relate to their own
representations? Over the next few weeks, many of the people depicted in the
portraits will be animated through the exhibition: they will eat dinner at TELIC;
they will perform as dancers, writers, actors, magicians, comedians...; they will
prepare and serve food.
At the opening reception on Saturday, the artists will be serving custom-made
pancakes (with shapes made to order!) and fancy drinks; David Scott Stone will do a
3 hour ambient set.
July 9 - TV Dinner Night
July 12 - Dinner Theater Night #1
July 13 - Dinner Theater Night #2
July 19 - Mystery Picnic Cafe & Closing Performances
Participating artists and performers include: The All Girl Comb Choir, Mecca Vazie
Andrews, Jackson Baugh, Lindsay Beamish, Big Swell (Sam Cooper), Christina Billotte,
Katie Byron, Cathy de la Cruz, David P Earle, Steve Gregoropoulos, John Hogan, Horse
Thieves (Alex Maslansky & Brie Turner O'Banion), Laura Lazarus, Eric Lindley, Claire
Mckeown, Sarah Paul Ocampo, Anna Oxygen, Paloma Parfrey, Tamala Poljak, Katie Shook,
Becky Stark, David Scott Stone, Tara Tavi, Christopher Wonder
Opening reception: Saturday, June 28 from 6-9pm
Telic Arts Exchange
975 Chung King Road - Los Angeles