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11/2/2005

Christina Guerrero Harmon

Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles

My heart, sparked by the crazy lady - Performance Installation featuring lots of sequins

Come Celebrate Our First Performance/Live Art Residency Saturday, February 12, 2005, 8:00 p.m. until it's over

Experimental Music by Kraig Grady and Sayo Mitsuishi and Mad Cow (Dan West and Jim Goulden)

You've been coming to our exhibit openings, which feature free food and live entertainment. We've quit counting the number of people who've remarked on the good energy at our events. Now we're extending that atmosphere to our performance nights. On Saturday, February 12, 2005, we're going to have our first performance/live art residency celebration ever, featuring Christina Guerrero Harmon, our first performance/live residency artist. It's free (although we won't turn down any donations) and, as with our now-famous exhibit openings, we'll have lots of amazing healthy food by master chef John Saslow. Additional acts include Kraig Grady and Sayo Mitsuishi and Mad Cow (Dan West and Jim Goulden).

Christina Guerrero Harmon, born in Mexico City, is one of the best artists we know, period. Her pieces are elegant in the mathematical proof sense of the word, which is one of the best things we can say about anything. No gratuitous detail, no intellectual muddling, no art-historical genuflecting---just pure artistic intuition that speaks a truth in sync with both the past and the future. This despite the fact that she's got a background in art theory (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and classical sculpture (Taller de Escultura de Don Santiago de Santiago, Madrid), and is a classical piano recitalist. She's also got creative credentials, with degrees in studio art (Pomona College, Claremont) and creative writing (UCLA). She has done numerous installations and performances throughout the region and we believe she's a force to be watched. We're pleased to be a part of the beginning of her lustrous career as an artist. As for what she's going to do at Dangerous Curve, it's going to have to be a mystery until you get here. Suffice to say that it's going to involve lots (and lots) of sequins!

Kraig Grady is one of Los Angeles's favorite experimental musicians. He always gives his all and it is an all with lots of chops much to the delight of his audiences. Oh, he's been around. He has presented at the Norton Simon Museum of Art, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, France's Chateau de la Napoule, Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations, the Schindler House, Beyond Baroque, New Langton Arts, and a bunch of prestigious colleges. He's also given numerous live performances on KPFK, KCRW, and KXLU. His work was part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's American Music Weekend, and of New Music America. He's been nominated no less than four times for the L.A. Weekly Best Uncategorizable Artist Music Award and was chosen by BUZZ Magazine as "one of the 100 coolest persons in Los Angeles." Grady studied briefly with Nickolas Slonimsky, Dean Drumond, and Dorence Stalvey, and longer with Byong-Kon Kim. Ever since meeting Erv Wilson in 1975, he has composed and performed using Wilson's alternative tunings. In the 80's, he and Keith Barefoot began reviving the art of combining live music and silent film, although his 1990 opera "War and Pieces" pushed the film element to the background in favor of live performers. After having lived intermittently for three years on Anaphoria Island, he started being asked to act as a liaison between them and North America. This resulted in numerous productions, including six shadow plays.

Sayo Mitsuishi is an artist/hypnotist who draws live on long overhead projector rolls, mesmerizing both herself and the audience as she does so. She uses both hands simultaneously, ambidextrously achieving an uncanny symmetry that's more about intricate body gesture rather than representation.

Formed in 2004, Mad Cow culminates the life-long friendship and musical interaction of L.A. based musician/artists, Dan West and Jim Goulden. Dan West (a.k.a. Ddub) is a local composer/multi-instrumentalist versed in both electronic and acoustic mediums. He fuses these elements within contexts that are both purely improvised and completely controlled. Dan not only performs in Mad Cow, but is also their engineer/programmer. He also performs locally with the indie/psychedelic group Aguafantastica. Jim Goulden (a.k.a. MC Tahina), the wild MC Tahina of the legendary Southwest group The Gluey Brothers, brings cross-culture fusion to the Mad Cow mix. A teacher and performer of African music, Jim combines African rhythms with the surrealist wordscapes of Captain Beefheart and Yamentaka Eye (Naked City), creating the "rap" that is the basis of the Mad Cow Sound. The group debuted at Dangerous Curve in August, 2004, at the Le Pinchefuntastique exhibit opening, and has since been in the studio finishing its debut EP "Nation of Sheep" (available at the celebration).

Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person shows of risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor currently popular. Dangerous Curve is a new venue for both experimental exhibits/installations and performance/live art, with performance residencies, and a performance art festival planned.

Dangerous Curve - 1020 East Fourth Place (500 Molino Street #102) - Los Angeles, CA 90013

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