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CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!

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CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!
Outpost for Contemporary Art
presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press
Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 982-9461

Do you sometimes wonder: "What the heck is Conceptual Writing!?" Some amazing new fad sweeping the nation? Some bland thing a bunch of dudes thought up in a bar as a joke? The new genre of infomercials after the tragic death of Ron Popeil? All this and so much more?!!

After a string of conferences, events, publications, etc--Conceptual Poetry and its Others conference at University of Arizona Poetry Center, May 29-31, 2008; Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing! at The Whitney, April 17, 2009; Conceptual Writing! & Its Environs, The Uferhallen, Berlin, May 1, 2009; a portfolio of Flarf and Conceptual Writing! in Poetry Magazine, July/August, 2009--Conceptual Writing! has arrived in LA, only to find that it's already there!? Los Angeles!? Conceptual Writing!

Discover Conceptual Writing! and so much more as you encounter the Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the Conceptual Lit Reading! & CREDIT Launch! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

Come celebrate the release of Mathew Timmons' CREDIT, an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book published by Blanc Press and retailing for $199.99 which the author himself lacks the cash or credit to purchase. Come also to celebrate Conceptual Writing! in Los Angeles! with the wonderful Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

For more information about this event, please contact: laliterature [at[ gmail [dot[ com

Information About the Artists:
Harold Abramowitz's books and chapbooks include Not Blessed (forthcoming Les Figues Press), Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), Dear Dearly Departed (Palm Press), Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS Books), and Three Column Table (Insert Press). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.
See: eohippus labs - Three Column Table - Sunday, Or A Summer's Day - Dear Dearly Departed - Late Night Snack

Joseph Mosconi co-edits the art & poetry journal Area Sneaks and co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau. He has been mispronouncing words for approximately 30 years.
See: Area Sneaks - Triple Canopy - fillip - Poetic Research Bureau -

Bruna Mori's books are Dérive (Meritage Press), Tergiversation (Ahadada Books), and Poetry for Corporations, forthcoming from Insert Press. She recently relocated from downtown L.A. to the Village of La Jolla, where she will be teaching "What Happens When Nothing Happens" at UCSD; she also writes copy for design firms and is Lucien's mom.
See: Dérive - Tergiversation - Drunken Boat - LA-Lit

Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press, 2006), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law is forthcoming from Other Press in 2010. Information As Material will be publishing her trilogy: Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument. Statement of Facts will also be published in France by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits.
See: Ugly Duckling Presse - Les Figues - Fiction Collective 2

Ara Shirinyan is the author of four books, most recently Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan–Guyana), from Futurepoem Books, and editor of Make Now Press. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and lives in Los Angeles.
See: Palm Press - Insert Press - Futurepoem Books - Poetic Research Bureau

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and digital artist who moved to Los Angeles last year to take a job at UCLA. His work can be found at www.arras.net. His most recent books of poetry are What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers and Kluge, both of which can be bought at Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org).
See: PennSound - The Dreamlife of Letters - Fashionable Noise - Salt Publishing

Mathew Timmons has published prose, poetry and criticism in various places including: P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine, X-TRA and The Encyclopedia Project. A chapbook, Lip Service (Slack Buddha), and an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, CREDIT (Blanc Press), was recently published. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books) are forthcoming.
See: Blanc Press - General Projects - Insert Press - LA-Lit - Late Night Snack

Christine Wertheim is the author of +|'me’S-pace (Les Figues Press) and the editor of Feminniasance (Les Figues Press, 2010). Recent critical work and poetry appears in X-tra, Cabinet, The Quick and the Dead, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. With Matias Viegener she co-edited the anthologies Seancé and The nOulipian Analects.
See: Christine's site - +|'me'S-pace - Feminaissance - The /n/oulipian Analects

The Ups & Downs

The Ups & Downs
65 | 77 | 03 | by Liz Glynn
Friday September 4 & Saturday September 5 from 7-10pm
a General Project at workspace

To attend the opening on September 4th, please RSVP to mathewtimmons[at]gmail[dot]com. Space is limited. Opening is FULL!!! No more RSVPs please, unless you've received a direct invitation to the opening!

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

artist’s statement:
One hundred seven stories high over Manhattan, a group of diners at the World Trade Center's skyscraping restaurant Windows on the World downed their digestifs, took a last glance at the stunning lightshow below, and crowded into a waiting down elevator. The doors slid shut. The elevator didn't budge. Someone stabbed irritably at the button. Nothing happened. Somebody got the doors open and the passengers free. "The elevator's out," one of them huffily informed the white-jacketed captain. The captain shrugged toward the nightscape outside, gone suddenly inky black. "So's New York," he replied. - from "Heart of Darkness," Newsweek, June 25, 1977

65 | 77 | 03 | - is a meditation on the blackouts which have occurred in New York City over the last forty years. From the relative social harmony of the mid sixties to the period of unrest and economic stagnation which followed in the next decade, each blackout unfolded in a different socio-economic context. Based on interviews and news accounts of each event, Liz Glynn will stage a series of vignettes exploring the social dynamics of a city gone dark.

artist’s bio:
Liz Glynn uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the pleasure of ruin. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay by evidencing process, encouraging participation, and inciting future action. Her work has been presented at venues including the New Museum (NYC), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Machine Project, the REDCAT Lounge. Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Art Lies, Domus, and Archaeology Magazine. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and her BA from Harvard College.

Reading Extravaganza!

This just in from Harold Abramowitz - co-editor of eohippus labs!


Dear Friends,

Please join eohippus labs for

A Dual Book Release Event...

Where we will

1. Unveil the very fine

Emohippus Greeting Card 3rd Series



And ask you to

2. Make merry with us over the release of the full-length chapbook

Sin is to Celebration

by

Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz



Sunday, August 16th, 2009


FREE

Doors open at 2:30pm

Reading starts at 3:00pm
at The Lounge at REDCAT



with readings of emotional writing by

Teresa Carmody

Honey Crawford

Darin Klein

Vanessa Place

SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS

Mathew Timmons

&

Others

Les Figues: Maneuvers

Les Figues Press is publishing a book by me! The New Poetics comes next year in their Trench Art: Maneuvers series. Each year they begin by publishing a book of aesthetic statements from the artists and writers participating in the series. Below is all the info you need to pick up a copy of the aesthetics... become a member, it's a great press!

Les Figues Press happily announces the fifth TrenchArt series:

TrenchArt: Maneuvers


aesthetics by:
Harold Abramowitz
Vincent Dachy
Lily Hoang
Paul Hoover
Mathew Timmons

Art by VD Collective
Design by Teresa Carmody
Book 1 of 5, TrenchArt: The Maneuvers Series
ISBN 13: 978-1-934254-11-0
39 pp. | handbound | hand-folded

AVAILABLE NOW by SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP

Hand-bound in an edition of 250, TrenchArt: Maneuvers introduces the fifth annual TrenchArt series, with aesthetics written by participating series writers and visual artists. Maneuvers explores the possibilities of re-ordered time and content framed with the understanding that one cannot separate content from time, and that to shift the form or the order is to shift the subjectivies of a text. The participants in the 2009/2010 series are Harold Abramowitz, Lily Hoang, Paul Hoover, Matthew Timmons and Vincent Dachy.

Read Excerpts: YES!

TrenchArt is an annual subscription series of innovative literature and poetics. Become a SUBSCRIBING MEMBER and receive all five books in the TrenchArt Maneuvers series, as they are published, including:

• TrenchArt: Maneuvers, July 2009
• Sonnet 56 by Paul Hoover, November 2009
• Not Blessed by Harold Abramowitz, January 2010
• The Evolutionary Revolution by Lily Hoang, April 2010
• The New Poetics by Mathew Timmons, July 2010

LES FIGUES PRESS: CREATING AESTHETIC CONVERSATIONS

Address postal inquiries to:
Les Figues Press
Teresa Carmody
PO Box 7736
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Review of Erik Frydenborg's show at Bonelli

My review of Erik Frydenborg's show Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary for The Magazine has been posted online if yr interested in reading...

An Afternoon Reading... July 12, 2009 at The Lounge at REDCAT

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This in from Harold Abramowitz...

Hello Friends,

Please Join us for

An Afternoon Reading...

Sunday, July 12, 2009
at The Lounge at REDCAT

with

Tetra Balestri
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Nellis
&
Mathew Timmons

FREE & FREE COFFEE

Doors open at 11:30am
Reading starts at noon

Tetra Balestri is a recent resident of LA hailing from SF by way of NY. Her poems have appeared in the magazines Sal Mimeo and There Are Flying Planes and her chapbook, Cheap Imitations, was published by Green Zone in 2008. Her plays have been performed at Under St. Marks Theater and the Ontological Theater in New York as well as the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. She has worked as an archivist for poet Larry Fagin and as assistant editor and contributor to various Facts on File encyclopedias including Encyclopedia of European Peoples. She currently works at the Beyond Baroque Literary and Arts Center in Venice.

Tisa Bryant’s first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid fiction-essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books, along with the work of filmmaker/writer Chris Kraus. Tisa is currently sketching out an historical novel, getting Vol. 2 of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project, she co-edits, ready to go to print, and she is very happy to be relocating to LA this fall to teach creative writing at CalArts.

Jennifer Nellis lives, teaches, and writes in the Inland Empire. Her poems can be found on Cricket Online Review and the forthcoming issue of mark(s). Her movie-telling/benshi pieces, A Dip in the Pool and Poison, have been performed in San Francisco, LA, Miami, and various living rooms across the country.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects and he co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

Credit

CREDIT
by Mathew Timmons
Coming soon from Blanc Press in Los Angeles!

an 800pg full color, large format, hard bound book!

The odd note on Apollinaire

Apollinaire died on November 9, 1918 in Paris after being confined to bed for five days, sick from the swine flu epidemic, that one they constantly refer to in the news as the last H1N1 swine flu virus.

coffee enema

Mores McWreath videos

Some interesting digital video at See Line Gallery...
especially the Arms Like... Hands Like... No Fingers.

Chris Burden Shoot the LOLvant-garde

General Projects Openings at Outpost!

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Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
&
Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons
Friday, May 1 from 7-10pm
General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
projected text, sound; dimensions variable

Ecliptic is a single piece of narrative movement projected on up to three adjoining walls. It is a capturing of the interior voice and a visualization of the recessional quality of the mind’s present moment. From the right, a discontinuous stream of language pops suddenly into view. The words move leftward at a walking pace, their thin line of monologue traveling unfettered through space. The words form a twenty-minute looped interior monologue which is written such that the observer may pick up threads of the conversation’s main themes at any time: the text ‘updates’ itself, and tracks back on itself, frequently. A minimalist bed of ambient sound accompanies the projection.


Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons

The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘An Information of Skin’ centers on the absence of characters and the buildup of detritus. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Detritus’ is about the building of flesh upon flesh. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Dermatitis’ celebrates Demeter’s gift of cereal to humankind as two (or three, maybe four) characters banter over the longest breakfast that turns successively into lunch then dinner and then again into breakfast. The Play that Doesn’t Exist is a war between time passing and the nature of our humanity celebrating Demeter’s gift of flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh. Duration is the constant timeline as time struggles with becoming new again—an emotional overhaul, confronting and discarding it’s own skin. Characters struggle with and are eventually won over by anonymity and absence as they find themselves immersed within a Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist.

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Dorsey Dunn is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work in sound, text and image, in the form of installations, performances and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. Languages, spoken and sounded, in their multiplicities of gesture and meaning, are a primary concern, as are considerations of memory, spatial presence, and will. Dorsey regularly exhibits and performs his sound-led installations and music in the US and internationally. He has received invitations to exhibitions and residencies around the world, most recently to Q-O2 Gallery in Brussels; the new media lab TESLA in Berlin; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Festival International de Arte Digital, Rosario, Argentina; MusicAcoustica in Beijing; and Is Arti in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine, Trafika, based in Prague and New York. He was educated in New York City.

Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne Larsen translates text and dimensionality into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Through social experiments in art, Larsen breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. A Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer, Janne Larsen has exhibited at Telic Arts Exchange, workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, BetaLevel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. She has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster” and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled “Tea Parties” with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project.

Eleven Things in 3 Catagories

Artists and Projects:
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Odd Dadameter
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literary things
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Lip Service for Lip Service: A Review!

Stan Apps reviewed my new chapbook - Lip Service!
Thanks Stan Apps.
Yay!

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Lip Service - a chapbook by Me!

Hey! I have a new chapbook out, Lip Service from Slack Buddha Press. Come celebrate this momentous literary occasion in the LOUNGE at REDCAT on Sunday, March 22 at 2pm with readings from myself, Will Alexander and Teresa Carmody and you can pick up your very own copy of Lip Service at the event. You can also order a copy online from Slack Buddha if you are so inclined.
best
Mathew Timmons

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LIP SERVICE

By

Mathew Timmons
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To celebrate this momentous literary and cultural occasion, there will be a reading/release party!

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons


in the LOUNGE At REDCAT
on Sunday March 22nd at 2:00 pm
Free
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Thus,
Lip Service
A Reading/Chapbook release party

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE at REDCAT
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Free

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And as an added bonus incentive for joining us, you can pick up your own copy of Lip Service at REDCAT.

Or, to let you off the hook, but continue your celebratory obligation, you can order a copy online here,

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LIP SERVICE
By
Mathew Timmons

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Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the surrealist vision to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. Alexander's writing represents a complex distillation of images from many fields, including botany, astronomy, psychology, physiology, mysticism, and history. His books include Above the Human Nerve Domain, Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), The Stratospheric Canticles and Sunrise and Armageddon. He has two works forthcoming: Alien Weaving (Green Integer) and Sri Lankan Loxodrome (Canopic Publishing). The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem, (Les Figues, 2005) and the recent chap/micro books Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008) and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared in the emohippus greeting cards series, Slope, Fold Appropriate Text, American Book Review, Bombay Gin, and 4th Street. She was an organizer of the original Ladyfest (Olympia) and co-organizer of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Director of Les Figues Press.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He curates the installation series, The Ups & Downs, at workspace and runs General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux) and Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz). A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.

Outpost, ASAP & You & Me!

Hi All - I'm curating many and various events, exhibitions etc at Outpost over the next few months - and the first of these events is this coming Saturday at 1pm.
Hope to see you there...

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Outpost for Contemporary Art


Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards
Saturday, March 14
1:00-3:00 pm

A free conversation organized by The After School Arts Program (ASAP)
Presentation will be followed by Q&A

Guest Speakers:

Carol Stakenas
Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Walter Askins
Artist, Former Board member of the Pasadena Arts Museum (1963-1968) and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)

Letitia Ivins
Former member of the Outpost for Contemporary Art Advisory Board and current member of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Maria Grant
Board Overseer for the Huntington Art Museum and Board Chair of the Thomas Aquinas College

There will be refreshments, so please come early and stay after to chat!

This event is the first in a series of events curated by Mathew Timmons for Outpost for Contemporary Art that will occur over the next several months at our Highland Park location. Stay tuned for a full calendar of events.

Outpost's Board of Directors are Julie Deamer (Founding Director), Jordan Biren (President), Amy Pederson (Vice-President), Maureen Branley (Treasurer), Rachel Allen, David Bloom, Gary Cannone, and Jeremy Rosenberg.

Outpost for Contemporary Art
6375 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at (323) 982-9461 or (323) 899-3533 or email at julie@outpost-art.org for more information.

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 5

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs: Danielle Adair - Mar 6 & 7

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

two more

Property is Theft

&

bringing the typewriter back and putting a spin on text as art

My Bad Tab Habit

I have this habit of collecting open tabs in my browser over the course of several days, because, yes, I'm one of those people who shuts down their computer about once every other month or so. This has been the cause of some recent posts on my blog - where I just kinda dump a bunch of random links to things I've found or people have shown me or whatever - so now here are some more...

one
two
three
four
five

and then... after getting back from AWP in Chicago last Sunday I ended up going to Cinefamily that night to see Jacob Ciocci from Paper Rad which was awesome and kinda hurt my eyes. He did a thing at the end that was live performance etc which he called a dance routine (a mental dance routine for those of us sitting in the audience). I made an off the cuff time lapse of some of that from the camera on my iphone. I'm obsessed with time lapse right now.
here's the dance routine.
(with a little bit of another performance there at the beginning)