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wasteLAnd Presents Collective Creation
February 7, 2020
7 p.m.: Museum tour and reception
8 p.m.: Concert
This event is now at capacity.
To join the waitlist, please email info@wendemuseum.org
wasteLAnd presents music driven by collective action and creation, both in the act of composition and in community-based realization. The program features world premieres by Richard Barrett and Nicholas Deyoe in addition to radical works by Raven Chacon, George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Sarah Reid, and Wilfrido Terrazas. These works explore degrees of improvisation, highlighting the necessity of communal action and negotiation in these collective creations while also reflecting on grassroots political collectivism.
Program
- Richard Barrett – Codex (2019)
- Raven Chacon – Round (2007)
- Nicholas Deyoe – Everyday-Life Human Efforts (2019)
- George Lewis – Artificial Life (2007)
- Sarah Reid – Disonillum (2015)
- Pauline Oliveros – Heart of Tones (1999)
- Wilfrido Terrazas – Torre del Norte (2018)
About wasteLAnd
wasteLAnd is a Los Angeles-based ensemble and concert series presenting avant-garde and experimental music, focusing on local performers and living composers. With an emphasis on recent and under-performed compositions, wasteLAnd concerts are an experience of unique curation, dedication, and quality—an open atmosphere in which listeners encounter engaging programs and tenacious performances.
About Music at the Wende
Now in its second season, Music at the Wende is a new music series in which esteemed musical organizations present free concerts at the Wende Museum, with musical programs inspired by the Wende collection and mission. For the full schedule, click here.
Series supported by the Music at the Wende Donor Group.
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Special Offer for Culver City Residents and E-Newsletter Subscribers
The Wende Museum has 5 pairs of tickets to give away on a first come, first served basis. To reserve, please email info@wendemuseum.org with your full name and zipcode.
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History, Cultures, Identities: Lezley Saar, Sichong Xie, and Chelle Barbour discuss their works in the exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain
Sunday, February 16, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: Panel with Q&A
Hear from Lezley Saar, Sichong Xie, and Chelle Barbour, the Los Angeles-based contemporary artists in the exhibition The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain. The panel will be moderated by the Wende’s Chief Curator and Director of Programming Joes Segal.
Free with RSVP.
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Screening: Pērkons: A Virtual Reality Rockumentary
Sunday, February 23, 2020
2 p.m.: Reception
3 p.m.: VR screening begins
Experience the virtual reality short film Pērkons: A VR Rockumentary, presented by Fallon. Pērkons: A VR Rockumentary tells the story of how the Latvian rock band Pērkons shook the Soviet establishment with homemade instruments, a 2 KW sound system, and a hard rock sound. The band was banned by the Latvian government twice and many of their fans were arrested. But the harder the authorities tried to silence Pērkons, the more powerful their music became.
Inspired by Latvian and Russian art of the ‘80s (in particular the work of Andris Breže and Ilya Kabakov), the virtual reality film creates an immersive 3D collage that juxtaposes Soviet-era architecture, archival footage, cutouts from 1980s magazines, and a 3D model texture made out of the band’s original sheet music. Viewers will experience the 11-minute film via Oculus GO headsets.
Free with RSVP.
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FREE Morning Yoga in the Wende Garden
Taught by Jennifer Winther
Wednesdays, 9 a.m.
Culver City yoga teacher Jennifer Winther offers a FREE 50-minute yoga class in the Wende Sculpture Garden, with just the right amount of movement to strengthen a bit, get the blood flowing, stretch out the stress, and get centered.
Please bring water and a mat (if you have one). Free and open to all.
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Medea: controversial archetype of female strength and passion from the East. In the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East European writers and painters often turned to ancient mythology to express their discontent with authoritarian rule. Their interpretations of mythological figures like Medea, Cassandra, and Penthesilea were crucial in shaping contemporary images for women, and sometimes they were straight-up punk. Working under the radar of the accepted art establishment, the artists in this exhibition provoked, protested, played with fire, and experimented while refusing socialist and bourgeois stereotypes. The Medea Insurrection was conceptualized and curated by Susanne Altmann for the Albertinum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden). It has been adapted by the Wende Museum for its Culver City appearance.
The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain is part of Wunderbar Together: The Year of German-American Friendship 2018/19, an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Running Man
Stas Orlovski’s Running Man transforms the Eva and Brian Sweeney East German Guardhouse from a symbol of surveillance and oppression into a magic lantern where disparate histories merge, intermingle and collide. Orlovski occupies the guardhouse with 3 projected, stop-motion animations that explore themes of loss, memory and migration. Drawing on the structure's Cold War past and its current proximity to Sony Picture Studios, the work references Russian children's books, Soviet era animation, Malevich’s Suprematism, Hans Richter’s experimental films and Eadweard Muybridge’s early motion pictures.
On view through April 5, 2020
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INSPIRED: A Tribute to Trailblazing African American Artists in Los Angeles
January 30, 2020, 5 - 8 p.m.
West LA College Fine Arts Gallery
9000 Overland Ave. Culver City California
The Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum in conjunction with the West Los Angeles College Gallery present INSPIRED, a tribute to trailblazing African American artists in Los Angeles. On view throughout February in honor of Black History Month, this special exhibit features artists such as Betye Saar, Shepard Fairey, Charles Mingus III, as well as Chelle Barbour, whose work is on view now at the Wende Museum in “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain.” Curated by Molly Barnes, WLAC Artist-in-Residence and the MCLM’s Interim-Executive Director Steven Fisher. There will be a public reception on Thursday, January 30 in the gallery from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Many of the artists will be present for the discussion. Admission is free.
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