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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 standing room list, 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.

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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Culver City Happy Hour and Friday-Night Films at the Wende: The Killing of Mr. Devil
Friday, February 21, 2020
6 p.m.: Culver City Happy Hour Reception
7 p.m.: Screening 

1970, Czechoslovakia, 87 minutes, directed by Ester Krumbachová. In Czech with English subtitles.

In conjunction with Culver City Happy Hour, the Wende Museum presents a hilarious and food-filled fantasy directed by Ester Krumbachová, an essential but overlooked figure of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Known for her bold creative vision, she worked as a screenwriter, set designer, and costume designer in collaborations with famed directors Věra Chytilová (Daisies and Fruit of Paradise), Jaromil Jireš (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), Karel Kachyňa (The Ear), and Jan Němec (A Report on the Party and The Guests and Diamonds of the Night). Not long after the release of The Killing of Mr. Devil in 1970, she was blacklisted for her work on films deemed subversive. 

 “Krumbachová’s sole directorial effort puts a surrealist, satanic spin on the battle-of-the-sexes farce as a hot-to-trot Miss Lonelyhearts (Jirina Bohdalová) looking for a man gets more than she bargained for when she begins wooing the boorish Mr. Devil (Vladimír Mensík), an insatiable glutton who turns out to be (literally) the boyfriend from hell. A groovy mélange of ’60s lounge muzak, eye-popping art direction, and sumptuous Czech cuisine, The Killing of Mr. Devil is a subversive anti-rom-com that coolly cuts male chauvinism down to size and luxuriates in female pleasure, desire, and liberation” (Film at Lincoln Center).
 
The Killing of Mr. Devil is being screened as part of a series of films directed by women, in conjunction with the exhibition 
The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtainon view through April 5, 2020. The film is presented courtesy of the Czech National Film Archive. 

Free with RSVP. 

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Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Sunday, March 1, 2020
12 p.m. - 4 p.m.

As part of the global campaign Art + Feminism, this event is designed to address the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. The Wende Museum’s Wikipedia edit-a-thon will help build a better record of the artists in the current exhibition 
The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists behind the Iron Curtainmany of whom do not have Wikipedia pages in English. Wikipedia training for beginners will be provided, along with resources and refreshments. Bring a laptop and join us! People of all gender expressions and identities are encouraged to attend.

 

Feminism and Women’s Rebellion: A Discussion with Dr. France Winddance Twine
Sunday, March 1, 2020
3 p.m.: Discussion and Q&A

In conjunction with the 
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, Dr. France Winddance Twine will speak about women’s rebellion in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, and how that rebellion does and does not relate to the feminisms of today. The discussion will be moderated by the Wende’s Visitor Engagement Manager, Juli Sanders, and followed by a Q&A. 

Dr. France Winddance Twine is a professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara, an ethnographer, a feminist race theorist, and a documentary filmmaker.

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. 

CAP UCLA presents Four Quartets February 15th and 16th at Royce Hall. T. S. Eliot’s mysterious and beautiful masterpiece is a rumination on time and timelessness and is now prized as one of the 20th century’s most stunning literary achievements. Seventy-five years after its publication, Eliot’s poetry cycle has inspired three astonishing contemporary artists to join forces in a ravishing union of dance, music, painting, and poetry. American choreographer Pam Tanowitz, legendary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, and American modernist painter Brice Marden have created a vast and thrilling performance from Eliot’s meditations on the past and present, time and space, movement and stillness. This unprecedented collaboration, the first authorized performance based on Four Quartets, promises to be one of the must-see events of the season.

Wende Museum Newsletter subscribers may use promo code 
FRQT15 for 15% off tickets!
 
More Info

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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