zero-point

los angeles experimental artspace curating sub-avant-garde

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

ZERO-POINT ARCHIVES

ZERO-POINT IS NOW CLOSED.

LOVE & RUCKUS.

THESE ARE THE ARCHIVES.


SATURDAY - JANUARY 12th

doors open 8:30pm

il corral has moved...!

WELCOME TO ....new sodo

(south downtown) incarnation/place

zero-point

STRAIGHT FROM THE HEAD

BATHROOM GRAFFITI EVENT:MAKE YOUR MARK

Photos from author Mark Ferem accompany the initiation of zero-point's bathrooms into graffiti heaven. come with pens if you can, they'll be some here too, for posterity mark the thoughtful walls...feel free....

PERFORMANCES:

Killsonic - post.modern marching band

IMPROV COLLABORATIONS:

A Tribute Ensemble:

Ryan Tanaka, piano / Megan Fong, violin / Andrew McIntosh, viola / Melinda Rice, violin / Wylie - bass

Mike the Poet

Bean & Crew - words & free jazz

Lilly Cutrono - dance

ENVIRONMENT:

Rob Wolpert - installation of animation

Ezra - spinning music

Dana Bean - visual art

Ruin Mechanic & S.H.I.T. - hi-8 mash & grab

please bring $5 to $10 donation.

we're still building

and would greatly appreciate your help!


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SATURDAY - JANUARY 26th

Hop-Frog Kollectiv presents:thee dung mummy

The Swords of Fatima (feat. Buko Pan Guerra)Magic LanternHop-Frog's Drum Jester DevotionalDouglas Lee


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FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 1st

feminine oddities hosts a gala art night...

Artwork by:Debra Haden . Mary Macker . Christina Amezquita . Bryan Barnes . Maryna . Shannon Donnelly . Andrea Whitt . Dali Polivka . Emily Steigerwald . Teresa Moore . Donna Letterese . Special Guest . Playboy Playmate . Foxy Natalia . Performances: . Fallopian . Listening Party of new cd by:White Mary . Burlesque, Tease . and more!

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SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 9th

Hop-Frog Kollectiv presents: thee dung mummy

Amps For ChristCries and WhispersAndorkappen

Admission is $1,000 pesos


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SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 23rd

THE OPPOSITE OF WAR

2nd of 13 moon cycle - full art experience

interactivity:YOU: COLLECTIVE MANDALA OFFERING :

join in to create a collage: bring newspapers / magazines / materials

ARTIST: JUSTIN MCINTEER

MIKE THE POET - words for the people

MONA JEAN CEDAR - dance . spoken word . asl

SKYLINE ELECTRIC - epic circuit.bent music

ROB WOLPERT - installation & animation


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FRIDAY - FEBRUARY 29th

XDUGEF hosts a harshnoise facemelt!

RUBBISH

XDUGEF

KAWAIIETLY PLEASE

MOMENT TRIGGER

ANDORKAPPEN & JAMES BROWN III

THEORY (Jess Coble)

TOTW

SLUJUN (Albert Ortega)


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FRIDAY, MARCH 7th

a show of shows:

LOS PLATANOS DESCARRADA

(previously of trio formaggio)

ALMIGHTY OPP - puppit therapy

HANS FJELLESTAD - moog master

CONRAD ROMO tongue&groovela

URBAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC UEM

SOUL OR SYSTEM push play l.a

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DREAMTIME...

speaker: dream theory MIAH JEFFRA

performing live:

MIKE THE POET

LAYER

MARCOS FERNANDES, ROBERT M. & ANNA HOMLER

EMILY HAY & CAREY FOSSE with live painting: MAX NEUTRA

WUMMIN

environment collaborations:

photography: GINA DORAN

sound installation: STANE HUBERT

projections: HOP FROG KOLLECTIV

electronic visuals: FRANZ KELLER

spheres of imagination: projections & animation: ROB WOLPERT

WRITE AND ATTACH YOUR DREAMS TO THE CIRCLE

COME DRESSED AS A DREAM

co-curated by: mark ferem, dana bean, christie scott dreamtime, zero-point, full art experience


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DUNG MUMMY 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday, April 4

Steve Mackay (of the Stooges : acoustic)

Between Ravens & Crows

hop-frog's Drum Jester Devotional

+DoG+

Destroy Date

Swords of Fatima

smgsap

Phaul

bavab bavab

Saturday, April 5

Steve Mackay w/ Liquorball

COTA

Ain Soph Aur

Andorkappen

Metal Rouge

Kamilsky

San Kazakgascar

Howard AMB

Amps for Christ

Thousands

Catastrophic Mermaids on Parade

We are super pleased to announce the "Dung Mummy 5 Year Anniversary Celebration" Since March 2003, The Hop-Frog Kollectiv has been hosting monthly experi.mental art, music & poetry gathering. To celebrate HFK is hosting two nights of the best experimental music Los Angeles has to offer. From ear piercing harsh noise to noise rock to asiatic dreams and melodies, the two nights features the Kollectiv's dearest friends and mosted respected artists from the LA area. The festival will be fully documented for the upcoming Dung Mummy DVD/CD compilation. Each night features sax wielder, Steve Mackay who played on the seminal Stooges album, Funhouse. In addition Steve had been a member of the Violent Femmes, Snake Finger and has led the international Radon Ensemble with members of Sikhara, Amps fo Christ and much more. Check our website, under "Events" for links to music from every artist performing. www.urckrecords.com

See you at ZERO POINT!

1049 e. 32nd st. los angeles, ca 90011

32nd & Central

$8 Donation. Doors at 7:30PM

Show starts at 8PM SHARP!


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SATURDAY - APRIL 12TH

CYNTHIA McKINNEY is speaking at ZERO-POINT THIS WEEKEND!

It's a benefit for: LA GREENS

EXPLOSIVO VERDE

!musica por la causa!

proceeds benefit the LA GREENS

& the CYNTHIA MCKINNEY PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

performing live:

laura walters

the changos

killing cassanova

jimmy vs. the ninjas

dj missadventure

the blazing queen of the rhumba

guest speaker: cynthia mckinney

comedy by: david corrado & robb fulcher

losangelesgreens@gmail.com

losangelesgreens.org

http://www.itsallinthehead.com/space/explosivo_verde.jpg


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SATURDAY APRIL 19th

BENT FEST 2008

circuit-bent delights!

after-party featuring performances by:

Loud Objects
DJ Tendraw
Pete McPartlan

hosted by the tank


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FRIDAY - APRIL 25TH
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE:

Paper Cuts Records

presents:
the Transhumans
+DOG+
Lost Cowboy Songs
Colter Fraizer / Rob Wallace Duo
and art displayed by DANGER


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SATURDAY - APRIL 26TH - GEOBIOTIC

GEOBIOTIC symbiosis between geology and biology
us & environment, us & ourselves
micro biomes inextricably interconnected

zero-point's 4th of 13 moon series
full art experiences

april 26th, 2008

doors open 8:00pm
performances start 8:30pm

zeropointspace.org

NICHOLAS FRANK speaker: peace & sustainability

performing live:
MIKE THE POET
WUMMIN
HOMBRE MEKANIQO
SOUL OR SYSTEM
BLACKBIRD & THE FEATHER'D PEOPLE

VINCE CALANOC interactive light / video drawing
come paint with light

FRANZ KELLER projections
NICANOR painting
STANE HUBERT & CHRISTIE SCOTT sound & video installation
BILL HARRINGTON video installation

artists:
DESIRAE HEPP
NINA BEHRSIN
SUGEY SALAZAR
TSCHETAN
RAYMOND BERRELLEZ
MICHAEL PUKAC
WILD DON LUIS

NICANOR painting

$5 - $10 donation please


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SATURDAY - MAY 3rd
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE

+dog+
the transhumans
phog masheen
medicine cabinet (tracy)
kawaiietly please
bavab bavab


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FRIDAY - MAY 9th
feminine oddities hosts a gala art night:

Feminine Oddities LLC Presents:

Naughty! Naughty! Wabi-Sabi!

www.feminineoddities.com

Feminine Oddities LLC is back at Zero-Point,
for a one night stand of art, music, and more

Feminine Oddities LLC was formed
by emerging artist and performer Debra Haden
to showcase her many talents and the talents of others.

The mission and inspiration of this company is derived
from the term Wabi-Sabi.
It's an understated beauty that is striking but not obvious,
it is imperfect,
incomplete and should be
treasured because it will not last forever.

Feminine Oddities "Where beauty is found in the oddest ways."

Artists:

Debra Haden, Marc Remus, Teresa Moore, Dali Polivka,
Donna Letterese, David Foto, Emily Steigerwald, Nikki Windham,
Randy Kono, James Wvinner, Chuck U. Farley

Special Guest and Hostess:

Erotica Writer - Jolene Hui
www.jolenehui.com

Performances:
Oh, it's a naughty, naughty far east and far out Asian line up!

Music:
The "Cherry Blossom Cupcakes"!!
(aka punk rock girls/guys Red Velvet Cupcakes)
The "Fallopian Fortune Cookies"!!
(aka punk rock princesses Fallopian!!)

Action:
Kung Fu Femmes
www.kungfufemmes.com

Come watch as sexy female martial arts performers
captivate the audience
with an amazing live show!
These beautiful fists of fury have many surprises
for us so expect a fight!

Kung Fu Femmes ~ Go for the Kill!!!

The Chinese Lion Dance of Volcano Flux

Chinese Lion dancing is a form of traditional dance
in Chinese culture,
in which performers mimic the lion's movements
in a lion costume
and incorporate dance, martial arts and acrobatics.

Performed by Lady Lava and Dr. Magma
www.volcanoflux.com

Dance:
The old world beauty and mystery of Geisha!

Sponsored by:
Barefoot Wine and Bubbly….more TBA
www.barefootwine.com
It's another Feminine Oddities cocktail:
Naughty! Naughty! Wabi-Sabi!
A one night only extravaganza featuring a variety of "Fem Odd, Far Out, and Far East"
Asian artwork and performances.
This is a Fem Odd tribute to the beauty of the women
of the far east.
An 18 and older show which contains adult content and partial nudity.
Expect giggling Geisha girls, fan dancing, and every Fem Odd
naughty girl concoction we can muster.

doors open at 8pm- Midnight.
Performances start at 9:00pm.
$13 suggested donation at the door.

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SATURDAY MAY 10th
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE
hop frog kollectv presents dung mummy

MUTE SOCIALITE myspace.com/mutesocialite

ANNA HOMLER annahomler.com
THE SWORDS OF FATIMA
myspace.com/swordsoffatima
ASTRONOVAZZ
BLIPVERT
(s.f.) (your chance to experience BLIPVERT live!) myspace.com/blipvert1


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FRIDAY - MAY 16th
BENEFIT
Come sit, enjoy, and experience the true stories of Los Angeles,

told by the artists who lived them…
What it is like to be:

BROKE.
BROKENHEARTED.
and in BROKEN PIECES.

We present an eclectic show featuring dance, drama,

music, spoken word, photography, and video.


All proceeds are going to Breath of Heaven, an organization fostering
a safe community for orphans in Zambia. A group of artisans will be
designing and building a playground for this village in January 2009.

help us spread the word www.brokela.com

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SATURDAY - MAY 17th
BENEFIT
JONES CLUB CABARET!
saturday may 17th
doors open 7:30pm
show starts 8:00 pm
$10 donation requested

featuring:
the shuffle kinds
luis narino
kid gloves

live comedy improv with the understudies

paintings by irwan iskaak

dj vichyy

all proceeds fund jones' cancer treatment

raffles
homemade treats
benefit soiree for jones

jones - the little howler...!
HELP THIS SWEET DOG

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THETA SOUND HEALING WORKSHOP

Alpha - Lucid dreaming while awake similar to “Daydreaming”

Beta - Everyday activity, media airwaves etc., can be toxic to maintain holistic health

Theta - An inner / intuitive state, prior to sleeping or when invoked

Delta - Deep restful sleep

Gamma - Conscious cosmic soup - a general “social psychology” we’re all tapped into



The Theta Sound Healing Workshop consists of primordial vocals and instruments that naturally place the human brain into a theta like patterning. These instruments include East Indian electric Tambura, Australian Aborigines didgeridoo, and Tibetan singing bowls. Once heard, the listener automatically begins to relax, the brain becomes calm, as the essence of the total being of the listener is replenished.


As instruments are played and at various moments during the session Toni Pope will offer and provide primordial vocals. Primordial vocals include throat-singing/harmonic singing, micro-tonation, and multi-phonetical voicings - i.e. producing multiple tones simultaneously. Toni is a voice and sound practitioner who carries a unique ability to channel sacred dimensions of sound using her voice and theta sounding instruments.



During the course of the session intuitive concepts of voice and sound instruction will be given, as well as the opportunity to utilize the voice as a sacred sounding instrument. Concepts such as toning, harmonic singing, deep inner listening, and concsious breath work will be discussed and practiced. The benefits of this workshop vocal inhibition, voice placement , tone placement, toning, and tone isolation/multi-
phonetical singing


and afterward a wonderful performance from the Classic Quintet: Qasim Naqvi, Aakaash Israni, Casey Anderson, Scott Cezan and Meghan Fong we play very soft improvisational music. they are percussion, violin, alto sax, double bass and computer.

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JUNE 28TH IS A THREE EVENT DAY:
you can come to all three events for $30

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

PHILLIP STERNS - WORKSHOP

"Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness"

$15 or $10 donation


4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
TONI POPE - WORKSHOP

Theta - Sound Healing workshop

$15 or $10 donation


6pm - midnight

CULTIVATION


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JUNE 28TH 1-3 pm

PHILLIP STERNS - WORKSHOP

"Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness"


ood is as necessary as air and water for the maintaining of the body, the house of the soul. As times have progressed, we have become further separated from the source of our food, and it has become increasingly processed in order to keep up with demands of peoples living a life that is faster paced than ever. There was a time when we had an intimate relationship with the land. It is not difficult to see how that relationship has changed when we read the ingredients on the back of a microwave dinner. We have alienated ourselves from nature's way in order to pursue our own desires by exchanging our faith in the ability of nature to adequately provide for a dependence on the fruits of intellect and reason to dominate and control. You can see the true nature of a civilization by the way in which it feeds its people. It is food and its acquisition, or production, after all, which lies at its very foundation.


In "Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness" we'll take 3 hours to examine and discuss topics as broad as the source of life and as specific as the ingredients in the world's most popular herbicides, all starting from the basic principles behind "Do Nothing Farming" developed by Masanobu Fukuoka, author of "The One-Straw Revolution". From there, we'll look into some common methods of growing on smaller plots of land and in containers, and study traditional methods of pest and weed control via companion planting. After which we will examine some of the modern techniques of cultivation. All the usual boring lecture techniques, i.e. slide show, movie clips, and Q and A sessions will be present, but when it's all over, your head will be filled with a strong foundation of knowledge to being a lifelong practice in natural gardening.



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CULTIVATION:


this is the process of making the human mark into the earth, but it is proper to exist in balance. this is not only a metaphor, but the beauty of it is that it extends, as the curl of a new tendril, out to the farthest and ultimate cyclic now. so this is important to know about, to explore, to ponder, to look at from different directions, to head in new directions, to put things into perspective and enjoy the work necessary to cultivate.


in our current urban living, we must find ways to reconnect with the elemental, in our bodies, our work, our food, with our fellow living beings, and our metaphysical and critical aspects. this begins with the child as artist: making things through a state of wonder, but now is the time to cultivate that human urge to create / make art in all forms : and know that this is our world too, and we are part of it.


it is also the cult of culture. it is the bravery of us to say that we can make our own culture, our own symbolic way or description or names for sacred or release or regeneration. it is the right of people to have rituals that nourish and speak with language they have had a hand in forming. it is different than before because it is now. that's all.


cultivation is mostly about absorbing and emitting energy. to behave with wisdom in our daily lives.

this evening / event / re-opened warehouse warming
is to foster.
it is about people, celebrating and mourning,
powerful forces of will and belief, knowing that there will be that one good spot
and all the work will be worth it.
and these will go in cycles
constantly.


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JULY 12TH

EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE:

'QUIET is the new loud'


Daniel Rosenboom and Jake Vossler - "Silent Screaming"
WUMMIN
ogogo + bavab bavab
The Antique Brothers
Boorbaar

with special guests "selected members" of
skyline electric


6pm - midnight

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our last show is this saturday: july 19th: MAPS /LOCATIONS

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and we have a workshop on july 26th

READING’ SLAVOJ ZIZEK


A GROUP READING SEMINAR

with MAXIMUS KIM

(SEE INFO BELOW)

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i hope you can join us...THIS SATURDAY...

doors open 6pm ...


MAPS / LOCATIONS

7th of 13 moon series


july 19th


experimental music showcase:
wormhole
push play
charts and maps

word artist:
narinda heng


special guests...

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take home a piece

of the OPPOSITE OF WAR

collective collage



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that is our last show at zero-point

1049 e. 32nd st.


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13 moon series ethos


"art is time"

zero-point's 13 moon series full art experience:

co-curated by mark ferem, dana bean & christie scott

a one year project to inspire and celebrate the creative nature of the human spirit

through themed rituals consisting of music, visual and oral tradition,

interactive art and collaborative mash-ups

to create community

and build on a cultural narrative of peace and integration with our various environments.

we will create full art experiences:

utilizing the arts platform from musical ensembles to poets,

visual totems to interactive organic audience participation.

we will ferment and propagate compassion / awareness

as we return to the source of creativity,

the conscious convergence of zero-point 'energy'.

zero-point energy embodies the idea that all is one.

we will build on the 13 moon natural cycle of time,

zero-point will host 13 shows,

one every month in a sense ceremonial with nature,

because we must

harness the collective ether,

inspire positive change,

take back the lexicon and framing of language through collaborations,

create our own myths as storytellers,

learn anew to daily make a more livable space

where our spirits gather to restore the nature of our consciousness.

zero-point invites you to participate in your own evolution and transformation.

zero-point is a new arts warehouse in sodo (south downtown) los angeles

run by previous proprietress of il corral christie scott and soundman stane hubert.

zero-point is interested in hosting/fostering experiments in the expressive disciplines.

visual arts, music/sound, and word-based arts form the three ring 'circle acts',

the structure for the new & multi-media 'art circus' - salon style rowdiness.

zero-point press

Zero-Point is the New Il Corral

Rowdy 'Feminine Oddities' Show Inspires Old, Old Ideas

By Ron Garmon

In the two years it lasted, Il Corral was little short of a civic miracle. Hidden behind a routine length of vine-covered brick just off an ill-lit stretch of Melrose, the now-defunct club was less a rock venue than an irregularly-scheduled Temporary Autonomous Zone. The giddy avant-basement experimentalism of their scene was compressed into 40 Bands in 80 Minutes, a splendidly punky documentary documenting little of the chummy human tumult that attached itself to the space. Sure, you can hear well-crafted pop or prog-nosed rock whilst posing by the bar at any leading-brand Westside clipjoint, but how many of these invite patrons to swing across the floor on a rope?

Halcyon daze, to be sure, and unlikely to see revival anywhere near Hollywood anytime soon. Despite tolerant neighbors, effective DIY security, and dueling norteño decibels from two nearby dance halls, some residual hillbilly-moonshiner’s sense of the possible told me the place was impermanent at best. Like Al’s Bar, Zamakibo!, and the Garage, Il Corral joined the ranks of the padlocked, closing late last year in the usual white-noize Yuletide blizzard, only to reopen as Zero-Point last month in the even less-trendy precincts of South Downtown. Again hidden in plain sight (on the second floor of a barnlike warehouse off S. Central), the space is well-suited to partners Christie Scott and Stane Hubert’s announced ambition of inviting artists from various media into “three ring circle acts” and “salon-style rowdiness,” like the one-off multimedia “Feminine Oddities” show last Saturday night.The seeming idea was to hurl burly-q hoofers, girly punks, femme-flavored art, and a platoon of miscellaneous beautiful women – including Playboy model Foxy Natalia – into a crowd of downtown bohos and await the combustion already well underway by the time we arrived. My date, a pink-haired model who occasionally suffers her nude body to be painted with leopard spots for Art, did her innocent best to blur the line between spectator and exhibit, as intriguing images on the walls subtly raised the ambient sexual temperature. Debra Haden’s spread-legged, fish-netted Medusae jostled with Bryan Barnes’s bosomy death’s-heads and Mary Macker’s goth moppets for attention, as inhibitions relaxed and patrons began to paw and nuzzle discreetly. Indeed, my girl and I were on the verge of indiscretion ourselves when a peremptory feedback skronk redirected our attention to the ad-hoc performance space.Fallopian, an all-girl punk act from the disaffected proletarian hellhole of Santa Monica, set up an overamped clatter sounding less like every trick in the chickpunk book than the book itself stuffed into an elderly, sputtering woodchipper. These tubular belles, delectable in thrift-glamour couture, didn’t stint on audience by-play, even mixing in a little self-promo. “Hayley Duff loves us!” shouted the guitarist, bidding the rest of us follow her example. The audience yipped and bawled in delight, naked of inhibitions and earplugs as an old-timey mosh pit, but infinitely better looking.My date and I exited and walked around the block in a self-generated marigasmo haze, returning in time to see Fallopian’s boy groupies laboriously wrangle the band’s designer gear to the pavement. Upstairs, red-haired Foxy was shaking her well-made kewpie ass at a battery of photographers, as poses of other kinds had been long since abandoned by the congenial crowd. The über-hip governors of the place were beaming as the Hollywood Pin Up Girls strutted out. This “retro feel-good cabaret” consists of a gaggle of undeniably lovely ladies tripping Fosse-like to canned chestnuts like “Le Jazz Hot” and David Rose’s “The Stripper.” It was cheesy and about as un-serious as gallery showings get, but it worked like Wonka. As we edged to the door, the wolfish leers we saw plastered all over the room told of the power of art to stimulate ideas.2008-02-07the article online: zero-point oddities



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Los Angeles Times - January 10, 2008

Words from the 'bathroom blogosphere'

Mark Ferem documents the best of bathroom-wall scrawls in his new book.

Elina Shatkin

MARK FEREM has made a career out of crawling around urinals -- and he's not a janitor. Inspired by a Rainer Maria Rilke quote ("For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror") scrawled on the bathroom wall of a Houston dive bar, the native Angeleno began a small photo essay on the subject. Thirteen years later, his obsession with latrinalia has led to dozens of trips around the country and a 160-page photo book on the subject, "Bathroom Graffiti" (2007, Mark Batty).

Where tagging and street graffiti obsess over marking territory and artistic self-aggrandizement, the "bathroom blogosphere," as Ferem calls it, is devoted to a more interactive form of self-expression. "I used to think bathroom graffiti was invisible, and I never really paid attention to it. But seeing that [quote] got me more interested in it as a ritual. Why is it that people use this medium to acknowledge these moments in their lives?" Ferem says.

Christie Scott, one of the organizers of now-defunct punk club Il Corral, has an idea: "It's a pure democracy. It's anonymous. It's complete expression with no censorship. You have the same power as anyone else who can mark a wall." During Il Corral's reign, graffiti and stickers dotted the entire club, but the nexus was in the bathroom and adjacent hallway, where patrons first began marking the vivid orange walls as they waited in line to use the club's only toilet.

It was one of Ferem's favorite haunts. For the best of latrinalia, he recommends cafes Insomnia and Karma Coffeehouse, the Hollywood outpost of Thai restaurant Toi, Echo Park dive bar Little Joy and another all-ages club, the Smell. Though he hasn't noticed a distinct difference in graffiti varietals from city to city, the sheer quantity of L.A.'s bathroom graffiti continues to awe him. The nastiest bathroom in L.A.? That distinction belongs to Al's Bar, circa 1995. "The men's bathroom was crushed with graffiti, layer upon layer. It was like a time capsule," Ferem says with palpable regret.

Scott, whose years at Il Corral turned her into a de facto curator of latrinalia, will celebrate the art form at the launch of experimental art and performance space Zero Point. Guests will, of course, be welcome to mark up the bathroom walls. But a curated exhibit of Ferem's photos of bathroom graffiti, printed, framed and under glass, will also hang in a gallery area. "Maybe next time when someone goes into a bathroom," Ferem says, "they'll perceive it in a different way."

'BATHROOM GRAFFITI'

WHERE: Zero Point, 1049 E. 32nd St., L.A.

WHEN: 9 p.m. Saturday

PRICE: $5-$10

INFO:www.zeropointspace.org

see the article online: calendarlive.com


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LA WEEKLY - December 27, 2008

go: SATURDAY, Dec. 29

Bavab Bavab, +dog+, Hop-Frog Kollectiv at Il Corral

It’s the final show at Il Corral, a place that has for three tumultuous years presented some of the most aggressively interesting — and occasionally just plain aggressive — new music in 21st century Los Angeles. Since January of 2005, all manner of noise has sandblasted the performance space, not to mention the rowdy neighbors, area muggings, assaults by key Satanists and the sweaty limitations of a confined venue. It’ll reincarnate in 2008, moving to a new space, Zero-Point, in SoDo (South Downtown). So enjoy the shrieking cacophonous bilge of +dog+; the minimalist noise pop of Bavab Bavab (the duo of Il Corral proprietress Christie Scott and Il Corral soundman Stane Hubert); and the mystical rhythms of postmodern primitives Hop-Frog Kollectiv. They wave goodbye as if in reply to Col. Troutman’s “It’s over, Johnny!” by channeling the spirit of John Rambo: “Nothing is over!” (David Cotner)

see the article online : laweekly.com