we are closing this location at the end of july, and going on hiatus.

thanx immense to all wonderful friends and artists: art hungry & excellent chefs, collaborators, writers, visionaries, crazies who are really the sane ones, lovely people, deadliners, builders, grave diggers, seed planters, aerial performers, sound wrestlers & catchers & sculptors, and my greatest love to our collective core.  without you nothing.

i will be writing a book about these past few years and researching future manifestations of zero-point in a new location, collaborating on a chapter in maxi kim’s new novel, curating in other spaces, and i have started a mail art project: if you would like to join simply email me your address! zeropointspace@gmail.com

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our last experience at 1049 e. 32nd st.
this saturday, july 26th   1 pm - 3 pm

 a workshop:
READING’ SLAVOJ ZIZEK
A GROUP READING SEMINAR  with MAXIMUS KIM

please enjoy to join us…the book is fascinatingly appropriate after MAPS / LOCATIONS and we are relocating to a temporary ether…it is a dense work, but very common sense, and i think it provides an excellent dialog missing from what is currently taught, or has been taught in the past… (the book is provided with your donation)

 

 

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the delicious details:
‘READING’ SLAVOJ ZIZEK  
A GROUP READING SEMINAR with MAXIMUS KIM 

“[O]ne should distinguish between ordinary escapism

and this dimension of Otherness, this magic moment

when the Absolute appears in all its fragility:

the prisoners have seen a ghost –

neither the resuscitated obscene ghost of the past,

not the spectral ghost of the capitalist present,

but the brief apparition of a future utopian Otherness

to which every authentic revolutionary stance should cling.”

- Slavoj Zizek¹

Since the beginning of the short twenty first century I have participated in group – reading seminars as the basis of my art and writing process. Reading for me can be not only important, but also primary to a person’s creative economy. As Rainer Ganahl put it, “Meeting people, reading together and discussion [can be] an art of temporary encounter, an act that can affect both our noetic and social activities.”²

The title of this introduction alludes to a similar artist-run reading seminar by Rainer Ganahl entitled Reading Karl Marx (1998-2001). Commissioned by Craig Martin as part of the Open House Projects, what initially struck me was the fact that the vast majority of people who participated in Reading Karl Marx seminars have never actually read anything by Marx. In staging ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek at Zero-point, I would like to foster a similar open-door atmosphere. Ideally, there should be no assumption that the participants have a prior knowledge of the subject. Neither are they asked to read the text in advance. Participants may not have the time, the patience, habit or perhaps the educational grooming to read often elitist, sometimes indecipherable academic texts. It has been my experience that in order to facilitate meaningful discussion through the study of Zizek, we would have to read together, sometimes phrase-by-phrase. Simultaneously, participants have urged other participants to cross out certain paragraphs. I have found myself comforting readers; don’t be afraid of simply absorbing the surface of Zizek. Depth and surface are often on identical sides of the Moebius strip. Divorcing, dividing, violently stripping the text from its original philosophical roots may be the most utopic act of all. At the end of the day ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek is not about reading Lacan. And it certainly isn’t about rereading Marx.

Why Zizek? Why not more established names such as Deleuze? Derrida? Or Foucault? With the help of group-reading seminars I came to understand that reading chapter-by-chapter, paragraph-by-paragraph, enabled a more precise discussion. However with this precision came a price: xenophobia. In London and Berlin, the group-reading emphasis on French intellectuals and French theory often encouraged the concealment and silence of non-french thinkers such as Zizek, bell hooks, and Cornel West. Moreover, much of French theory – deconstruction, for example – is notorious for its inability to engage popular culture – and hence, a wider audience. On the other hand, Zizek’s texts – often highlighting today’s headlines, movies and television programs – can serve as a barometer to comprehend our contemporary situation, without pretension or guilt. In the ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek seminars all contributions are welcomed and I try not to solicit or impose classical interpretations, as is often the case with continental pedagogical readings.

In the beginning of 2008 I worked with new groups of artists from University of Greenwich and Goldsmiths College. The art school approach has the advantage of reaching people whom in most cases have never broached reading this kind of literature. However I believe the true positive emancipatory potential of the experience can be reached at experimental spaces such as Zero-point. After all, Zero-point has a keen understanding of the relationship between dreams and reality. Themes such as Geobiotic and Dreamtime encourages participants to question the contemporary frame of reality, to question the fantasies that shape our global, consumer capitalist world. It is by re-imagining the social imaginary that the social can effectively change. In a way, as naïve as it sounds and contrary to many of the totalizing concepts of today’s social fabric that see people solely as unconscious and manipulated consumers, it is surprising how little it takes to stimulate change. Let’s read! Let’s re-imagine a new utopia for the short twenty-first century!!

 

$10 - $15 donation

please rsvp : zeropointspace@gmail.com
remember: the book will be included in the workshop for reading and discussion…

hope to see you there!

love & ruckus.

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we are closing this location at the end of july, and going on hiatus.

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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then we have a final workshop : fascinatingly appropriate

after MAPS / LOCATIONS and we are relocating to a temporary ether…

perhaps you can join us:

the book is provided

please rsvp if you’re interested…

love & ruckus.

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THE WORKSHOP:

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‘READING’ SLAVOJ ZIZEK

A GROUP READING SEMINAR

with MAXIMUS KIM

july 26th

1pm - 3pm

“[O]ne should distinguish between ordinary escapism

and this dimension of Otherness, this magic moment

when the Absolute appears in all its fragility:

the prisoners have seen a ghost –

neither the resuscitated obscene ghost of the past,

not the spectral ghost of the capitalist present,

but the brief apparition of a future utopian Otherness

to which every authentic revolutionary stance should cling.”

- Slavoj Zizek¹

Since the beginning of the short twenty first century I have participated in group – reading seminars as the basis of my art and writing process. Reading for me can be not only important, but also primary to a person’s creative economy. As Rainer Ganahl put it, “Meeting people, reading together and discussion [can be] an art of temporary encounter, an act that can affect both our noetic and social activities.”²

The title of this introduction alludes to a similar artist-run reading seminar by Rainer Ganahl entitled Reading Karl Marx (1998-2001). Commissioned by Craig Martin as part of the Open House Projects, what initially struck me was the fact that the vast majority of people who participated in Reading Karl Marx seminars have never actually read anything by Marx. In staging ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek at Zero-point, I would like to foster a similar open-door atmosphere. Ideally, there should be no assumption that the participants have a prior knowledge of the subject. Neither are they asked to read the text in advance. Participants may not have the time, the patience, habit or perhaps the educational grooming to read often elitist, sometimes indecipherable academic texts. It has been my experience that in order to facilitate meaningful discussion through the study of Zizek, we would have to read together, sometimes phrase-by-phrase. Simultaneously, participants have urged other participants to cross out certain paragraphs. I have found myself comforting readers; don’t be afraid of simply absorbing the surface of Zizek. Depth and surface are often on identical sides of the Moebius strip. Divorcing, dividing, violently stripping the text from its original philosophical roots may be the most utopic act of all. At the end of the day ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek is not about reading Lacan. And it certainly isn’t about rereading Marx.

Why Zizek? Why not more established names such as Deleuze? Derrida? Or Foucault? With the help of group-reading seminars I came to understand that reading chapter-by-chapter, paragraph-by-paragraph, enabled a more precise discussion. However with this precision came a price: xenophobia. In London and Berlin, the group-reading emphasis on French intellectuals and French theory often encouraged the concealment and silence of non-french thinkers such as Zizek, bell hooks, and Cornel West. Moreover, much of French theory – deconstruction, for example – is notorious for its inability to engage popular culture – and hence, a wider audience. On the other hand, Zizek’s texts – often highlighting today’s headlines, movies and television programs – can serve as a barometer to comprehend our contemporary situation, without pretension or guilt. In the ‘Reading’ Slavoj Zizek seminars all contributions are welcomed and I try not to solicit or impose classical interpretations, as is often the case with continental pedagogical readings.

In the beginning of 2008 I worked with new groups of artists from University of Greenwich and Goldsmiths College. The art school approach has the advantage of reaching people whom in most cases have never broached reading this kind of literature. However I believe the true positive emancipatory potential of the experience can be reached at experimental spaces such as Zero-point. After all, Zero-point has a keen understanding of the relationship between dreams and reality. Themes such as Geobiotic and Dreamtime encourages participants to question the contemporary frame of reality, to question the fantasies that shape our global, consumer capitalist world. It is by re-imagining the social imaginary that the social can effectively change. In a way, as naïve as it sounds and contrary to many of the totalizing concepts of today’s social fabric that see people solely as unconscious and manipulated consumers, it is surprising how little it takes to stimulate change. Let’s read! Let’s re-imagine a new utopia for the short twenty-first century!!

 

$10 - $15 donation

please rsvp : zeropointspace@gmail.com
the book will be included in the workshop for reading and discussion…
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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 member

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

Theta - Sound Healing workshop

$15 or $10 member

6pm - midnight

CULTIVATION

$5 - $10 donation - FREE for members

details below:

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JUNE 28TH 1-3 pm

PHILLIP STERNS - WORKSHOP

“Simplified Gardening: Against Biotech Agribusiness”

 

Food 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.

$15 (nonmembers) $10 members

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JUNE 28TH: 4 - 5:30 pm

Theta - Sound Healing Workshop

such positive experience: don’t miss this INTERACTIVE session!

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

$15 (nonmembers) $10 members

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JUNE 28TH

that same day::::::::

6pm - midnight

CULTIVATION

an evening of plant performance art, cellular lectures,
poetic distillation and more….

CULTIVATION performances:
6 pm - 10 pm

jorge martin : cellular cultivation

anna homler : pharmacia poetica, cultivation of inner images

silent running : plant performance art

the classic quintet : organic improv

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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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

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

MUTE SOCIALITE
ANNA HOMLER
THE SWORDS OF FATIMA
ASTRONOVAZZ
BLIPVERT (sf)

and excellent night of experimental music!

don’t miss BLIPVERT! you will regret it!

also our touring jems:

Drummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano (Moe!kestra!, ex-Sleepytime Gorilla
Museum) had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable
candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza (Caroliner,
Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista), and bassist Alee Karim (Atomic Bomb
Audition), together they began in 2006 to create bizarre, instrumental
fleshings-out of Moe!’s compositional frameworks as Mute Socialite. In
January of 2007, 2nd drummer Shayna Dunkleman joined the ranks and
augmented the volume and overall goodness. In March of 2008, Liz
Allbee started playing with the Mutes in a part-time position of the
band until further notice.

Mute Socialite embraces its players’ diverse backgrounds– Moe!’s
driving post-punk drumming and percussion guitar, Ava’s free jazz
sensibility and mangled country and black metal riffage, Alee’s
sub-bass, grinding harmonic interplay, and Shayna’s prismatic sense of
percussive dynamics. Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs,
and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal,
polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world
in either fury or love!

Since early 2007, they have shared bills with Uz Jsme Doma, Carla
Bozulich’s Evangelista, Old Time Relijun, XBXRX, Death Sentence:
Panda!, Capillary Action, Time of Orchids, Cellular Chaos (Weasel
Walter), Cryptacize (members of Deerhoof), Moggs and Ettrick.

Mute Socialite have finished recording our first full-length album,
titled ‘More Popular Than Presidents and Generals,’ and will be
released on Moe!’s Dephine Knormal Musik imprint.

 

 

 

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

SATURDAY - MAY 3rd
EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SHOWCASE:

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

GEOBIOTIC
symbiosis between geology and biology

Mark Ferem, Dana Bean & christie scott invite you to join
zero-point’s 4th of 13 moon series full art experiences:

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

a visual / sonic feast featuring an educational speaker,
experimental music showcase,
video and sound installation, live interactive light projections,
group 2d art show,
and ritual of making positive changes toward more holistic living.

April 26th, 2008
doors open at 8:00 pm - 2:00 am.
Performances start 8:30pm.

speaking:
NICHOLAS FRANK peace & sustainability

performing live:
MIKE THE POET
WUMMIN
HOMBRE MEKANIQO
SOUL OR SYSTEM
BLACKBIRD

environment:
FRANZ KELLER projections
(((HEARSEE))) interactive light / video drawing
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

$5 - $10 donation requested

also: conscious delights: gourmet
VEGAN TREATS! from our collective

Uncle B’s Bakery
“…They’re delicious!”

featured vegan treats this evening:
Banana Nut Muffins & Peanut Butter Cups
we also have bottled water and soda pop

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

(at the corner of central ave. & e. 32nd)

www.zeropointspace.org

and

www.myspace.com/zeropointspace

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“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.