A MISTical magical show show and tour of the deep regions of your twilight zone. There will be misters in the space. ha ha

Susie Allen - gives a Sound in Space chart reading

Susie Allen - mystical harp improvisation

Gawdaffull Theater - Everyman

Katie Bachler - will lead a group hypnosis

Hiss-Jico-Hum - vocal improvisation by a mystical quartet

Madam Pamita - reads the Tarot and sings you a song

"Musical Sound acts directly on the soul and finds an echo there, since music is innate in [humans]" -Wassily Kadinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1947)
In this Shedstallation, the listener will be wrapped in a bed of spatialized tones, with the intent of persuading the listener into a state of higher consciousness and connection between sound and the body.

Steve Craig presents I feel so empowered
2008
mannequin bust with metal, wires, video screen, and sound
29" x 37 1/2"


This work addresses how we have become plugged in consumers. We carry with us cell phones, iPods, cameras and computers, and all the batteries and wires that go with them. These devices offer us convenience and the ability to easily connect, but, at the same time, cause us to be a bit more disconnected and isolated. We talk to a machine and the machine has become an extension of us. By trying to simplify our lives, we have made them more complicated. These advancements are not necessarily a bad thing, but it is interesting to note how our new inventions and tools have become such a huge part of us and our lives.

Candice Lin presents Swamp
2008
Fiberglass, Enamel, Wax, Metal, Resin, Pump
11" x 20" x 8"

Susie Allen
Susan Allen is a free improviser and interpreter of new compositions for harp. Her appearances have included concerts on the NBC Today Show, National Public Radio (with the Vermeer String Quartet), Gaudeamus International Music Week in Rotterdam, the Festival de Caracas, the London (Ontario) Regional Art Gallery, New York Philharmonic's "Horizons" concerts, the Ferienkurse fŸr Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, at the Kitchen Center in New York, Carnegie Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, the Smithsonian Institute, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Los Angeles Festival, the nationwide Festival of Korea, Monday Evening Concerts, with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Speculum Musicae, SONOR from the University of California at San Diego, and in Boston with Composers in Red Sneakers, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the Cambridge Chamber Players, and Musica Viva. Long-term collaborations with composers James Tenney, Earl Kim, Mel Powell, Harold Budd, Ruth Lomon, Morton Feldman, William Thomas McKinley and many others have yielded her premieres and recordings of major 20th and 21st century repertoire for harp. Of her solo concert debut featuring many new works, the New York Times wrote, "sheer physical virtuosity...sensitive, expertly played."

Katie Bachler
katie bachler spent the summer in alaska hypnotising chickens before their death. She also grew many vegetables. Katie now dances all over los angeles with the dance collective bodycity and tries to build community where-ever she can, whether it be on a street corner or in a classroom of kindergarteners.

Steve Craig
Steve Craig is an artist based in Santa Monica. His favorite materials are found paper, photos, wood, metal, sound, and video. His work addresses how technology has become such a part of who we are. It has made our lives easier and more complicated at the same time. He is also interested in work that looks at what we discard. His work is ultimately about our technological advancement, the absurdity that goes with it, and the beauty in all of it.

Gawdafful Theater
Gawdafful Theater uses principles of incompetent acting to create a structure for a theater of psychic navigation and explorations of the landscape of the self and the energetic pathways of the group.

hiss-jico-hum
hiss-jico-hum: a vocal improv ensemble comprised of fahad siadat, carmina escobar, jewel mosteller and michael deragon. fahad siadat has composed for the california ear unit and new century players and is currently composer-in-residence for the lake tahoe toccata orchestra. carmina escobar is a diversely trained vocalist who has performed throughout mexico and los angeles. michael deragonÕs latest recording was released on broken sparrow records and his most recent compositions were featured in sarah wookeyÕs multimedia project walking la. jewel mosteller is highly accomplished actor/audio engineer/opera singer currently entrenched in endless projects.

Candice Lin
Candice Lin is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes drawings, animations, and sculptures. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and her BA from Brown University in 2001. She has exhibited throughout the United States, including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Lisa Dent Gallery (SF), Armory Center for the Arts (LA), the New York Underground Film Festival, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery (LA), Hall Gallery (Portland, OR), and Vera List Art Gallery (Providence, RI). She has also exhibited internationally at Milliken Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden), Valenzuela Y Klenner Arte Contemporaneo (Bogota, Columbia), Kino Lab at the Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Struts Gallery (New Brunswick, Canada), and was an artist in residence at CESTA (Tabor, Czech Republic).

Madam Pamita
Enter into the curious and sublime world of Madame Pamita's Parlor of Wonders, an old-time medicine show filled with mysticism, music and melodrama: an entrancing array of spectacles both quaint and queer! Madame Pamita uses the powers of euphonious prognostication to tell audience member fortunes and plays rural blues, old time, jug band and proto-jazz numbers about romance and revenge and mirth and mayhem on an assortment of odd and bizarre vintage instruments.* Fans of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Alan Lomax's field recordings or what Greil Marcus likes to call "The Old Weird America" will be transported to the birth of recorded music when an evening's entertainment meant surprises, amusements and a singular experience like no other! Step right up, ladies and gents, and be prepared to be dumbfounded and delighted by Madame Pamita's prodigious powers of prognostication and melodic merriment!

Kari Rae Seekins
Kari Rae Seekins is a sound designer and composer currently living in the Los Angeles. She obtained her MFA in Sound Design and Integrated Media from CalArts in 2008 and her BFA in Design for the Theatre and Electroacoustic Composition from Concordia University in Montreal, in 2005. Her strengths and primary interests in sound design lie in the creation of original sounds and in complete soundscapes which combine sound FX, ambiences, and music as one entity. In the past year Kari's sound designs and compositions have shown in various museums and festivals throughout the world including ZKM Center for Art and media, REDCAT, OCMA, the International film festivals of Vienna, Rome, Los Angeles and New Zealand, The Reel Venus Film Festival, AFI Fest and the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.