Works written for or by our most precious and finite resource, water.

Juliana Snapper - "You who will emerge from the flood . . "

Aaron Drake - Fishing Music

Lewis Keller - Water Oscillator

Clay Chaplin - Water Destory Water

Clay Chaplin - Hydrophone Bath

Allan Kaprow - an excerpt from Warm-ups

George Brecht - Drip Music

Nicole Antebi presents Tilapia Jetty
2008
Video


The environmental art movement of the 1960's and 70's yielded a desire for land reclamation, although the practice of cutting pouring, filling, and burying ultimately sought to aestheticize what resembled the natural landscape. Robert Smithson left his legacy in the shape of a spiral at the edge of the Great Salt Lake. After watching the grainy reddish footage of a giddy Smithson running along the Jetty and reading Smithson's writing about his initial search for the site and later revelation for the Spiral Jetty, I became convinced that he was indeed referring to California's troubled Salton Sea. This connection was the catalyst for Tilapia Jetty, a video depicting a disintegrating cardboard spiral, covered in dead Tilapia, and set at the edge of the Salton Sea.

Lara Bank presents The Portable Forest Travels the Sonic World
The Portable Forest is an offshoot of Tree and Space, treeandspace.org, a public art location designated by a tree at the top of a hill. The Portable Forest are potted trees that serve the same purpose, yet they can be moved. The trees can travel for events and happenings inside and outside. Anyone can do an artwork with the trees, just send an email to info@treeandspace.org with your idea. When they are not traveling, they are located behind Sea and Space Explorations, an exhibition space. The installation for Sound in Space at Sea and Space by Lara Bank allows the trees to experience audio from different locations and situations (the beach, the jungle, rainstorms, chainsaws and axes chopping trees, within a forest fire) every night of the week. So they can travel without leaving the site. The Portable Forest is a place artwork by Lara Bank.

Nicole Antebi
Nicole Antebi is a Los Angelesbased artist and editor. Recent exhibits including California Scenariosat the Orange County Museum of Art, Urban Screens 08 Melbourne, Australia, The Salton Sea Projectsat Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles and other collaborations including the book Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices (co-edited with Colin Dickey and Robby Herbst) published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press and is currently co-editing a forthcoming book with Enid Baxter Blader entitled, Water, CA.

Cooper Baker
Cooper Baker is a composer and sound artist whose work explores the science and technology of sound. His pieces have been presented at the Los Angeles Bent Festival, the Spark Festival in Minnesota, the REDCAT theatre in Los Angeles, California Institue of the Arts, and at several California Universities. Cooper was a recent faculty member at California Institute of the Arts, where he also received his MFA and BFA degrees in experimental composition and music technology respectively. While attending CalArts, he studied computer music, programming, and electronics with Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, Barry Schrader, and Tom Erbe.

Lara Bank
Lara Bank is an artist, professor, and gallery director working within the Los Angeles area. She produces primarily neo-conceptualist artwork in a variety of mediums. She situates her work into the category of place artwork (self-termed). Place artwork is art that creates and defines a spatial location to be occupied by the artwork, statements, and thoughts of others. Other projects operate as installation (painting, interactive, sculptural) and video art. Bank received an MFA in Studio Art from Cal Arts in 1998 and an MFA in Painting from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1996. She is the current director and founder of Sea and Space Explorations, a place artwork that operates as a gallery. She teaches Drawing, Three-Dimensional Design (sculpture), Two -Dimensional Design, and a portfolio development class at Otis College of Art & Design, Pierce College, and Moorpark College. Her work has been shown and collected within the following venues: Weingard Gallery at Occidental College, LA; Another Year In LA, LA; Monte Vista Projects, LA; Aurora Picture Show, TX; Hangar 1018, LA; Machine Gallery, LA; Foundation For Art Resources, LA;Crazy Space Gallery, Santa Monica; White Box Gallery, Marina Del Rey; ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn; Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; LA Municipal Art Gallery, LA; Barnsdall Art Park, LA; Fancyland, CA;Andrewshire Gallery, LA, Rhizome.org; Centro Nacional de Artes (National Center for the Arts) San Salvador, El Salvador; LA Freewaves, LA; Side Street Projects, LA; Huntington Beach Art Center, CA; Viridian Artist Inc., NYC; Bromfield Gallery Boston, MA.

Clay Chaplin
Clay Chaplin is a composer, improviser, programmer, and video artist from Los Angeles. He has worked on many projects throughout the US, Europe, and Japan involving experimental music, interactive systems, video, improvisation, and custom electronics. Clay has given workshops on computer music and digital media for various universities and electronic arts groups in California and has been composer-in-residence at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and at STEIM in Amsterdam. He is currently the Technical Director for the Computer Music and Experimental Media Studios at The California Institute of the Arts and a member of the music school's composition faculty. Clay's latest CD is available on Artifact Recordings.

Aaron Drake
Aaron Drake is a composer, curator and performer living in Los Angeles. His education quickly runs as such: Bachelor of Music from San Francisco State University (Josh Levine, Ronald Caltabiano and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez), music exchange to the Staatliche Hochschule fŸr Musik in Trossingen Germany (Norbert Fršhlich and Mark Randall-Osborn at the Schloss Solitude), Master of Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Mark Trayle, Michael Pisaro and David Rosenboom).

Lewis Keller
Lewis Keller is a sound artist based in Los Angeles. He is interested in the perception of time, timbre and space and exploring how technology fits into and fights against life. Lewis builds instruments from found objects, electronics and computer code. He also composes and performs for and with people, computers and spaces.

Juliana Snapper
Juliana Snapper creates experimental operas incorporating composition, improvisation and sculptural and intermedia elements. Recent performances forge new sonic palettes by stretching the capacities of the singing body in mondramas sung upside-down and submerged, mouth-to-water. Snapper earned her B.M in vocal performance from the Oberlin Conservatory and is completing her doctorate in musicology at the University of California, San Diego. Since 2004, her work has been featured at PS1/MoMA NY, The Guggenheim Museum, The Armand Hammer Museum (LA) and in numerous international festivals including the City of Women Festival (Llubliana, Slovenia), Performa05 (NYC), the Ojai Music Festival (Ojai, California), Fierce! Festival (Birmingham, UK), and Sounds French (NYC). Her projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Metropolitan Opera Foundation, The British Arts Council, The Center for Research in Computing in the Arts, and The Durfee Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles.