We bring it back down to earth for a night of contemporary folk music - with free PIE.

Bunnies and kitties

Daniel Corral

Emily Lacey

Homesick Elephant

Marshweed

MISSINCINATTI

Nicole Antebi presents Tilapia Jetty
2008
Video


The environmental art movement of the 1960Õs and 70Õs 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 SmithsonÕs 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.

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.

Bunnies and kitties We are all Bunnies and Kitties. The performers as well as the audience are the show. We are all too cute. Performers : Rafael Bustamante w/cameos from: Sara Fitz Doc G. D.K.Knights The Big Pink House

Daniel Corral
Daniel Corral is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, AK. Currently residing in the L.A. area, his unique voice has found a diverse range of outlets. He has accompanied avante-garde puppetry all across the USA, had his music performed by an orchestra riding the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, been featured at a USC faculty concert of original player piano music, displayed his massive multi-movement music boxes at galleries all over Los Angeles, composed for a number of films and dance performances, and much more.

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).

Emily Lacey
Emily Lacy is a folk artist generating works in music, film, and other media. She has performed in exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and LACMA, in addition to various living rooms, subways, DIY spaces, and art galleries all throughout America. She is based in New York and LA

Ed Loftus
Ed Loftus is a San Francisco artist with great hair.

Homesick Elephant
Homesick Elephant is an indie-folk duo whose heart-wrenching harmonies, old-time instrumentation and homespun sincerity make you feel like you're a character in a Wes Anderson Film. Sara and Kevin met in September of 2003 and immediately began playing music together. Their main projects have been Cheese on Bread and the Nace Family. They formed Homesick Elephant in the Spring of 2006 before leaving their home in Philadelphia to move out west to Los Angeles. In their little house in Silverlake, they sing together nightly after dinner while cleaning the kitchen and updating their myspace page.... Performers : Kevin Kelly and Sara FitzSimmons -

Marshweed
marshweed sings and squawks, plays viola and banjo, and whatever plinks or tinks.

MISSINCINATTI
MISSINCINATTI is a storytelling band that relates dark and fantastical tales from the seas and lands of the pre-industrial era. The band includes guitarist Jeremy Drake, cellist Jessica Catron, and drum knitter Corey Fogel.