OPaf Events
A Very OPaf Hallowe’en
OPaf Presents: A Very OPaf Hallowe’en (and Awarding of the OPaf Prize)
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/96764184888
Be Still Life: Session 3
In response to the pandemic, Be Still Life moved to a digital format and is excited to host a drawing session via Zoom.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/92320243098
Pinky Ring Publishing
Join OPaf 2020 participants Pinky Ring Publishing for a Zoom conversation about living in the digital world during this unprecedented moment in time.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/92621957350
NURTURE
OPaf cultivates space for ideas and people that the traditional art world often overlooks and perhaps lacks the capacity to support. Join Virginia Broersma of the Artist’s Office to talk with a panel of 2020 OPaf participants for whom nurture is a component of their work. We will discuss how this functions at the individual level - for one’s own practice - and at the community level.
Panelists:
Annika Klein: CalArts MFA
Eliza Swann: The Golden Dome
Tatiana Vahan: Los Angeles Artist Census
Moderated by Virginia Broersma of The Artist’s Office
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Delia Jürgens + Lorenz Liebig + Tarik Kentouche
Glashaus, Jena (GER) / Penthouse, Brunswick (GER)
10-24-20 - 10-25-20 + 11-15-20 - 11-16-20
Livestream: October 24th, 8 pm MESZ (GER) / 11 am PST (CA-USA)
Steve Kado : isle of the dead
Come hang out in Escolar’s goat shed on Twitch with Steve Kado and Nathan. (https://www.twitch.tv/escolar_center) 11 am - 3 pm
Ethan Swan: Like Gold and Faceted /// The Story of Earth 2 Special Low Quantity Version (Autofact Records, 2003).
In November 2003, Autofact Records issued a limited edition, triple LP edition of Earth's mind-erasing album 'Earth 2.' It's a remarkably devotional object - stark, leaden, arcane. No expense was spared in its production, no detail left unexamined. It would stand as the definitive document of a masterpiece. Six months later, the owner of Autofact Records was sentenced to three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Host Ethan Swan digs into these two intertwined events and the forces of participation, compulsion, and justice in underground music circles.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/98576464617
OCCUPY SPACE
At its core, OPaf supports people and projects that exist outside the traditional art world. These projects are led by people who have created space for themselves and others through unconventional models, DIY approaches and sidestepping the sanctioned systems of the art world. Join Virginia Broersma of the Artist’s Office to talk with a panel of 2020 OPaf participants on how they occupy space and cultivate new models for presenting artworks and experimental practices in Los Angeles, and now through socially distant models.
Panelists:
John Burlet: Arm Gallery
Emily Babette: Acceptable Risk LA
Delia Jeurgens: DIS-PLAY
Jennie Park: CalArts MFA
Moderated by Virginia Broersma of The Artist’s Office
Noisy Sock
See work in person at: 1984 Phillips Way, Los Angeles, CA 90042
Noisy Sock, a collaborative piece between Acceptable Risk LA members Sean Cully and Carly Chubak, is a collaboration with the environment where it is installed. When installed on the beach, it becomes a solid bobbing mass, filled with a stiff sea breeze. When installed on a small sloped lawn in Highland Park, it becomes listless, only occasionally rising to its full potential. Noisy Sock asks the audience to consider their surroundings.
Nossi Bojagi (보자기) Workshop
This workshop teaches participants how to make traditional & modern knots with a variety of reusable Korean wrapping cloth, called Bojagi (보자기). All levels welcome!
Cost $30 includes Bojagi materials | *Participants are asked to register at least one week in advance so as to receive materials on time
Registration link: https://nossinossi.com/products/opaf2020
Wrapping, carrying and storing objects with a cloth is part of a Korean tradition that contributes to everyday life and culture. In this workshop, Nossi founder Ellen Lee will teach participants how to make traditional & modern knots through a variety of reusable Korean wrapping cloth, called Bojagi (보자기). Nossi’s mission is to deliver a fun cultural experience with a wide range of wrapping skills that can be applied to everyday life.
Nossi is an independent boutique and art workshop founded by Korean-born, Los Angeles based Ellen Lee. Formerly a journalist, Lee spent 12 years writing about the Korean American community before establishing her dream business which embraces her deep love for the community and individual creativity. Nossi connects Korean and American culture through tactile storytelling, allowing individuals to expand and create their own unique stories.
@nossibojagi | Shop & Private workshop sign up - www.nossinossi.com
OPaf Talks: Jaklin Romine and Emily Barker
Jaklin Romine and Emily Barker discuss accessibility, the ADA, and able passing privilege, and how disability gives and takes away opportunities in their respective art practices.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/94752128342
the body moves through space
Artist and filmmaker Paul Pescador produces a short new video attempting to understand moving through public space as a trans non-binary person in the midst of a pandemic. Utilizing a body camera as a tool for surveillance and the viewpoint of the maker as well as stop-motion animation, Pescador contemplates “what does it mean be a gender queer body navigating the world of 2020?”
Soft Reflex
Outback Arthouse presents work from Soft Reflex by Frankie Carino. Carino's work pairs professional photography with laboriously sculpted stone to create a landscape within a landscape of nature both captured and manipulated. Join us October 4, from 3pm-8pm in Elysian Park for a pop-up irl viewing.
*social distancing required*
Unmute All (In These Uncertain Times)
OPaf and Yard Pedro present Keith Rocka Knittel Unmute All (In These Uncertain Times). A Zoom jam session embracing communal noises, Keith Rocka Knittel invites everyone to log on, unmute their microphone, and make sounds. Open to the general public (limited to 100 participants). Session will be recorded and released as a downloadable audio file.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/99868127714
STRATA OF GAPS
STRATA OF GAPS
Carlotta Drinkewitz + Delia Jürgens + Tarik Kentouche + Sarafina McLeod + Diego Salvador Rios
Lapsus, Streets + Weekley Market, Timișoara (ROU): Streets, Vienna (AUT) / Streets, Brunswick (GER) / Streets, Mexico City (MX)
10-02-20 - 10-03-20
Livestream: October 3rd, 9 pm EET (ROU) / 8 pm MESZ (AUT + GER) / 1 pm GMT+5 (MX) / 11 am PST (CA-USA)
Coconut Plasma Therapy : A performance by JPW3, featuring a coconut and a cactus
One-on-one sessions, 20min each | Cost $20 includes takeaway juice and plant | *Participants are asked to pre-register and bring a portable cup for their juice
(eventbrite link will be posted soon)
Location:
La Tierra de la Culebra Park
240 S Ave 57, Los Angeles CA 90042
Welcome to the dream and the facade. L.A. saloon town with a palm tree backdrop, still selling the Toon Town - I arrived and dried out and I bet you did too. We should import some coconuts from Thai Land- why are they cheaper than from Mexico? That's a good story -- Later we will get back to our Native roots and learn about Living Soil.
P.I.A (Plant Intelligence Agency)Seed Apothecary
One-on-one sessions, 10min each | Donation based : $5-10
Includes one bottle of personalized seeds + one bottle of "mystery seeds" to mail to a friend in the LA area. ** seeds are selected specifically for Southern California**
*Participants are asked to pre-register (eventbrite link will be posted soon)
Location:
La Tierra de la Culebra Park
240 S Ave 57, Los Angeles CA 90042
Agents of the Plant Intelligence Agency are agents for the future.We seek to end plant blindness by encouraging a dialogue between people, plants, and art. We are looking for community planters to help spread native seeds in the Los Angeles area.
Guests are invited to a one-on-one seed prescription experience. A unique blend of native seeds will be prepared for each individual. Seeds from 33 different native species will provide food and habitat for a variety of pollinators in the Los Angeles area. The personal seed prescription experience takes 5-10 minutes. Visitors will go home with a bottle of seeds and planting instructions.
Niche Gallery Presents : Gabrielle Ferrer’s “Gnomon”
Niche Gallery will exhibit their outdoor booth, featuring Gabrielle Ferrer’s installation Gnomon, in the Glassell Park neighborhood in Los Angeles for in person, physically distanced viewing.
For more information visit www.nichegalleryla.com.
Fermentation Together: Yogurt and Cucumber Pickles!
Cost per student/ household: $35* | *Scholarships offered on a case by case basis | Optional tote bag: $12
In this Picklé workshop, Chinese American host Jess Wang will be joined by friend and collaborator, Hungarian American Artist Chef Eden Batki to show you two traditional food preservation methods that rely on fermentation: making yogurt with dairy and pickling cucumbers in salt brine. These two are excited to bring you recipes which are based on a shared love of sour and resourcefulness in the kitchen! Learn how to make "pickle soup", a recipe with roots in eastern Europe, and together we'll trace origins of the ingredients used and celebrate the diversity of foodways and how they connect us.
https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18237121&appointmentType=16464868
Be Still Life: Session 2
In response to the pandemic, Be Still Life moved to a digital format and is excited to host a drawing session via Zoom.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/92929135743
Pinky Ring Publishing Livestream
Join OPaf participants Pinky Ring Publishing for a live conversation on @otherplacesartfair Instagram.
Click to join: @otherplacesartfair
Hannah Hughes: Gingham
Maiden LA/Monte Vista Projects/Typical Office present Hannah Hughes’ “Gingham.”
Click to view: https://vimeo.com/459010758
the east side of my body went that way (2020) : An audio poem for listeners standing on hilltops By Sarah Rara
instructions for listening:
locate a hill
wherever you are
climb to the top of the hill
listen from here.
Be Still Life: Session 1
In response to the pandemic, Be Still Life moved to a digital format and is excited to host a drawing session via Zoom.
Click to join: https://zoom.us/j/99679942029
WAS BLEIBT
WAS BLEIBT
Carlotta Drinkewitz + Delia Jürgens
Berlin Facades, Berlin (GER) 09-11-20 - 09-13-20
Livestream: September 12th, 8 pm MESZ (GER) / 11 am PST (CA-USA)
Thinking about the desert includes to think about sand and erosion. In its continuous transformation sand stands for something that is unthought and somewhat unthinkable. It's pixelated nature captures origin and estuary, derivation and desition, emergence and finish, begin and endlessness in its continuous alteration of hard grains. Finding meaning is its attribute. Sand works as a sign that is ambiguous - as a screen, as background, as medium, as the beginning. It is like the negative space of reality when something that is happening to us right now becomes the foreground. We feel this invisible thing happening in the space of the in-between and yet it effects us cellularly.
Throughout the lockdown Carlotta Drinkewitz and Delia Jürgens used sand as a painting medium and reference to the desert. Using social media live streams to connect two different sites (Brunswick and Los Angeles) they manifested the fluidity of formation itself in this very momentary fragment. The archived Livestream videos became the kept canvas creating the pictorial space of indexical signs. A painting series of 5 paintings and their opposite were created within the space of the in-between created with an Instagram account as their studio that is accompanied by a diary and letter exchange of the both. Was bleibt - Berlin Facades is the second alteration of the paintings, they were first shown in the digital space of Scranch for the exhibition The Day that dawns for you, will also dawn for me curated by Jessica Dillon.