Performance Art in Chinatown: Perform!Now! Festival- July 29 - August 1, 2010

Perform! Now!: Image Credit: Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley


Perform! Now! Festival in it's second year promises to be better. With a fundraiser that took place tonight at Human Resources in collaboration with Francois Ghebaly gallery. Ghebaly being a key component to the festival since he collaborated in the birth of Perfrom! Now!.

I did not make it to the fundraiser, but I hope sure you did!!!


I can't think of a more perfect setting than Chinatown-- with all it's charm, it plays great as the background for the so many performance artists who will play, indulge, and subdue it's audience this weekend.


Oh, and don't fear, the event is FREE!!!. Thanks to all the volunteers and organizers for all your hard work, and passion to the arts. I'm quite interested to witness how the local neighborhood, or the tired tourist who will randomly come across the Perform! Now! programming react. I venture, that good times are ahead for those of us who are anticipating the festival, but even greater for those will randomly come across it... That's just my personality, I like random play-- SURPRISES!

I know I'm not missing Skip Arnold's performance on Saturday, or Megan May Daalder's performance: The Closet at Human Resources. And Paul Pescador will also perform, with Chinatown as his background palette. Pescador is one of my favorite artists, but then again the list is never ending. However, there's more... Actual Size Gallery will play host to Haircuts and Popsicles this Saturday: free haircuts and three dollar pops because it's summertime, and who doesn't enjoy popsicles?!


Aaron Wrinkle is Chinatown's Dan Graham, by showing artists in the form of the once John Daniel's gallery. And this Saturday at Dan Graham gallery artist Dorit Cypis will perform: Inside/Outside/In (performer/audience/mirror/dan graham/1975), 2010. Dorit Cypis performance will not be a re-interpretation of Graham's performer/audience/mirror/(1975), but rather a dialogue/exploration of how audience, space, and artist work together to create a performance platform.


On Sunday La Fundacion Wanna Wini will debut as I believe, it's first Los Angeles performance, with a live Skype broadcasting from Mexicali, Mexico. I first heard about these guys when they participated in the MexiCali Biennial 09-10, and I'm happy to hear more, once again.


Now, for a more detailed schedule!. See You There!!!




SCHEDULE FROM PERFORM!NOW! WEBSITE

PERFORM! NOW! 2010
Detailed Schedule (Subject to Change)

Thursday ($20 suggested donation):
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM / Benefit Performances by Julie Tolentino and Stosh Fila / Marcus
Civin / Warren Neidich / Emily Lacy / Human Resources and François Ghebaly

Friday (Free all day and all night):
5:00 PM - Ongoing / Morrisa Maltz / Human Resources Hallway
5:00 PM – Ongoing / Douglas Green / Bernard Street Cul-de-sac
5:00 PM – Ongoing / Paul Pescador / Traversing Chinatown
6:00 PM – Ongoing / Alexis Disselkoen with John Burtle, Jessica Smith, Laura Hoang,
Kuan Hwa, Amber Williams, Katy Wang, Tom Cantwel, Tessa Kurszewski / Traversing Chinatown
6:00 PM - Ongoing / Elena Bajo / Cul-de-sac
7:00 PM - Ongoing / Megan Daalder / The Closet (adjacent to Human Resources)
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM / Emily Mast and Jerome Bel / Human Resources
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM / Alex Staiger and Superman / Cul-de-sac
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM / Corey Fogel and Liz Glynn / Chung King Rd.
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM / Math Bass / Human Resources
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM / Marcus Civin / Francois Ghebaly Gallery
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM /Flora Wiegmann, Amy Granat and Jmy Leary/ Pepin Moore Gallery
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Samuel Vasquez / The Company
9:00 PM - 9:15 PM / Sister Mantos / The Company
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM / Matt Greene / Cul-de-sac
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM / Warren Neidich / Human Resources
9:30 PM - Ongoing / ing / Cul de sac
9:30 PM / Mark Verabioff / Kunsthalle LA
9:30 PM – 10:30 PM / Tiffany Trenda / 997 N. Hill Street
10:30 PM - 11:00 PM / Team Zatara / Human Resources

Saturday (Free all day and all night):
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM / Vlatka Horvat / The Los Angeles River under the Fletcher Bridge, near the intersection of the 5 and 2 Freeways Treiops Treyfid / Roving Chinatown

12:00 PM - Ongoing / Douglas Green / Bernard Street Cul-de-sac
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM / Megan Daalder / Human Resources
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Haircuts and Popsicles / Actual Size Los Angeles
2:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Bamboo Plaza Rooftop Parking Lot
2:00 PM - Ongoing / Charles Irvin / Cul-de-sac and roving
3:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Chung King Rd, Near the Box Gallery
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM / Marcus Civin / Francois Ghebaly Gallery
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Dorian Wood and Joseph Tepperman / Kunsthalle LA
4:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Chung King Road, South Rooftop
4:00 PM - Ongoing / Morrisa Maltz / Human Resources Hallway
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Dorit Cypis / Dan Graham
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Marc Horowitz “Talk Show” / The Company
4:30 PM - Ongoing / Megan Daalder / The Closet (adjacent to Human Resources)
5:00 PM – Ongoing / Paul Pescador / Traversing Chinatown
5:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Moytel Rooftop, Near the Company
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM / Elena Bajo / Human Resources
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM / Material Presents The Oratorium: Farrah Karapetian, Jason Underhill, Susan Silton, Ellen Birrell, Ginny Cook, Dee Williams, Dan Hockenson, Daniel Lucas, Kim Schoen, Olivia Booth, Wendy Mason / Mandarin Plaza
5:00 PM – 12:00 AM / Micol Hebron / Jancar Gallery
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM / Math Bass / Human Resources
6:00 PM – Ongoing / Alexis Disselkoen with John Burtle, Jessica Smith, Laura Hoang, Kuan Hwa, Amber Williams, Katy Wang, Tom Cantwel, Tessa Kurszewski / Traversing Chinatown
6:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Francois Ghebaly Rooftop
7:00 PM / Skip Arnold / 997 N. Hill St.
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM / Emily Mast and Jerome Bel / Human Resources
7:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Mandarian Plaza Rooftop
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM / Jill Fogel / Cul-de-sac
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM / Brian Getnick and Kristian van der Hayden / Dumpster alley off of Chung King Road
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM / Monica Duncan / Traversing Chinatown
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM / Volume Presents Steve Roden / 993 N. Hill St.
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM / Mariel Carranza / Chung King Road
7:30 PM - 11:30 PM / Margie Schnibbe / Cul-de-sac
8:00 PM / Nancy Popp / Bamboo Plaza Rooftop Parking Lot
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM / Andrew Printer / Kunsthalle LA
8:00 PM - 8:30 PM / Team Zatara / Human Resources
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM / Material Presents The Oratorium / Mandarin Plaza
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM / Matt Greene / Cul-de-sac
9:00 PM – 9:30 PM / Yong Soon Min with Ofunne Obiamiwe, Tommy Gear, Gina Osterloh, Matias Viegener, Ian Song, Linda Kunik, Raksha Parekh, Paolo Villanueva, Stephen van Dyck, and Mike Davis/ Cul-de-sac
9:00 PM – 10:00 PM / Lucas Murgida / Charlie James Gallery
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM / Warren Neidich / Human Resources
10:30 PM - 11:00 PM / Aaron Wrinkle / Dan Graham
10:30 PM - 11:00 PM / Zackary Drucker / Human Resources Patio
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM / Jason Wallace Triefenbach / Human Resources
11:00 PM / Brendan Fowler / 2nd Cannons
12:00 AM - 1:00 AM / Gustavo Herrera / Human Resources

Sunday (Free all day and all night):
2:00 PM - 7:00 PM / Samuel Vasquez / 993 N. Hill Street
2:45 PM - 7:00 PM / Julie Tolentino, Stosh Fila and Mark So / 993 N. Hill Street
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM / Elle Mehrmand & Micha Cárdenas / 997 N. Hill Street and simultaneously live in Second Life
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Brian Getnick and Kristian van der Hayden / Dumpster alley off of Chung King Road
6:00 PM - 6:30 PM / Fundación Wanna Winni / 997 N. Hill Street
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM / Alex Staiger and Superman / Chung King Road
2:00 - 8:00 PM / VOLUME presents short, intimate personal listening sets by: Julia Holter, Mark Trayle, Sander Roscoe Wolff, Jen Boyd, Mark So, Sublamp, Marc Manning, Justin Varis, Adam Overton, Shuttle358, Akira Rabelais and Kadet Kuhne / 993 N. Hill Street: 2:00 Julia Holter, 2:30 Mark Trayle, 3:00 Sander Roscoe Wolff, 3:30 Jen Boyd, 4:00 Mark So, 4:30 Sublamp, 5:00 Marc Manning, 5:30 Justin
Varis, 6:00 Adam Overton, 6:30 Shuttle358, 7:00 Akira Rabelais, 7:30 Kadet Kuhne