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Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House

A Performance of Guitar and Voice by Johanna Hedva

January 12, 8:30pm $5-10 donation

A keening. Animal droning. Hag blues. Moon hymns. A dirge. O Death. For my mother (March 2, 1955 – April 30, 2018).

Earplugs will be provided. This is a wake, so there will be whiskey. The performance is 45 minutes. No late entry please. Photo by Pamila Payne.

Johanna Hedva is a Korean-American who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in LA and Berlin. They are the author of the novel, On Hell (2018, Sator Press), and their writing has been published widely. From 1999-2006, they played in bands and released four albums. This is their first time playing live solo music in 12 years.

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Dorit Cypus

Critical Forum with Dorit Cypus

January 9, 8:30pm Free

At the core of artist, mediator and social activator Dorit Cypis’s practice lies the question, “Who are we to each other?”

Join us for a conversation guided by Cypis about systemic structures that entrench conflict and how to engage conflict generatively. A wearable coliseum, a sculptural and performative apparatus by Cypis will be presented as a goad to the intersections of performance, prop and politics.

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Mutual Influence

A Performance by Anna Zett

November 23, 8pm $5-10 donation

Mutual influence is the basis for all conversation, starting with the way that listeners make people speak, and that speakers make people listen. Which means of mutual influence are available in a performative setting, and how do sonic vibrations, screen focus, verbal reflection and physical expression differ from each other in their manipulative potential? Anna Zett explores the stage as a space of virtual contact. With the help of a card deck, a modernist tarot adaptation, she tries to disentangle the tight net of associations between voice and hand within the symbolic cosmos of democracy.

Anna Zett is an artist, writer, director of films and radio plays. Working alone and in teams, Zett combines historical research and analysis with a performative practice rooted in the undetermined, present situation. Her work tends to center around well-known symbols from modernist, capitalist or scientific memory, looking to open up their political and emotional association patterns. Anna Zett grew up in Leipzig and lives in Berlin.

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Central Server

5 nights of performance film art and discussion

Wednesdays at 8:30pm November 14 through December 12 $5-10 donation

For five nights, curator Joshua Oduga presents Central Server, a curatorial residency at PAM Residencies. Central Server is a physical/digital curatorial platform Oduga founded in 2018 to push the boundaries of what art and community can work in tandem to achieve.

Central Server will host performances, video screenings, encounters with visual art and discussions curated by Joshua Oduga. Encounters amongst the political, aesthetic and poetic stakes of the work of 19 artists will be presented during the five-night series. Many of the artists featured in these nights are members of the inaugural cohort, FORUM at TAM, which has a full exhibition opening at TAM Torrance Art Museum Saturday, December 1.

11/14 Night 1: $ellibate & Meat Market: A Night of Performance

$ellibate - Miranda Friedman w/ Kai Simone Daniels & Philip Košćak $ellibate Meat Market - Katie Shanks + Stephanie Sherwood + Kayla

11/21 Night 2: InterMEdia #1: A Night of Film

Intermedia Art is defined as “art that engages the use of new media, sound and performance” For InterMEdia #1 at PAM Central Server will present the first in a nomadic film screening series looking at video artworks in the Intermedia canon that specifically deal with personal, social and political identities.

11/28 Night 3: Tactile Encounters: A Night of Sculpture and Performance

Tu Nyugen Iain Muirhead Ting Ying Han Sean Cully Kate Sikorski

Tactile Encounters: For this night of sculpture and performative actions the works of object based artist will be paired with the performances of artist. The artist involved in this night do not normally function as  collective units but the tactile encounters that will occur through the interaction of performer and object perhaps signal a deeper sense of collaboration then any planned collusion.

12/5 Night 4: Leo Rising! & Hyacinth: A Night of Performance

Alexis Bolter Erica Ryan Stallones

12/12 Night 5: A Night of Critical Forum

Gabbah Baya Joshua Oduga

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Jennifer Vanilla, Banny Grove, Julius Smack, Mona Demone

A Concert Presented by Practical Records

October 23, 8pm $5-10 donation

Jennifer Vanilla https://youtu.be/W9MIDVNBbKs Banny Grove https://youtu.be/eZ8Em7_9_vE Julius Smack https://youtu.be/Bean5Lyndpc Mona Demone https://youtu.be/7XavMsLry7Y?t=167

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NO PRIVATE LIFE

A Performance by Laurel Atwell + Jessica Cook October 27 & 28, 8:30pm $5-10 donation

We have been mining our subconscious imagery to build a myriad of vignettes around useless machines, character piles, blob bodies, and human furniture. Using a labyrinth of newly formed identities, memories, and desires, movement and sound multiply and converge as NO PRIVATE LIFE.

Since 2008, Laurel Atwell has been making work that has become more interdisciplinary with her research conducted as a 2016 Movement Research Artist in Residence. Her work has been presented at Abrons Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, Draftworks at Danspace Project, Domestic Performance Agency, Links Hall (Chicago), Movement Research at Judson Church, Pieter Performance Space (LA) as well as throughout apartments, parks, bars, and galleries in New York. Laurel has recently appeared in the work of Mariangela Lopez, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Melanie Maar, Tess Dworman, Nikima Jagudajev, and Milka Djordjevich. She edits the Dance Pamphlets for 53rd State Press and teaches qi gong, at times in collaboration with Tess Dworman’s meditation teachings under the moniker WellMan. Laurel and her collaborator, Jessica Cook, are in residence at PAM (LA) and Central Park Gallery (LA), and will be in residence at MOMA PS1 in December 2018.

Jessica Cook is an artist that lives and works in NYC. She received a BFA from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance in 2005 and an associates degree from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine for Massage Therapy. She has shown work at LMAK Gallery, New Museum, Roulette Intermedium, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Spring Break Art Fair, Pieter Performance Space, and many others. She has been performing in New York City for 13 yrs, most recently with Milka Djordjevich/Chris Peck and Kim Brandt. She and Laurel are artists-in-residence at MoMa PS1 this December.

This residency is being offered in conjunction with Central Park Gallery where Jessica and Laurel will be performing Delicate Machines on October 30, 8pm.

Photo by Whitney Browne.

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Trance in Botany

A Performance by Mitsu Salmon

Friday, September 28th at 8pm and Saturday, September 29th at 8pm $5-10 donation

RSVP required. Confirm your attendance at info@pamresidencies.com.

“Trance in Botany” is a performative lecture by Mitsu Salmon about the work of her great-grandfather, Ryozo Kanehira. He was a well-known botanist from Japan, who did extensive work in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The piece plays with the form of the lecture with fracture narrative, voice, and movement. The piece investigates the study of trees as connected to family, the body, and the complexities of imperialism.

Mitsu Salmon creates performance and visual works that fuse multiple disciplines. Salmon received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and her undergrad degree from NYU. She has presented work at places such as the Chicago Cultural Center, Highways, Performance Space 122, and internationally at Hebbel Am Uffer in Berlin, London Performance Art Festival, and Urbanguild in Kyoto, Japan. She has participated in artist residencies at Taipei Artist Village, Villa Pandan Harum in Bali, High Concept Lab, Links Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center and Oxbow. She was awarded best collaborative multi-disciplinary performance by Newcity in 2015, DCASE IAP, and a touring grant through Midwest Nexus in 2018.  

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Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa, Pauline Lay, Sonoda

A Concert Presented by Practical Records

July 29, 9pm $5-10 donation

A journey through the earwormhole with far-out sounds from far away.

Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa (Tokyo) Pauline Lay Sonoda

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Hide: A Redress of Lonely

A Multimedia Performance by Bianca Maria & Tezeru Teshome

July 29, 3pm $5-10 donation

Artists Bianca Maria & Tezeru Teshome present an interdisciplinary reflection on the femme search for intimacy in romantic, platonic, and intrapersonal relationships. Through animated photography, performance-movement, and installation-work, Maria & Teshome create a site-specific, immersive, and interactive experience. Inspired by a decade’s worth of personal letters, poetry, and journal reflections, Hide is an insatiable resolve that is both cowardice and brave, reflective and deliberate.

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Judas Unicorn

A Performance by Sam Wohl Performed by Blake Perlman, Judith Taranto, Lisa McNeely, Matthew Rhodes, Nathan Bockleman, Andrew Valenzuela, and Adam Montague 

July 26 & 28, 7pm $5-10 donation

A family lives in the woods in a near-present where human beings are considered an invasive species. Inspired by a technique for controlling a population of feral goats on the Galapagos Islands, Sam Wohl constructed a comedy about a “judas goat”—a bait goat that is overdosed with chemical pheromones and used to lure feral goats out into the open where they are killed by helicopter fire. Unicorns are designed to lure humans to their death in the same way. One day, the family finds a half‐dead unicorn in the woods. Its potency as bait has expired and the family decides to keep it. The identity of this family and their capacity for violence in the name of compassion pivot on the introduction of this rare guest.

Sam Wohl is a filmmaker, comics artist and MFA candidate at UCSD. He has worked on such films such as Beasts of the Southern Wild (2011), Mediterranea (2014), and Swiss Army Man (2015). Wohl has been commissioned to draw numerous comics, cinematic storyboards, and concept art, including work for the recent Arcade Fire video "Chemistry"). Wohl has directed three short films Mindglow (2011), Fruit of the Dogs (2015), and Oct. 8th (2016) for which he was awarded Best Editing and Visual Effects at Art Power New Media Festival 2017. Wohl's academic research explores the psychology of survivalism and the ideological over lap between invasive species management immigration policy and his art practice engages the forms of comics, film and theatre in sublimating memory, personal history, and science-fantasy.

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A Film by Tezeru Teshome & Bianca Maria

July 22, 4pm $5-10 donation

“Internationally screened experimental-short film, "black suffering / white pleasure" scandalizes the meaning of subjectivity through exploring how race obscures logic. Unscripted dialogue and original song with improvised choreography and movement that border coercion and grace, consent and desire, and painful breaths of laughter, reveal how the Black repeatedly exist between space, time, and meaning as human-citizen and slave; marking it as threatening as it is vulnerable, crucial as it is evasive.” — Tezeru Teshome

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VOICE / PERFORMANCE

An Evening of Vocal Experimentation and Ecstasy with Odeya Nini, Holland Andrews, and Carolyn Pennypacker Briggs

July 21, 8:30pm $5-10 donation

Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are performance practices, textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrète. Her solo vocal work extends the dimension and expression of the voice and body, creating a sonic and physical panorama of silence to noise and tenderness to grandeur.

Holland Andrews is an extended technique vocalist, composer, and performer based in Portland, OR who combines delicate vocal layerings to create dissonant and cinematic soundscapes. Andrews is a musician whose influences include contemporary opera, musical theater, as well as experimental genres such as ambient and noise music. Holland also performs under the stage name, __Like a Villain__.

Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a Los Angeles-based composer and multi-media artist creating entry points into her compositions through sculpture, video, costume, and performance. The core theme of her practice is the conviction that the creation of new mythologies can lead to the deconstruction + devastation of real-life hierarchical structures. She leads Community Chorus, a resistance-themed, no-commitment chorus; is one half of the pop duo, Bouquet; and is the creator/composer of the choral/movement ensemble, Song of Eurydice. CPR has presented work at The Getty Center, deYoung Museum, Hammer Museum, MOCA LA, SFMOMA, Bangkok University, High Desert Test Sites, The Broad, Berkeley Art Museum and All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival (UK).

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Energies Release Party

Celebrate the release of Energies, the debut compilation by Practical Records.

July 20, 9pm $5-10 donation

Featuring performances by

Michael Vidal Mona Demone Kohinoorgasm Julius Smack Cat Mahatta Cheetah Girl Gemma Castro

Hosted by The Bedroom Witch

Music for a new age. We asked 10 of our closest friends and collaborators to record a new song responding to the theme “energies”: the unknown, the spiritual, and the metaphysical. Intuition and the quiet psychic space we share were the guides —no other parameters dictated the result. Inherently ambiguous, “energies” serves as a broad and mysterious force that brings kindred yet diverse people together. What fosters community between musicians? Can we cultivate alternative models of self-worth and recognition? We consider these songs to be the answer. Not quite new age but of a new age of self-representation, Practical Records artists are using democratized technologies and tools to assert themselves in an industry that has historically excluded queer, transgender, and non-white artists. They operate in sensitive communion as collaborators and friends. They have vibrant practices as solo artists in the fields of poetry, visual art, and video production. Their live performances are raw and experimental. They practice energy work as in holistic contexts as shadow self practitioners and body work therapists. “Energies” activates these collective energies to foster a new age of performance and visibility for emergent artists.

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Critical Forum: Sam Wohl

A conversation between artist in residence Sam Wohl and PAM curator Hannah Chodos

July 12, 7:00pm

Sam Wohl is a filmmaker, comics artist and MFA candidate at UCSD. He has worked in the film industry such films such as Beasts of the Southern Wild (2011), Mediterranea (2014), and Swiss Army Man (2015). Wohl has been commissioned to draw numerous comics, cinematic storyboards, and concept art, including work for the recent Arcade Fire video "Chemistry").  Wohl has directed three short films Mindglow (2011), Fruit of the Dogs (2015), and Oct. 8th (2016) for which he was awarded Best Editing and Visual Effects at Art Power New Media Festival 2017.  Wohl's academic research explores the psychology of survivalism and the ideological over lap between invasive species management immigration policy and his art practice engages the forms of comics, film and theatre in sublimating memory, personal history, and science-fantasy.

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Untitled Clown

A Performance by Julie Becker

July 3 & 5, 8pm $5-10 donation

Julie Becker is a theatre artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She focuses on devised, experimental work via training and embodied research, both solo and in ensembles, and has an interest in hidden natures, collective unconscious, and connection with the natural world. Julie’s work is informed by her experience training with artists stemming from experimental, Polish laboratory theatre lineage, including Rena Mirecka, The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, Pere Sais, Teatr Zar, Teatr Piesn Kozla, and Double Edge Theatre. She is influenced by the butoh lineages of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. She is also informed by various physical and performance practices, including parkour in natural and urban environments, yoga, martial arts, butoh, and circus arts. She often incorporates mask and puppetry into her performances. She holds an MA degree in Ensemble Theatre from University of Manchester (Rose Bruford College) in conjunction with Teatr Piesn Kozla (Song of the Goat Theatre). She has taught workshops grounded in physical theatre, voice, and ensemble training, as well as classes in physical relational games and physical intelligence.

In residency at PAM, Julie is working on individual, embodied research and practice that incorporates her experience working as a children's entertainer/birthday clown as dramaturgical material. Through this frame, and the deconstruction of her performance for children, as well as through experimental methods of (anti)comedy, butoh, and theatre, she is working to generate material towards the development of an audience-interactive, solo performance piece that addresses the themes of alienation, dissociation, social discomfort, cringe, femininity, impostor syndrome, and moments when one has found oneself placed in the Uncanny Valley.

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Wizard Apprentice

Residency Showing

6/29 & 6/30 8:30pm $5-10 donation

Wizard Apprentice is an independent electronic music producer, motion graphics and live performance artist. As a highly-sensitive introvert, her multimedia projects are strategies for energetically managing an overwhelming world. Her music is a combination of lyrical precision, minimalistic composition, and technically amateurish charm. She creates digitally-based media that takes advantage of accessible, user-friendly technology; allowing her to skip time consuming learning curves and get straight to focusing on inventing personalized yet highly relatable language for deeply subtle and internal experiences. She's not a gear-head, rather, a digital folk artist who vividly and simplistically expresses her inner world using resourcefulness and honesty. Her video work incorporates green screen graphics, digital puppetry, and minimalistic compositing to produce imagery that’s cerebral, psychedelic, campy, and hypnotic. She combines song and video to create multimedia live performances that explore intimate emotional themes ranging from the challenges/triumphs of being an empath to overstimulation in the Internet Age.

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The Plumbing Tree: Act 3

A Play by Medium Judith Performed with Elizabeth Sodenberg, Henry Moskowitz, Melina Bielefelt, Syd Bekey, and Julia Yerger

June 15 & 16, 8:30pm $5-10 donation

Medium Judith performs a political science fiction, told through the perspectives of members of a non-traditional family. The Plumbing Tree explores ideas of queer familial structures, polarizing political ideologies, and social contagions. After poisonous methane gas and excrement from a ruptured sewage pipe overflows and floods their lawn, the family is fully in the holds of a collective hysterical episode. Their behavior becomes comical, frantic, frenzied, and feverish. In their hallucinatory state, the characters are miraculously gifted with a lucidity that radically calls into question each of their world-views. In this state of madness the superficial mores that held their personalities together, dislodge, break, and fall away, releasing individual and collective transformations.

Medium Judith is a host for an interdisciplinary methodology for writing experimental theater works. The company originated in 2012 in Baltimore, MD with works composed by Bully Fae Collins and Amanda Horowitz. Their collaboration began as an urgent response to emergent political tools of the internet and their recombinant effects on power. Through a process that utilizes conceptual sculpture, joke writing, and concept-map making, Medium Judith creates a queer theater in which cultural signifiers are transmuted and recomposed into an experimental world logic and value system. Their first full length play will debut at Highways Performance Space in October 2018.