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Susan Simpson | Concrete Folk Variations | May 2-11 | Automata Arts

This promises to be really exciting, the entirety of Susan Simpson’s “Concrete Folk Variations” trilogy done at one go!

When a prominent society maven and philanthropist who secretly slums at lesbian dives is murdered, L.A.P.D. beat cop, Loretta Salt, turns reluctant investigator and steps into an infested swamp of corruption, brutality and subterfuge.

A soulful, gripping noir, Concrete Folk Variations is told through Simpson’s intricately crafted puppets, projections and a minimalist mid-century Los Angles cityscape. This cultural excavation of the moment just before the rise of the modern gay movement unearths secret codes, clandestine homosexual societies, flamboyant transgressions and soul crushing silence. Concrete Folk Variations is a hypnotic tale of the formidable times.

Performed by
Dan Rae Wilson, Moira MacDonald, Zachary Schwartz, Jonathon Williams

Voices by
Hilario Saavedra, Mark Simon, Kendra Ware, Anne Yatco

Live Musical Score: Eric Potter

Video Design: Dustin Neiderman

MAY 2-11
8pm Thursday-Sunday, 3pm Saturday and Sunday

Tickets:
$18 General Admission
$15 Members/Students/Seniors
Seating is Limited; Advance Reservations Suggested.

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*** For those familiar with Concrete Folk from past iterations you might like to know that this performance will contain all three episodes collected into one evening.****

Read reviews and see pictures from from past Concrete Folk Productions
HERE

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Christine Wertheim and Patrick Ballard, Automata Arts | April 5-6 2014, 8 PM

Christine Wertheim will perform swOunds, hOwles and other infantile nO|ses from her new book mUtter- bAbel, published by Counterpath Press.

Patrick Ballard will perform Impressions; a rotating cast of pieces for solo performer with a microphone.

$18 General Admission
$15 Members/Students/Seniors
Seating is Limited; Advance Reservations Suggested.

To purchase tickets for the performance, click Here.

Christine

Christine Wertheim is author of mutter-bAbel (Countertpath Press) and +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press), editor of the anthology Feminaissance, and with Matias Viegener co-editor of Séance and The n/Oulipean Analects. She has performed her work widely, including at La Sorbonne, Birckbeck College London, University of Western Sydney, Machine Project, LA, Echo Park Film Center and the MJT. With her sister Margaret, she co-directs the Institute For Figuring, organizing events at the intersection of science, art and pedagogy. In 2011 the sisters received the Theo Westenberger Grant for Outstanding Female Artists from the Autry National Center. She teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

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Patrick Ballard is a Los Angeles based artist that works through object making, music, performance, writing, various comedic forms, and a motley crew of other assorted media. His performance and sculpture work has been shown at Machine Projects, Grand Central Art Center Santa Ana, and featured as a part of Pacific Standard Time’s Ball of Artists. He will be receiving an MFA in Art from California Institute of the Arts later this year.

at:
AUTOMATA
504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012
automata-la@sbcglobal.net
www.automata-la.org

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Peiyi Wong: From Photographs: March 15-16

FROM PHOTOGRAPHS: An installation/performance by Peiyi Wong at Automata Arts.

Peiyi Wong

A multi-media installation / performance that attempts to examine the many ways we have of looking, in hopes of uncovering the ideal way forward.

We will be presenting the latest research and findings of an anonymous amateur archeologist-explorer who remains inexplicably drawn to the ruins of Llano del Rio, a failed socialist utopian commune built on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

Written, directed, and performed by Peiyi Wong

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