Audrey Chan.

Audrey Chan as Judy Chicago on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, September 18, 2011. (Photo credit: Jason Pierre) Click for more images

PERFORMANCE:

Audrey Chan, “Walk of Cunts (Study After Judy Chicago)”
Sunset Blvd. (north side), between Gower and LaBrea
Sunday, September 18, 2011
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

In this homage to Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party”, Chicago’s Chinese-American doppelganger will render in chalk the glorious cunts of noteworthy women along a stretch of Sunset Boulevard parallel to the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

EVENT:

Road Concert on Sunset Boulevard
September 18, 2011
Organized by Stephen van Dyck

Los Angeles Road Concerts presents a showing of site-specific projects from over 100 Los Angeles artists in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Sunset Boulevard’s 24 miles, from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.laroadconcerts.co.cc/

[Excerpt]

“The setup: Guillermo Gómez-Peña enters from stage right costumed in his signature “mariachi drag” walking with a stilted vaquero-dama strut, a boot on his right foot and stiletto pump on his left. His simple props for the evening consist of a table set with a megaphone, mineral water, a half-empty bottle of whiskey, a jar of salsa, sunglasses, a feather headdress, and a tall can of Right Guard men’s spray deodorant. Picking up the can of deodorant with intentionality, he performs a shamanic rite of invocation to bless the cardinal directions. Each 90-degree turn is punctuated by a shout—¡Norte! ¡Sur! ¡Este! ¡Oeste!—and a spray of artificial musk hissing into the stale air of the auditorium, defiling our lungs as we choke on our laughter.”

Read more of “Reports from a Strange Democracy: Guillermo Gómez-Peña” by Audrey Chan at East of Borneo.

Image and video of Guillermo Gómez-Peña courtesy of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Convening: Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building
Symposium/convening/reunion, this two-day event offers a dialogue between feminist artists then and now.

Saturday, October 15, Ben Maltz Gallery / Antioch University
1-3pm: Share your WB story on video
3-4pm: Tour of the Otis exhibition with visiting scholars Viven Fryd Green, Alexandra Juhasz, Jennie Klein, Michelle Moravec, and Jenni Sorkin

7pm: Reading, Antioch University, 400 Corporate Pointe, Culver City, 90230, www.antiochla.edu
WB Writers: Gloria Alvarez, Wanda Coleman, Eloise Klein Healy, Bia Lowe, Deena Metzger, Terry Wolverton, and Mitsuye Yamada

Sunday, October 16, Ben Maltz Gallery / Skirball Cultural Center
9:00am-2:30pm: Artists’ presentations and conversation at Otis with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Susan E. King, Suzanne Lacy, Audrey Chan, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Elana Mann, Feminist Art Workers, The Waitresses, and others.
Tickets: General $25; Students $10 and available online.

4-5pm: This is Your Life: the Woman’s Building, Hosted by Phranc, the All American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger, at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90049
Tickets: General $25; Students $15 and available online at www.skirball.org

More info: http://www.otis.edu/public_programs/ben_maltz_gallery/wb_tickets.html

Ben Maltz Gallery
9045 Lincoln Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045 Map, directions, parking
Hours Tue-Sat 10-5 / Thu 10-7
galleryinfo@otis.edu
www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery

Conseil juridique et artistique / Legal and Artistic Counsel
by Audrey Chan
Paperback, 90 pp, black and white illustrations, French and English text
Translated by Audrey Chan, Michelle Fixot, and David Kerlogot
$15

Now available for purchase on amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463540345

Description:

In 2009, American artist Audrey Chan was invited to be an artist-in-residence at the Nantes School of Fine Arts in France. She proposed an artistic investigation of the official portrait of President Nicolas Sarkozy, a subject that sparked debate about the ownership of images and the delicate relationship between politics and art in French law. The project led to a conversation between Chan and Bernard Edelman, renowned French jurist and philosopher and expert on author’s rights. What began as a legal counseling session between the artist and jurist-philosopher evolved into a larger debate about the very meaning of political and conceptual art. Conseil juridique et artistique / Legal and Artistic Counsel features the transcript of their conversation (French with English translation) and illustrations by the artist.

For more information, please visit: http://audreychan.net/conseil-juridique-et-artistique/

Conseil juridique et artistique (Legal and Artistic Counsel) will be featured in the upcoming exhibition:

By and For: Democracy and Art
An exhibition organized by the Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, curated by Carol A. Wells

June 11-July 3, 2011
Opening Reception: June 11, 2011, 7-10pm
Closing Reception: July 3, 2011, 2-4pm
Avenue 50 Studio, 131 North Avenue 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042

Contemporary artists address the shifting meanings of freedom and equality, censorship and civil liberties and specifically, consider the role of art in a democracy in their works.

Thirty works were selected by curator, activist and art historian Carol A. Wells, who also serves as the founder and executive director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

Artists: Mariona Barkus, Ulla Barr, Yvonne Beatty, Christine Behnen, Tristan Blodgett, Christina Carroll, Audrey Chan, Bayesteh Ghaffary, Michael Graham, Leslie Gray, Karen Gutfreund, Sinan Leong Revell, Larry Lytle, Barbara Margolies, Silva Matossian, Felicia Montes, O O, Sheila Pinkel, Chris Ramos, Jeffrey Robison, Catherine Ruanne, Amy Spain and France White

FULL-LENGTH VIDEO DOCUMENTATION:

Introduction by Leslie Dick and presentation of “c. 7,500″

Panel discussion with Elana Mann (moderator), Andrea Fraser, Catherine Lord, and Mary Kelly

Panel discussion with Theresa Masangkay (moderator), María Cruz, Chitra Ganesh, Faith Wilding, and Emily Roysdon

Panel discussion with Martha Rosler, Dorit Cypis, Andrea Bowers, and Audrey Chan (moderator)

Exquisite Acts & Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium was a student-organized project that took place at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California in March 2007. For more information, please visit: exquisiteacts.org.

Video credits:
Cameras - Adam Feldmeth, Nicholas Grider
Video Editor - Audrey Chan
Sound - Emery Martin

I Voted for Shirley, photograph and twine, edition of 5, 2009-11

DAN GRAHAM, a project space run by artist Aaron Wrinkle, is participating in the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair from January 27-30, 2011. The booth will feature limited editions by artists who have created projects at DAN GRAHAM’s Echo Park and Chinatown locations since 2009. My contribution is a limited edition of photo prints of my installation “I Voted for Shirley” that was created for “1969,” an evening of performances organized by artist Vincent Ramos. The homage to Shirley Chisholm’s election to the U.S. House of Representatives was rendered in twine on Glendale Boulevard with the assistance of my mother. The edition includes a bundle of the same twine, to be used as desired.

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DAN GRAHAM booth
Art Los Angeles Contemporary
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
January 27-30, 2011

Photo credit: Elana Mann

I recently participated in Collective Show LA, an exhibition featuring artist-run spaces and projects in Los Angeles. Accompanied by special guest Jennifer Li, I performed a gallery-centric version of “Counts of 8,” a tap dance demo first created for A Day in LA: Washington Boulevard Art Concert in 2009. The Los Angeles Road Concert series is organized by Stephen van Dyck.

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COLLECTIVE SHOW LOS ANGELES

Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years. Over 20 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. Screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and PDFs will be available online after the show.

COLLECTIVE SHOW LOS ANGELES 2011
LOCATION 995, 997 North Hill Street Los Angeles CA 90012
RECEPTION Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm
EXHIBITION Friday through Sunday, January 21-23, 2011, 12-6 pm & Thursday through Sunday, January 27-30, 2011, 12-6 pm

LOS ANGELES 2011 PARTICIPATING GROUPS
323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, ART2102 of Los Angeles, ACP (Artist Curated Projects), CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham, Darin Klein & Friends, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, JMOCA (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL, Monte Vista, [name], NIGHT GALLERY, Open Arms, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summercamp’s Projectproject, Workspace, WPA, and upcoming Collective Show hosts: Ditch Projects (Oregon) GIBSMIR-Family (Zurich) and Secondhome Projects (Berlin)

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