Audrey Chan.

Bloodlines: an evening of video & performance

Saturday December 3, 2011, 7-9pm
Craftswoman House, 929 North Oakland Ave, Pasadena, CA 91104

Katie Cercone, Audrey Chan, Jeseca Dawson, Jessica Dolence, Kara Hern, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Michele Jaquis, Melissa Potter, Linda Ravenswood, and Nooshin Rostami

Curated by Launa Bacon and Cindy Rehm

Craftswoman House is honored to present Bloodlines, an evening of video and performance from 7-9pm in conjunction with the closing of the exhibition Stemma. Like the matriarchs of the second-wave, these artists make work that reflects women’s lives and experiences. They explore subjects of gender, identity, domestic life, and the female body, through video and performance.

Craftswoman House is a new venue dedicated to fostering a dialogue on feminist issues through projects and exhibitions. Craftswoman House is inspired by collective projects such as Womanhouse, and pays homage to the rich legacy of feminist art in Southern California. (http://craftswomanhouse.com/)

Image: Audrey Chan will perform her homage to feminist powerhouse Judy Chicago. (photo by Jason Pierre)

Thursday, November 10, 2011
6-10 pm

Silent Art Auction and Craft Beer Tasting
Presented by Bowmont Art Partners
with proceeds to benefit East of Borneo

Bowmont Art Partners presents On Tap: The First Annual Art & Beer Invitational, featuring the freshest of what’s brewing in the local art and craft beer scene today. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg (LAXART), Thomas Lawson (CalArts), Franklin Sirmans (LACMA), Ali Subotnick (Hammer Museum) and Dean Valentine (Bowmont Art Partners), the silent auction includes over 30 original artworks donated by young and emerging artists, with sales and event proceeds to benefit East of Borneo, a nonprofit collaborative online magazine of contemporary art and its history as seen from Los Angeles. The evening will also feature a special selection of California craft beers presented by Dale Bros. Brewery.

Tickets: $20 / $10 students with ID

Artists:
Joshua Callaghan
Audrey Chan
Zoe Crosher
Asad Faulwell
Patricia Fernandez
Liz Glynn
Peter Harkawik
Loren Holland
Sanya Kantarovsky
Andrew Lewicki
Caitlin Lonegan
Dashiell Manley
Matthias Merkel Hess
Allison Miller
Lesley Moon
Alex Olson
Marina Pinsky
Chadwick Rantanen
Fay Ray
Sarah Rossiter

Bowmont Art Collection at the
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave., Suite B200
Los Angeles, CA 90069
map

Bowmont Art Partners makes the art world more accessible by creating links between artists, collectors, institutions and the financial community. www.bowmontartpartners.com

Artist presentation by Audrey Chan at “Still Doin’ It: Fanning the Flames of the Woman’s Building” at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles on October 16, 2011. The symposium/convening/reunion offered a dialogue between feminist artists then and now. Featured artists included: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Susan E. King, Suzanne Lacy, Audrey Chan, Onya Hogan-Finlay, and Elana Mann.

The event coincided with the exhibition “Doin’ It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building”, part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time initiative.

Special thanks to Meg Linton (Curator and Director of Galleries and Exhibitions, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design) and Paige Tighe (Curatorial Associate).

* Note: I was in costume as Judy Chicago.

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.

Sunday, October 16, Otis College of Art and Design
9-9:30am: Check-in with The Waitresses
9:30am-12pm: Artists’ presentations at Otis with Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Susan E. King, Suzanne Lacy, Audrey Chan, Onya Hogan-Finlay, and Elana Mann
12-1pm: Lunch (available for purchase on campus)
12:45-1:15pm: Feminist Art Workers, Heaven or Hell?
1:15-2:15pm: Facilitated group conversation led by Anne Swartz
2:15-2:30pm: Wrap up and Conclusion
Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90045
General $25 / Students & Faculty $10
Purchase online www.brownpapertickets.com/event/191265

Skirball Cultural Center
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

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/