Saturday April, 13th
The Public School Los Angeles
4:00 pm
A series of short presentations by international members of the Creative Resistance Research Network, The Protest Camps Research Collective, Scapegoat, Occupy Research Collective, and the AAG Subconference. A reception will follow.
co-presented with Colectivo Acratas Los Angeles.
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Free Guide #3, Available Now- Co-produced with Content-Object.
Cultivate a position.
An Antagonist’s Guide To the Assholes Of Los Angeles traces a history, theory, and sites for creative agonistic social and political practice in LA. The guide annotates over 80 places; banks, businesses, politicians and polluters, war contractors, institutions, a troll, a yeller, and a cruel mis-dial. The list was sourced through an open public call and research. The guide frames for its users sites worthy of creative exploration throughout Los Angeles. We hope your practice benefits from it.
The guide also includes short essays framing antagonism within Los Angeles’ social and cultural history; contributions by The Llano Del Rio Collective, Marisa Jahn, Lisa Anne Auerbach, Laura Pullido, and Jennifer Flores Sternad.
The guide is available for free to all residents of LA County. Guides may be found at designated locations, or may be requested (by county residents) by post by contacting llanodelrio@gmail.com while they last.
Anyone can purchse a guide by contacting Half Letter Press .
Locations to find An Antagonist’s Guide To Assholes of Los Angeles will soon include:
LACE
Southern California Library For Social Justice
The Public School
Mandrake Bar
Highways Performance Space
Machine Project
USC
Otis
Calarts
Art Center
CSULA
Claremont Colleges
Tribal Café
LA EcoVillage
Libros Shmibros
Human Resources
Hive gallery
Otherwild
Echo Park Film Center
The Last Bookstore
Laxart
Thank You For Coming
1642 Bar
Fowler Museum UCLA
Santa Monica Museum
An Antagonist’s Guide to the Assholes In LA is the 3rd free map/guide to Los Angeles by the Llano Del Rio Collective. Past guides are A Map For An Other LA (sites of collectivist projects) and Scores For The City (locations for aberrant public behavior).
photo credit: Alice Cunt (with Ajax and Isaac Jorel Ledesma) , The satanic progression of a Diva obsessed, The satanic obsession of a Diva Possessed, March 2011, at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Photo by Takahiro Yamamoto and www.nativestrategiesla.com
March 3
1 – 3 PM
Human Resources, Chinatown LA
To celebrate the release of An Antagonist’s Guide to The Assholes Of Los Angeles, the Llano Del Rio Collective will be hosting this celebration and self-initiated performance festival to take place on the street corner in front of Human Resources.
We ask, if you can, bring an image of someone (you, your big mouth, those shits in the Geo Group, your buddy Stanky flipping off the Mayor, Bank of America, Donald Trump) being some kind of antagonist or douche bag (this is the self-initiated performance festival part). Then bring it down to Human Resources and scotch tape it to the wall out front (we’ll bring the tape).
At 2:00 Lisa Anne Auerbach, Jen Hofer, Janet Sarbanes, and Stephen Van Dyke will read some vitriol. Then we’ll drink prune juice.
Llano Del Rio / Content Object
Update (3/6/13): nice report about this weekend’s events from the LA Weekly
An abandoned shoe, a rotten tooth, a snub nose, the cook spitting in the soup of his masters are to love what a battle flag is to nationality.
An umbrella, a sexagenarian, a seminarian, the smell of rotten eggs, the hollow eyes of judges are the roots that nourish love.
A dog devouring the stomach of a goose, a drunken vomiting woman, a slobbering accountant, a jar of mustard represent the confusion that serves as the vehicle of love.
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A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.
Georges Bataille, excerpts from The Solar Anus[1]
This guide frames for users sites worthy of creative exploration in Los Angeles. We hope your practice benefits from it. The guide was sketched out asking L.A. citizens where jerks and assholes dwell. The responses locate banks and businesses, politicians and polluters, war contractors and museums. Here also is a neighborhood troll and a crappy teacher. The hobo folk singer Utah Phillips said “The earth is not dying it is being killed, and the people who are killing it have names and addresses”. If Phillips is correct we aim to locate these spaces as sights for arts in the expansive field.
The Llano Del Rio Collective has contributed to this excellent anthology edited by Amber Hickey.
34 visionary creative thinkers and makers contributed to this book which illuminates ways of devising more socially, economically, and ecologically just versions of now.
In Los Angeles this Saturday the 28th, there will be a launch event at the Last Bookstore
Friday Feb 24th
The Public School Chinatown 951 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012
8:00 pm
A presentation and discussion with Dan Wang about one of the most significant social movements to emerge from the United States in a generation. Come participate in a discussion about the prospects for the Wisconsin movement and what it means in the context of Occupy, the Arab Spring, labor unrest in China, and the European politics of austerity.
Dan S. Wang is a writer, artist, organizer, and printer living in Madison, Wisconsin. He teaches printmaking at Columbia College Chicago. His critical writings have been published in journals, exhibition catalogues, and book collections. He has lectured at The Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), Kansas City Art Institute, Salzburger Kunstverein, Art Institute of Chicago, Depot for Kunst and Diskussion (Vienna), Documenta 12 (Kassel, Germany), the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), and the third Creative Time Summit (New York).
Dec. 10th
496 N. Douglas St. between Mariposa Ave. and El Segundo Blvd. in El Segundo, CA
En Plein Air in El Segundo was an outdoor “draw-in” that took place on the streets of El Segundo near Northrop Grumman and the LA Air Force Base. Led by artist Hillary Mushkin with poets Diane Ward and Jane Sprague discussing landscapes, ports, and poetics.
KCET’s Departures came out and wrote a nice summary of the event that you can read here!
