Last OsCene Events: Allen and LaFarge Performance and Portfolio Review

This Sunday is the last day to check out Laguna Art Museum's OsCene 2010: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC, and it is also the last day of programming for the exhibition.

On Sunday, May 16th the Museum will be hosting two exciting events:

Live Performance by Robert Allen and Antoinette LaFarge of their video installation: Hangmen Also Die (12:00 p.m.):

Hangmen Also Die is a multi-media performance orchestrated by OsCene 2010 artists Robert Allen and Antoinette LaFarge. The work begins with a monologue by a live actor interacting with the projected environment. The live performance then merges with the projection, creating a recurring environment that changes over the course of a 70-minute cycle. The installation slowly breaks up as Allen and LaFarge note, “triggering successive attempts to salvage meaning by re-interpolating material.” Ultimately, the work almost completely disintegrates. The actor’s performance reflects upon issues of political actions and systemic consequences drawing from a number of texts addressing these concerns: The Measures Taken (1930) by Bertolt Brecht; Hangmen Also Die! (1943) by Bertolt Brecht, John Wexley, and Fritz Lang; Mauser (1976) by Heiner Müller; and recent U.S. government documents.

Actor: John Mellies
Videographer: Amy Kaczur

Following the performance is a Portfolio Review For Art Students (1:00 p.m.)
An afternoon of portfolio reviews by industry professionals for students who are interested in attending art school and questioning how they will further their practice.

>> FREE for Museum Members, free for non-members with paid admission.

>> For more information, please contact Jackie Bunge at 949.494.8971 x207.

Come and take advantage of these special events and afterward have a last look at the OsCene 2010 exhibition that is closing that day!!!

Curatorial Walk-Through on November 8

Join us for a personalized tour of Laguna Art Museum's permanent collection exhibition Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum on November 8 at 1:00 p.m. Members of the curatorial team, as well as participating artists, will be in attendance. This is a great opportunity to hear, from the experts, about the historical and contemporary art that will be featured in the exhibition.
Curatorial members include Susan Anderson, Janet Blake, Jacqueline Bunge, Bolton Colburn, Doug Harvey, Grace Kook-Anderson, and Tyler Stallings.

This event is free for Museum members. Not yet a member? Become one today!

For more information, contact Jackie Bunge at 949.494.8971 x 207.

"Stranger Comes To Town" this Sunday!
This weekend at Laguna Art Museum...
A conversation with New York-based Artist Jacqueline Goss
Sunday, July 26 1:00pm in the California Gallery
http://ping.fm/HSL0b

Conversation with Artist Jacqueline Goss on July 26

Jacqueline Goss, based in New York, creates film and video in order to explore the ways we think about ourselves through systemic machines, like politics, culture, and science. Goss will talk about her work in game space, animation, and the documentary form.

Her most recent videos are “How To Fix The World” --a look at Soviet-sponsored literacy programs in 1930’s Central Asia and “Stranger Comes To Town” –an animated documentary about the identity-tracking of immigrants and travelers coming into the United States (now on view at Laguna Art Museum).

A native of New Hampshire, she attended Brown University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York. She is a 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellow and the 2007 recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in film and Video.

Her current project is “G10” --an animated fictional film about ten characters from various countries who meet at a Swiss hotel during a conference on globalism.

Who: Artist Jacqueline Goss
What: Lecture by artist currently showcased at Laguna Art Museum
When: July 26 at 1:00 pm
Where: Laguna Art Museum 307 Cliff Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Why: To learn about new media practices from a practicing artist

Click here to see Goss' official website.