JOHN MINER’S PRINT FACTORY NOVEMBER 27TH-28TH

Come to Federal Art Project this weekend for live screen printing by John Miner and guest artists Karen Fiorito, Jesse V., Tony Clough and Andrew Sifuentes. Purchase affordable limited edition and one of a kind prints and t-shirts.

Interview by Curator York Chang

Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:00- 5:00pm

Please join us for the first public discussion in the U.S. with one of the founding members of the visceral realist movement, Argentine artist/provocateur Gustavo E. Raynal. We will be discussing the problematics of non-violence in art, his ideas around “confrontational aesthetics,” and the potential for radical political change through cultural production.

Raynal Biography:

In 1998, Gustavo E. Raynal first presented the influential seminal text Towards a Theory of Institutional Rupture (link to the text) at a workshop in Buenos Aires on contemporary art and politics, laying out an argument for confrontation and disaster as a both a creative strategy and artistic goal. At the end of the workshop, he and four other artists founded a group known as the visceral realists, taking their name from a controversial 1970’s poetry movement in Mexico City, which later became the basis of the acclaimed novel Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. From 1998-2002, the visceral realists undertook a series of anarchistic activities which sought to disrupt the Latin American commercial art market, and eventually grew to include thirty-two artist members from four different countries. The economic crisis of 2000 further radicalized the work and activities of the Visceral Realists, resulting in the cancellation of a major retrospective planned by the Fundación Telefónicas and leading to the dissolution of the group itself in 2002.

Raynal’s diverse body of work includes “uprisings,” a form of confrontational performance art that systematically targeted museum boards of directors and curators, in an effort to turn the very institution of the museum itself into a visceral realist sculpture. In 2000, he was arrested when he flew to São Paolo and got into an altercation with the President of the São Paulo Biennale Board, returning home to both critical acclaim and controversy. He moved his studio to Mexico City in 2004, where he continues to work, and where he says confrontation and creativity is everywhere.

About the Exhibition:

Independent artist/curator York Chang produces a new genre work of experimental fiction, investigating catastrophe & economic crisis in the first U.S. exhibition of the Latin American artist collective known as The Visceral Realists. Accompanied by a 96 page limited edition publication The Journal of Implied Violence.

Burn is the first video piece by artist Vincent Valdez. Produced by Federal Art Project with cinematography and editing by Luis Guizar, the work consists of an LA cityscape and portraits of 50 Los Angeles residents from various backgrounds. It was produced for a new solo show by Valdez now on exhibit at Federal Art Project entitled Burn. The work is available for sale in a limited edition run on Blu Ray DVD. It is enclosed in a handmade box and includes an original portrait of selected participants. For more information contact Pete Galindo at pgalindo@federalartproject.net.

Federal Art Project invites artists from diverse disciplines to shoot 100 feet of 35mm motion picture film.
Films will be screened on August 13, 2009 at Federal Art Project. [link to PDF of Artist call]

GUIDELINES:

-To be shot on August 7-8, 2009 at gallery, by appointment.
-100′ of 35mm film, limited variety stock available or artist may supply stock on a Kodak core.
-No sound track.
-Must be shot on available camera: Konvas 2M, 24fps sync, 8-12-24-25-32 fps- 16mm -200mm Primes,
25-250mm zoom.
-Academy Aperture (full 35mm frame) otherwise one matte crop will be allowed to a standard frame size.
-To be shot within gallery space, no modification of the gallery space (no painting, no adding walls, etc.),
backdrops, props and cast allowed.
-Camera is not allowed to see outside of gallery space, e.g., through doors or windows.
-Should be executed within 30 minutes.
-In camera editing/start-stop shooting allowed.
-Special lighting needs to be specified by artist. Lighting is available.
-Artist may choose to operate or be cinematographer, no outside cinematographer.
(Default operator/cinematographer will be the Curator.)
-Only the tail or the head of the film will be cut to accommodate the mandatory 1,440 final frames (1 min.)
for presentation. (10′ of 100′ are intended for technical purposes; un/loading flashes, color chart,
frame chart, etc.)

PRESENTATION:
Films will be screened continuously on opening day, August 13, 2009, 6p. Each 1440 set will have a
digital title card with artist name. Films will be projected onto an 8′x6′ screen with black border from
a high-resolution digital projector at standard playback.

SUBMISSION (Deadline July 29 ):

- Artist Biography or Statement.
- Proposed use of 100′ of 35mm film
- 1 page combined maximum.
- Please place this information in upper right corner: Name, Phone and Email
- Print submission to .pdf (.doc,.rtf,.txt files ok) and email to above address, or hand deliver to gallery drop box.

If you would like to visit the space please make an appointment or to see a daily schedule go to
federalartproject.net. [link to layout of space.] Multiple submissions permitted, but artist will only
be allowed one 1440 frame set.

Selected submissions will be announced on Federalartproject.net on Friday evening, July 31.
If accepted, a materials fee of $50 will be applied; covers processing, transfer and film stock (200T &
500T color negative) unless otherwise specified by artist. Limited selection on hand.
Artist will receive a DVD copy of all films shot and an HD file of their project.
Individual film will be under license of artist.

Federal Art Project will not have individual rights, but will hold license over the “1440 Frames” as a collection (for details contact Pete Galindo at pgalindo@federalartproject.net).

For more information or to make an appointment to visit the gallery contact: Luis Guizar, curator, lguizar@federalartproject.net

PDF of Announcement [link]

Gallery Map [link]

JUNE 11TH – JULY 4TH (VISITS BY APPOINTMENT)

Appointments available Thursday-Sunday after 4pm, contact Christian Frizzell at (213) 706-6366

OPENING EVENT: JUNE 11,2009 6-9PM

CLOSING EVENT JULY 4, 2009 6-9PM

Keith Boadwee curates “Children of the Revolution”, an exhibition showcasing current and past students. Participating artists include Patrick Rock, Elisheva Biernoff, Luke Butler, Joshua Pieper, Linze Luna, Ryan Verzaal, Isaac Gray, Kelly Eginton, Lena Daly, James Bradley, Erin Allen, Calvin Trezise, Brice Bischoff, Jee Kim, Chris Hood , Tim Sullivan, and Brian Wasson.

“With Children of The Revolution I started thinking about this idea of education and teaching and “passing the torch.” I went to UCLA and studied with Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Charlie Ray and Roger Herman. I feel that they’ve all been very influential on my practice. I always think about that “brotherhood” and the responsibility of sharing the information. Like the SKULL AND BONES Society at Yale, that secret brotherhood that a lot of big time politicians have been a members of, I sort of think about this brotherhood as being akin to that. A secret society where we share and pass on information that manifests itself in our works but that the general public is not really privy too.”

(click here for website)

Thursday, May 14, 2009

12pm – 9 pm • Free Admission
(limited hours at some venues where noted on the Art Walk map)

Harry Gamboa Jr. & Willie HerrónIII

Willie Herrón III and Harry Gamboa Jr discuss Regeneración,
a Chicano newspaper published in the early 70’s that was a
catalyst for the formation of ASCO.

photo by Harry Gamboa Jr

Saturday, May 23rd 4pm-6pm

A panel moderated by Colin Gunckel of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center will discuss The Vex, a punk venue in East LA that brought together local musicians and visual artists. The panel will include “Land of a Thousand Dances” Authors David Reyes and Tom Waldman, Willie Herrón, and Jesus Velo (member of Los Illegals).