As we shift into fall, here’s a look back at all of the events at Side Street Projects. Thanks to everyone for all of your hard work, love and attendance at so many events! And a big thanks to Side Street Projects and the Pasadena Art Alliance for making this whole residency possible
Summercamp's ProjectProject in partnership with Side Street Projects invites you to Fall Residency II: Welcome an ongoing open door installation with works by resident artists May Jong, Kristi Lippire, Chris Oatey, Erin Payne, Yoshie Sakai, Alejandro Sanchez and Gabie Strong. In conjunction with the the outdoor exhibition, Fall Residency II: Welcome is punctuated by a series of events and workshops to reveal the evolving nature of the collaborative site-specific works. Organized by Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera Norris & Janice Gomez.
Summercamp’s Side Street Fair with Full Moon Pickles and mEAT
by Steve Bankhead and Jen Smith
August 31st 5-9PM
Afternoon Enchantments- Rituals For Finding Your Way Home
with Nathan Bockelman and Amanda Yates
September 16th 5-8PM
Morning Exercises
with Anna Oxygen
September 29th 10:30-11:30AM
Artist Reception and ArtNight
with Eternal Telethon
October 12th 6-10PM
Additional
workshops by: Steve Bankhead, Nathan Bockelman, Eternal Telethon,
Janice Gomez, Fatima Hoang, Cindi Kusuda, Kristi Lippire, Elonda Billera
Norris, Anna Oxygen and Jen Smith. For a full description of workshops
please visit summercamprojectproject.org or sidestreet.org
Side Street Projects, 730 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91103 August 31-October 12, 2012 M-F 10AM-5PM, Saturday 11AM-1PM
For Fall Residency II:Welcome,
artists May Jong, Kristi Lippire, Chris Oatey, Erin Payne, Yoshie
Sakai, Alejandro Sanchez and Gabie Strong strive to propel their energy
into Side Street’s current lot in North Pasadena by creating a space
that encourages hospitality. The building and installing process will be
an active and interactive part of the exhibition for the community of
Northwest Pasadena and the art community at large.
Erin Payne’s
work considers the role that artifice and “transitional objects” play
in piecing together an understanding of our place within nature. At Side
Street, Payne’s painted canvas becomes an organic topiary archway for
people entering through the front gates. Kristi Lippire
makes large scale objects that reference the visual culture that
surrounds her every day. The sculptures are explorations in scale and
material, isolating moments in everyday life that are found to be
interesting in a manner that emphasizes the humor of a complex social
culture. In this exhibit, Lippire and Payne are building upon their
ideas in the form of a lenticular sculpture resembling a billboard
facing the street.
Further inside the Side Street lot, Alejandro Sanchez
creates a small space that acts, but does not function as a backyard
wedding reception. Playing on the idea of the wedding, traditionally
considered to be one of the most elegant moments in one’s life, it
becomes a place of transformation and familiarity when mixed with the
space of the backyard. Sanchez will periodically display a 1950 Hudson
that he is currently customizing acts as the “Just Married” car. The
vehicle at this stage is not complete, but is in transition- gradually
transforming throughout the exhibition.
May Jong’s recent work explores humankind's relationship to the natural environment, whether mutually beneficial, detrimental or neutral. Gabie Strong
explores spaces of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to
improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Her work is a
study of two arcs of research and the relationships that form between
them: the history of the built environment and social culture of the
West; and the radical, subversive resistance to convention. Together,
Jong and Strong, navigate through the old barbershop foundation
producing new paths using dirt, concrete and spray paint relating to a
map under the nearby shade canopy.
Yoshie Sakai’s
strung candy necklace umbrellas provide shade yet create an uneasy
environment that embodies her love-hate relationship with consumerism
and pop culture. Sakai’s work simultaneously perpetuates both ecstasy
and extreme anxiety in quotidian life. Through concrete pavers, Chris Oatey
utilizes processes that embrace randomness and continually reinvents
them in order to create unexpected relationships between material and
form. Oatey’s finished pieces are the result of performative methods
that emphasize the handmade.
Events for Fall Residency II: Welcome
On August 31st from 5-9PM, Steve Bankhead and Jen Smith join forces tohost Summercamp’s Side Street Fair with Full Moon Pickles and mEAT.
This backyard bar-b-que, complete with a pork roast and fixins is open
to all. Please pick some flowers to put on the table in exchange for a
plate. Sounds by Lee Harding & Amy Radio.
On September 16th from 5-8PM Nathan Bockelman and Amanda Yates will cast a magical evening- Afternoon Enchantments- Rituals For Finding Your Way Home. Join
us from 5-7:15PM to create your Los Angeles totem, then at 7:30PM Yates
and Bockelman will lead a procession and ceremony to charge the totems
with power.
Sweat it out on September 29th from 10:30-11:30AM with Anna Oxygen’sMorning Exercises. Be sure to bring some water and loose comfortable clothing.
During Pasadena ArtNight, October 12th 6-10PM, Eternal Telethon continues
their series of webcast telethons raising funds to build an artist’s
retirement community at the Salton Sea. For this event, artists will
perform for the live audience as well as those watching online at
eternaltelethon.com
Ingredients for the backyard bar-b-que supported in part by Whole Foods Market Arroyo. This project is made possible through a grant from the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Looking into Secret Space to find Dream kitchens. (photo credit: Christina Pierson)
Thanks to all of you for coming and making Sunday such a grand event. Jen Smith's Pickling Demonstration started us rolling with the words, "There is no wrong way to make a pickle." Empowering us all to let our freak pickle fly!
Check out images from the opening- including what is going on in Secret Space- on Devon Tsuno's Flickr page.
Again, many thanks for rolling Sisyphus and Newton up the hill, saving it from crashing into Chris's prototype and Carmine's cement blocks on it's way down, crawling into Christy and Yoshie's intimate spaces, getting psychedelic in Goat Space with bear frogs and lizard people, and not dispersing despite our unlawful assembly! Let's keep it going.
Gaye Chan Chris Ellis Carmine Iannoccone Jason Kunke Yoshie Sakai Jen Smith Ryan Taber Mercedes Teixido and Christy Roberts in Guestroom
Summercamp’s ProjectProject presents, Start the ball rolling again, an outdoor group exhibition of artists who re-purpose ideas and translate materials. Organized by Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera & Janice Gomez.
Mercedes Teixido’s Sisyphus and Newton, a big boulder (painted giant ball) to be pushed up or rolled down Summercamp’s ProjectProject’s hill becomes a theatrical and playful version of the task. Teixido is interested in concepts related to the domestic sphere; its histories, presence and mostly the people that inhabit them. Investigating history in many different spheres, Ryan Taber mines the canon and explores the linkages. Taber codifies and re-contextualizes his findings into newly crafted objects, drawing and sculptures.
To find the hidden forms that authority takes in art, and vice versa, Jason Kunke pursues his desire to want to be a cop, or at least, an artist who acts like a cop, investigating where authority and aesthetics coexist. Common wisdom considers authority and art as oppositional, and the artist as a transgressor of authority. Kunke thinks they contain each other, and the apparent opposition is just one way the authoritative structure manifests within art.
Understanding the notion of common standardized units, Carmine Iannoccone tests his memory of the ubiquitous “eight inch regular” and gives them an embodied presence by hand building cement blocks without measuring tools and molds. The eight inch regular is cheap and employed in the most democratic of ways by absolutely everyone, from the huge building contractor responsible for vast swaths of urban infrastructure, to the solitary homeowner building a property wall on the weekend, to the dorm-room denizen jury-rigging a quick set of bookshelves. Iannoccone creates a liquid set of correspondences and exchanges: between the art store and Home Depot, between the studio site and the construction site, between industrial engineering and fine art, between craftsmanship in sculpture and craftsmanship in the building trades, between uniformity and irregularity, between blue collars and white collars, between critical thinking and manual labor.
In an investigation of the “working prototype”, Chris Ellis contrasts the differences in the static and the kinetic object to see what relationships may happen between the two. With Prototype of Mechanics of Transition there are multiple ways to manipulate and move the structure while encountering physical parameters or limitations that guide the experience. While Ellis encourages perpetual structured change, Gaye Chan re-purposes a ceramic frog/bear from the lost and found unclaimed communal glazeware shelf to reclaim existence and poses the question, “Did it turn out so differently than intended that you fail to recognize it, or was the shock of recognition so horrifying that you simply fled?”
In secret space, Yoshie Sakai’s Dream kitchens. video installation will be investigating the “kitchen” and its related aspects from the functional to basically, the kitchen as an emotional hub. There will be videos simultaneously projected onto kitchen-related items. The videos will range from an original cooking show broadcast made specifically for this piece juxtaposed with selected scenes from various kitchens/chefs from different families, restaurants, dormitories, etc., wherever the everyday (un)magic is happening.
Summercamp’s ProjectProject will host a hands on pickle demonstration with artist and cook, Jen Smith. Smith aims to negotiate a synthesis between her formal aesthetics, social practice project of pickling and day job as a caterer. Interested in a dialogical aesthetic that encourages critical investigation, communication and fellowship, Smith hopes that is what these community canning exercises bring to participants. Please BYOV (Bring Your Own Vegetables). Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot with a $5 donation (materials, except vegetables, included). All proceeds go to the artist.
In addition to Start the ball rolling again, Christy Roberts will take over Guestroom, an intimate space that features a single artist. She will create a platform for dialogue using local concerns of El Sereno as a driving tool. In a previous site determined project, Roberts stated “I was trying to help the land with my art project, at the end of the day, the land is bigger than I am, with an agenda larger than mine. The process itself, then, became a symbolization of our relationship to the land. We can affect the land, but ultimately, the land has the final say. By destroying the land, we do not kill the planet, we make it for ourselves.”
Click here for more detailed information about the exhibition.
