Help Kickstart Liza Wade Green's Hill House Mine

photo by Carrie Leonard

HILL HOUSE MINE is a dance/theatre work set in five rooms and the backyard of a midcentury modern home in the hills of Los Angeles, CA. Part haunted house, part live installation, HILL HOUSE MINE takes the audience on a journey through each room of the residence and explores a world where the fantasies of childhood become truth and the realities of loss are buried. The story follows a family coping with two tragic deaths. As the audience travels through the house they meet different family members and piece together a puzzle of death, dance, memory, and time.

Six performers from New York and Los Angeles use movement and text to bring the characters to life as they connect to the house’s architectural details. Hidden passageways, plastic-covered furniture, an expansive sloping yard, and a claw foot tub all add to the eerie backdrop for this interactive experience. Brick and mortar give way to the home’s memories and dreams, while the performers awaken its ghosts and rumors – all giving voice to a family in transition.

HILL HOUSE MINE is specifically for the midcentury modern home that hosts Summercamp’s ProjectProject in the neighborhood of El Sereno, Los Angeles and will be performed on August 19 and 21, 2011.

The site-specific work is written and choreographed by Brooklyn-based theatre artist Liza Wade Green in collaboration with six performers from both coasts.
Here’s where you come in!

By donating through this handy Kickstarter page, you’ll help HILL HOUSE MINE become a reality and receive some great rewards in the process! Your donation will help cover artists’ stipends, rehearsal space rental, travel expenses, and costumes, as well as video, audio, and other technical elements of the show. Please help this bi-coastal collaboration come to life!

Rolling... and Action!

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.

Summer is around the corner and so are we!

Start the ball rolling again

Opening Reception Sunday, June 12th from 5-8PM
Pickling Demonstration with Jen Smith from 4-6PM

Exhibition runs from June 12th to July 2nd

Summercamp's ProjectProject 3119 Chadwick Dr. LA, CA 90032

Hours by appointment, please contact summercampprojectproject@gmail.com

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.

Hollywood Stardom! Re-Visions of LA

Come to LACE and draw forts and still lives with us on Hollywood Blvd this Sunday, May 1st from 1-4PM. As a part of their ongoing ASAP (After School Arts Program) Re-Visions of LA drawing workshops, Summercamp's ProjectProject's own Fatima Hoang, Elonda Billera, Janice Gomez & Sean Tan will be on hand to draw and converse with any and all who stop by.

Discos, Camp Tours and New Edition

"...and this is where Goatspace is."

The past few weeks have been busy here at ye olde Summercamp. It's foxtail season again, and you know what that means! Weeds are getting whacked as we ramp up for the summer season.

In preseason news, Occidental College's Contemporary Art/Institutions in LA class led by the multi-talented Aandrea Stang, dropped by for an informational lecture, tour and glass of refreshing iced tea (with an optional Red Vine). 

ah memories... FEJ at CGU

We were also invited by Christy Roberts to lead a discussion at our (FEJ's) alma mater for the SNATCH Disco- a Claremont Graduate University student discussion group on the subject of Political, Public, and Activist Art, and Alternative/Non-Traditional Spaces.  It was fun to visit the old haunt and hear about all of the new goings on. There's a lot of activity going on at CGU and their open studios are May 1st so you can check it out for yourself!

To help with all of this (and more!) pregame activity, we have a new member of the Summercamp's ProjectProject team. We would like to introduce you Sean Tan, our Intern from University Of California Riverside. He introduced himself to us this past January after a lecture we gave to his class Proximity and Access: An Artists' Field Guide to LA Art. We are so excited to have Sean on board, please welcome him and introduce yourself at our next shindig.

Sean and Wolfie

sharedspace sneak peek

Matt MacFarland's Tourists

 

Anita Bunn, Ryan Lamb and Julie Schustack STACK!

Chelsea Dean's Linoleum block prints and Devon Tsuno's Palm

Amy Maloof's Leftovers

The whole gang!

Join us at the Collective Show Los Angeles Opening this Thursday, January 20th from 6-9 at 995, 997 Hill Street in Chinatown. We are excited to share works by Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Ryan Lamb, Amy Maloof, Matt MacFarland, Julie Schustack and Devon Tsuno!

We're going to China(town)!

What other way to start the new year than to have a gathering of gatherings!?! Summercamp's ProjectProject is participating in Collective Show, Los Angeles where multiple groups, artists, performers, writers are invited to represent their organization through whatever form they see fit. For our part, we've invited Anita Bunn, Chelsea Dean, Ryan Lamb, Amy Maloof, Matt MacFarland, Julie Schustack and Devon Tsuno to share work in a shared space.

To help with the event, you can chip in some dough, coins, and buckaroos here:
Help kickstart it up! 


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COLLECTIVE SHOW LAUNCHES LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION
Los Angeles, CA – January 11, 2011 – Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los
Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los
Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects
formed in the past five years.

Previously realized in New York in 2009 and 2010, Collective Show exhibits local art groups that work in
a growing space between established non-profit organizations and commercial galleries. These groups
explore a wide range of collaborative approaches and missions, often in flexible and adaptive conditions
with an emphasis on communities and conversations.

Over 30 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space
in Chinatown. In addition, screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A
catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will be available at www.collectiveshow.org/LA
Participating groups include: 323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, Art 2102 of
Los Angeles, ACP (Artist Curated Projects), CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham,
Darin Klein & Friends, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle
group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Human Resources, J
Moca (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL,
Monte Vista, [Name], NIGHT GALLERY, Open Arms, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School,
Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summercamp's ProjectProject, Workspace, WPA, and upcoming Collective Show hosts: Ditch Projects (Oregon) GIBSMIR-Family (Zurich) and Secondhome Projects (Berlin).

Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 is organized by artist groups ACP (Artist Curated Projects), Human
Resources, [Name], Night Gallery, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery
and Workspace. Collective Show was founded by collaborators from New York and Los Angeles, and
aims to further creative relationships by providing an open-source format for locally organized shows.
Collective Show is not-for-profit, volunteer organized, and is free and open to the public. To learn more
about Collective Show, please visit us online at www.collectiveshow.org
* * *

Public Hours

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm

Exhibition Hours: Friday, January 21 to Sunday, January 23, 2011, 12-6 pm

and Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, January 30, 2011, 12-6 pm

Location 995, 997 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Events

Please see the calendar at www.collectiveshow.org/LA for listings of screenings, performances and talks.

About Collective Show

Previously realized in New York at Participant Inc (www.participantinc.org) in September 2010, Collective
Show is an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups. This collaboratively-curated "group show
of group shows" features local artist-run projects and spaces, independent curatorial initiatives, not-for-profit
endeavors and web-based groups established in the past five years. Collective Show is an open-source
project organized by Silvershed, an artist-run project space in New York and Los Angeles. Collective Show
organizers are currently developing the next Collective Show in Berlin.

About Silvershed
Silvershed is an artist-run contemporary art project space in Chelsea. Collaborating on exhibitions,
publications and events in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin, Silvershed explores contemporary art values,
ethics and aesthetics of the early 21st century. Started in 2008 by Patrick Meagher, Yunhee Min and Oliver
Lanz, Silvershed is volunteer organized and accepts tax-deductible contributions as a sponsored project of
Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. www.thesilvershed.org

Press Contacts
Collective Show: Collective Show Los Angeles 2011:
Kerry Hassler
Tel: 917-685-4652
kerry@collectiveshow.org

Sabrina Chou
 Tel: 805-300-1689
 sabrina@collectiveshow.org