FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Le Pinchefuntastique, “Brown Out V: The Temple of the Poison Pedagogy
August 28 – September 18, 2004
Reception, Saturday, August 28, 7-11pm
Dangerous Curve
1020 E. Fourth Place (between Molino and Mateo Sts.), Los Angeles, CA 90013
Contact: Tim Quinn and/or Kathryn Hargreaves
213-617-8483
E-mail, <events@dangerouscurve.org>
Web site, <http://dangerouscurve.org>
Hours, Wednesday – Saturday, 1-6pm
Le Pinchefuntastique goes back-to-back with her Baker.
Listen Up, My Children:
Don't Burn Out---Brown Out at The Temple of the Poison Pedagogy
at Dangerous Curve, the New Downtown Experimental Exhibition and Performance Art Space
O.K., so we've been using abundant food and drink to entice opening-goers to our ahead-of-the-curve exhibits for over six months now, but this time we have something really special for you. We've invited Le Pinchefuntastique Productions (AKA artist/theorist Rae Anne Robinett) to put on one of her high-energy annual performance installation extravaganzas. It's the fifth in her "Brown Out" series, called "Brown Out V: Temple of the Poison Pedagogy." The series are slices of Brown Out Director and Ringleader Robinett's "gilded childhood memories of high and low-aesthetic conflations that cut across all boundaries." Again, food and drink will abound, this time with a thematic twist! The spectacle runs from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m., at 1020 East Fourth Place, between Molino and Mateo Streets, in the back of the 500 Molino Street Lofts, #102 (between the two on/off ramps on the L.A. side of the Fourth Street Bridge).
The exhibit runs until September 18. There is a special "Brown Out" presentation and panel discussion on Saturday, September 4, 2004, starting at 2:00 p.m. Two weeks after openings, we generally have Performance Art and/or Experimental Music and Film Nights starting at 8:00 p.m. (See below.) The gallery is open every Wednesday through Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. See our website <http://dangerouscurve.org> for directions, events, pictures, and updates.
You are cordially invited to go for Baroque! Come to bear witness at Brown Out V. Expand the borders of your identity! Stay to indulge in candies and pastries that weave a narrative of culture confluence, leaving you hyperactive and wondering exactly how "other" The Other really is!
Witness manifestations of some of the more well-loved tropes of visual power and disenfranchisement in this tongue-in-cheek critique of usual opening night receptions. Imagine Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew and the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull meeting Michael Jackson and Culture Club during a breakdance riot at a carnival in the parking lot of a Catholic church!
If you dare, enter through the perilous Auto-repair shop of Doomed Materials, and encounter the many splendid mysteries of the B.S. Taxi. Strip off your Fear and plunge into the Gospel Ridicule Revival, with free and feel-good pedagogies proferred by The Mount of Shame-Based Learning. Rock to the mighty power of Shevel Knievel <http://www.shevelknievel.net>, live from Oakland, CA. Sway to Mad Cow, live from the Blimpdo-Baldichino-Boxing Ring. Let Albert Lopez Jr. give you "what you don't expect" with his performance complaining painting. Test your mettle by walking the longest mile in a cakewalk for one of the Seven Deadly Cakes of The Western Art World, or slit open one of the Easter Basket Chapels and enjoy every sweet, cheap and meaningless promise ever imagined! Enjoy releasing a load of blanks, while checking your hand-eye-mind coordination in the dark anonymity of the peep-show shooting gallery. Spend time on either side of the great divide at the Cardboard Urinal/Confessional, and then gorge yourself at the All-You-Can-Eat Colonial Redemption Bakery Buffet, indulging in the scrumptious, oozing salvation of a medley of brown baked goodies from around the world. While you're at it, don't forget to dwell in the land of mouth-watering, edible pedagogies from the holy body of Taco Che!
Other "angels" are Veronica Soto, Anna Sanchez, Michael Rabibtt, Miss Satanica Szandor, Jessi Junk, Cassandra Simon, Luis Hernandez, Jesse Benson, Matt McFarland, Natalie Philips, Marissa Rangel, Greg Gilday, Charles Hunter, Goat Babies, Chelita Foundation, Mathew Chen, and Natalie Phillips with special guest star: YOU! Glenn Zucman host of "Strange Angels" on KBEACH radio <http://www.kbeach.org> will be witnessing, too, recording the event for broadcast.
Here's the schedule:
7:15: The Arrival; Triumphal Entry of B.S. Taxi
8:00: Gospel Ridicule Revival begins (continuing throughout the night)
8:15: Albert Lopez Jr.'s Performance-Complaining Dunk Tank (also continuing)
8:45: Cakewalk for the Seven Deadly Cakes of The Western Art World
9:15: Mad Cow
10:00: Shevel Knievel's Strange Angels
There's going to be a healing, but first there's going to be a lot of hurting as we reap both the good and the bad from all manner of pedagogies. No man is an island and without you Dear Preferred Client, there would be no show. So come on down, join the "Invitation-Only" Holy Family, and get all mixed up!
Dangerous Curve is committed to supporting visionary established and emerging artists of all ages, by emphasizing one-person shows of risky, intelligent work that is not necessarily commercially viable nor currently popular. In a time when other spaces have reduced their performance art programming, Dangerous Curve is a new venue for performance artists, with performance installations, monthly performance art events, and an annual performance art festival planned.
Other Dangerous Curve events (subject to change):
Brown Out Presentation and Panel Discussion
September 4, 2004, 2:00 p.m.
Performance Art and/or Experimental Music and Film Nights
8:00 p.m.
$5.00 suggested donation to the performers
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
Patriot's Day, September 11, 2004
Kraig Grady, Brad Smith, Laura McMurray: experimental music and video
The Bushes (Ry Rocklen and Nick Lowe): white-boy nerd semiological rapping
Sandra Bermudez: videos
Tenzin Wangchuk: videos
