FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Performance Art Installation
September 25 – October 16, 2004
Reception, Saturday, September 25, 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
Read the book!
Ein Stein on the Beach: "German Frat Boy and his golden trout"
Aaron Garber-Maikovska, Performance Art Installation
at Dangerous Curve, the New Downtown Exhibition and Performance Art Space
Los Angeles, CA - If you think you had an epiphany during the chaos of our last opening, then wait until you see how The German Frat Boy (AKA Aaron Garber-Maikovska) layers it on. Again, the opening is a performance installation with an international flair, but this time it's Aaron's complex conflation of Germany and The Beach! Again, the abundant free food and drink will depart from that of our usual chef to follow the performance's thematic twist. As for music, a blues band will get mixed with a DJ playing into a cabana. Aaron will perform German Frat Boy in the midst of an elaborate installation, featuring a Pledge Circle done "like a big bad comedy routine." You are cordially invited to be one of our special guests at "German Frat Boy and his golden trout" on Saturday, September 25, 2004 from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. at Dangerous Curve. We're 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 October 16. Two weeks after the opening, on October 9, Aaron will lead a special related Performance Art Night. It starts at 8:00 p.m. (See below.) During exhibits, 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.
Come submerge yourself in this subterranean Frat-Brat world that's really at Sea Level. Get welcomed by the Old Salt Welcoming Committee Sculpture. Wonder at the Lifeguard Towers with their "off-the-hook" flags and their scaling that's not quite right. Check out the Collapsed Grey Room: there's a steaming Sauna on top of it with piped-in DJ music! There's a porthole in the Sauna, through which one can see its green Bjorn Borg tennis decor. Here's where German becomes Germaine.
Objects are everywhere. Some are hierarchized into super-designy Jason Levels (inspired by Jason Wayne). There's a Mom's Minivan Crate, nailed shut with a big piece inside. There's Pink Slip Dicks holding up endless signs. There's the Island Palettes hung on rug walls with the Pseudo Workshop behind. There's the Bouys Life, the Fishnet Compositions, the surfboards, the German Flatworks, the Poosters, the Sea Life Decoration, the Silhouette Painting, the Undersea Posters, and more (if you can believe that!).
Sink into The Couch to do some serious making out. Or you can do some serious reading like a good student. Student Readers are de rigueur. You've never seen so much reading to be done! The Bubble Lettering list inside is endless. You can't get away from books. There's Books on Hooks, books on the Laguna Beach Lady Bookshelf. It's just like college!
Kegs abound, Dear Reader---some real, some not. Some cardboard ones hang on a fence, some hold up the stage, some are functioning Lady Kegys with German shoes and watermelon heads (the German Frat Boy loves watermelon). Some are smoking pipes. Some adorn the Student Readers like a locket. Some are mini and some are full-sized. Some are empty, some are full. On the other hand, you can drink the Wussy Beer (water) if you like.
What to eat, you ask? Well, for one thing, there's the pancakes cooking on hot coals being turned by a two-person spatula. You can eat them on the picnic tables that are structured just like the Jason Levels (remember them?). Then there's the German pretzels. . .
Finally, under the big German Flag sign, you get to learn the story of The German Frat Boy, how he loves watermelon, techno and blues, and an older woman with a "love deep like a pack of weeds on top of the ocean."
Want a piece of this to take home? Well, you can start with a Student Reader (wrapped in a German flag like a tongue-in-cheek Joseph Beuys), or you can take away the whole exhibition packed in a bus! Or something in between.
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):
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)
October 9, 2004
Aaron Garber-Maikovska: German Frat Boy and friends do more performance.
November 6, 2004
Linda Albertano: veteran performance artist
Bob Bellerue: experimental musician
TBA
