SWAN SONG

Just Added: Musical Performance by Morgan Gee

Temple Ad Hoc is a localization of transience, a space designed to facilitate emergence while itself passing into nullity, courting extinction. Like the swan we celebrate the seductive poignancy of death with an ambivalent song…

Formed not as a commercial enterprise but as an extended curatorial project and an experiment in planned obsolescence, Temple Ad Hoc has occupied a unique place in the Los Angeles art community. With programming that emphasized the under-represented and unknown, from international

performance art group Matej Mateka, to local artists like Lina Janusas and Greg Paulson, we created a space for the engagement of the ephemeral, for the acknowledgement of those moments of emergence when an artwork is introduced into the world like a nascent prayer.Our last show makes the point with funereal elegance. We have on offer some work of our own, as well as a group of sophisticated young artists, some of whom have never shown before, celebrating the death drive, the over-fullness of absence, and the dignity of suicide.One night only, August 31st   8pm-midnight  1218 temple st

Works by
Brian Overend
Carrie Schreck
Samuel Partal
Charles Mallison
Joseph Segura
John Isaac Waters
more to be announced

GLOSSOLALIA

Update: Closing party for Glossolalia, August 17th 8pm, with surprise musical performances!!

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Glossolalia is the fluid vocalizing of speech-like syllables which lack any readily comprehended meaning, in some cases, as part of religious practice” - Dictionary Of Psychology. Edited by Andrew M. Colman. Oxford University Press 2009

Glossolalia is abstract language, improvised speech. A speech that eschews representation and reference entirely, not describing the world but performing it.
The artists exhibited have developed their own personal languages for engaging with and reciting their worlds,

 with a common interest in what lies beyond, below, and within the representative surface. Greg Paulson’s enigmatic bronzes draw on theories of modern physics, referencing the granular folding of space and time itself at the most basic level of material existence, while Damo Kardokas’ small scale acrylic and floc paintings commingle surface and materiality, using texture and color to explore his own ideas of light and space. Michael Monat Jacobs uses infra red video surveillance cameras to capture recursive feedback loops which resemble the images of early radio telescopes made manic in a heightened state of flux. And Joseph Kearcher’s austere and stunning photographs evoke ancient landscapes, perhaps other worlds entirely, confounding linear notions of time, space, and reference anew.Glossolalia will run from August 10th to 17th at Temple Ad Hoc 1218 Temple st. Opening Reception August 10th, 8pm-midnight.

Works by:
Damo Kardokas
Joseph Kaercher
Michael Monat Jacobs
Greg Paulson

Curated by Samuel Partal

Chronovision Closing Show feat. Sonny////Josh

August 3rd- Le Temple Du Soleil, Music+Art
9pm, free admission

Currently Showing
Chronovision Video Art Showcase

Musical Performances by
sonny ///// josh
“Allowing and accepting the integration of machines into life is paramount. we have done just that. fusing ambient/droning and sedimentary foundations, this piece is living, breathing, performing and ever evolving. just as we are.”

Sonny and Josh are performing on analog modular synthesizers using a vintage analog mixer and vintage tape delays and spring reverbs. Josh’s set up is compiled of custom sound sculpting modules and abstract noise and drone machines. Sonny’s is a more traditional approach to synthesis. It’s based off of the Bob Moog theory theory of subtractive synthesis. The undesired timbres and qualities of sounds are removed by filtering them out. Synthesizers will be fed in and out of each other so that we may use the analog effects on the music as we’re making it. There will be no computers, no gimmicks and no outside ‘controlling’ of the hardware.

 

Chronovision Video Art Showcase: July 21st

The Chronovisor was a theoretical time-travel device alleged to have existed in the 1920′s, able to view the past and events yet to come. Chronovision Video Showcase is an essay on the high emprise of experimental film: archaic methods mixed with new technology, the brave exploration of the infinite possibilities and permutations that exist in the linear unfolding of time. Each piece pushes the boundaries of film and video itself, using anachronistic combinations of ancient mixers found footage, modern scanners- even fruit and human hair, the works fold the very time and space these technologies are meant to capture back in upon themselves. Featuring multimedia performances by Kyle Swick and Elaine Carey. A mixture of performance, installation, print and projection. Curated by multimedia artist and consummate time-traveler, Carrie Schreck. Open Bar, 21+

Performace by:

Elaine Carey “Unus Mudus” is a live, cassette tape-based sound assembly piece and installation by Los Angeles-based artist/performer and ametuer metaphysicist, Elaine Carey. Using manipulated, abstracted magnetic tape to create a sensory environment, Carey seeks to explore the relationship between the physical properties of stimuli and our psychological perceptions of them. In pairing the harmonious and familiar with the chaotic and disjointed, modern digital with obsolete analog technologies, the subjective, active experience of the creation of this work with the objective, passive experience of an audience, asking them to coexist and to interact, Carey aims to suggest that as part of the same reality, they are ultimately one.

 

Works by:

Clover Oak, William Sabiston, Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, Drone Dungeon,  & Miko Revereza

TEMPLE DU SOLEIL Performance: July 18 2012

Art+Music

Currently showing
HEAP curated by Elana Melissa Hill

 

Performances by-
Emily Reo and Little Spoon perform at Temple Ad Hoc on Wednesday July 18. Doors at 8, music at 9.

 

Check them out:

http://emilyreo.bandcamp.com/

http://littlespoon.bandcamp.com/

this is a free event, 21+

HEAP July 13th

HEAP – Curated by Elana Hill.  Opening Reception July 13th 8pm-12am

Artists:

Laurel Frank
Kyla Hansen
Nicolas Shake

for more information on these artists, go to;

http://commonwealthandcouncil.com/exhibitions/GLOW/2images.html

http://kyla-hansen.blogspot.com/

http://www.nicolasshake.com/

Performance: May 25. 2012

For Immediate Release:

Performance: The Collaborative Quartet

Two duos of performing artists commingle their practice to explore new environments and create strange, liminal spaces.

pachycondyla villosa

Galiana/Nikolchev: the chimera of source material formed to circumvent intangible obstacles by integrating performance, writing, photography, travel, and eating. Past performances occurred in Poland, New York. future work to be in los angeles, torrevieja, wroclaw, madrid, lanzarote.  Musical accompaniment  by David Erich  Elsenbroich

0rgan music

A multimedia performance group founded in 2003 by Samuel Partal and Damien Kardokas-Johanson. Utilizing music, photographic projection, and sculptural installation, they create immersive artworks which the group have likened, enigmatically, to “rituals of initiation.”  Tonight’s performance presented by the “0rgan music ad hoc committee” featuring David Erich Elsenbroich and Samuel Partal.

One night only at Temple AD Hoc.   12181/2 Temple st.

First Show May 18th

Friday, May 18th, our first group show featuring all the usual suspects (and you). Musical performances TBA, drinks, and surprises. 8pm-2am, $3 suggested donation