SUBMERSION LA
WHO
Cilla Vee Life Arts – with Cilla Vee, Grayson Morris, Blair
Bogin, Pedro Jimenez, Kio Griffith, Carole Kim, G.E. Stinson, Joseph Hammer, Miller Wrenn (replacing Steuart Liebig)
WHAT
Submersion – an immersive, multi-media environment of sound,
image and motion
WHEN
Friday October 19th - 8pm – 11pm
WHERE
Coaxial Arts Foundation
1815 S Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90016
HOW MUCH
$7
Cilla Vee Life Arts presents:
SUBMERSION
Definition:
Immersion. Hiding. Beneath the surface. Completely absorbed
by / involved in.
Differential Topology.
Differentiable Manifolds. Soft Question.
Performance:
An immersive, multi-media environment of sound, image and motion.
The everyday world melts away as though wandering deep into
a forest or ocean.
Everything changes.
Time. Space. Temperature.
The psyche surrenders.
Transcendence.
SUBMERSION is a durational performance installation during
which the audience is free to come and go throughout.
Cilla Vee Life Arts
CILLA VEE LIFE ARTS is an inter-disciplinary arts
organization founded in 2002 in the South Bronx by Claire Elizabeth Barratt
(aka Cilla Vee) – now based in Asheville NC.
It serves as an umbrella for multiple projects that focus on collaboration and facilitation. With a mission of blurring boundaries and crossing categories, CVLA draws from a diverse pool of artists with a wide range of artistic backgrounds.
Performances can include anything from dance, movement, music, sound, text, film and video, visual and performance art to installation and beyond.
“When it's summer in the city, people do weird things. Performers especially. ....“Beguiling”
John Rockwell – New York Times
It serves as an umbrella for multiple projects that focus on collaboration and facilitation. With a mission of blurring boundaries and crossing categories, CVLA draws from a diverse pool of artists with a wide range of artistic backgrounds.
Performances can include anything from dance, movement, music, sound, text, film and video, visual and performance art to installation and beyond.
“When it's summer in the city, people do weird things. Performers especially. ....“Beguiling”
John Rockwell – New York Times
Cilla Vee Life Arts - http://www.cillavee.com/
This Fall Cilla Vee is touring cross country and the west
coast in order to connect and collaborate with area artists in each location.
ARTIST INFORMATION
Cilla Vee - http://cebhomepage.blogspot.com/
Grayson Morris - https://emersion.art/
Blair Bogin - http://blairbogin.com/
Kio Griffith - www.kiogriffith.com
Carole Kim - http://www.carole.kim/
GE Stinson - https://gestinson.bandcamp.com/
Joseph Hammer - http://www.josephhammer.com/
Miller Wrenn - https://millerwrenn.com/
Cilla Vee (movement)
Claire
Elizabeth Barratt (aka Cilla Vee) is an inter-disciplinary artist with a
performing arts background. She is the director of Cilla Vee Life Arts – an arts organization with a focus on cross-media
collaboration.
Her
work utilizes artistic disciplines of dance, music, text, media, visual and
installation art.
Claire
has presented her work in venues as diverse as Jacob’s Pillow , the New York
Botanical
Gardens , Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center and Art Basel Miami. She has performed and taught throughout
the USA, Canada, Europe, Japan and Pakistan.
Claire
received her professional training in London at The Laban Centre For Movement
and Dance and at the London Studio
Centre For Performing Arts . Her pre-professional training includes the Royal Academy
of Dance and the Royal Schools of
Music examinations. She also
served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York and holds an MFA in
Creative Practice from the
Transart Institute with Plymouth
University, UK.
On
moving to the USA in 1992, Claire held the positions of Dancer for Unto These Hills drama on the Cherokee Indian
Reservation and for Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater in North Carolina, as well as serving
as a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and as Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee.
Once
based in New York in 2002, Claire founded Cilla Vee Life Arts and, with the support of arts advocates
such as Chashama , Bronx Council on the Arts and Arts for Art , began to develop and present her
signature modes of work – including Motion Sculpture Movement Installations and The Sound Of Movement projects.
She
is the creator of the Living Art pedagogy for performance art.
Claire
now uses Asheville NC as her home-base.
“My work as an artist blurs
boundaries and crosses categories. Re-defining the traditional concepts of a
“piece” and challenging the conventions of performance, time, space and
audience relationships.”
Grayson Morris (movement)
Blair Bogin (movement)
BLAIR BOGIN is an interdisciplinary artist. She earned an
MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Amidst her art practice,
she is a counseling Astrologer (Sisterbride) and Kundalini Yoga Instructor.
Pedro
Jimenez (movement)
Kio Griffith (projection)
Kio Griffith is a Los Angeles and Japan based visual and
sound artist, independent curator, writer, and producer. His work includes
drawing, painting, sound, video, performance, electronics, language, sculpture
and installation.
He has exhibited in the UK, Japan, Germany, Croatia, China,
Hong Kong, Korea, Turkey, Belgium and the U.S.
His current projects include founder / project director at TYPE
(Tokyo+Yokohama Projects Exchange), co-founder of Transit Republic, IMMI, and
Genzou, independent curator, contributing editor at Fabrik, Artscape and Art
Bridge magazines, former art director at Angel City Jazz Festival and has
designed over 300 music album packaging.
Griffith was recently invited to exhibit in the 2016 Aichi Trienniale
and currently on research for a public project for the Setouchi Triennale.
Carole Kim (projection)
Carole Kim is a media artist with a focus on video
projection environments for multi-media installation, performance and
photography. She has a very hands-on, tactile approach to the materials she
works with, pushing the moving image to take on optical, spatial and
dimensional form. She is interested in the integration of disciplines where all
media are on a level playing field working in tandem towards creating the
entirety of an experience.
Her work has been supported by the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP fund, City of Los Angeles, Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), The Getty Center, Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) ,Dublab, Newtown, Turbulence.org, CalArts, and The Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology. She was selected as a recipient of a 2013 COLA Fellowship, 2014 CCI
Her work has been supported by the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Center for Cultural Innovation, MAP fund, City of Los Angeles, Pasadena Arts Council, The Music Center, Durfee Foundation, REDCAT, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), The Getty Center, Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) ,Dublab, Newtown, Turbulence.org, CalArts, and The Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology. She was selected as a recipient of a 2013 COLA Fellowship, 2014 CCI
Investing in Artists
Grant, 2015 Metabolic Studio Chora Council Grant and a 2015 CHIME Grant. She is
currently an artist-in-residence at Descanso Gardens working on a year-long
project that will culminate in a solo exhibition and site-specific
performances.
GE Stinson (sound)
G.E. Stinson's exploration of American folk music forms began as a
child immersed in the gospel music of his family in Oklahoma. He continued in
Chicago, studying/playing blues with Cash McCall, Hound Dog Taylor, Willie
Dixon, Muddy Waters, among others.
Stinson eventually received a composition scholarship with William
Russo at Columbia College. In 1972, he co-founded the seminal fusion/world
music group, Shadowfax. During his tenure with this group, he performed and
composed on seven recordings, toured extensively in the U.S., Europe, South
America and Japan including performances at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center,
Academy of Music, and Wolftrap. In 1988, Stinson along with the other members
of Shadowfax were honored with a Grammy Award from the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences and the following year began a collaboration with
Momix Dance Theater which culminated in a national tour.
1990 brought the formation of the G.E. Stinson Group in Los Angeles
and the subsequent completion of a recording entitled "The Same Without
You" in 1993. This was to be the first of many collaborations that would
lead to Stinson becoming a prominent member of the Los Angeles New Music
community. Among these projects are the Wayne Peet Trio recording "Fully
Engulfed"; Adam Rudolph's opera "The Dreamer"; "Right of
Violet" featuring Alex Cline and Jeff Gauthier; Unique Cheerful Events (an
improvising collective); guitar duets with Nels Cline and A Thousand Other
Names, a Stinson led group which completed a self titled recording in 1996 on
Birdcage records. Stinson continues to compose for dance and has contributed to
numerous motion picture soundtracks including Sunset Strip directed by Hans Fjellestad.
Joseph
Hammer (sound)
Since 1980, Joseph
Hammer has played analog synthesizers and samplers and manipulated tape
loops in the bands Dinosaurs With Horns (formed in 1982), Steaming Coils and
Debt of Nature -- all groups with Rick Potts -- as well
as with Points Of Friction, Blue Daisies and more. Hammer has
collaborated with eclectic songster Eugene Chadbourne and one of
Japan's premiere sound experimenters, Otomo
Yoshihide. Hammer's
unconvential 'homegrown' approach utilizes audio CD sources abstracted by hand
with vintage magnetic tape gear; a live "phonomontage." He cites as
his primary musical influences: receiving more than one AM radio station at a
time, and a specific episode of the '70s T.V. show Land of the Giants during
which astronauts thwart alien tyrants by using tape loops.
In the
field of found sound, Joseph Hammer is the master of survey and delay; With
looped tape and a gloved hand, he taps a magnetic vein, coaxing fragments of
occluded origin into a sonic sui generis.
Steuart Liebig (sound)
When prompted to talk about himself in the third person, electric
bassist/composer Steuart Liebig will tell you that he has been playing and
writing music for a long time. It’s
probably more interesting to see what other people have said about him:
“To say only that he plays bass would be misleading. As an improviser,
he commands a shocking array of effects. As a composer, he can create rigorous
but liberating frameworks for wide-open jazz on one hand and harmonica honk on
the other. And mainly, he hears everybody else, assimilates it all and kicks it
to another level.”
“A major concern of Steuart Liebig’s is space; acknowledging it,
defining it, dividing it up. If anyone can be funky without necessarily
grooving, it’s bassist Liebig, a master of the unexpected cosmic event.”
“Liebig is equally at home charting lunar terrain as he is in the
pocket.”
“. . . nonpareil rethinker of electric bass . . . “
“Steuart Liebig’s bass isn’t a bass, it’s a giant alien creature in
the heaving throes of partition.”
One of his recent focuses has been attempting to develop different
techniques and timbral resources that are outside the normal practice of his
instrument.
Miller Wrenn is replacing Stuart Leibig.
Miller Wrenn is replacing Stuart Leibig.
