Karena Massengill was born and raised in Ukiah, CA. She has travelled around the world and lived in Canada for 11 years before moving to S. CA. She has a fulltime art practice in San Pedro with a 2500 sq foot studio and art gallery display area. Her education includes an MFA and BFA in sculpture, […]
Jacob Wolff’s work and practice is heavily focused on the interdisciplinary. Specifically taking tropes of 20th and 21st century western art music and distorting and accentuating them using dance, theater, performance or visual art to highlight the strange and corrupt parts of the music. Wolff’s work also analyzes the effects of religion and academia’s effect […]
PARTICIPATION Tube Time Talking For the past several years this collaboration has been about giving up their individual authorship to nurture a persona known as Brian and Ryan. And much of Brian and Ryan’s work has been about how their conversations evolve with each other and how they communicate with their audience. As their work […]
In a collaboration that has spanned over a decade, Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have developed the team-like persona known as Brian and Ryan. This artistic duo appropriates iconic activities and forms that challenge preconceptions of communication, masculinity, and identity. Their installation-based work is site specific and focuses on engaging the audience with familiar forms […]
Alex Hawthorn (b. 1986) is an artist, composer, and technologist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn who investigates notions of archive, memory, and time through a variety of methodologies, including both physical and digital pieces. Their work in theatrical sound design has garnered them an Obie award, LA Ovation Awards, and has been heard across North […]
PARTICIPATION The Place (where all things begin and all things meet their end) Recently our interest has been focused on the meditative potential of the embodied experience of sound. For this project we would like the experience of the sounds we produce to be felt with the listener’s whole body, not just their ears. If […]
PARTICIPATION Recently our interest has been focused on the meditative potential of the embodied experience of sound. For this project we would like the experience of the sounds we produce to be felt with the listener’s whole body, not just their ears. If we can allow our perception of sound to include an awareness of […]
Abacus is the sound making duo of Brian Randolph and Brian Ramisch. The Brians have been collaborating for over 10 years, exploring a wide range of sonic terrain and all manner of instrumentation. From experiments in pure sound to acoustic psych-folk to loose punk/noise rock to dense fields of layered textures, their approach is always improvised, […]
Abigail Johnson is a sound artist based in Los Angeles, California. As a composer she has written for ensembles such as the Aperture Duo, 5th Wave Ensemble, and the Corvus Ensemble. Abigail has participated in the Yarn/Wire, Westben Performer/Composer, Fairbanks Summer Arts, Space City Music, and Fresh Inc festivals, and she is excited to complete a […]
PARTICIPATION The Paradist: Decapitation The Paradist: Undercurrent My installations, sounds, and videos investigate the absurdities and tragedies of characters developed and performed with me as an actor, director and composer. My latests character, the Paradist, is the ultimate tourist, a colonizing tiki bar terrorist searching for untouched beauty to take leisure from the chaos of […]