PIPPA: Queen of the Future trailer (2021)
Trailer for short documentary about Los Angeles-based octogenarian artist/inventor, Pippa Garner.
Future Continuous: Present Stream (2021)
Future Continuous: Present Stream is an online series of episodes featuring contemporary artists and scholars exploring parallel and competing visions of what the future holds for both art and the world it lives in. This series was developed with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and partnering organization JOAN Los Angeles. Future Continuous: Present Stream is created by Daniel R. Small and produced by David
Episode 1 of Future Continuous: Present Stream includes interviews with writer, urbanist, and media historian Norman M. Klein, artists Miljohn Ruperto and Candice Lin, and neurobiologist Jason Shepherd. By considering current upheavals through the lens of science fiction such as Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) and Edward Bellamy’s novel Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888), the episode’s prologue considers the future of downtown Los Angeles’s Bradbury Building by way of its history. "Viral Memory" then examines speculations around an ancient virus linked to memory in the brain's genetic structure, the sibling relationship between infection and possession, and our estrangement from the intimacy of other species that share our bodies. Video works excerpted in Episode 1 include Ordinal SW/NE (2017) by Miljohn Ruperto and Rini Yun Keagy and Toxic Semiotics (2020) by Candice Lin.
Jennifer West, Future Forgetting (2020)
Los Angeles Artist, Jennifer West in her exhibition, "Future Forgetting" at JOAN gallery, Los Angeles. In this short documentary, Jennifer shares the origins of works in the show and reflects upon the contextual/material effects of current upheavals upon their meanings. The exhibition was curated by David Matorin.Peggy Awash, HeartLand (2020)
Exhibition walkthrough and interview with Peggy Ahwesh. Her solo exhibition, HeartLand is open at JOAN by appointment through December 19th. The Pittsburgh-born, New York-based, experimental filmmaker, will shows four varied video installations based on films made between the early aughts and 2019: The Star Eaters; Lies & Excess; Bethlehem; and Kansas Atlas.
Artist Meredyth Sparks speaks about her work in the studio and it's cross-over into divergent territories. She reflects upon her collaboration with fashion designer Vanessa Bruno, paring down and stripping away in her own work, and the co-creation of record label, Future Audio Graphics, it's first release, her collaboration with composer Ben Vida, and writer Anthony Elms.