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September 2007
Sunday, September 9, 2007
the backroom presents:
a film screening by Kota Ezawa
Kota Ezawa presents an evening of films that have
influenced his artistic practice.
The Mandrake Bar
2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)
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Kota Ezawa, contributions to the backroom, installation view
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October 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
the backroom presents:
Edgar Arceneaux & Julian Myers
Mirror-Travel in the Motor City
film screening & conversation
Arceneaux & Myers delve below the surface of Detroit’s ruined
modernity in order to explore the grottos of its vibrant underground.
The Mandrake Bar
2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)
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Clairmount and Rosa Parks Boulevard, Detroit, 2006.
Image courtesy of Anna Gritz
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October 2007
Memory Drive
curated by Danny Orendorff
ART2102 Curator in Residence
A group exhibition featuring projects by artists, filmmakers, musicians
and poets that consider technology & telecommunications, the imagination
& self-documentation.
Venue To Be Determined
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Caleb Larsen, The Epic of Gilgamesh Being Read By a Computer, 2006
mixed media, installation view
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November 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
the backroom presents:
Cinema Zero
Organized by Amy Granat
CINEMA ZERO was founded in December of 2004 in Brooklyn, NY, by artists
from different mediums coming together to foster cross - collabrations.
The Mandrake Bar
2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)
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November 2007
Panorama City:
Life between Reality and Fiction
curated by Efrat Shalem
Two evenings of audio-visual projections to be held at an abandoned movie theater in downtown Los Angeles. This project, featuring a compilation of
work from the US, Europe and Israel endeavors to define a space that is both
concrete and imaginary. In an enclosure the illusion of a world without borders is
shattered and a new feeling of space is created. Here film possesses a unique
role in the designing of the new protagonist and the new landscape.
Venue To Be Determined
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December 2007
Publication Launch
A 'zine by Mizuki Endo
Following the Beyond Sunshine Quoi?: Connecting Parallel Universes
conversation held earlier in the year, Endo presents the results of his
research - a zine documenting international, independent & alternative
arts venues.
Previous Sunshine Quoi? Events
Part 1: Sunshine Quoi?: Temporary Contemporaries
Part 2: Sunshine Quoi?: Common Sense
Part 3: Mapping Sunshine Quoi?
Part 4: Beyond Sunshine Quoi?: Connecting Parallel Universes
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Simon Münster, First Map of The New World, 1540
depicting Tokyo, Mexico City & LA in extraordinary proximity
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March 2008
F is for Park
curated by Raimundas Malasauskas
The coordination of an ersatz orchestra in one of LA's public parks,
inspired in part by the 1974 film by Orson Welles, F is for Fake.
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Orchesta performing in a public park, Puebla, Mexico
Image courtesy of Raimundas Malasauskas
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