The stops are as follows......................
STOP #1 Washington and Whittier, NW corner noon
Michael Buitron (title TBA)
Some pieces are in the form of DOWNLOADABLE HANDOUTS available at http://washblvd.tk and will be handed out at STOP #1:
Robin Myrick “Town Hall Town Crier”
Town Hall Town Crier is a three-cycle performance piece allowing boulevard drivers and riders to engage in a long-distance collaboration with writer Robin Myrick, and create their own mobile Town Hall Meeting. Participants will be provided with downloadable marching instructions, rudimentary signage, and three Town Crier scripts (Tired Mountain, Don’t Touch Me, and Lonely Transistor). Each script is designed to be used wherever the urge to protest strikes as participants drive the day’s route -- at intersections, in esplanades, wherever doing so makes the least sense or the best spectacle (in keeping with more recent Town Hall tradition).
Caroline Chang (title TBA)
STOP #2 11000 Washington, Whittier 12:20, 12:50, 1:20
Emery Martin “Warwalking with the Los Angeles Chapter of the Neighborhood Network Watch”
The Los Angeles Chapter of the Neighborhood Network Watch (NNW) will be conducting a series of walks that will acquaint the public with the methods, tactics, and technology used by the NNW's Network Identification and Collection Division (NICD) to find wireless networks within urban and suburban environments. Network security and its importance to safeguarding the homeland will be discussed while the group warwalks" for insecure and secure networks. Come learn and "warwalk" with the Neighborhood Network Watch. Meet in front of the First Fundamental Bible Church (FFBC)
STOP #3 (locations and times TBA)
Carolyn Chen “Human Windchimes”
Human windchimes will converge upon [this point] at [this time].Please fan or blow. (Some fans and straws provided.)
STOP #4 at Fourth Street in Montebello noon to 3:00
James Rojas “Re-imagine South Montebello: An interactive urban planning process”
The project invites you to play and dream about the future of Washington Blvd in South
Montebello. This process breaks down barriers participants may have about urban planning by using an interactive, creative medium to help people think through their community. Using a medley of recycled materials, you are invited to create your ideal urban form for this area on an oversized urban plot of streets, blocks, and open spaces. With your help the model will constantly change as your work builds upon the contributions of others.
STOP #5 at Commerce Way TBA
Luis Zavala
I will re-visit a childhood activity of mine when we used to play soccer on the streets. On Sunday, this game will take place in the corner of Washington Blvd and Commerce Way in the city of Commerce.
STOP #6 at Industrial Way all day
Karen Atkinson, Cindy Bravo, Bernard Brunon and Nancy Ganacheau “Island Transformation Project”
STOP #7 at Soto Street and at the LA River all dayAkina Cox “River Heights”
River Heights is located between Downtown and Boyle Heights. Considered the runoff from the Art and Fashion Districts, it is located on the east side of the LA River, between 1st Street and Washington. River Heights is an industrial area, with many factories and artist studios, and it is a significant filming location for various crime shows. In honor of its importance to Los Angeles, this neighborhood will be demarcated by new signs on October 11th, 2009.
STOP #8 at Perrino Place all day
Ken Ehrlich “Referential system designed to mimic the structures of symbolic capital.”
STOP #9 at the LA River noon to 2:00
Robert Frashure (title TBA) Akina Cox “River Hights”
STOP #10 1701 E Washington TBA
Yelena Zhelezov (title and notes TBA)
STOP #11 Washington and Main 1:40
Sarah Ibrahim “Piangero la sorte mia”
I will be performing a piece called "Piangero la sorte mia" from Giulio Cesare by Handel. I will be abruptly 'tossed' out of a car in a big dress with runny makeup, and will wander around the area singing this 'poor me' aria of Cleopatra's.
STOP #12 LA Trade Tech, 400 W. Washington 3:00—6:00
Julia Holter and the Open Academy Youth Orchestra at LATTC “Open Academy Youth Orchestra Rehearsal”
The Open Academy Youth Orchestra rehearses outside on the steps (including a bit of Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony", Christmas carols, and the soundtrack to the "Prince of Egypt") today, instead of in its usual music room.
STOP #13 901 W Washington blvd 4:00
Katie Jacobson “Vergangenheitsbewältigung”
"We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an eternally fleeting present, have created the most elaborate of human constructions, memory, to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events." -Geoffrey Sonnabend
STOP #14 between Magnolia and New England 2:00—3:00
Elana Mann “Making molehills out of mountains”
STOP #15 Washington and Budlong fmtd
Janet Sarbanes “The Ballad of Bud Long.”
STOP #16 at Normandie, NW Corner 3:00
Mark So “Small Change”
anyone may realize the piece anywhere, at any time.
STOP #17 AT Crenshaw, NW Corner 3:40—4:00
Audrey Chan “Counts of 8”
Since moving back to Los Angeles, I've been re-learning tap at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills' Crenshaw Plaza. All of the combinations that we learn are structured around beat counts of 8, further broken down into 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 beats, etc. Choreography in tap usually starts on the 8th beat. My Achilles heel as a tap dancer is that I'm still learning how to count rhythm, the 1-and, 2-and, 3-and, etc. My grandmother exercises her reflexes every morning by clapping her hands, keeping a beat that is as regular as a metronome. Maybe by concentrating on my grandmother's steady beat, my tap dancing will gradually improve.
STOP #18 from Adams to Hoover 2:00—4:00
Danielle Adair “counter-wise”
Starting at the corner of Washington and Adams at approximately noon and walking eastward for approximately one and a half hours to Washington and Hoover - i.e. the space between two presidents. While walking east (counter-west) I will use sidewalk chalk to mark places along Washington Blvd. The marks will be acronyms and euphemisms of the Department of Defense's counterinsurgency doctrine. Spots may or may not be visible by car. I will document for upload on the blog.
STOP #19 location and times TBA
Flint “Our Name is Prince (& We Are Funky)”
Plug in your air guitar, amp up that imaginary synth, and stretch those vocal chords to tunes by The Artist Formerly (& Currently) Known As as a private ritual takes a public sing-a-long spin.
STOP #20 Washington and Sycamore all day
Meghann McCrory, Ian James, Ali Prosch “The Writing is on the Wall”
Do you ever think about stuff? Do you ever wish it was on a wall? Throughout the day, Meghann McCrory, Ian James and Ali Prosch will dutifully transcribe your thoughts, comments and questions onto a giant wall at the corner of Washington and Sycamore. Think: a giant chalkboard, a bathroom wall exploded out onto the boulevard, a collective protest sign. Stop by and see the wall in person all afternoon. The cell phone number will be announced the day before so check back here before you head out that day. Tell your friends! See you there! (Sycamore is four blocks west of La Brea)
STOP #21 5772 W. Washington, SW corner 3:30—4:30
D. Jean Hester “Recess”
Let’s have recess! Flashback to the playground! Play hopscotch, hula hoops, hacky sack, chalk-drawing on the sidewalk, double Dutch jump rope. Balloons and lemonade even! Give your adult self a break from the mess of the real world, and let your inner child come outside and play at recess!
STOP #22 5965 Washington Blvd 4:45—5:00
Andrea Lambert “Jet Set Desolate”
Lambert will be reading a selection from Jet Set Desolate that deals with losing your virginity to the wrong type of rock star. Copies of the book will be available for $15.
STOP #23 6150 Washington Blvd all day
Lara Bank “Portable Forest Lock Down”
Eight evergreens lock down on Washington Blvd, taking it back for the natural world.
STOP #24 10202 W. Washington, Culver City 3:30—5:30
Joe Milazzo “What's It Like In Culver City?”
Participants are asked, on foot, to "complete a circuit" around Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.
(see downloadable handout)
STOP #25 34 Washington, Marina Del Rey 5:00—6:00
Cynthia Simonian + Anita K. Marto “Still Motion”
"Still Motion" is a slide projection/sound installation that will be projected on a screen from 5-6pm at the upstairs room of The Cow's End, a coffee house at 34 Washington Blvd. In "Still Motion," Anita Marto's blurred-motion still photography and Cynthia Simonian's sound recordings from Washington Blvd deal with the paradoxical aspects of blending these two art forms--one predominantly based on the perception of stillness (photo), and the other based on obvious time and motion (audio). Ironically, the still photos attempt to capture motion, and the constantly moving audio recordings attempt to take still "snapshots" of different locations on the length of Washington Blvd.
STOP #26 327 Washington Blvd 5:00 to 6:00
Jennifer Styperk “Caricature Poems”
Stop for a poem about you! You've seen the artists along the boardwalk and at festivals drawing cartoonish pictures of people’s likeness. This is the same idea only your likeness will be captured in a personalized poem.
STOP #27 where Washington meets the beach 5:45
Ama Birch “Poetry on Washington”
STOP #28 approaching the sea all day
John Burtle and Carlin Wing
We invite you to a country crossing coast to coast game of Telephone. As you make your way down Washinton Blvd during "A Day in L.A", each performance will bring you closer to the Pacific Ocean. While you jump in and out of your car, at a far away outpost in Gloucester, Massachussetts, Carlin Wing will be dawdling her way down a much shorter Washington Street towards the Atlantic Sea. We invite you to help create an associative series of cell phone photographs that will bounce back and forth from her to you to us, from sea to shining sea. Detailed instructions will be available at the start
of the event.
STOP #? (time and location TBA)
Samantha Cohen “Figs + Eggs”
Begin flying lessons here.
STOP #? (time and location TBA)
Katie Shook “Car Portraits”
Katie Shook will be drawing portraits of cars and people with their cars, available to take away with you as memorabilia of your exploratory experience along Washington Boulevard. Exact location of the portraiture station forthcoming.
STOP #? (time and location TBA)
Daiana Feuer “Clownin’ Part 2”
LOCATIONS TO-BE-DETERMINED:
Mariangeles Soto-Diaz (TBA)
Maryam Hosseinzadeh (TBA)
Mathew Timmons (TBA)
Tracy Molis (TBA)
Sojung Kwon (TBA)
Tucker Neel (TBA)
Shaun Klaseus (TBA)
Austin Young (TBA)
Jade Thacker (TBA)
Nate Schulman (TBA)
Mary Beth Heffernan (TBA)
Veronica Shalom (TBA)
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Ridazz Roulette!
Get ready boys and girls, and mark your calendars for Oct 11!!!
