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Friday, December 3rd 8PM
Located at: 1611 S Hope St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Our foundation’s mission is to give a platform for under-represented artists’ experimental performance, media, and interdisciplinary work, workshops, artist residences, lectures and everything in-between.
Here at Coaxial, we used to rely on ticket sales from live events to make rent. Now, we’re surviving through artist grants and generous donations from people like YOU.
Our fundraising efforts goes directly into operating costs, support and honorariums for next year’s programming. Throughout the crisis, we have continued to curate livestream shows, artist residencies and installations. This fiscal year we have hosted over 250 artists, giving them a much-needed outlet during the pandemic. In order to continue supporting the creative practices of Los Angeles’ artists, we need to raise $10,000.
Coaxial has reopened to limited capacity. Select artist openings and gallery hours are now available via RSVP appointments. Masks are required for the public in the space. As vaccination requirements change in Los Angeles, Coaxial will update our policies inline with local government health guidelines and mandates.
]]>“We give artists a micro-honorarium,” said Coaxial Director Eva Aguila, “and this allows us to continue helping artists make work. And since we’re not making money from ticket sales, it’s helping us keep our doors open.”
Event Page Here: coaxialarts.org/event/coaxial-at-unlock-winter-wanted-in-moscow-russia
UNLOCK WINTER WANTED Festival Friday 1/15/21 9AM-12:30PM PST (8pm-11:30pm Moscow)
A program of outside electronics, sound art, and experimental A/V. Streaming from DTLA to the festival in Moscow to devices everywhere!
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ALEX PELLY @alexpelly & OREN KOLIN @orenkolin dark ambient soundscapes with audio reactive analog synthesized visuals. Alex will be performing on audio/video synthesizers while Oren accompanies on heavily affected electric guitar.
ANDORKAPPEN @andorkappen Hungarian American sound & visual artist. Electronics to Harsh Noise. Currently his emphasis is creating unpredictable/indeterminate sound worlds combining improvised electronic and vocal patterns with field recordings and a-musical sound sources.
Big Debbie productions Ursula Yashenko @debbiedingledong and Karo Yagjian @rogue_states. Heavily influenced by the Soviet new wave animation and music Big Debbie combines music with animation, collage, found footage, and analog effects they weave visual spells of a rhythmic state.
GODTEASE @godtease Moscow-born, LA-based performer weaving together classic choral and pipe organ traditions with the deconstruction of her native Russian tongue. Creating narratives within her improvisational electronic hymnology, she distorts analog circuitry and undulating rhythms to create a wildfire of prayer
SMOKEY EMERY @developments__
& ANNA MIKHAILOVA @admannamikhailova
STRANGELAND @william_strangeland
SYNC SAPRO @sync_sapro is a nonbinary interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Their creative practice began with exploring the constraints of repurposed “obsolete” video technology and evolved to incorporate audio synthesis in a synaesthetic fashion.
TEASIPS @teasips__
THE WATER TANK SESSIONS (II) VERÓNICA PEÑA @veronica_pena_live_art & TARA GLADDEN @ctaragladden, is a long-distance series of audio-visual collaborations that invites sound artists to improvise while being inspired by the vision of the submerged human body.
WAR HIPPY @TheZeroCollective & @vrrrtcrb is an experimental/Noise duo based out of LA that specializes in off grid/self powered/high impact live performances with an ear for deep tonality & harmonic structure.
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Coaxial Arts presents an evening of performance works with artists Maura Brewer, Flesh Market Theater Co and Paul Pescador. Each set of artists uses humor, absurdity and play to explore one’s relationship to the larger world around them, whether it be the reconsideration of father/daughter dynamics in mainstream cinema, classic theater or their own past heartbreaks.
In order of appearance:
Maura Brewer explores the construction of female subjects in mass culture through her work in video, performance, and experimental fashion design. Her video essays combine footage from Hollywood films, television, and Internet subcultures to question the ways that popular culture mimes the language of feminism in the service of patriarchal capitalism
Brewer will present her video :/nterstellar, 2015, an essay video that appropriates footage from the 2014 film Interstellar, starring Jessica Chastain. :/nterstellar retells the original film from the point of view of Chastain’s character, a girl whose father leaves at the beginning of the story. The relation between father and daughter is explored by analyzing a series of metaphors from the original text.
Fleshmarket Theatre Co @fleshmarketco is a new, LA based absurdist theatre company founded by Colin Yeo @colinyeoexists and Nic Prior @nic_prior. They explore the sentient experience of Earth dwelling creatures through humor, chaos, whimsy, and dread.
“To Be or Not To Be REMIXED” is an indulgent take on the classic soliloquy. Theatre is dead so let’s have fun.
Paul Pescador is a contemporary trans-nonbinary artist who works in film, photography, and performance. For Coaxial Arts, Pescador will present Between Crushes, in which return to a series of five performances each titled after a set of colors, each performed in 2013/204. Considering these performances as a “shot by shot recreation” of their own past projects this time in front of a blue screen.The project allows for an ever changing set of ideas to expand and grow. The combination of installation, performance and video will form a complex set of moving images that explore personal narrative, physical intimacy and social disconnect.
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November 13, 2020 8 p.m PST
“EL SANTO CON LAS MUJERES VAMPIRO”
Live Music / Blue Screen Movie Performance
Surf/Noise/Punk/Experimental band BIKINI VIRGINS (Carmina Escobar, Josh Gerowitz, Georgia Bell) musicalizes and performs a live adaptation of “El Santo vs Las mujeres Vampiro.” The extraordinary Laura Gutierrez, a specialist in queer Lantinx-American Performance, transforms the macho narrative of one of the very first El Santo movies in order to explore and realize the very true, queer nature of this SciFi-Mexican classic, to bring “El Santo CON las mujeres Vampiro”. Miauuuuu!
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]]>At this moment in time, where isolation, death, and a looming reality hang in the consciousness of American society, these artists explore depictions of the future in defiance of the present. In three filmed segments, artists Jasmine Infiniti, Reyna Ripper, and The Stigma Fog Saint present an iteration of the present with performances and sounds that focus on the concept of the future as an exploration of time, in its ability to be frozen like a trance that also always exists within a wave of infinite possibility. Each work, with definitive expressions of different mediums, come together in a common thread that aims at answering the question, What will the future hold?
Friday, October 23 at 7 pm at twitch.tv/coaxialarts A New Futurity invites its audience into a dimension of time that unveils the dark vulnerability of humanity as we hang in the unknown, the dystopian reality, and the daunting hope that lives in the possibility of something to come.
Jasmine Infiniti a Brooklyn-based DJ/Producer. Founder of a record label that highlights the work of queer and trans-POC creatives, performers, and musicians. Infiniti mixes dark ambient techno with industrial sounds, and breakbeats creating a soundscape from the future.
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The Stigma Fog Saint a project that meditates on the future for participants who seek it, exploring esoteric and hidden knowledge through durational performance, painting, and sound. The Stigma Fog Saint performs in front of a live audience generally, however, in this iteration of Painted Futures, the audience sends a mailing address and name to the Stigma Fog Saint in order to have their future painted.
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Reyna Ripper is a harsh noise visual artist that is based in Los Angeles. Reyna’s work explores themes of death, despair temptation, and desire. “Seratonin Deficiency” is an original track inspired by a post-industrialized dystopian world where we count down the remaining fatalistic days of isolation.
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The original Axial Age is the period when, roughly at the same time around most of the Eurasian societies in 8th to the 3rd century BCE, the great intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems that came to shape subsequent human society and culture emerged: Chinese philosophy of Confucius and Lao-Tse, Buddha and Upanishad in India, Zarathustra in Persia, Elijah and Isaiah in Palestine, Homer and Plato in Greece. The Axial Age was a shift—or a turn, as if on an axis—away from more predominantly localized concerns and toward transcendence.
Monday: the wulf
Tuesday: Island of Misfit Toys
Wednesday: Nett Nett/Otono
Thursday: Queerspace
Friday: Raah Lein
Saturday: Coaxial Board
Artists and schedule for each day will be announced shortly
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