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How Light Enters My Home: Weekend 1 Gallery Viewing
Weekend 1: Exhibition of projection/video installations by five multimedia artists. All pieces pair film/video with an element of liveness.
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Automata Theater
504 Chung King Court Los Angeles, CA 90012About this event
How Light Enters My Home: A Projection Series
Free
Weekend 1: Gallery Viewing
In How Light Enters My Home: A Projection Series, six Los Angeles-based artists present a series of works at Automata over the course of two weekends. The first weekend features a collection of projection/video installations by Erica Sheu (徐璐), Phoebe Hart, Gavati Wad, Nehal Vyas, and 莫茹杰 (Rujie Mo), while the second weekend focuses on a single live overhead projection/video workshop performance piece devised by Brooke Harbaugh with Gavati Wad and Olivia Xing 邢淅璇. All pieces pair film/video with an element of liveness, merging pre-recorded work with the spontaneity of a moment.
Weekend 1: Featured Artists
Gavati Wad
Nehal Vyas
莫茹杰 (Rujie Mo)
Weekend 1 is timed entry to view all installations.
Limited Capacity. RSVP strongly encouraged.
Walk-ups are welcome for Weekend 1: we will accommodate you as spots open up.
RSVP HERE for Weekend 2 of the Series, featuring Brooke Harbaugh, Gavati Wad, and Olivia Xing 邢淅璇.
View full event program HERE.
KN95/N95 Masks required for all audience members, regardless of vaccination status. We appreciate your consideration of our outdoor front of house staff. Please wear a mask when checking in with our usher.
This series is supported by California Institute of the Arts School of Theater and the California Institute of the Arts Interdisciplinary Project Grant.
For any questions, please reach out to automataarts@gmail.com
PARKING
On Yale Street west of W College Street is inexpensive 4-hour metered parking, as well as some free street parking.
There is a $5 Public Parking lot on W College St. between N Hill and N Broadway, by the Shell gas station.
Bamboo Plaza Parking Garage on Bernard Street between N Hill and N Broadway offers off-street parking for $8 /day max.
Street parking is free on Sundays in Chinatown.
info: automataarts@gmail.com
until there is no more sound from afar
"When we were hiding from the bomb at night, we could only light our way with incense." These are words from the artist's father on growing up in Kinmen during the Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958-1979). Through one physically extended loop of film, Sheu projects a slowed-down image of burning incense to reimagine and meditate on her father's childhood. An accompanying collage of texts and images scatter memories of the island around a 16mm projector, turning this installation into a somber monument built to understand her father.
Sheulu.co; @sheu.lu.
Where Will She Go?
by Phoebe Hart
In this single person viewing experience, the guest enters a shrouded space to find a miniature ceramic theater. Center stage is a pepper’s ghost (a character illuminated onto a small piece of glass) of a stop-motion puppet moving through space. The main character’s performance animates through a magic lantern operated by the viewer.
www.phoebejanehart.com
Who's Coming For Dinner?
by Phoebe Hart
Inspired by the artist’s eclectic dinner parties growing up, this miniature installation includes a dinner table, hand-crafted ceramic food, and papier mache arms protruding out of a wall, ready to eat. Opposite the table is a magic lantern operated by the viewer, projecting a series of faces above the arms and creating the illusion that you are guessing who might come to your dinner table!
www.phoebejanehart.com
Superpower 2024
by Gavati Wad and Nehal Vyas
Superpower 2024 is an installation that responds to the absurd ideas and language used by political figures in India to manufacture a glorious legacy based on fiction and non-truths. It uses the format of a TV infomercial show to sell quick-fix products for any inappropriate dissenting thoughts that one may have. On the other hand, materials in the installation counter the narrative seen on television.
Together, Nehal and Gavati run the Artists In Revolution Collective.
I Sliced a Frame of the Time
by 莫茹杰 (Rujie Mo)
Departing from her individual experience, the artist rethinks "photography" in terms of how it should exist and be communicated to the eye. In the constant interaction of light and time, “photography,” per se, has been made present through the primitive and instinctive nature of human eyes – viewing.