Name: In Performance: ‘Our name is Moving’ by Poncili Creación
Start: 2023-11-11T20:00:00-08:00
End: 2023-11-11T21:30:00-08:00
Location: Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles

In Performance: ‘Our name is Moving’ by Poncili Creación

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, a vibrant communal space in the Arts District that links art and architecture with a dynamic events program, is the first West Coast outpost of Hauser & Wirth, the international gallery devoted to contemporary art and modern masters. Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles fosters public dialogue with the arts by supporting and collaborating with local nonprofits and universities, as well as through a range of activities that engage the city’s diverse population.The gallery aims to make a lasting contribution to the Los Angeles community by sharing its resources and offering a variety of family, youth, and adult programs inspired by the gallery’s visionary artists. The Los Angeles location has expanded its events program to include dance and music performances, film screenings, family activities, maker workshops, and artist-led conversations.Occupying a former flour mill, the Los Angeles gallery site includes Manuela, the onsite restaurant, a chicken coop and urban garden, and murals celebrating the Arts District’s history. Additionally, the site is home to the first ARTBOOK store in Los Angeles, the Gallery Shop, which offers a curated selection of hand-crafted products, and Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ Book & Printed Matter Lab.*By submitting your email address, you consent to receive our Newsletter. Your consent is revocable at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our Newsletter. The Newsletter is sent in accordance with ourPrivacy Policyand to advertise products and services of Hauser & Wirth Ltd. and its affiliated companies.

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Please join us for ‘Our name is Moving’ an audiovisual poem by mystifying Puerto-Rican collective Poncili Creación.

‘Nonmemory’ Exhibition Programming

A special series of programming curated alongside ‘Nonmemory’ at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles: POSSIBILITIES OF MATTER: Creative Workshop with Poncili Creación and In Performance: 'Our name is Moving' by Poncili Creación. More to be announced.

On the occasion of <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/41889-nonmemory/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">‘Nonmemory’</a>, an exhibition curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan and organized in collaboration with the <a href="https://mikekelleyfoundation.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts</a>, <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/performanceproject/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Performance Project</a> at Hauser &amp; Wirth and <a href="https://www.delvazprojects.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Del Vaz Projects</a> are thrilled to present ‘Our name is Moving’ an audiovisual poem by mystifying Puerto-Rican collective Poncili Creación. Expanding on artist Mike Kelley’s interests in the complex relationship between space, memory and identity, Poncili Creación’s ‘Our name is Moving’ will project physical and psychological angst into an imaginary landscape realized within a site-specific performance at Hauser &amp; Wirth’s East Gallery. The imaginative world of Poncili Creación will overtake an ecosystem of moveable architectures and inhabitants to depict displacement, colonization, destruction and growth as an attempt to break through frontiers and champion freedom. The performance will showcase a live improvised musical score, audience interaction, machines disguised as puppets, and the magic of raw human power. This event is free, however, reservations are required. Take part in a creative workshop led by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/poncilicreacion/?hl=en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Poncili Creación</a> on 28 – 29 October. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/possibilities-of-matter-creative-workshop-with-poncili-creacion-tickets-716244535687?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here to learn more.</a><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/possibilities-of-matter-creative-workshop-with-poncili-creacion-tickets-716244535687?aff=oddtdtcreator" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>About Mike Kelly <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2844-mike-kelley/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mike Kelley</a> is widely considered one of the most influential artists of our time. Originally from a suburb outside of Detroit, Kelley attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before moving to Southern California in 1976 to study at California Institute of the Arts from which he received an MFA in 1978.  The city of Los Angeles became his adopted home and the site of his prolific art practice. In much of his work, Kelley drew from a wide spectrum of high and low culture and was known to scour flea markets for America’s cast-offs and leftovers. Mining the banal objects of everyday life, Kelley elevated these materials to question and dismantle Western conceptions of contemporary art and culture. About Mike Kelly Foundation for the Arts <a href="https://mikekelleyfoundation.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts</a> advances the artist’s spirit of critical thinking, risk taking, and provocation in the arts. Established by Kelley in 2007, the Foundation seeks to further Kelley’s philanthropic work through grants to arts organizations and artists for innovative projects that reflect his multifaceted artistic practice. The Foundation also preserves the artist’s legacy more broadly and fosters the understanding of his life and creative achievements through educational initiatives including exhibitions, educational events, publications and the preservation and care of the Foundation’s art collections and archives. About Nonmemory Curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan, <a href="https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/41889-nonmemory/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">‘Nonmemory’</a> brings together six seminal works by Mike Kelley and a group of seven contemporary artists – Kelly Akashi, Meriem Bennani, Beatriz Cortez, Raúl de Nieves, Olivia Erlanger, Max Hooper Schneider, Lauren Halsey – whose works all play with the role of memory as it posits our perceptions of space and place. Through a variety of media and material, the artists in this exhibition use space as the repository for dreams, fantasies, traumas, and anxieties, while offering opportunities to re-imagine and recreate reality. The title of the exhibition ‘Nonmemory,’ takes direct inspiration from Kelley’s use of the term, a way of treating, reordering, and representing the complex and unstable relationship between memory, space, and identity. About Poncili Creación Poncili Creación lives and breathes through their soft sculptures often called puppets but previously called garbage. Repurposed material and raw human power gather in their signature audiovisual pieces which include vibrant colors, bodily movements, and a wide range of emotions that delight, scare and surprise the inner child across this globe. With thousands of collaborators and ten years of touring internationally, their shows remain shrouded in mystery and are usually announced only a few days in advance. From museums to basements, galleries to toilets, biennials to backyards, Poncili executes unorthodox TED talks disguised as puppet shows championing creativity as a means to break reality. About The Performance Project Encompassing performance, music, dance and film, The Performance Project showcases performing arts visionaries, both local and global, with a special focus on greater visibility for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices. About Del Vaz Projects Founded in 2014 by Jay Ezra Nayssan, Del Vaz Projects is an arts nonprofit based in Los Angeles, California. Beginning as an alternative exhibition space located in Nayssan’s home, Del Vaz Projects has expanded over the last decade into a curatorial platform, independent press, and artist production fund. In addition to the on-site projects at Del Vaz Projects, Nayssan has organized exhibitions and programming for galleries and institutions, including this year’s inaugural series of off-site projects at Frieze Los Angeles. *By submitting your email address, you consent to receive our Newsletter. Your consent is revocable at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in our Newsletter. The Newsletter is sent in accordance with our Privacy Policy and to advertise products and services of Hauser &amp; Wirth Ltd. and its affiliated companies. Please be advised that photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser &amp; Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials.

In Performance: ‘Our name is Moving’ by Poncili Creación

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