Pyrite Radio: Dispatch | Performance

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018-2019, 18th Street Arts Center is one of the top 20 artist residency programs in the US, and the largest in Southern California. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public. We strive to provide artists the space and time to take risks, to foster the ideal environment for artists and the public to directly engage, and to create experiences and partnerships that foster positive social change.

18th Street Arts Center

Join Peter Simensky's Pyrite Pirate Radio in a live performance that will feature local and regional sounds across Los Angeles and beyond.

18th Street Arts Center | Olympic campus

Join Peter Simensky and his Pyrite Pirate Radio in a live performance audio set that will feature local and regional sounds across Los Angeles and beyond. Pyrite, also known as Fool’s Gold, magically picks up AM frequency. For this performance, Pyrite Pirate Radio will broadcast AM transmissions played on a series of mobile radios, all handmade and designed by the artist using coiled copper wire, radio parts, and a pyrite stone. These radio sculptures will be used to transmit ideas, experiments, collaborations, community engagements, and interventions. Simensky will be joined by special guest XOLO. For an afternoon, 18th Street Arts Center’s Olympic Campus will become a transmitter of sorts, both for community, critique, and culture.Inspired by Quinceñera parties in the hills of Mexico and beyond &amp; rooted in partying as a form of immigrant resistance. La Cosecha was started by XOLO. Playing all Spanish, all vinyl norteñas, corridos, rancheras, cumbia and banda classics. XOLO&#x27;s aim is to bring this music to a new generation.Plus, artists in residence at 18th Street Arts Center’s Olympic campus will host open studios where visitors can see their exciting work in progress. Also, Market Exchange vendors will be on site selling their artisanal goods. This performance is part of Peter Simensky’s radio tour across the US, which expands his work on the project Pyrite Pirate Radio, a series of performances and workshops with sculptural pyrite radios and AM pirate transmissions.This is an in-person event, and masks are required at all times (regardless of vaccination status) to keep our community safe.If you are interested in attending Pyrite Radio: Dispatch | Workshop, happening over Zoom on Saturday, April 2 from 11 am to 12 pm, <a href="https://18thstreet.org/event/pyrite-radio-workshop/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">register here</a>.ABOUT THE ARTISTPeter Simensky is an interdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum 52, NY; Museum 500meter, Sapporo; The Swiss Institute, NY; and Project Row Houses, Houston. He is a recipient of La Tallera Siqueiros Residency, NYFA Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants, MacDowell Colony, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture to name a few. Simensky Chairs the Sculpture, Individualized, and Community Arts programs at CCA.Image caption: Pyrite Pirate Radio (video still)

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