mike k in l.a.


GLOW
May 7, 2008, 11:15 am
Filed under: festivals, media

A collaborative proposal between myself and classmate Nova Jiang has been accepted to the GLOW festival in Santa Monica, which will be happening this summer.

The event is a dusk-till-dawn party on Santa Monica Pier and Beach, inspired by events like Nuit Blanche in Paris. From the website:

With the historic Santa Monica Pier and adjacent world-famous Santa Monica Beach as their space, artists will be commissioned to create unique and inviting works of art that welcome the public to be both audience and actor for twelve celebratory hours.

Our proposal is a simple installation that we’re calling “Moon Theater” which will involve a small stage set in the sand where people perform shadow puppets and hand puppets. The hand shadows will be beamed up to a gigantic moon sculpture on the beach, by the water.

Leave a Comment


Here’s what’s going to happen:
May 7, 2008, 11:04 am
Filed under: Personal, meta, ucla

Part of the reason it’s so difficult to update is that, when enough time goes by I feel like I have to catch up on previous things before I can move on to new stuff. As though things need to be kept in chronological order. Well, if there’s one thing Michel Foucault has taught me it’s that history and genealogy are non-linear and non-narrative. So rather than be a slave to discursive regimes of blog power, I’m going to skip a big hunk of un-updated time and just continue on with what’s happening now. As I remember events of the recent past, I’ll just post them.

Highlights included:

  • First Year Exhibition and subsequent decompression/exhaustion.
  • Lectures series and Interviews with candidates for a new Theory position hire in our department.
  • Alex Galloway visits and lectures about Guy Debords “Game of War”
Leave a Comment